Dear Parents and Students,
This was a busy week for students who completed the Arabic, Omani Social Studies & Islamic Studies assessments.
Please see below for a collage and click the link below for the photos from this week:
Unit of Inquiry & Language: Students focused on their ‘How We Express Ourselves’ unit of inquiry by reflecting on what creativity means to them by completing the cover page for the unit in their books. In groups, they unpacked the central idea word by word. For each word, they identified the dictionary meaning, rewrote the meaning in their words, added graphic illustrations and used them in sentences of their own. Students have also worked on putting together a creative representation of the concept of creativity and have produced some beautiful results. Please see our weekly pictures (link above) for some great examples of this work.
Upcoming events/notices:
- 14 Jun – Music/Band Concert whole school 05:00 – 06:30 PM
- 14 Jun – Last round of ASA
- 20 Jun – Reports issued electronically
- 22 Jun – Last working day of the year
Maths:
Students completed a problem-solving assessment in maths. This week, we tuned into measurements and started ‘finding out’ about metric units of length, weight and capacity. They reviewed their understanding of standard vs non-standard units & imperial vs metric systems. Students learnt a funny acronym ‘King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk’ to remember the metric units in order – for example kilogram, hectogram, decagram, gram, decigram, centigram & milligram. Next week, students will continue to transfer this knowledge to converting between the metric units. Please look for a sample of this in students’ Google Drive folders.
How you can help at home:
Please talk about measurement with your children at home. This includes, filling up the car, baking, how hot it is outside, travel times, weights and distances and so on. This adds authentic contect and a reason for learning about measurement. Please also help your children use their Nessy, RAZ kids, Epic and Prodigy accounts for numeracy and literacy practice as part of their homework.
- Teacher’s name: ABIS6SG
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- Ms Sri’s class code – 555CE48
- Mr Nicholson’s class code – F72F169
Secret word – CANDYSNACK (remember your login details)
Homework
This week for homework, students have continued their daily reading, Math basic facts practice, Nessy/ RAZ/ Epic as well as revision for their exams.
As always, spending time with your children at home reading, writing and playing maths games is a very valuable shared learning time. As in our previous notice, students will be able to share some of their learning with you through their ‘Take home folder’ or their google classroom links so please do talk with them about this to see what they have been working on.
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 Muqbal
