Eugene has had a fantastic year. The growth that he has shown since the start of the year has left him as ready as possible for the challenges that lie ahead in Grade 6. Eugene has risen above each challenge and stood out on a number of occasions. especially with regard to his use of time, ability to work on his own and in groups, and his wholehearted attempts to improve as much as possible in every aspect of his school life. Thank you for all of the outstanding moments throughout the year, Eugene!
Week Thirty-Seven: Darius Hsu
Doc Dadarai is up on the board again for his outstanding work throughout the year. Some highlights of the past few weeks include having completed a very well thought out fantasy story involving a talking plant that helps to solve a huge crime. Darius has worked hard on his awareness skills and the fact that he can explain how his awareness of his surroundings has improved and the benefits that he has seen from this shows how much he has learned beyond what a teacher can simply teach to a student. He has found an education in his Grade 5 year and proved himself to be a learner, not just a student. We have grown to enjoy his contributions from in the room to outside where we record our skits and play our football games. Thank you for the year and the insights that you have shared with us.
Week Thirty-Six: Becky Yu
Bec-A-Roo has done her best since the start of the school year and her best, as far as the last few weeks is concerned, just got better. She has put in her usual impressive effort in classwork, contributed nicely to the reading of Bridge To Terabithia, and produced two extraordinary posters for her compare and contrast and her Maths project. In addition to this, she has been proving herself as quite a force on the football field. She has found a comfortable place on any team, especially when she plays up front. On more than one occasion, her contributions to her team have led to an improved overall level of optimism in her teammates and on a few occasions, goals. She has become known for scoring a goal or three of her own. The attitude that she has to everything has been an asset to the class throughout the year. Her influence in crucial moments will be remembered even after the school year ends.
Week Thirty-Five: Rachelle Shen
The legendary Ms. Shelley has been at the helm of demonstrating how to adapt to the realisation that education is not preparing young people for a life of tests, but rather for the test of life. She is setting targets for herself and then looking for ways to exceed and improve upon her goals and ambitions in everything she does. Don't let me get started about how much she has improved as a full-back in our recess soccer games, among a host of many other things. Rachelle embodies every motivation that I have to make sure that we have Heroes Week in Grade 5 every year. I am honoured to know that she is the first person to read my brand new copy of Anne Frank's Diary after the brilliant presentation she put together about Ms. Frank this week. You inspire the rest of us by aiming for the moon and, if you fall among the stars, you get right back up and start working on your "Get To The Moon" plan immediately. Thank you for all that you do, Rachelle.
Week Thirty-Four: Eugene Chung
Eugene has been steadily climbing higher and higher each day since August last year. He is incredibly thorough in all that he does and performs incredibly well on a daily basis. He works independently to make sure that he has completed the work with the right amount of understanding and after acquiring or using the skills needed to complete the task. He has also become more self-directed meaning that instead of doing what he is told, he finds ways to use his time in class to enrich his understanding of the world and improve upon his skills. His drawing skills are becoming more and more impressive and a quick glance at his Messi/Ronaldo comparison makes this quite evident.
Week Thirty-Three: Runa Muraoka
Runa has been working steadily to improve as much as she can. She can be relied upon to balance the workload in Maths class well on a daily basis. This does not just mean that she is good at Maths, but it shows that she understands how devising a routine and procedure for completing tasks can help you to become efficient. She did really well to independently read Bridge To Terrabithia ahead of the book being read in class as she did so in time to mention it as her favourite novel this year in the yearbook and because a second reading of a book often leads to insights that did not occur to you the first time you read it. We look forward to hearing Runa share these insights with us when we start reading the book in June.
Week Thirty-Two: Christine Tsao
Christine is our recipient this week for simply being who she is. She is a dedicated individual who does her best in everything she does. From her projects, assignments, classwork and tests to her participation in discussions, whether it is a comment or a simple acknowledgement of understanding through a nod, to her brilliant sense of team work (including a spectacular long-range goal during our six-a-side tournament) Christine demonstrates the sort of character, determination, and humanity that most heroes are made of. Christine, keep doing what you do the way you do it, and you will be inspiring others for many decades to come. Thank you for all that you have contributed to our class this year!
Week Thirty-One: Leonard Lee
Long-range Leo has been working his way onward and upward the entire year. He has produced some fine work in class while realizing that the initial struggle involved in solving a problem independently is actually good for our brains. He has learned to accept a mistake as a learning experience as he makes them and does well to work on ways to avoid making the same mistake again or too frequently. His football skills have been much appreciated by the Robustian Rovers and have played a big part in our decision to turn pro and challenge the Grade 6s to a tournament next Wednesday. A word of warning to the Grade 6 defense: Even if you try to close him down, he will find a space and don't relax if you find him facing away from your goal. It often happens that his opponents hear the ball hit the net before they have even realized that he has turned around. He's like a panther that way. Thanks for doing things the way you do, Leo.
Week Thirty-One: Runa Muraoka
Runa-Roo has grown and changed a lot this year. At the beginning of the year, she did not seem to know that her opinion and insights are valued. She would ask very basic questions very quietly and go back to her corner of the room. We now have the real Runa in our midst; the one who excitedly points at the whiteboard when an announcement is about to be made about Social Studies skits or comes up to me to point out an error that I have made in the Maths written out on the board. This is the Runa we knew was there and we are glad that she has decided to join us and make the great contributions that she has made this year. Runa surprised us all with her exceptional goalkeeping skills today.
Week Thirty: Matthis Lee
Matt earns the award for a few weeks of good work. He produced really good work during our Distance Learning period and was quick to identify issues and ask for clarification which helped all of us as we were adjusting to a different style of learning. He has been consistently thorough throughout the year and he has done well to combine this skills with his creativity to produce a really good historical fiction story about the adventures of Ferdinand Magellan. Well done, Matt.
Week Twenty-Nine: Rachelle Shen
Rachelle caught the Grade 5 wave early, made it through the barrel of the second and third quarters and is now just riding it out, looking back and thinking, "Look how far I have come and what I have achieved." She was a superstar throughout our distance learning period and, while adjusting to the new form of learning as we all were, demonstrated competence and skill in absolutely everything that we did. We are proud to have her on the Dream Team. She is an indispensable component and a huge contributor to our drive towards making this the best year to date! Thank you for all that you have contributed to the class this year!
Eugene has returned from our distance learning period in top gear. He has been very helpful and the fact that he is quite knowledgeable in a number of ways has resulted in him making a number of really good contributions in class. While we were distance learning, Eugene was online ahead of the start of the day every morning, he ALWAYS uploaded his work completed and checked and with very clear photographs. Charles Darwin himself would be impressed with your survival skills out there in the trenches in our war against the CoroNazis.
Week Twenty-Five: Fee Bee Zee
Phoebe is all over the map in terms of demonstrating new skills and interests. She has been very excited for a few weeks now, having read The Book Thief and seen the movie but at the same time being forced to not spill the beans for her classmates regarding the plot of the movie, which we watched today. One of many impressive things that she recently did was dig deeper than I did in terms of finding a suitable movie to watch after reading Number The Stars. Since I believed some years ago that there is no movie adaptation of Number The Stars, I chose the book thief as a movie to watch. Phoebe did some research, and discovered that there is in fact a movie based on the book, so we will be watching it on Wednesday, April 1st after we have completed our Number the Stars assessment. Outside of the classroom, we are all impressed by her soccer skills that continue to improve.
Week Twenty-Four: Henry Wei
Henry is flexing different parts of his brain as much as he can. He is still a great contributor to discussions in class. He has worked hard on the pace with which he produces his work. He has demonstrated how to ride a snake board like a Youtubing pro. He helped the educator in the room to remember why barns in the USA are painted red when said educator failed to remember anything except that there is a reason why barns are painted red. He showed great independence in the resolution of a dispute last week and in doing so, not that we need to be reminded, showed us what a truly good person he is. Keep it up, Henry!
Week Twenty-Three: Darius Hsu
Darius is still having a fantastic year. He has maintained his excellent attitude to learning and his critical thinking skills continue to blossom. He recently provided one of the most detailed and descriptive retells of a difficult topic involving microfinance. He was a very important member of his group during our Origin Myths skit presentations during Literacy Week last week. Darius has, as before earned the award for his empathy. While many would get angry with President Hoover for the decisions that he made during the Great Depression, Darius maintained an awareness that Hoover was also a human and that he made a mistake when he thought pouring government funds into businesses would regenerate the economy. Thank you for thinking the way you do, Darius.
Week Twenty-Two: Christine Tsao
Christine has continued to have another fantastic week and a great start to the second semester. She was away in the last week of January due to illness but when she returned ahead of the Science test, she played her part in her group's test preparation presentation as though she had been here throughout the planning phases. Christine adapts well, maintains high standards, and enjoys everything about learning and interacting with others. She has too many skills to mention here and continues to develop new ones all the time. Nice work, Christine!
Week Twenty-One: Becky Yu
The Beck-A-Roo has maintained her hard work. She receives this award not simply for what she has done for the past week but in addition to what she has done. She is a team player and is quite considerate of her classmates. She always does her best and was very helpful when we were secretly putting together a farewell card for Rady. More recently, Becky was extremely honest about a mistake that I made on her Maths test which benefitted her but she chose to be honest rather than claim the four extra points that I had mistakenly added to her total. You make us proud every day, Beck-A-Roo!
Week Twenty: Kanon Morita
Kanon is continuing to find new ways to enjoy her time at school. She has made some firm friendships this year and is always willing to help her friends out. Most recently, she scrambled to the rescue of a frightened Grade 4 student who found that she was unable to get out of a locked bathroom stall. Kanon was unfortunately absent on the day that her recent STEM group built their tent but upon returning to school. she had made up her mind that she was not going to miss out on the opportunity to build a tent of her own, which she did. It worked, and her wolf that was using it as shelter did not get wet when water was poured over the tent. It would also probably withstand a real hailstorm. Kanon is a thoughtful student who has a very good sense of humour, despite what I might say about the idea of her training wolves to attack her educator. Thank you for being the one and only Kanon. We look forward to seeing what you can do and teach us as we enter the last half of our Grade 5 year together.
Week Eighteen: Leonard Lee
Leonard has maintained an upward trajectory throughout the year. He has not only been working on his academic skills but he has also been doing his best to become one of those students who contributes positively to the experiences of his classmates. He has done quite well in this respect by teaching new skills and facts to his classmates. He has learned to show his enjoyment of Grade 5 by finding new ways to laugh about situations and causing others to find these same things funny. He is a very thorough student and his range of interests extends throughout the range of topics that we discuss in class. Keep up the great work, Leo!
The Zooks has been keeping his head down and being quietly brilliant for an entire semester now. He has demonstrated a great deal of learning and has been quite responsible in ensuring that he is getting the most out of the time that he is spending in the classroom. He has become more willing to speak in group settings, contributing really good ideas, and he is working hard to improve as a writer. Kazuki is a very important member of our class and it is time for us to celebrate that fact. Well done, Kazuki!
Week Seventeen: Runa Muraoka
Runa started the year off very, very quietly. She has now tested the waters of Grade 5 and is finding herself feeling more at home in the class. It is heartening to hear her voice in class and witness the amount of learning and fun that she is having. She has revealed to us that she loves books as much as the rest of us and has brought some interesting examples that included copies of The One and Only Ivan and a very interesting comic book biography of Albert Einstein. She as quite reluctant when it came to writing earlier in the year but she is finding her voice in written form and I am looking forward to reading her journal as soon as possible. Keep up the good work, Runa!
Week Sixteen: Nao Inoue
Nao has had a very productive 16 weeks in Grade 5 and the benefits of her improvements are starting to show more and more each week. She was very quiet for the first few months but now that she has realised that sharing her thoughts with others brings more good than bad to our classroom experience, she is speaking up more frequently and contributing more often. She kept her good ideas a secret for a very long time though they were quite evident in her written work. She has made very good progress in all aspects of school in addition to finding her voice. And the moment where Nao's presence in the class made itself most evident was during our recent Christmas show performance. With her very impressive sense of rhythm and natural dancing ability, Nao's performance seemed to be the glue that held the entire performance together during which the Grade 5s pretty much stole the show. Nice work, Nao-Nao-Nao-y!
Week Fifteen: Miyu Shiraishi
Miyu has taken flight in the last few weeks. She is completing her work on time in class and doing much better to hit deadlines. She has learned to work on projects in advance so that if she has any questions, she can find the answers well ahead of the due date. She is one of the two founders of the Robustanian Library that currently holds up quite a bit, but not enough, space in the classroom and works hard to make sure that books are checked out and in properly. She has also recently proven herself to be quite the soccer player, adding a tenacity to her team that has inspired others who don't usually play to join in and learn how. Thank you, Miyu!
Week Fourteen: Bronte Costello
Professori Brontecelli makes useful contributions in class and by checking in on the blog quite frequently. She is always willing to comment and does what she can to get a blog discussion going. She contributes well in class discussions and recently did really well to proofread Maurice's interpretive essay about Lupe the marble champ after he clearly hadn't. No, Maurice, that's not the way we spell 'learning." And no, it isn't 2018 either...Mr. Robus. She has done well since the start of the year to work on her ability to make sure that she is aware of her surroundings as much as possible and was recently spotted taking a careful look at the Maths focus board, making sure that she had a full understanding of what had been learned that day becuase we all know what a tricky topic number 7 in Maths can be. She also did her very best to carry 7 chairs at once while helping to set up for Thanksgiving lunch despite the fact that her doctor and 'educator' have asked her to go a little easy on that arm until it is fully healed.
Week Thirteen: Martin Gaucher
Dr. Gaucher has been organizing his schedule very carefully for the past few weeks. It all started when his dad helped him to copy, paste, and print a recent list of upcoming due dates and deadlines. Since then, Martin has shown great improvements in his planning skills, especially with regard to the upcoming STEM rocket project and his Thanksgiving speech. He has been more focused in the mornings and has completed his Daily Spiral Review and Problem of the Day in good time which leaves him more time to focus on new content and also to reduce the amount of homework that he has. This remarkable improvement has been most impressive and we all look forward to seeing how much of a positive effect it will have on all of Martin's fUtUre work.
Week Twelve: Darius Hsu
Darius has come to realize that sometimes there is more than one answer to the same question and what matters most is that whatever we come up with on our own provides an answer or a solution. He has learned to see a mistake as an opportunity to learn and to look at how to solve the problem or a similar problem in the future by staying calm and using the skills that he possesses. One of Darius's greatest attributes is his ability to empathise with others. He has been visibly upset when classmates have received bad news and stepped in to assist those who might not achieve desired results unassisted. Your kindness and contribution to the classroom environment has not gone unnoticed. Thank you for all of your contributions.
Week Eleven: Liam Johnson
Liam has been finding ways to improve in order to be the best Grade 5 student he can possibly be. He is always helpful, pays attention to details, and has been working on his strategies for ensuring success since the very first week. He demonstrated this quite nicely last week when his classmates looked confused about what the difference between a solvent and solute is. Instead of just accepting it as something nobody in the room knew the answer to, Liam consulted a textbook and soon revealed the difference to everyone. It's that sort of perseverance that keeps you going onward and upward. Thank you for showing us this, Liam!
Week Ten: Matthis Lee
Week Nine: Janelle Yeh
Janelle works steadily and meticulously every single day. She has been putting in a great deal of effort since the start of the year and, because of this, is seeing a good deal of improvement in everything she does. When it comes to projects, she not only demonstrates that she understands the task. but presents the work in an attractive manner leaving viewers unable to move on until they have taken a look at what she has to share. Well done, Janelle.
Week Eight: Rady Chin
Rady has put in a lot of effort over the past few weeks. She has been making good contributions both to the classroom environment and in her own work. She demonstrates a willingness to keep her sights set on the goals that she has set for herself and she is now devising strategies to achieve them. She is a keen checker of her own work and is learning how to gauge the quality of what she produces without seeking help. She is always willing to help around the classroom and ensures that things are running smoothly for all. Thanks for the hard work, Rady.
Week Seven: Christine Tsao
Christine is one of the slow but steady, quietly on task students who shines best when you take a look at the work that she produces. She is a great observer of deadlines and has yet to miss one. She was one of the first three students in the class to achieve the goal of getting her photo up on the journal writing wall of fame by writing daily wherever possible and keeping track of what is happening to her as she learns and grows in Grade 5. Thank you for all the hard work, Christine.
Week Six: Becky Yu
Becky is a hard worker who always produces the best possible work that she can. She is willing to learn from her mistakes and is not afraid to broaden her skills by trying something new or something that she has decided to do all on her own. She came to school recently with a fantastic book of quotes (just like our Quote of the Week) and since filled it and started on a new one. When time is absolutely crucial, Becky springs into action and was recently seen distributing all of the Language Arts notebooks all on her own faster than it has taken a group of five classroom admins in previous classes. Thank you for being aware when your help is needed, Becky, and for providing just the kind of support that your classmates need when they need it.
Week Five: Henry Wei
Henry is a well of interesting facts and does well to connect topics being discussed with knowledge and experiences that he has. He wants to do well and keeps aiming as high as he can. This makes him an inspiration to all who might feel like some of the challenges in class are tougher than they really are. Henry has earned a special place in the history of Robustania by being the first student to ever remark that, "Because of Winn-Dixie, we don't have any tomatoes." Thank you, Henry, for all you bring to our classroom every day.
Week Four: Eugene Chung
Eugene clearly lives by the suggestion to speak only if it improves upon the silence. Although he is quiet, he is confident and makes very good contributions in class when he chooses to speak. He is careful and organized when it comes to work and he is very thoughtful when it comes to considering the needs of others. Thank you for your huge impact on the class so far, Eugene!
Week Three: Rachelle Shen
Rachelle is very organized and her level of awareness makes her an asset in the classroom. She was especially helpful during my absence in her efforts to help the substitute teachers to know when and where the class needed to be throughout the day. She even took the time to colour in the square for the week that ended in our Fractions of Grade Five display.
Week Two: Phoebe Zou
This has been a really good week and the Roaring 20 Grade 5 class is clearly full of regular contenders for Student of the Week. For this reason, Phoebe should be really proud of herself for standing out in a crowd full of very enthusiastic students. I was very pleased to see how excited Phoebe was about the Science book that she bought over the summer. She took it upon herself to pass out drinks when I had forgotten to explain how that works. She seems set to make this a very good year for all of us in Robustania and I look forward to seeing what else she can do.
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