Monthly Archives: March 2016

Nanowrimo Novelists

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I am blown away.

When I first heard of the Nanowrimo project, I was interested…

Is it true? Students write a novel over November, then revise, edit and publish it through Amazon?

Wow. And then I watched it happen. From 5R 7 students invested many lunch breaks, and countless hours at home in drafting stories. Over the month of November I heard about word counts rising. Then quiet… Revising is hard work. Through the following months though, I was regularly asked “Can I bring my iPad home, I’m working on my Nanowrimo…”

And now, this. Or rather these. These remarkable accomplishments, all published and purchasable through Amazon. Have a look at the range of titles below, read the authors’ synopses and be impressed 🙂

Links to the individual titles:

Salam by Amelie Kaas 

The Wizarding World of Doom by Maximilian Casanova and Joshua Holzmann 

The Mysterious Jungle by Krish Raheja 

Fire (Elements) (Volume 1) by Leo A Leon 

Zombies (Spanish Edition) by David Velasco 

The ten dimensions the crabs layer (Volume 2) by Anthony Smelansky

The Plumps by Annika Franck 

For more on Nanowrimo, click here.

 

Student-led Conferences

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Student-led conferences are one of my favourite features of the PYP. It’s an opportunity for students to really take control, and demonstrate their understanding of their learning, parents to get a snapshot of their children’s school lives, and teachers to watch their students interact with their families. So many great insights! 🙂

Thank you all for coming out today. Please enjoy these photos and don’t miss Amelie and Rachel’s short film!


What Should I Read? from ZIS Grade 5 Mr Raskin on Vimeo.

Math Assessment: Home Today

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Today your child has brought home their most recent math assessment, sharing a snapshot of their skills and understanding in multiplication of decimals, some division and interpretation of remainders, along with a reflection document they have used to better understand their work.

As mentioned earlier in the year, these assessments are being sent home primarily to enrich your conversations with your child about their learning. Please take the time to look at them together with your child, and alongside their reflection. Then, sign the assessment and return it promptly to school. Please aim to return these by Friday. If you require more time, please let me know.

5R Documentaries

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These are the 5R documentaries. So the idea of these documentaries is that we first made a list of some topics that we would like to make our documentaries about.  After a week MR Raskin made teams of 3 or 4 people. Together we chose a topic that we would like to make our documentaries about. After that we started researching. We gathered facts music and photos. When we gathered our facts we started to film. We did not have that much time to finish our documentaries.We had to edit them, we had to agree were we would put the music, which parts we are going to cut out and we had to keep track of time. It was a challenge for all of us but at the end we finished them and all the documentaries are amazing.

-Filia Anastasiadi

-Evelina Barakou

GMO’s by:Emanuele, Josh, Henrik and David from ZIS Grade 5 Mr Raskin on Vimeo.

Ocean Garbage By: Amelia R., Annika F. And Evelina B. from ZIS Grade 5 Mr Raskin on Vimeo.

 

Future Foods: Haya, Mathilda, Amelie, Patricia from ZIS Grade 5 Mr Raskin on Vimeo.

Future Foods from ZIS Grade 5 Mr Raskin on Vimeo.

GMOs In Our World- Filia, Soojin, Sabine 5R from ZIS Grade 5 Mr Raskin on Vimeo.

Ocean Garbage from ZIS Grade 5 Mr Raskin on Vimeo.

The great pacific garbage patch from ZIS Grade 5 Mr Raskin on Vimeo.