I hope to see you at this evening’s iftar during this auspicious time of year 🙂 Please take some time to check out G6 W26 in Pictures by adding, downloading, or just browsing through all of the sights and sounds throughout the week.
School Events – Important Dates
- Barcelo Resort: G6 overnight trip to Mussanah = TBD
- Third Term Progress Reports = Thursday, April 11, 2024 (at the latest and must coincide the first date of Eid Al-Fitr)
- Student-Led Conferences = Monday & Tuesday, April 22 – 23, 2024
Google Classroom
The entire G6 learning community has completely transitioned to using Google Classroom as the main platform for teaching and learning. Students engage daily with materials, quizzes, assignments, and increased expectations. Invitations were previously sent out, which means that you are most welcome to accept a digital invitation at your earliest convenience. Please be aware that this platform allows all users to keep up to date with information, tasks, assessments, and notices.
Literacy Summary
This week in reading, students researched different topics of interest and as related to flight using Cornell Notes. There was great emphasis on writing summaries and synthesizing summaries using our own words. This week in writing, students transferred their notes and write-longs digitally to format a lead and the first few sections of an informational essay.
Numeracy Summary
This week in math, students continued to expand their learning about numbers: rational numbers, positive and negative integers through accurately plotting these numbers as coordinates on either a vertical or horizontal number line with range and a value scale. In one example of a home learning engagement, students were challenged to write a story that demonstrated the extent of their in-class learning. This exit ticket stated, “Post evidence of your learning with the following guidelines.
- Write a story problem that uses sea level and includes the integers −110 and +120.
- Explain what zero means in your story problem.
- Choose an appropriate value scale to graph both integers on a vertical number line.
- Graph and label both points.”
UoI Summary
This week in our unit of inquiry, science was definitely integrated with reading and writing through a continuation to this unit’s central idea: ‘Flight inspires scientific innovation.’ As one example of a side project, students created a slide deck inquiring into biomimicry examples. Some time next week, students should complete their reading and writing in order to begin creating a scientific report related to testing paper airplane designs. Completing this foundational literacy work posted onto Google Classroom is the precursor for students completing the more hands-on experiments and fair testing using a scientific model. It should be fun!