A dramatic start to the week, as we unexpectedly ended up online for the day on Sunday. Thank you for your support in encouraging your children to turn up and make the most of an unfortunate situation. Actually, the majority of students turned up and were able to follow instructions and complete most tasks successfully.
Highlights of the Week
Maths
- Revisiting our shape pre-assessment
- Doing a pre-assessment for our new measurement unit
- Mental Maths
- Calculating perimeter (when not all the lengths of sides are provided)
- Applying our new skills to find the perimeter
Literacy
- Book Clubs
- Explanation text analysis
- Pre planning for next week’s explanation text on dissipation (connected to our pendulum experiment)
Unit of Inquiry
- Pendulum Experiment
- Learning the laws of conservation of energy
- Understanding the concept of dissipation
In Seesaw this week, your child will be….
- Sharing their pendulum experiment and discussing the law of conservation of energy
- Showing you how they can accurately calculate the perimeter and area of a compound shape
Next Week we will be….
- Literacy – Drafting, revising and editing our explanation text about dissipation
- Maths – Finding out how to calculate the area of squares, rectangles, triangles and circles.
- UOI – Looking in our every day life examples of how energy transfers (and in to what new form/s)
Swimming Update
Swimming starts next week, 6A boys on Monday, 6B boys on Tuesday, 6A girls and 6B girls on Thursday.
Upcoming Student Led Conferences (SLCs)
This year the SLCs will take place on Wednesday 15th April. The slots are between 3pm and 6pm. Please look out for an email in the coming days that will give you a link to sign up.
Have a great weekend,
The Grade 6 Team