Year 6 Term 2 Week 9 Blog

English

This week in English class the students have learned about John Muir a famous author from North America who worked to save the forests of the world. The students created, mind maps, and wrote a reflection about what they have learned about John Muir. Also the students worked on the writing process based on picture prompts. The students were able to read their essays and share them with the class. For next week the students will be working on building their grammar and using more advance vocabulary within their writing. 

  

 

UOI 

In UOI class the students are continuing to work on their Unit 4 projects. The students are now working on creating e-books and documenting their research findings into their e-books. They will continue to work on the same concepts for the next 2 weeks which are listed below. 

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.

Maths 

This week in Maths class the students continued to work on the following concepts to learn how to divide fractions from whole numbers and how to simplify fractions. The students also learned how to convert fractions and percentages into decimals. 

Green Group: 

• Divide proper fractions by whole numbers (e.g. 1/3 ÷ 2 = 1/6 ).
• Find simple percentages of amounts.

Yellow Group

• Divide proper fractions by whole numbers (e.g. 1/3 ÷ 2 = 1/6 ).
• Find simple percentages of amounts.
• Solve problems which require answers to be rounded to specified degrees of accuracy.

Homework