Dear Parents and Students,
I hope these few words find you well. This week, the majority of our students have had an extremely busy week, lots of things going on, sports school winter concert, Musical production, finishing off literary essays, reflecting on our learning through Seesaw posts, reviewing our mathematical understandings and reasoning in relation to fractions, decimals and percentages and of course social and emotional learning in relation to managing ourselves and our time to maximise study routines for exams coming up.
Please click the link below to see the photos and video snippets from this week:
Grade 6 Week 15 in pictures:2023 2024
Integrated Unit of Inquiry
This week students have once again dived into their passion projects working to develop and refine their central ideas and lines of inquiry for their Exhibition units. Please see this week’s review in pictures for examples of their work. Students have also begun to create their designs for what our Exhibition T shirt could look like this year. We will vote on the entries for this next week. Some excellent entries already.
Language
Students have been finalising and publishing their literary essays around character traits, themes and relationships within a book as well as looking at doing a comparative essay comparing two books to each other.
Mathematics
This week’s highlight was students reviewing their work on fractions and dividing fractions through solving mixed equations and providing evidence of their mathematical reasoning. An example of some of the problems students have been working to solve are as below. Try a few yourself and see if you are as smart as a 6th grader 🙂
- How many half miles are there in twelve miles?
- How many quarter hours are there in five hours?
- How many thirds of a cup are in nine cups?
- How many eighths of a pizza are in four pizzas?
- How many one-fifths are there in seven wholes?
Homework
Please remember that there is homework every day except over the weekend. It is important that students are reading, writing and doing Maths practice on a daily basis. Thank you for supporting this and for sighting and signing this every week.
Important dates to note:
Next week: (10 Dec 2023 – 14 Dec 2023)
Next Monday, 11th Dec: Musical – Goldilocks and the three bears
You are all invited for this year’s musical performance.
Time : 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location : Mazoon Hall
Next Wednesday, 13th Dec: Primary Sports Day (KG1 – Grade 5)
Primary parents are welcome to join students for a fun community run from 8.05 – 8.20 before the fun House games begin.
Fun House Games : 8.20 am – 11.30 am
Next Thursday, 14th Dec: Secondary Sports / Athletics Day (Grades 6 – 12)
Exams:
Thursday December 7, 2023 Social Studies 9:00am – 10:30am
Sunday December 10, 2023 Islamic Studies 9:00am – 10:30am
Tuesday December 12, 2023 Arabic 9:00am – 10:30am
Worth Repeating
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
Glen Nicholson and Andrew Wetzel
