Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Monday, 29 August 2016

Homework 28th August 2016

Maths - (Due Tuesday 29th August)



Unit/Language - (ongoing) 

  • To practice and improve your chosen activity at least 5 minutes per day. Record evidence of your successes and failures in your Development Diary.

Assembly PYP6 Sigma

Dear Parents

Thank you all for your support for the PYP6 Sigma assembly. I was proud of how the students worked to complete the assembly in such a short period of time. Here are a few photos of the event.









PYP 6 Omega spent time discovering how to tell if a website is good for their research. They found out that the author needs to be trusted, the website has to to have the information needed, the website needs to be up to date and it needs to be appropriate for students their age.




Here is a glimpse of the PYP 6 Beta Maths Board... students brought in many different things from their daily lives to show how Maths is Everywhere!

Interactive Maths Websites




Times Tables Practice



Number bond Practice



Place Value


Monday, 22 August 2016

Lição de casa - Notícias

Acesse os links abaixo:
Grupo 1
Grupo 2
Grupo 3

Homework - Week of August 22nd

Maths - (Due Tuesday)

  • Myimaths.com 


Unit/Language - (ongoing) 

  • To practice and improve your chosen activity at least 5 minutes per day. Record evidence of your successes and failures in your Development Diary.

Development Diaries

Last week PYP 6 students chose one activity to improve over the course of 4 -5 weeks. They made sure to make their targets SMART ( S - specific, M - measurable, A - achievable, R - realistic and T - time bound). Students should be practicing their chosen activity at least 5 minutes a day and recording it in their "Development Diaries". They will be using different strategies to improve their SMART targets, and parents are encouraged to talk with their children about their targets and suggest additional strategies to help their children develop their abilities.

Here are some pictures of the students coming up with their targets

PYP 6 Omega




PYP 6 Sigma



PYP 6 Beta

Throughout the next 4 weeks please check in with your child and see how they are improving in their target! 

Monday, 15 August 2016

Lição de casa - Semana 2
Dígrafos

Homework - Week of August 15th

Maths - (Due Tuesday)

  • Myimaths.com 


Unit/Language - 

  • To practice and improve your chosen activity at least 5 minutes per day. Record evidence of your successes and failures.


Getting in to Reading

Hello Everyone!

We hope you had a wonderful weekend filled with Olympic fun! Go Brazil!!

In class last week we continued with our launch of the Daily 5. As briefly mentioned during the Open House, the Daily 5 is a framework for structuring literacy time so students develop lifelong habits of reading, writing, and working independently. Specifically we were working on building stamina during Read to Self, one of the Daily 5 choices. All three classes have been progressing nicely and everyone is on their way to becoming better readers!

PYP 6 Beta in action:

PYP 6 Omega in action:

PYP 6 Sigma in action:






Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Lição de casa - Semana 1
Notícias


Acesse os links abaixo:

Monday, 8 August 2016

PYP6 Homework Unit One week Two


Maths: Set Monday 8/8/16, due Tuesday 9/8/16

Students should try and find examples of Maths in their everyday lives for use in a class display. Student can either bring or photograph their examples and should be able to explain briefly how their example is connected to maths. Below is an example of a Maths is everywhere board.


Langauge/ Unit: Set Tuesday 9/8/16, due 10/8/16

Watch the Olympics and choose a favorite athlete. Create a think, puzzle and explore board. 
Think means what is your opinion of this athlete. For puzzle ask questions about what you like to know about this athlete For explore list ways you could find out about your chosen athlete. 


Welcome Back



WELCOME TO PYP 6



Welcome all pupils and parents to the PYP 6 blog. This blog will be used to celebrate work, suggest useful ways to support your child´s learning and for sharing homework.

Thank you for attending our welcome meeting. As promised we have attached the presentation used in our welcome meeting for future reference.

PYP6 Welcome Presentation

Bring your own devices

Speaking to parents there has been a lot of concern over bringing your own devices. It is requested from the school to bring laptops rather than i-pads. The reason for this is in terms of teaching cohesion it is more effective to instruct using devices of the same format.

May parents have asked what laptops we recommend. We do not require a large memory as we are able to save our work in cloud based applications. We need fairly processing and working memory (RAM) as children will be working from several pages at the same time.  As your child will be carrying the laptop to and from school it is also worth considering the weight. The below site gives some advice over choosing the right laptop for you child. Advice on what laptop to buy your child

If you have a laptop you are happy for your child to bring to school please remember to complete the parental consent form attached below.

Bring your own device parent's consent form

The Daily Five


As you have have heard we have started a new reading scheme named the daily five. Below is an introductory letter to the reading scheme.


Unit of Inquiry

We have begun provocations into our new unit of inquiry by discussing and exploring different talents and abilities. If you as parents and guardians have an particular talents it would be useful to discuss what skills you need for such talents and how you have developed those skills.

Below is a link to examples some of the talents of exceptional children.


The lines of inquiry for unit one are the following.


  • Human physical and mental capabilities
  • How nervous, muscular and skeletal systems relate to human ability
  • How learning, practice and refinement can develop our diverse abilities.

Thank you for reading. The PYP6 team.