Yr5 Weekly Update – 03/31/17
Central Idea: Humans continue to migrate for many reasons
UOI
This week, the students have been reading various stories linked to our Unit of Inquiry and learning to empathize with the characters, affected by migration. This work on perspective primarily took the form of role play and a written activity: “Circle of Viewpoints.” It was interesting watching the students fall into and becoming their chosen characters!
Literacy
Continuing with our poetry theme, the children are becoming more skillful in their use of poetic devices such as rhythm, rhyme, alliteration, simile, metaphor and personification, and have used these successfully to write their own poems.
During guided reading sessions, students have been reading different migration stories and then using clues in the text to infer how the characters feel. They have also been using their visualization skills and drawing the images they see in their heads when they read the words of different poets.
Maths
This week, students finished off their work on division, where they learnt to use both formal and informal methods of calculation. In addition to this, last weekend, students were asked to gather some data from home, about where their parents and grand-parents came from. Back in class, they sorted the data to come up with answers to these questions. They broke into smaller groups, tabulated their findings and represented their data in the form of bar charts, pictograms and bar charts. They were then asked to interpret their findings.
Home-Learning during the Easter Holiday
- Go onto your Big Universe bookshelf and have a look through some of the books your teachers have put up for you, on our migration topic.
- Use Mymaths to reinforce your understanding of division and data-handling.
- Observe the impact migration has had on Hong Kong. As you walk through our city, what evidence can you see which show that people from abroad have now made Hong Kong their home? Why not take some photos to show what you have seen?
- Using the questions you formulated in class, interview someone close to you about their migration story. Please include as much detail as you can, when making notes.
- Poet of the Day- find a poem that you really enjoy and which you can share with your classmates.
Working collaboratively to represent the data collected
Working collaboratively to represent the data collected.
Using the makey-makey kit.
Circle of viewpoints
