{"id":323269,"date":"2025-10-16T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=323269"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T11:45:47","slug":"week-8-in-grade-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2025\/10\/16\/week-8-in-grade-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8 in Grade 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear Parents,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The penultimate week of the term has flown by so quickly. There is so much going on as we explore our own possible migrations (mini inquiry), develop our personal narratives, focus on our book clubs and make great headway with calculating the fractions of a set and strategies to add and subtract fractions. Please see this week\u2019s Seesaw to see examples of your child doing all of the above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Grade Trip<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The numbers have increased rapidly over the last couple of days and we now have <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201825\u2019<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> students who have committed to this wonderful trip. If you are still undecided, we strongly encourage you to allow your child to have this exciting experience with their friends. We look at this as the launch to the PYP Exhibition, where we will start the process as a strong Grade 6 community, it would really be beneficial for all students to be part of these first steps. There are some photos below of last year\u2019s trip.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.26\u202fPM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-323271 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.26\u202fPM-300x133.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"276\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.26\u202fPM-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.26\u202fPM.png 1024w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.26\u202fPM-768x341.png 768w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.26\u202fPM-1080x480.png 1080w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.26\u202fPM-980x435.png 980w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.26\u202fPM-480x213.png 480w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 622px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 622\/276;\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.34\u202fPM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-323272 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.34\u202fPM-300x120.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"270\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.34\u202fPM-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.34\u202fPM.png 1024w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.34\u202fPM-768x308.png 768w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.34\u202fPM-1080x433.png 1080w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.34\u202fPM-980x393.png 980w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-15-at-3.38.34\u202fPM-480x192.png 480w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 675px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 675\/270;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>PYP Exhibition Survey<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211; Thank you to those who have filled out this form. If you have not yet, please do, and help us understand how you would like the Grade 6 team to communicate about the Exhibition with you.\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdeqp_DnXiyVC3O288PasT-VQYhpJ5SUTlXhFme5Spg8OSsDA\/viewform?usp=header\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Link<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Next week in Grade 6<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>UOI:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> We\u2019re starting our new unit of inquiry, <\/span><b>Sharing the Planet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. We\u2019ll be looking at how \u2018Empathy and effective communication can help to build harmonious and peaceful communities\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Drama Role Play &#8211; identifying problems and solutions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students will be identifying conflicts with themselves, in life, in their communities and in the world<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Revisiting our goals from earlier in the year<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Maths: Continuing with Fractions<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Equivalent fractions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simplifying fractions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Converting fractions from improper fractions to mixed numbers fractions (reversed)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Literacy: Continuing Personal Narratives<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Continue working on our stories<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Focusing on Dialogues &#8211; when and how to use speech marks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When to start a new paragraph<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018Show Don\u2019t Tell\u2019 descriptive writing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\nHope you have a wonderful weekend ahead,<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nThe Grade 6 Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents, The penultimate week of the term has flown by so quickly. There is so much going on as we explore our own possible migrations (mini inquiry), develop our personal narratives, focus on our book clubs and make great headway with calculating the fractions of a set and strategies to add and subtract fractions. 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