Grade 5 Term 2, Week 1

Hello SIS families! For the first week of being in school after winter break,
us grade 5 have done multiple things, and have gotten started on our
central idea. Our central idea is:

Identity is expressed through personal presentation.

In inquiry, we have gotten started and got thinking about different forms of
self expression that makes our identity. We brainstormed about different
forms of self expression, and chose 3 favorite ones, and chose 3 least
favorite ones. We explained one favorite form of expression very detailed.

We then thought about expression through music. Ms. Alyssa then put on
different music, and we thought about what feeling was expressed from

that song. We then chose our favorite songs, and wrote them down in
Google slides. We then chose one song of our favorite songs, then
wrote the following: What parts of our identity is represented in this song?
Why do we like this song? When do we listen to this song? and finally,
What this song communicates to the world about us? 

For math, we started on doing geometry. We started learning about
the properties of shapes, and learned important parts of shapes and
lines, like angles, intersections, and parallel, for example. Ms. Alyssa
then showed us different properties of shapes from Khan Academy.
We learned things like trapezoids, parallelograms, rhombuses, and more. 

On the performance day last year, us grade 5 performed multiple
things. We were both nervous and excited, but we tried our best.
Our first performance was upper Japanese. The name of the song
is "Top of the World." We worked with guitar ASP and sang the song.
Because it was the first performance that my class had, we were
nervous of how many people there were. It was a great one.

The next one was the puppet show. We worked very hard to do
a puppet show, and we were very excited for all of this. We practiced
it multiple times, but in the performance, it didn't go as expected.
Overall, we were very sad and angry at ourselves for not doing good.

The next one was “Happy.” Led by Mr. Thomas, it was based on the
minions song. This song was practiced hundreds of times, and it was
super perfect. If you didn’t know, we had sun glasses on when we did
“Happy.” It ended perfectly.

The last one was "Totoro." This was also practiced multiple times, and
it was the only performance that included all of us to play an instrument.
Grade 5 did melodica. When it ended, we were all so relieved. Overall,
it was a great performance.

That’s it for the blog! Thank you so much SIS families for reading our
grade 5 blog, and we’ll meet you in the next week. Have a wonderful week!

-Written by grade 5 students