Last week was a great week to wrap things up and start new projects.
We finished our unit on Poetry and invited the grade 4 classes to come up, share some hot chocolate, and listen and learn about poetry. It was our first poetry cafe. Everyone did an excellent job and it was a lot of fun to watch the class show their poetry skills to a younger audience.
Then on Thursday was our Share your experience activity. There were 15 guest speakers who spent 10 minutes talking to small groups of 6-7 students. The were activities from within the British School, High School, and guests in the fields of Art, Community Service, Physical Activity, Creativity, Family and Community and the Christian Ministries office. I was very impressed by the students learning as we move into selecting our topic for Exhibition.
That will be a big part of this week. There are already 8 students in line to conference with me and the rest will happen throughout the week. It is an exciting time in students learning.
We will complete part 1 of the Decimals unit this week and immediately move into part 2 - operations with decimals. So far things have gone smoothly and students have shown good learning. I will be sending the first work book home with students on Monday. There are lots of things in there we never did or only partly did - if they are looking to practice some more.
We also started our writing unit on the argumentative essay. Our classroom learning topic is the question of whether or not Chocolate milk should be served in school. We looked at two articles and decided they were very biased toward the subject, so the information collected was a little suspect. A flash draft to write this week and then more research needed. This is an assigned topic to learn with and then students will be able to select from about 7-8 others when it comes time to do their own essay. Right in line with our prep for Exhibition.
Our reading unit is similar having to do with Argument and Advocacy. Our topic for this is the use of plastic bottles. Like the writing unit, this is an assigned unit to learn from and then students will be able to select from 7-8 topics for themselves.
Please stay healthy, I believe it is now 24 confirmed cases of the virus here in South Korea. Keep well hydrated, wash very often and try to avoid large groups. This is the advice of the school, WHO and CDC-Korea.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
