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Year 6 Term 2 Week 5 Blog

English

In English class the students are working on reading articles relating to their UOI topic for Unit 4. The students are also working on writing informational texts relating to challenges that people face around the world when living close to animal habitats. For next week the students will continue to research and reflect on conflicts society has when living close to wildlife. 



Maths 

In Maths class this week we are wrapping up our unit based on the following concepts: 

Green Group: Number and Place Value
  • Describe and extend number sequences including those with multiplication and division steps, inconsistent steps, alternating steps and those where the step size is a decimal.
  • Count forwards or backwards in steps of integers, decimals, powers of 10.

Yellow Group
  • Describe and extend number sequences including those with multiplication and division steps, inconsistent steps, alternating steps and those where the step size is a decimal.
  • Count forwards or backwards in steps of integers, decimals, powers of 10.
  • Solve number and practical problems that include decimals, integers 

For the next two weeks in Maths class the students will be working on the following concepts:

Green Group: Number and Place Value
  • Calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles.
  • Recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa.

Yellow Group
  • Calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles.
  • Recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa.
  • Calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm3) and cubic metres (m3), and extending to other units (e.g. mm3 and km3).


UOI

In UOI class we have started our new unit on "Sharing the Planet". The students will be focusing on the following concepts listed below for the coming weeks. 

Transdisciplinary theme: Sharing the Planet -An inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite 
resources with other people and with other living things; communities and the relationships 
within and between them; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict resolution

Central idea: Biodiversity relies on maintaining the interdependent balance of organisms within systems.
Key Concepts: causation, connection, responsibility  Related Concepts: balance, biodiversity, interdependence
What lines of inquiry will define the scope of the inquiry into the central idea?
Ways in which ecosystems, biomes and environments are interdependent.
How human interaction with the environment can affect the balance of systems.

The consequences of imbalance within ecosystems.







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