Weekly update 25th- 29th March 2019

Dear Parents,

Thank you for attending the Student-Led Conferences, I hope you found it informative and well planned and organized by students.

Here are photos of some of the families that attended.

UOI and ICT:

This week students were introduced to Flipgrid, a tool to document and record there first thinking and prior knowledge of Habitats. Students will continue to record their thoughts and learning throughout the unit.

In Math:
Students sorted animal pictures in various categories then created Venn diagrams to display their data.


Literature and PSPE integration.

Students drew pictures of something or someone that the love. Students then modeled Communication and Social skills as they shared their drawing with each other in a confident manner. All the students took turns speaking and listening to each other. They were respectful and open-minded to their feelings and beliefs. Unfortunately, students had to take the beautiful picture that they have drawn and crumble it up. Students were then asked to straighten their paper again. Students quickly realized that all the crinkles could not be taking out. This lead us to our lesson on not hurting each other's feelings. The wrinkles left on the paper represents the scares that are left when our feelings have been hurt even after one has apologized the scares still remain.

Thank you Grade 1J for inviting us to look at and read your story boxes.

Homework for the week of 1-5 April 2019

1. Read the article in the Oryx of the 15th March 2019 by Mr. Peter MacKenzie. Titled Wis Wildlife. Have a conversation with your child about the wildlife in and around your home/ surroundings.

2. Students have each selected an animal to do research on. All information gathered about their animal should be related to the Key Concepts of this unit Sharing the Planet.
Key concepts: Causation- Why is it like this?  Connection- How is it connected to other things?  Function- How does it work?

3. Students are requested to do a book review, summary, character trait or complete a prompt activity on comprehension based on their respective library or guided reading books weekly.
Students have each received a guided copy of each activity.

4. Students may receive some more activities to do during the week, this will be communicated in their homework diaries.

5. New activities have been assigned on Mathletics and Spelling city.

Unit 5 PYP Newsletter

Dear Parents,

Please find our PYP Newsletter for Unit 5 (Sharing the Planet) Here

Reminder: Student -Led Conferences will be taking place tomorrow.

Here are your scheduled times.

Wednesday 27 March
Reuben 14:00

Thursday 28 March 2019

7:30 Tashia, Thato

8:00 Alessandro, Selma,

8:30 Dino, Mika, Anna

9:00 Fiji, Aminata

9:30 Fatima, Hazel, Helmina

Break

10:30 Guilherme, Nini

Break

11:30 Laith,Jeziah

12:30 Ausribel, Vivian, Kahilu

13:00 Grant, Carolina

Weekly update of 11th-15th March 2019

Dear Parents,

This week in Literature we continued to look into pronouns, similies, tenses and plural nouns. Students identified them in text. Students were divided into two teams, they competed against each other to see who can fill in the missing spaces with the correct answer the fastest.

Students have been busy setting goals and preparing for the Student-Led conferences taking place on the 28th of March. The student -Led Conference gives students voice and ownership of their learning, as the students will facilitate the conferences to share their learning. There will be no school for students on Thursday, students are only expected to come in for there conferences at the scheduled time.

In UOI we continue to include students in building and planning of the unit, Sharing the Planet. Students have come up with a kiddies Central Idea (  which is our focus for the next few weeks of the unit. Students have started to formulate questions and wonderings that they would like to inquire into. Later this week students will look into the quality of these questions as we look into what are good questions are with guidance students might re-design their questions for inquiry.

During Friday's assembly students performed a music piece, please view the video below.

Weekly Update of the 4th - 8th March 2019.

Dear Parents,

This weeks highlight was the Interhouse sports day.
Please view the Weekly Album.




Students continue to develop their skills in multiplication and fraction to understand the concepts. At this age, they are all encouraged to use manipulatives to help them understand what will be happening visually.




Invitations for the Student-led Conferences the 28th of March will be sent home this week.

Dear Parents,

Last week Friday all learner from primary had to come up with a proposal presentation for a school Mascot. Grade 2D made an i-movie for last Friday's assembly as a motivation for their chosen Mascot the African Fish Eagle.

Map testing (Measures of Academic Progress)

Please refer to the oryx school newsletter of the 22 February 2019 for more information.



Music colour concert is coming soon to an auditorium near you!

The following songs should be practiced by students. more information will be given on a later stage.

The Girls song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibVDCTEAMTc,

The boy's song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QZmORbAbtI,

In literacy, we discussed the English rules on vowels and syllables sounds, revised about verbs, nouns and adjectives and their uses in sentences. Here is a link to the website we will use to practice math and literacy should you need extra resources.


For Tuning into the new unit, I'd like parent-child collaboration in discussing your first thoughts on this comic illustration. Please leave your thoughts by posting a comment to the blog.