What a fantastic day we had last week exploring the creations of Jean Tinguely in Basel. The students were very engaged as they made sketches and recorded ‘what they saw’, ‘what they thought’ and what they wondered’.
Please click on the link below to see some photos and short video clips from our visit.
This Thursday, October 25th, we will be going on an Art Field Trip to Museum Tinguely in Basel.
We are aiming to strengthen the connection between Grade 5 units; Matter & Energy to Kinetic Art Unit. We will be learning about the Swiss Kinetic Artist, Jean Tinguely, and experience his Art during our visit.
Students will be leaving the school at 9.30am and will be back for the regular pick up time. Please remember to prepare a packed snack and lunch for your child. The cafeteria will prepare a packed lunch for only those students who normally receive hot lunch.
If you have any concerns or questions, please let the homeroom teachers know. You can also contact our Art teacher, Elif Raskin. (eraskin@zis.ch)
Looking forward to our trip!
Have a look at a few Tinguely works below:
Dear 5 Grade parents,
Over the last few weeks, we have worked with the unit “In der Stadt” (In the city). In classroom students have expand their vocabulary, grammar and speaking skills around this unit. They acted out a variety of dialogues and created their own song to apply the correct grammar and verbal choices.
As a reflection of learning, children have completed their assessments, which will be send home with them after the fall break. Please sign them and send them back to school once you have been through them with your child.
Photo Challenge:
Have your picture taken with a German book! Choose an unusual, creative or touristic spot where you are reading a German book, newspaper or magazine. Involvement of family members, friends, pets etc. is highly encouraged. We´ll display the pictures at school and we´ll award a prize.
The following rules apply:
This is a Lower School wide project.
Have an inspirational and literate holiday!
Herzliche Grüsse from all of us in the German Team
Hi parents of 5R tweens!
At last we are contacting you!!! We thought we’d give everyone some time to settle into the school year, and not bombard you yet with even more information. But now we’re getting in touch!
We’re your room mums this year: Rachel Kaas, mum to Henrik, and Catharina Brenninkmeijer, mum to Amelia. We’re lucky enough for this to be our second experience in Mr Raskin’s class- both of our elder daughters were in his class a few years back, so its awesome to be back in his class!
We’ve noticed over the years that the older the kids, the less involvement there is from parents, and as a result less social interaction… We thought we’d try change this! Not to worry, we’re not planning weekly get-togethers! We’d just like to give everyone the opportunity to meet each other, see who the parents of their kids friends’ are, or make a new friend yourselves! So we are super curious to to meet as many of you as possible, so would love to invite to an Autumn breakfast at Catharina’s house (surprise surprise, not at the usual class coffee venue at Schönegg!!)
We thought to plan for next Monday morning, 8th October, straight after drop off… Address is Weinbergstrasse 43 in Kilchberg.
Please could you drop us a quick rsvp whether you can make it or not to the breakfast, so we can plan roughly! Thanks!
Communication via the school portal is a bit tricky, so you are welcome to email us directly (Rachel: Rachel.kaas@bluewin.ch or Catharina: catharinabrenn@hotmail.com ) Also, if you’d be happy to join a Grade 5R whatsapp chat group, to make communicating quicker and easier, please send Rachel an email with your ok and your mobile number…
At the breakfast, we’ll give some further info on the winter party coming up in December, some graduation details for June, gift ideas etc etc…
Also, as per usual, the class collects a class fund, which is Chf 30 per family- this goes towards teacher gifts, class party needs etc… It is not compulsory to add to this class fund, but it is of course much appreciated as it goes towards the atmosphere of the class!
Any questions, please shout!!
Looking forward to a FAB Grade 5 year!
Catharina & Rachel
In fifth grade your child will be collecting and developing writing ideas in a notebook in Writer’s Workshop. During writing workshop we will explore many different genres of writing and study the craft of well-known authors to improve our own writing skills. All students have been given their own writer’s notebook, but I would like your child to personalize his or her notebook to generate a greater sense of ownership. This notebook will be the place where creative ideas, personal feelings, and new characters will be created and developed throughout the year. You won’t believe the growth your child will make this year as a writer! It will be fun for you to browse through your child’s notebook as the year goes on to observe the constant progress.
The idea is that we design our notebooks to be an inspiration of stories for us. To best serve this purpose, we can decorate them with images of meaningful people, places and moments of our lives. Please begin to collect meaningful and inspiring items such as:
Photos (They will be cut and pasted on the notebook, so you may want to make copies of the photos)
Souvenirs (tickets from special events, pictures from brochures, etc.)
Magazine Pictures (Students can cut out fun pictures from magazines of animals, favorite foods, favorite celebrities, meaningful words, etc.)
Quotes (inspiring words about writing or other topics)
Scrapbook Materials (stickers, decorative paper, stamps, etc.)
Be Creative! (Bring anything else that you can think of!)
Please remind your child to choose the materials he or she will use to decorate the writer’s notebook and bring the materials to school in an envelope or folder by Tuesday, October 9.
If printing materials is challenging, you may email printable files to me and I will gladly print them. Please do not directly attach images to an email for printing. It is much easier if you size them for how large you would like them printed (in a Word document, Google Doc, slideshow etc), prior to sending them. Please ensure these have been prepared and sent by Tuesday, October 9.
Lastly, we will be assembling these notebooks in class on Wednesday and Thursday next week. On Friday, we will be covering them in plastic to protect all of the images. This is quite a process and we would love a couple parent volunteers who may have an hour to spare to help us plastic-cover them. Please let me know if you can help! It would be great if you were available from 1:30-2 to help.
See the presentation below for some ideas!
Hi parents of 5R tweens!At last we are contacting you!!! We thought we’d give everyone some time to settle into the school year, and not bombard you yet with even more information. But now we’re getting in touch!We’re your room mums this year: Rachel Kaas, mum to Henrik, and Catharina Brenninkmeijer, mum to Amelia. We’re lucky enough for this to be our second experience in Mr Raskin’s class- both of our elder daughters were in his class a few years back, so its awesome to be back in his class!We’ve noticed over the years that the older the kids, the less involvement there is from parents, and as a result less social interaction… We thought we’d try change this! Not to worry, we’re not planning weekly get-togethers! We’d just like to give everyone the opportunity to meet each other, see who the parents of their kids friends’ are, or make a new friend yourselves! So we are super curious to to meet as many of you as possible, so would love to invite to an Autumn breakfast at Catharina’s house (surprise surprise, not at the usual class coffee venue at Schönegg!!)We thought to plan for next Monday morning, 8th October, straight after drop off… Address is Weinbergstrasse 43 in Kilchberg.Please could you drop us a quick rsvp whether you can make it or not to the breakfast, so we can plan roughly! Thanks! Communication via the school portal is a bit tricky, so you are welcome to email us directly (Rachel: Rachel.kaas@bluewin.ch or Catharina: catharinabrenn@hotmail.com ) Also, if you’d be happy to join a Grade 5R whatsapp chat group, to make communicating quicker and easier, please send Rachel an email with your ok and your mobile number…At the breakfast, we’ll give some further info on the winter party coming up in December, some graduation details for June, gift ideas etc etc…Also, as per usual, the class collects a class fund, which is Chf 30 per family- this goes towards teacher gifts, class party needs etc… It is not compulsory to add to this class fund, but it is of course much appreciated as it goes towards the atmosphere of the class! 😉Any questions, please shout!!Looking forward to a FAB Grade 5 year!Catharina & Rachel