Week of November 18, 2019

UOI

Students spent this week making final preparations for their mini-PYP exhibition. On Tuesday, they invited Grade 8 students to their classroom to practice and receive feedback on their presentations. On Friday, students finally had the chance to show all of their hard work to their parents. The parents enjoyed the presentations and they were sent feedback forms to help us improve for the actual exhibition in February.

Library

Library time was a little different than usual. Ms. T showed the students educational videos that were related to their exhibition central ideas. They watched a video discussing a woman who invented an environmentally-friendly, biodegradable plastic bag. The bag was so environmentally-friendly that after it dissolved in the water, the water was still drinkable! Also, they watched a video about how South Korea is combating food waste.

Week of November 11, 2019

English

Students have been learning about word roots as a way to better understand unfamiliar words. This week, we focused on ten of the most common Latin roots.

UOI

Grade 6 has been continuing their work on their mini-exhibition. They are making final touches on their products and a couple of them have began working on their oral presentations.

Week of November 4, 2019

English

Students have been continuing to work on the skill of context clues. Also, students sent a request to Mr. Ulu requesting that students be allowed to bring laptops to school. However, since their request was denied to their essays not being persuasive enough, we went through those again and made edits. Additionally, students submitted their essays for the writing contest. They were to write a prequel that leads to how these men ended up in the coffins.

UOI

Grade 6 are continuing to work on their mini-exhibition for our Parents' Morning. They have been working on posters, brochures, donation boxes, infographics and hands-on activities.

Kaku being caring by showing Emre how to use Paintnet

Primary Assembly

For the month of November, students will be concentrating on the IB trait of reflection. Also, the kids had a chance to play some fun games to practice being reflective. 

Merit winners receiving their certificates

Week of October 28, 2019

Unit of Inquiry

Grade 6 has been busy preparing for our exhibition. We will have a mini-exhibition for Parents' Morning in order to prepare for the one in February. 

 

 

English

We have been continuing to learn how to use context to figure out the meaning of unknown words. During our centers, the kids played a tic-tac-toe context clues game to practice that skill.

Art

Grade 6 combined with Grade 5 for a special art lesson with Ms. Katherine. She taught the kids a couple of new art techniques. Then, we practiced them at a river near the school.

     

Buddy Activity

We paired up with Mr. Ben's Preschool class. His class has been learning about maps and directions. they used those skills to go to a different park nearby. Our class tagged along for a picnic and playtime there. This was an opportunity for Grade 6 students to show their caring side.

Week of October 21, 2019

Grade 6 began a new unit - Sharing the Planet. Since this is the theme that our PYP exhibition is centered around, students continued working on their personal central idea. 

First, we reflected on the mini-exhibition that was held the previous week. We created a chart that shows that went well, problems that we encountered, and potential solutions to those problems.

Second, we created a rubric that would serve as a guide for the next mini-exhibition we will conduct in November.

Week of September 16, 2019

This was an exciting week for Grade 6! We were busy making preparations for ICF which connected very closely to our unit. On ICF, they were finally able to see the fruits of their labor.

Grade 6 created the Angolan landscape and flag in the background!

Grade 6 had the chance to teach Pre-K B how to play Mancala, a popular game in Angola.

Week of October 7, 2019

Grade 6 was busy with preparations for Sports Day.