AIS - Grade 5

Monday, 8 July 2019

Japanese Culture Day: July 1-5

There have been lots of exciting things going lately! In addition to the activities associated with Japanese Culture day, our science experiments and research have continued. Chiharu was selected as our Most Principled student by her classmates. It was also Myra's last day, and we were all sad to see her leave. We wish her the best of luck in the future!

Japanese Culture Day: Friday was full of fun Japanese related activities in honor of Japanese Culture Day. Many students dressed in traditional attire for the day as well. In the morning students joined in for Nagashi Somen where everyone had to collect noodles running down the slide with their chopsticks for a fun snack. After lunch there were a variety of Japanese games and face painting. Thank you to our parent volunteers as well!

UoI: This week during our Unit of Inquiry students selected five scientists and researched their contributions to the world of Science. Students created a PowerPoint slideshow and presented it first to their fellow Grade 5 classmates and then proceeded to present to classmates in either Grade 3, 4, or 6. They were well informed and did a wonderful job!

Music

　Students inquired about how to produce a more beautiful sound on Pianica and recorder. They learned the posture, hand positioning, blowing as well as fingering. We started to practice "Sugarcane Farm" ( サトウキビ畑）which is music from Okinawa that describes not only the beautiful nature scene but also the tragic history of the many innocent people who were killed in the second World War there. Understanding the musical context leads students to perform more expressively. --Ms. Kyoko

Myra's last day

Myra's Last Day

Student Presentations

Ready for noodles!

Ring toss

Face painting

Origami

Face painting

Sunday, 23 June 2019

Numeracy Week: June 17-21

Numeracy Week!

This week we had a lot of Math in the air to celebrate Numeracy Week. Each day consisted of different math themed activities and events to encourage a love of Mathematics. There was a math question of the day to challenge students. AIS school money was distributed all week to be exchanged on Friday for prizes.

Monday: Math Gameshow Day in the gym where students get to answer math related trivia questions and attempt to earn AIS school money. The game resembles the classic Family Feud.

Tuesday: Photo Contest entries of math found in real life and nature. Students find pictures from home that show some relation to Math. Aleyna won third place from our class!

Wednesday: Math rotation activities with Ms. Kapra and Mr. Aidar involving cards and trivia questions.

Thursday: Students worked together to create a Math art poster to display in the gym. Grade 5 made various Math Lands, places where everything was somehow a math shape or idea such as Candy Land where all the candy and sweets resembled numbers.

Friday: Shopping day! Students went to the gym to cash in their AIS school money for prizes. It was also Math Spirit Day and everyone was encouraged to wear any Math related clothes to celebrate.

UoI: While quite busy with Numeracy Week we also expanded our learning of experiments and how they help us to make sense of our world. Students worked in pairs to make a poster to demonstrate ten different ways experiments and inventions have helped us to expand our learning about the way the world works.

Students conducted another experiment called Walking Water. We started with three jars filled with different colored water, and in between these was an empty jar. We connected the empty jars and the colored water jars with folded paper towels and watched throughout the day as the water climbed up the paper towel to deposit and mix in the empty jars. By the morning of the following day we observed two new mixed colors and all jars were at an even level.