{"id":283558,"date":"2023-02-08T16:34:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=283558"},"modified":"2023-02-09T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T07:24:28","slug":"2022-23-g6-week-20-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2023\/02\/08\/2022-23-g6-week-20-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"2022-23: G6 Week 20 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear Grade 6 Parents and Students,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another busy week, welcome to our review of week 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Notices<\/span>:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swimming for girls on Sunday &amp; boys on Tuesday: Please remember to bring the swimming kit.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><b>Upcoming events:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next week &#8211; Oman week; special activities have been planned for the whole school.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">21st Feb &#8211; International Mother Tongue language day; special assembly at 8 am in the Mazoon<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">22nd Feb &#8211; Swimming gala (more information to come)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">15th\/16th March &#8211; Student Led Conferences coming up<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Link to the photos this week:\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1m6PfLxI0SY4tXDEl_tywvxgVeeQhLxvC?usp=sharing\"><b>2022 2023 Week 20 photos\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><b>Homework<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week for homework, we continued with our basic facts, reading, codebreaking and geography quiz as well as our spelling work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><b>Reading, Writing and Inquiry\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week, we dipped into our PYP Exhibition work. Students came up with the essential agreement that they would follow while working in their exhibition groups. <\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1AneNIWa9hmyXH1kkF1C-37gUtTUE_2X4\/view?usp=sharing\">Please click here to see these.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students were also oriented to how they would use their UOI exercise books as a \u2018journal\u2019 to record their exhibition process and document their learning journey. They worked in their groups and identified key concepts and questions related to their central idea. They learned to send a formal email by emailing their mentor requesting time for their first meeting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please see below for our Grade 6 Exhibition Groups and Central Ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/G6-Exhibition-groups-1-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-283557 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/G6-Exhibition-groups-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/G6-Exhibition-groups-1-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/G6-Exhibition-groups-1-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/G6-Exhibition-groups-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Central Idea:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the second last week for our current unit.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The central idea for this unit again is:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Human migration is a response to challenges, risks and opportunities.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For this unit students have been inquiring into:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reasons why people migrate\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Migration patterns\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The effects of migration on communities and individuals\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are able to discuss this with your children at home as we work together to support their learning that would be great. I am sure you will have stories that you can share and that they will love spending time with you sharing these stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><b>Mathematics<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students continued to complete maths maintenance and also to solve problems of time, reading graphs and charts as well as converting word problems into number problems to solve them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next week they will have another in a sequence of basic facts. We look forward to sharing the results of this during Student Led Conferences (SLC\u2019s) coming up in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please see below for a picture of some of our math maintenance questions from this week. Feel free to discuss these with your children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/22-23-G6-Wk20m-Math-Maintenance-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-283642 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/22-23-G6-Wk20m-Math-Maintenance-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1742\" height=\"856\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/22-23-G6-Wk20m-Math-Maintenance-1.png 1742w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/22-23-G6-Wk20m-Math-Maintenance-1-1280x629.png 1280w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/22-23-G6-Wk20m-Math-Maintenance-1-980x482.png 980w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/02\/22-23-G6-Wk20m-Math-Maintenance-1-480x236.png 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1742px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1742px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1742\/856;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><b>How you can help at home:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please help your children to use the Nessy, RAZ kids, Epic and Prodigy online accounts for numeracy and literacy practice as part of their homework. As always, spending time with your children at home reading, writing and playing math games is a very valuable shared learning time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><b>Worth repeating:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/01\/Grade-6-Worth-repeating.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-282506 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/01\/Grade-6-Worth-repeating.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/01\/Grade-6-Worth-repeating-980x554.png 980w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/01\/Grade-6-Worth-repeating-480x271.png 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/579;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sincere regards,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your partners in learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Grade 6 Teaching team<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glen Nicholson, Srikala Raghuraman, Maryam Al Muqbali<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/09\/2983D5C5-905A-4A42-AB6F-E1477C3BB0A3_4_5005_c.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-277833 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/09\/2983D5C5-905A-4A42-AB6F-E1477C3BB0A3_4_5005_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"308\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/09\/2983D5C5-905A-4A42-AB6F-E1477C3BB0A3_4_5005_c.jpeg 570w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2022\/09\/2983D5C5-905A-4A42-AB6F-E1477C3BB0A3_4_5005_c-480x259.jpeg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 570px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 570px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 570\/308;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Grade 6 Parents and Students, Another busy week, welcome to our review of week 20. Notices: Swimming for girls on Sunday &amp; boys on Tuesday: Please remember to bring the swimming kit.\u00a0 Upcoming events: Next week &#8211; Oman week; special activities have been planned for the whole school.\u00a0 21st Feb &#8211; International Mother Tongue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":828,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}