News about Spring Fling, Thursday April 23rd

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Dear Students,

On April 23rd at 10:00 an event unlike any other will take place.  The second annual Grade 5 Spring Fling:  A Thinking Olympics will happen on the Puxi Campus.  All grade 5’s from both schools will be involved in some exciting problem solving activities.
On the day a BBQ Lunch outside will be provided for all students.  There will be water to drink and an ice cream for a treat.  If you need more to eat or want something special please bring it from home.  The day will involve many challenging tasks so you might need extra snacks to keep your energy levels high.

You will need to bring a change of clothes in case you get wet or sweaty during the activities.  Since we are eating outside on the grass areas you might also want to bring a towel or blanket to sit on during lunchtime.
The Spring Fling should be a fun and exciting way to build our SAS community across campuses.  If your parents want to come and watch, then they may join us at 10:00 outside in the covered area.  If you have any questions please feel free to email timber.montieth@saschina.org.
Thank You

Grade 5 Team

(Pudong and Puxi)

Homework assignment for the week…

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     Homework for Friday is to answer as many of the 9 questions below as you can and write them up as a post on your own blog under the heading “Homework Assignment for the Week.”

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

 

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

 

    3.Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several  growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?  

 

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

 

5. In many liquor stores you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is
Whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn’t been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?

 

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ‘dw’ and they are all common words. Name two of them.

 

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

 

8.  Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

 

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter ‘S.’

News of the Moment in 5KP

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Thanks to our room mom Liane Moldenhauer for taking this photo of the 16 5KP students who attended the field trip to the Science and Technology Museum on Friday. The kids had a really good day outside of the classroom and despite a few hitches due to it being our first field trip there as a grade level, the day turned out o.k. Thank you to the parents of Ada, Michael, Sonny and Jordan for showing around our students, you were more than helpful and we greatly appreciate your assistance .

Don’t forget this Thursday and Friday are half days for all of the students and they will be leaving on buses at 11.30 a.m.If you need any transport from Jinqiao there are shuttles leaving from the Starbucks at 11, 1 and 3 on both days and also returning there several times during the afternoon, e mail me for details.

I am meeting with the parents of Cody, Kieran, Michael, Samantha, Ada, Tiffany, Jordan, James, Byron, Jin Woo and Keaton on Thursday and all others on Friday. Please e mail me if you have forgotten your timeslot.

Welcome to Quarter 4

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I hope you all had a great, relaxing spring break. I have heard many exciting stories from students about their travels during spring break. Check out individual student blogs to see what they got up to. It’s hard to believe but your child is into the final quarter of their fifth grade year and of course their elementary schooling too!

I can tell you that it will be a busy one and it will be over before you know it. We have many fun filled and important events coming up this quarter such as; field trip, parent conferences, soccer day, spring fling, transition assembly, fun day and more.hold on for an exciting ride!

Parent Conferences

Times are now all confirmed for Thursday 9th and Friday 10th of April and report cards are coming home this Friday. See this letter regarding the report card changes.

Report Card Changes

ERB Writing Test 

The test is administered over two days for approximately 60 minutes each day and will be completed by all Pudong students in grades 3-8 from April 13-17. More info will be coming out this Friday.

See these sheets regarding ERB information and rubrics.

ERB information

ERB rubric

Class Photos

Class photos are in. Your child should have brought home their photo/s yesterday.

Scholastic Book Order

Please read the information on the form and return to school asap with the correct money.

Congratulations 5KP

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Phew…had enough yet?

What a week it has been, the kids really deserve the holiday they are about to get, try and spoil them a little.

We have the Unit 9 math test to come today and the band and strings bonanza tomorrow so don’t forget your instruments and your black and white clothes ok?

I wasn’t able to snap all the kids due to camera issues but here are most of the class working on their Goldberg Machine. Well done to Byron’s team for winning the major prize!

ATTENTION STUDENTS HERE IS YOUR WORK FOR FRIDAY morning between 8 am and 10 am.

1. Read the last 4-6 posts on my blog here and leave at least one comment on one of my posts

2. Write your own post : the title is “Invention Convention Reflection”

I want a two or three paragraph post on the highlights of the invention convention for you.

What was your favorite invention and why?

What was the best part about your invention? The worst part?

What did you like/not like about the project?

Try and include a photo, take one of mine from my blog if you are able.

3. Complete a quiz of your own if you are able to, like the one on my blog or Keaton’s blog.

4. Go to Scholastic News. Read freely on the site and then write a post about something interesting you discovered.

5. Comment on your classmates and teacher’s blogs and enjoy the rest of the period.

Have a great Spring Break 5KP, you really deserve it!

Reminders for Next Week

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A note from Mrs Denton for the Band Students

Band Bonanza – Next Friday March 20th.

Concert – 2:15 PM in the MS Gym 

(Upstairs from the auditorium)

Parents are welcome to attend!

Students should wear black pants/skirt and a white shirt.

Wednesday is our Invention Convention Day, please join us in our Grade 5 Corridor if you are able from

8.30-10.30 am (invitation is on last post)

Thursday is our Goldberg Junkyard Wars Day, students can continue to bring in as many clean and useful recyclable goods for this fun event for the students; they are really looking forward to it.

Friday is our Band (Pudong) and Strings (Puxi) extravaganza. Please join us if you can.

All of these things are written about in more detail on recent posts.

We will be having our Unit 9 Math test next Thursday, the class should be revising each day over the subject matter they are being taught in class.

Skills covered on the unit nine test include:

*plot ordered pairs on a four-quadrant coordinate grid

*understand the concept of volume of a figure

*use a formula to find the volume of prisms

*plot quadrant pairs on a one-quadrant coordinate grid

*identify the base and height of triangles and parallelograms

*use a formula to find the area of triangles and parallelograms

*understand the concept of area of a figure

*use a formula to find the area of rectangles

In Language Arts we are having some fun for the last week of the quarter working on our debating skills; I told the class they are so good at arguing at this age that they should put their debating skills to good use!

Please complete the survey for me today if you are able; I appreciate the feedback and I also still have four parents who have not responded to my e mail about parent teacher conference times.

Have a great weekend.

Action Stations

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Consider yourself invited…

Invention Convention Invitation

What is going  on in 5KP?

Math

We have started on unit 9 this week which is focused on Coordinates, Area, Volume and Capacity. As it is a shorter unit we might get through it before spring break and hopefully get the assessment completed late next week. I am sending the Unit 8 test home today, please sign it and return it so we can continue to review it in class; the class average was 89% and everyone except two students improved on their last score and one of those students didn’t improve because they earned 100% on the last test AND this one!

Social Studies

The Invention Convention is fast approaching. The majority of students have met certain deadlines and are on track to complete the project on time. Students should have their log books completed by Friday morning. Many are working on their posters in class. Talk to your child and ask them how their project is going is going. Remember, we want to see you here at school for our Invention Convention on Wednesday 18 March, from 8:30 10:30am. (See the above invitation for details.)

Field Trip

The 5th grade are going on a field trip to the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. Please make sure you read the permission slips, sign them and return them back to ME asap. The forms are coming home today.

Goldberg Materials

Thanks to all of you who have really made an effort to bring in materials for our Goldberg Challenge. We can’t wait for the big day (March 19th). Keep bringing in those recyclables…there are some good prizes to be won.

Band Bonanza

The Band bonanza is on Friday 20 March. The combined 5th grade Pudong/Puxi Strings group will be at the Puxi campus and the combined 5th grade Band will be here on the Pudong Campus. Here are the bus details for the 5 Strings students; please check them and get back to me if there is a problem.

Bus details for Strings Students