Week 4 In Review
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:2023 2024 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.
Thank you.
Goal Setting
Students have now completed their first set of goals for this year. Please take the time to talk with them about these because this will help them to understand how important these are.
Language
In writing this week, among other things students learnt about the order of adjectives when describing something in English.
Challenge: Have a look at the examples below and talk with your children about these. Are you smarter than a 6th grader 🙂
- A black portable laptop new
- A warm pair of slippers cozy fur-lined
- Several hardcover thick, old, books
- She was wearing a red amazing coat
- My Greek Fat Big Wedding
- leather walking brown boots
- It was made of a green, strange, material metallic
- It’s a long, plastic, narrow, brush
- Panettone is a Italian, Christmas round, bread-like cake.
- She was a tall, thin, beautiful black-haired, young Scottish woman.
In reading this week students have worked hard to complete their reading activities designed to build understanding, fluency and comprehension. We also discussed punctuation and how reading to punctuation helps readers to understand what they have read. Students also reflected on how they might transfer and model some of these techniques in their own writing. 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 students presented to each other as a front loading exercise preparing for Exhibition. Students had a set time to prepare and then a set duration to speak to on a topic of their choice. This was to model how to use their ATL skills and to provide a learning experience designed to provide a point of anxiety so they can reflect on how they managed themselves in relation to this.
Students also completed their Artefact challenge 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. The information from this exercise is also now providing useful data to use in our Ratios unit for Mathematics.
SeeSaw:
This week students have also begun to post work samples and reflections on their Seesaw pages. This is a great way for you to gain insight into what your children have been learning in class. These are on a developmental continuum and are a work in progress however once we have approved these they will be ‘live’. Please do have a look at these and discuss these with your children.
Notices:
WIDA assessments begin next week and continue the week after. Please be reminded that all students must have a functioning set of headphones or earbuds and a fully charged iPad for the dates listed below.
Speaking: Sunday, September 17 – Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Listening: Sunday, September 24, 2023
Writing: Monday, September 25 2023
Reading: Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Worth Repeating
Thank you.
As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincere regards,
Your partners in Learning
Mr Nicholson and Mr Wetzel
