{"id":321779,"date":"2025-09-11T12:55:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T08:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=321779"},"modified":"2025-09-14T08:38:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:38:44","slug":"week-3-in-g6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2025\/09\/11\/week-3-in-g6\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 in G6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Parents,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A shorter week, but still full of exciting inquiries and lots of progress. We have (mainly) published our letters to our future selves, completed writing assessments, looked at extending sentences, explored figurative writing, pondered how to make mathematical estimates and developed strategies for rounding numbers. Due to the shorter week, we have delayed some of last week\u2019s Literacy goals and the start of the new Where We Are in Place and Time unit until next week. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of the shorter week, some Literacy goals and the launch of our new <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where We Are in Place and Time<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> unit have been postponed until next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In this week\u2019s Seesaw you will find\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An example of your child extending sentences using the who, what, when, where, why approach<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their completed letter to their future selves<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of their rounding skills (there are rounding games in Google Classroom if your child would like additional practice).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An update on their self-portraits and the process so far<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The photos below are the children placing their sealed goals for the year (don\u2019t worry, they have a copy they can access throughout the year too) into the Grade 6 safe box. The aim will be to open up the goals \/ letters at the end of the year, to reflect on our progress and think about what goals will help us as we look to Secondary school life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-12.50.46\u202fpm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-321781 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-12.50.46\u202fpm-300x287.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"313\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-12.50.46\u202fpm-300x287.png 300w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-12.50.46\u202fpm-480x460.png 480w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-at-12.50.46\u202fpm.png 545w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 327px; 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--smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 329\/304;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Next week in Grade 6<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Literacy<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using conjunctions appropriately<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understanding how to use appositives\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting our \u2018I am\u2026\u2019 paragraphs full of figurative language<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reading assessments<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Maths<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Math assessment (number)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use mental and written strategies for adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing whole numbers and decimals in real-life situations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Unit of Inquiry<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Migration provocations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Central Idea<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Migration Stories (teacher guests)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Migration &#8211; Visible Thinking routines<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you would like to share your own migration story or a story of a family member, we would LOVE for you to come into Grade 6 next week and talk to the students for a few minutes. Please contact either of the G6 teachers if you would be willing to do this. We are very happy to assist you and help you to prepare for this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have a great weekend,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Grade 6 Team<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents, A shorter week, but still full of exciting inquiries and lots of progress. We have (mainly) published our letters to our future selves, completed writing assessments, looked at extending sentences, explored figurative writing, pondered how to make mathematical estimates and developed strategies for rounding numbers. Due to the shorter week, we have delayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1195,"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":[5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page","category-grade-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321779","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\/1195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}