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Year 6 Term 3 Week 2 Blog

English

This week the learners worked on building their skills in the four main types of writing: Expository, Persuasive/Argumentative, Narrative, and Descriptive. For each day this week the children focused on a different style of writing. For next week the children will work on building their reading comprehension and fluency skills. 





Maths 

In Maths class this week the children have been working on different activities to help build their problem solving skills using different methods of Maths computation including the following: multiplication, division, subtraction and addition or various types of numbers. For next week the learners will be working on projects to help build and share their knowledge of geometric shapes and prisms.


UOI

In UOI class this week the children were responsible for sharing their Human Migrations presentations with the class. They have began to present these to the class for assessing. The children were also responsible for making any changes to their presentations from the feedback that I have given them. For next week the learners will be creating ebooks using Book Creator to create a human migration journey of their own. This should be an enjoyable activity for the learners and also allow them to express their creativity within the books they create.



Student Led Conference

All children should have already completed their Student Led Conferences with their parents by last Friday, April 24th. If you child has not already shared their portfolio or classwork from Term 2 with you then please allow them 15 minutes of your time so they may do so. The learners have also been assigned specific questions to respond too after they have shared their work with you as one of their assignments from last week.  




Examples of videos created by the children in Flipgrid this week:

Video created by JJ:  JJ's Sharing his English Work
Video created by Time: Time Sharing his UOI Work
Video created by Bryony: Bryony sharing her UOI Work
Video created by Dyllan: Understanding Human Migration by Dyllan
Video created by Jennesa: Sharing her Reading Comprehension Skills.
Video created by Belty: Belty Sharing her Daily Activities


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