Dear Parents and Students,
Another successful week of learning has come and gone. It was an exciting week; Students that have been with ABIS for three years also received their new ipads. As well as this ASA signups went live and students look forward to completing their important WIDA assessments coming up.
For Language we began our first unit of inquiry, our first reading and workshop unit on characterization.
For U.O.I. Students are beginning to really settle into routines and we are finding out more and more about each other as we work through our assessments and first unit of Inquiry ‘Who We Are.’ For this we have completed our first KWLH chart. This is where we frontload what we already know, what we Want to know, what we have Learned and How we know we have learned it. We will continue to build on this throughout the unit.
For Math, we tuned in to our inquiry on Ratios and began building our understanding of this by working through different models including applying this to ourselves to work out the ratio of students of each gender in our class before extending this out further.
Please see below for…
Grade 6 in pictures: 2023 2024 Week 3
Upcoming events:
WIDA – Assessments
At the beginning of the year and then again at the end of the year all G6 students’ English language proficiency will be assessed through WIDA (World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment). Students will participate in assessments in each of the language domains: speaking, listening, writing, reading.
Date & Time
Speaking: September 17 – 20
Listening: Sunday, Sept. 24 at 8:10 am
Writing: Monday, Sept. 25 at 10:20 am
Reading: Tuesday, Sep 26 at 10:20 am
ASA’s commence next week
Homework: Update on schedule. This will now go out every Tuesday morning and is due every Sunday. This consists of daily ‘Must do’ reading and math tasks as well as ‘Can do’ extension tasks.
Reminders:
Thank you everyone. Another great week. Looking forward to the next one.
As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincere regards,
Your partners in learning.
Mr Nicholson and Mr Wetzel
