Oral language

Hi everyone
As part of the oral language program in Grade 5S this year we are using Vocaroo to recite our weekly poems. Being an International School we have a large variety of accents within the classroom as well as large numbers of 'English as second language' students.
An important time for us in Grade 5 is the Exhibition in April and to build up the skills we need for this we are using our poems which we present in class on Fridays.
Please listen to some of our early examples.
Fantastic work from Rikumu who arrived only weeks ago with not a single word of English.


Voice Recorder >>
Kane


Online recording software >>
Gina


Voice Recorder >>
Rikumu


Record music and voice >>
Tatiana


Voice Recorder >>
Dong Hee

End of first quarter

Hi everyone
The first quarter is finished and with Teacher interviews this week I look forward to meeting with all the parents to discuss your child's progress. We have been very busy lately with ISA testing, school photos, end of the Immigration unit of inquiry, reports of course, and all the normal daily lessons with math and language. Our present Unit 'How we express ourselves has been going very well and the students have been looking in depth at the world of advertising. We have had some fun analysing different TV ads and disecting them using 5 questions.
1. Who is the message for?
2. Who made the message and why?
3. What is left out of the message?
4. How might others view this message differently?
5. How does the advert get my attention and keep it?

In a couple of weeks we will start the summative assignment for this unit which is a media campaign involving a radio ad, a poster or pamphlet, and a TV ad. We look forward to sharing this with you.
Another couple of things we have introduced are Studyladder and a vocaroo site. Both these have links on the Blog. (look down the right hand side to access our links).
Her is a sample of our vocaroo which we will use with our Poem of the week.


Record music with Vocaroo >>

Highlights of SEW Week

We all had a fantastic time at SEW week and many thanks to MR Raines for his hard work again this year. Time was spent in Chapel each morning and then on a variety of activities including; outside games, talking to missionaries in the field via skype, to having group time to discuss the message and create some representations of our theme 'DO'. This year is about taking action in the world. The afternoons were taken up by teacher run activities and lots of bonding and fellowship time with family groups. Here are just a couple of pictures and movie clips.

SDC10567 from mike stanley on Vimeo.

SDC10545 from mike stanley on Vimeo.

SEW week

Hi everyone well this week is SEW and this kicks off with activities and Chapel tomorrow. We have some exciting things planned and a great speaker this year so it should be great. Mr Raines has been working really hard and a big thanks to him for all the organization he has put in place. Last week we farewelled Jimin who is joining her family in South America. It was a sad time but exciting for her. here are a couple of photos from friday.

Farewell for Jimin

Hello parents
Very sadly we are losing one of our members of Grade 5S this week. Jimin is moving with her family to South America. Although we have only had 6 weeks of the school year we will all miss her very much as she is a very popular and established member of the elementary school.
In order to send her on her way knowing how much we like and admire her we are going to have a farewell in the last block ( 2:15 to 3:00 ) on this Friday the 21st of September.
If possible can you send along with your child some snack food to share (Healthy options would be great).
Also all the parents are most welcome to join us to have some food and fellowship.
I hope to see you on Friday

Mike Stanley

Journal Writing

During this unit we have spent time learning about journal writing. Part of the summative assessment for this unit is to write a journal as an immigrant. Here are some samples from the students draft writing that they have been working on.

On the plane I was feeling very tired and I slept very deeply. When I woke up it was time to eat the airplane food which was chicken soup. It was very delicious. I had only just finished eating and we were in Korea. I couldn't believe it. I was very nervous.
Clara.

When my father said that we were going to Korea my sister and I couldn't believe it because it seemed so unreal.
Hidemasa.

In this new country I will be a doctor and cure my mothers illness and I want to be the person who endeavors which is like my father.
Eugene.

Being an ordinary girl that lives in Seoul was a perfectly normal life until..... now!!!
Ashley

Immigration in Korea

We have spent time this week looking at one of our lines of Inquiry which is 'The impact of immigration on people, communities and immigrants. Robust discussion took place and the students decided to look at areas such as: sport,clothing,religion, housing,businesses,education,ceremonies,food and language. Today we went for a walk downtown Young tong and looked for evidence of immigration influences. We then spent time doing Venn diagrams and sharing our findings.