Good afternoon everyone,
we hope you are well. Welcome to our review of week 4 of the year.
Wow, another busy week and so much happening. Please click the link below for a review of this week in pictures: Grade 6 in pictures:2022 2023 Week 4
Homework : A big thank you to parents for taking the time to check in and sign your children’s homework. This is a great way to connect with your child and to talk about their learning and what/how they are doing at school. This is also an important routine that helps them to be accountable to their learning.
Goal Setting: Now that the students have completed all the basic pre-assessments, we looked at our goals for this year. Students have drafted them now and will soon design a Canva page to put their goals on display so we can see them everyday in our learning space.
Reading: This week students have worked hard to complete their reading activities designed to build understanding, fluency and comprehension. We read two different texts about frankincense and compared them in terms of organisation of content. We understood the importance of the main idea and relevant details in an information text. For those of you who are supporting the students at home, here is a quick link with some helpful tips- READING how can we help our children
Integrated Unit of Inquiry: This week was an intense inquiry week. We had a fabulous presentation by the students on aspects of different cultures. It was more of a language activity where the students researched on the meaning of some unfamiliar words and shared their understanding with everyone. We made connections between our identity and culture by doing a small piece of writing about who we are that will be integrated into a bird art that the students completed in their Art class. We continued to inquire into our unit on Who We Are and focussed on developing our understanding of how we are all the “Same Same But Different”. One way we did this was by engaging with an artefact identification activity where students brought an artefact to school without the other students seeing it before their classmates had to guess what it was, who it belonged to and what the significance or story of the artefact was. Students were great at this game and seemed to really enjoy this. These are the Making conclusions and taking action phases of the cycle where we put together all that we have learned and synthesise our findings to “show what we know’.
Goal Setting: Though we will be touching on our current unit again throughout the year, this is our last full week on our current unit of inquiry. Next week we will spend some time introducing and ‘Tuning into’ the grade 6 Exhibition. Thank you in advance for your support with this because students will need your assistance with this one, it is as we say ‘A Big Deal’ 🙂
Worth Repeating
Please remember your… Hat, Water bottle, Ipad charged, headphones, PE/Swimming Kit
Thank you.
As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincere regards,
Your partners in Learning
Sri, Glen and Maryam
