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Google Earth

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Thank you to the wonderful Mr. Power for starting our Migration Unit this week by exploring Google Earth with the students.

If you do not have Google Earth on your computer it is a fast and free download. I encourage you to watch this with your children and ask them about what they have  been discussing in class. I think a great idea once you have Google Earth up on your screen is to go to Tools, Options, Touring, and adjust the ‘tool pause’ bar to about 20-30 seconds. That way you should have enough time to read what the children have written as you fly around the world seeing where they are from.

http://portal.saschina.org/eportfolios/spower/files/-1/1485/5kp+final.kmz

Math Test this week, Wednesday at this stage…

 

Unit 11

Skills covered on the unit eleven test include:

*understand the relationship between the volume of pyramids and prisms and the volume of cones and cylinders

*find the surface area of prisms

*understand how to find the surface area of cylinders

*understand the concept of and calculate capacity

*use formulas to find the volume of prisms and cylinders

*use formulas to find the area of polygons and circles

*know the properties of geometric solids

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.

Visiting Authors Give the Low-down on creativity

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Here are some of the photos of the children chatting and working with the visiting authors, Sheree Fitch and Ralph Fletcher.

OK Parents, time to give me the ‘low-down’ on my performance this year when it comes to meeting the needs of you and your 5th grade child. Here is some information from Mr. Bissmeyer:

As a component of SAS’s Faculty Performance Evaluation program and in an effort to promote continued professional growth, parents are invited and encouraged to provide anonymous feedback on teacher performance via an online survey.  Know that you should complete the survey for each of your child’s teachers so please allot 10-15 minutes for you to respond to the 12 questions.

Please go to this link: http://portal.saschina.org/survey/pudonges
The survey will be available from Thursday, March 5th – Wednesday, 11th.
This survey is also available in Korean and Chinese from the above site.
Thank you in advance for participating and offering honest, constructive and balanced feedback.

OK, Kimbra here again, I must say that I just completed a survey for my daughter’s teacher and it took me more like 2-5 minutes so don’t be put off, it is quick and easy.

News of the week is that we will have a math test before the week is out, all I can guarantee is that it won’t be before Thursday but I am hoping for a Friday test at this stage, it depends how we go this week with the disruptions of the schedule through the visiting author’s being here.

Unit 8

Skills covered on the unit eight test include:

*use an algorithm to multiply mixed numbers

*use an algorithm to multiply fractions

*use an algorithm to subtract mixed numbers with like denominators

*find a percent of a number

*use an algorithm to add mixed numbers

*order and compare fractions

*convert among fractions, decimals and percents

*convert between fractions and mixed or whole numbers

*find common denominators

Regarding buying author books get in quick if you want your child to buy a book and have it autographed, there are not as many books for sale as there have been in the past.Have a great week and let’s hope there will be some sunshine soon.

Important Dates

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This morning the class and I spent some time going through some of the dates coming up and the students wrote many of them in their diary. Here are some dates you may like to add to your own diary.

Important Dates

Visiting Authors

Sheree Fitch and Ralph Fletcher will be here from 3 – 6 March.Ralph Fletcher will be the author we have the most contact with in the Upper Elementary School but if you have students in Lower Elementary you may like to also do some background reading on Sheree too.

Class Photo Reminder

Our class photo is scheduled for Tuesday 17th of February at 11.50pm. Please ask your child to bring any clothing that is to be worn during the photo to school and return the green slip requesting a photo if you would like one, they were sent home yesterday with your child.

Scholastic Book Club

If your child is going to purchase books please ensure the order form is completed correctly and exact money is returned to school by Thursday 12 February

– Feb 12 – Scholastic Book Orders Due

– Feb 17 – Class Photo and Unit 7 Math Test

Unit 7 test information

Skills covered on the unit seven test include:

*understand and apply scientific notation

*understand and apply powers of 10

*understand and apply order of operations to evaluate expressions and solve number sentences

*add and subtract integers

*understand and apply exponential notation

*determine whether number sentences are true or false

*understand the function and placement of parentheses in number stories

*compare and order integers

– Feb 23 – Assembly for Love of Reading  at 2:15

– Mar 3 – Welcome Authors Assembly at 8:30

– Mar 6 – Family Literacy Event 3-5 pm Family Literacy Event

– Mar 18 – Invention Convention

– March 19 – Goldberg Junkyard Wars

– March 20 – Band Bonanza

– March 21- 29 – Spring Break Vacation

Math Success

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Welcome to the second quarter of 5th grade!

Congratulations to 5KP on the results from the latest math test. The class earned a median score of 95% and 15 out of 18 students showed improvement (with one student maintaining his previous high score). Four of the students that showed improvement actually earned their first 100% score for the year.

In the classroom we will keep two charts for math; one of which I have had in previous years; the 100% chart and another which I believe is more relevant for most of the class and achievable for all students; an improvement chart. This will be based on the results of their last test only encouraging the student to try and better their previous score. Of course, students should not feel discouraged if they cannot better their score and it is already in the 90th percentile anyway, this could be due to a number of factors and you cannot improve on 100%! This chart is mainly for the students who are often earning in the 70%-90% range and just need a bit of encouragement.

Well done 5KP for doing so well in our geometry unit.

Good luck with our next unit. Remember that starting today, you are all on the 100% chart, you start with a ‘4’…it is up to you what you do from here but by revising over each lesson at home you have a better chance of success next time around.

Unit 4 is on Division and the skills covered in unit four include:

*divide decimal numbers by whole numbers with no remainders

*write and solve number sentences with variables for division number stories

*find the quotient and remainder of a whole number divided by a 1-digit whole number

* find the quotient and remainder of a whole number divided by a 2-digit whole number

*make magnitude estimates for quotients of whole and decimal numbers divided by whole numbers

*interpret the remainder in division number stories

*determine the value of a variable; use this value to complete a number sentence

*know place value to hundredths