A lovely post PYPX week in G6 transitioning back into our regular book clubs, writing sessions and mathematical studies. This week we put on our creative hats and began some descriptive writing by drawing a ‘monster’. In maths, we began classifying 2D and 3D shapes and our building our understnading specific mathematical vocabulary words. Also, reviewing our year long ‘How We Organise Ourselves’ central idea – ‘Many factors cause us to grow as individuals and as a community.’ This is an excellent stage of the year to review what makes a strong community and what we can do in the coming weeks to become closer and more successful. The class participated in lots of team building games to help us reflect on what a successful community needs.
In Seesaw this week…
- Monster Paragraphs
- Technical vocabulary for 2D and 3D shapes
- Exhibition ‘lessons learnt’
Literacy
- Word Review – adjectives, adverbs, verbs, nouns
- Figurative Writing Review – similes, metaphors, hyperbole
- Sensory Reviews – smell, touch, noise etc.
- All of the above into a quality paragraph about a monster that each child created
- Following the writing cycle to plan, draft, revise, edit and publish their minster paragraph
Maths
- Shapes pre-assessment
- The key language of shapes
- Shape riddles
- Sorting and classifying shapes
Unit of Inquiry
- Discussions on what makes a great community
- Many games to try out ideas from above – silent line, toxic river, keep it alive, balloon obstacle course. Ask your children about these games and what we as a community can learn from them? A strong community….
Next Week, we will be…
- Introducing more irregular 3D shapes
- Nets of 3D shapes
- Writing Assessment
- Book Clubs
- Reviewing our Sharing the Planet central idea
- Looking ahead to our new energy related UOI (starting on 1st March)
G6 Ramadan Timetables
Key Date – Please be aware that Thursday 26th February has been declared by the Omani government as ‘Teacher’s Day’ so there will be no school on this day.
Have a great weekend,
Grade 6