Good Afternoon,
A few quick notes for you from the Chameleon class.
This week children have worked hard during the first
regular week after the break.
In English we began our new topic which is focused
around writing a literary essay. This is quite similar in format to the
persuasive letter and pupils were able to see a finished example so they could
gain an idea of what I am expecting. As well as this we watched the film Sing.
Children will be writing the essay about a characters from a book or the film
Sing and then creating a thesis sentences based on the character strengths we
teach in school and their associated behaviours. As we do not have that much
time before the end of the year we chose to use Sing as an example instead of a
book. Children are free to choose a character from Sing or a character from a
German or English book. I also started
to give readers workshop assessments this week.
On Thursday was the math project day, it went
tremendously well and the response from children was really positive. They loved
being able to shop and apply the skills that they’d been working on in class in
the real world.
Please continue to send in any scrap and rubbish that
you have at home, we are looking for any of the following:
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Cardboard/plastic containers
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Cereal boxes
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Toilet roll tubes
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Newspapers
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Juice/milk cartons (please wash
before hand)
Important Dates:
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May 1st – School closed
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May 2nd – Field trip to
Hessenpark (information to follow next week)
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May 24th – Bundesjugendspiele
(weather permitting)
Here is an overview of the areas of study we will
focus on throughout the next week:
We will be attending the Hessenpark open air museum on
Tuesday. This is an excellent place to learn about the history of Germany, it has
many houses built in the traditional manor and pupils will take part in an
activity to push their learning further. Those children who are taking part in Lehmbau: auf
die Mischung (they know who they are) will need to
bring a small towel and change of clothes in case they get too messy.
English:
Next week in English we will be starting to write an
example literary essay, focusing on one of the characters from Sing. We will
write this together so that students can see the full writing process from
draft to edit. As this is happening pupils will also start to plan out and even
draft their own essay.
I will also continue to assess reading using the
readers workshop non-fiction rubric.
Math:
We will be starting work on our geometry unit, this will begin by
focusing around 2d and 3d shapes. Children will review the properties and names
of all shapes and look at the nets that create those 3d shapes.
Science:
We will begin to discuss the experiment process, looking firstly at
creating their own hypothesis, discussing experimental variables and then also testing
those hypotheses.
German:
Liebe Eltern
der Chamäleon-Klasse,
in dieser
Woche haben wir ein neues grammatikalisches Thema begonnen. Die Zeiten Futur
und Perfekt wurden neu eingeführt. Die Zeiten Präsens und Präteritum, die
bereits aus der 3. Klasse bekannt sind, wurden wiederholt.
Die Zeiten
werden neben einer Personenbeschreibung Thema der letzten Klassenarbeit
sein. Diese findet in der 21. Kalenderwoche (22.-24.05.) statt. Der
genaue Termin wird noch festgelegt.
Das nächste Lernwörterdiktat
findet am Mittwoch, den 3. Mai 2017, statt. Die Lernwörter wurden vor
den Osterferien ausgeteilt und verschickt (Wörter mit ie/i und pf), Sie finden
sie aber auch nochmal im Anhang.
Heute haben
die Schüler die 4. Klassenarbeit erhalten. Bitte unterschreiben Sie
diese und geben Sie sie Ihrem Kind wieder mit. Zu Ihrer Information der
Notenspiegel:
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Note
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1
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2
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3
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4
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Durchschnitt
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Häufigkeit
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2
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12
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2
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3
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2,3
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Ich wünsche
Ihnen ein schönes verlängertes Wochenende!
Agnes Fojcik
Enjoy the long weekend.
Sincerely,
Mario Civico and the entire Chameleon team.
