Year 6 Term 1 Week 6

This week in English class the students focused on proofreading skills. The students worked in pairs to peer assess each other's work. The students also worked on guided reading to read the next couple of chapters in their guided reading books. In addition, the students were introduced to some new online reading resources.

In Maths class each group has been working on computation of numbers with decimals. The yellow group is working on multiplication and division of numbers with decimals while the green group and Ms. Charlie's group are working on addition and subtraction of numbers with decimals.

In UOI the students are wrapping up their final projects for Unit 1 and with begin practicing their presentations to prepare for their whole class presentation. Moreover, the Year 6 & 7 classes worked together this week to create groups and ideas for their exhibition projects.

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