Hi everyone! We have been busy in school. If you haven’t yet, please do sign up for your child’s Student-Led Learning Review. The school should have sent you the link this week. If you are unable to make it on April 30, please do send me an email.
We are in the thick of our current unit, Where We Are in Place and Time. We have invited speakers from the community to share about how they have made a difference in the world OR share about people who are important to them and why they are important to them.
We are learning about humanitarians like Helen Keller and Jane Addams, civil rights activists like Martin Luther King Jr and Malala, inventors like Henry Ford and Steve jobs, influential leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela.
The students, in groups, have done their mini-presentations on a person they are interested in and explained the person’s personal qualities and actions and contributions to the world.
At present, they are writing biographies of people they are interested in– dissecting different sources for information on the person’s early life, adult/middle life and later life. They are learning to rewrite information to avoid plagiarism, and deciding on which information is treasure or trash.
In Maths, we have been playing probability games– practicing the words certain, likely, unlikely, impossible and equal chance. They have also been solving numberless word problems and creating symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes and patterns.
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- Creating symmetrical patterns
They are also creating portraits of significant people using recycled materials. They are truly enjoying this unit!
Can you guess who these important people are?
Star of the Week
Congratulations, Aaryan!
Happy Birthday, Sarah!
Important Dates to Remember
April:
23: Wear Green Day!
30: Student-Led Learning Review
May:
4: Dress Down Day and FFF
1: No School (Labor day)
22: No School (Buddha’s birthday)
25: DDD
June:
8: Last day of school
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