Dear Grade 6 Parents and Students,
Another busy week, welcome to our review of week 20.
Notice: Swimming for girls on Sunday & boys on Tuesday during PE session: Please remember to bring the swimming kit.
Upcoming events:
- Next week – Oman week; special activities have been planned for the whole school.
- 21st Feb – International Mother Tongue language day; special assembly at 8 am in the Mazoon
- 22nd Feb – Swimming gala (more information to come)
- 15th/16th March – Student Led Conferences coming up
- Link to the photos this week: 2022 2023 Week 20 photos
Homework : This week for homework, we continued with our basic facts, reading, codebreaking and geography quiz as well as our spelling work.
Reading, Writing and Inquiry: Current UOI
Central Idea:
This is the second last week for our current unit. The central idea for this unit again is:
Human migration is a response to challenges, risks and opportunities.
For this unit students have been inquiring into:
- Reasons why people migrate
- Migration patterns
- The effects of migration on communities and individuals
If you are able to discuss this with your children at home as we work together to support their learning that would be great. I am sure you will have stories that you can share and that they will love spending time with you sharing these stories.
Dip in –This week, we dipped into our PYP Exhibition work. Students came up with the essential agreement that they would follow while working in their exhibition groups. Please click here to see these. Students were also oriented to how they would use their UOI exercise books as a ‘journal’ to record their exhibition process and document their learning journey. They worked in their groups and identified key concepts and questions related to their central idea. They learned to send a formal email by emailing their mentor requesting time for their first meeting.
Please see below for our Grade 6 Exhibition Groups and Central Ideas.
If you are able to discuss this with your children at home as we work together to support their learning that would be great.
Mathematics: Students continued to complete maths maintenance and also to solve problems of time, reading graphs and charts as well as converting word problems into number problems to solve them. Next week they will have another in a sequence of basic facts. We look forward to sharing the results of this during Student Led Conferences (SLC’s) coming up in March.
Please see below for a picture of some of our math maintenance questions from this week. Feel free to discuss these with your children.
Counsellors’ session on well-being: G6 students had a session with Ms Maitha & Ms Sharouq on ‘zones of regulation’ and learnt some calming strategies and stress-relieving techniques.
How you can help at home: Please help your children to use the Nessy, RAZ kids, Epic and Prodigy accounts for numeracy and literacy practice as part of their homework. As always, spending time with your children at home reading, writing and playing math games is a very valuable shared learning time.
Worth repeating:
Thank you.
As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us
Sincere regards,
Your partners in learning.
The Grade 6 Teaching team
Srikala Raghuraman, Glen Nicholson & Maryam Al Muqbali