Dear Parents and Students,
Welcome to the end of week 24. It was a very happening week with the spectacular Musical presentation on Sunday & Monday and the fabulous Student Led Conference on Tuesday & Wednesday. Huge thanks to all parents who made your quality 1 on 1 time available for the students to celebrate their learning journey this year. Please see Week 24 photos for these awesome memories.
Notices & upcoming events:
- Mar 19 to Apr 27 – No swimming classes during PE on account of Ramadan
- Mar 21 Tuesday – Book character dress up (more information to follow next week)
- Mar 23 Thursday – Ramadan Timetable begins
- 2 April – 20 April (3 wks ) – Exhibition unit
- Mid April, End of Term 3- Progress reports
- 30 Apr – 18 May (2 wks) – Exhibition unit
- 10 and 11 of May – Exhibition Presentation
Homework: This week for homework, students have continued their daily reading, Math basic facts practice, Nessy/ RAZ/ Epic and weekly spelling words. They have also continued to watch and review videos related to our unit on climate change. From students’ reflection on some of the videos they watched, we can see how they have paid attention to the global issues surrounding climate change. We hope you have also been enjoying these informative videos.
Reading, Writing and Inquiry: Since students will soon be analysing the impact of climate change on biomes and animals, this week we completed frontloading on the classification of animals in the kingdom ‘animalia’. Students developed their organisational skills by studying the scientific classification of living things and developed their research skills by classifying three living things chosen by them.
In language, students continued with the levelled books in reading groups and made direct and indirect inferences from the text. They also learnt to state their personal opinions about varied topics on general interest using the given sentence prompts.
Once again, in the background, we have our ‘Exhibition’ work simmering. This week students began working on a ‘T-shirt design contest’ in their groups. The best design will be chosen for further ordering of T-shirts which the G6 Exhibition team will get to wear during the presentation in May, Inshallah!
How you can help at home: By having conversations about food chains, food webs, Key stone species and how climate change affects habitats and the food habits of animals in the ecosystems in different biomes. For example, due to the melting of icecaps, walruses are forced to move to land and because of this, they lose access to the ocean life they feed on.
Maths: Apart from the daily maintenance based on rounding, basic operations (+ – x ÷) and word problems, students learnt how to find mean (average), median, mode and range in a data set and when they can be useful in understanding a large data set.
How you can help at home: You could have students calculate the average of their marks or the average time they spend on reading/writing or similar activities everyday over a period of a week. They can analyse the mode in real-life examples such as observing the most popular make of cars on the road or the most popular type of snack among family members. Students can be asked to find the range of shoe sizes or clothes sizes at home by finding the difference between the largest and the smallest.
Please help your children use these Nessy, RAZ kids, Epic and Prodigy accounts for numeracy and literacy practice as part of their homework.
- Teacher’s name: ABIS6SG
- Pwd: Remember your own password icons
- Ms Sri’s class code – 555CE48
- Mr Nicholson’s class code – F72F169
Nessy: Secret word – CANDYSNACK; Remember your login details.
As always, spending time with your children at home reading, writing and playing maths games is a very valuable shared learning time.
Worth repeating:
Thank you.
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, Srikala Raghuraman, Maryam Al Muqbali
Week 24 Book work – Samples
