5G All-Stars

25 February, 2010

Week in Review for 11/02/10

Environmental Sciences Centre (ESC) TRIP:

2 weeks ago we went on a trip to a nearby environmental science centre. We all had groups and we did different things to the other groups. My group did acting fishing we also made food webs and we drew pictures about consumers and producers. We had luch there in very open rooms with funny doors and also there wasnt any windows there was just fly screen.

I had a great time there and i hope to go back there again.

MATHS:

Next week we have our Maths Week I hope it will be fun! This week my friends and i made a maths game it is 3-D snakes and ladders/monoply it is really fun.
Inquiry and english: this week we had our celebration of learning and we all got to show our parents our diaramas and our information , we also did our persuasive speeches for judging by Miss Phelps she is one of the secondary english teachers.

Week in Review 18/02/10

This week was maths week at school we each made projects for judging I was a risk-taker making my publicity motif i designed it to look like a calculator and the buttons displayed what technology uses maths to work, This worked tied into one of my new personal goals to think outside of the box and use other things i have never worked with before.

English: We have started using laptops for work learning to use them made me an inquirer i was trying to find new things to use on the computer and how different things worked. In this work I was also thinking outside of the box.

Inquiry: We have just had our celebration of learning we showed our parents all the work we have done in this unit my group made a stop-press movie and a replica of a zoo enclosure for Asian Elephants , when show different parents my work I was caring and reflective by being caring I let people talk about my work without interupting and by be reflective I let people know how much trouble our group went to, to get all of it done on time. One of my goals that I used in this is interacting with others because I worked with other people not just my friends.

04 February, 2010

Week in Review for 04/02/10

This week in year 6 we had lots of fun, we had our videos in Inquiry, we read out our persuasive writing texts and lots more things that I will explain now!

INQUIRY:

In inquiry we practiced our scripts, did the last few touches to our diaramas and then we made the videos, my group's animal is the Asian Elephant and it is much endangered! Also, the other year 6 class came to see our work because they didn't really know what to do in this project but it's normal because the project is quite difficult. We are also still working on our research papers and presentations.

ENGLISH:

In English we had to listen to a partner read their persuasive writing texts and tell them where to put more expression in what they say because some people didn't put much expression and it made what they were reading quite boring. Then, we rehearsed with our group. After that the teacher gave us a post-it note with a letter on it and he would call out a person and say "this person is letter A, B, C…" and the person with the post-it note and that letter had to mark the person reading their persuasive writing text and at the end when everyone had read their persuasive writing text we could go to break.

MATHS:

In maths we have been working on parallel sides and shapes with lines of symmetry which was quite fun because we got to use the mirrors and colour in the shapes! We also worked on reflecting shapes in the four quadrants and naming more difficult 2D shapes. We also got to do our maths games which was also lots of fun because the different groups had different ideas and they were all really cool!

Thanks P!

03 February, 2010

Guided Reading Strategy Podcast 2 "Prediction"

31 January, 2010

Week in Review for 28/01/10

In maths we have been looking at formula. For example, p x 3 = 45. The formula is p = 15 because 15 x 3 = 45.

In English we are studying persuasive righting. We are using tools like propaganda and rhetorical questions to advertise a holiday on the moon.

In inquiry we are learning about biodiversity and how all living things depend on all other living things. On Thursday we went to an enviormental scince centre where we were put into groups and did 4 different activaties. In one of them we put snails in a jar on their own, plants in a jar on their own and snails and plants in the same jar. All the things died in all of the jars except for the balanced jar. The second activity was when we took sea weed and put it test tubes and left it there for 20 minutes. When we came back, we could see it made oxygen because there where bubbles in the test tubes. In the next activity we made a play showing the interdependence of all living things. The last activite was when we made a food chain. A food chain is a line of animals that eat other animals, for example a lion eats a zebra that eats grass.

Thanks D

22 January, 2010

Week in Review for 21/01/10

Math

This week in math we where descusing formula and word problems. In formula today we did some simple algerbra. At the beginning I thought it would be hard, but in the end it wasn't as hard as I expected and I managed to do it well. It was questions like 8n+2=66.

English

This week in english we are doing a webquest. A webquest is a task. For our webquest this week we got into teams and then investigated about persuasive writing. After that we had to write one in our groups. You could write about anything that had persuasive writing in it like: Advertisments, arguments and so on.

Inquiry
This week in inquiry we first got into groups and then each person in a group had to get a job that the group leader would decide on. After that, as a team, we had to come up with an endangerd species and research about that species. When we had finished researching we created a enviroment for that species in a box. After that we have to write a report, create a presentation and a movie.

Thanks S!

14 January, 2010

Week in Review for 14.01.10

This week was the second week of school, in English we started doing persuasive writing about a subject that really meant a lot to us, my partner and I, have decided to take the position that “Wildlife Killing is Wrong.”
Before starting to write them we read a really good piece of work written by a girl in the same grade as us but not in our school, she even won a prize!

In Maths we are revising a bit from before the holidays and also working with decimals, its lots of fun because we add, subtract, multiply and divide with decimals. We also did two step problems and mental maths which isn’t as much fun but I still like it a lot!

In Inquiry we have started a new unit called “The World in Balance” our teacher just told us about a new project where we have to get in groups and do a diorama and a report about an endangered animal and the diorama has to look VERY realistic or else its no good!
Thanks P!

09 January, 2010

Reminder to parents of pupils in 6L

This is just a reminder that Thursday, 14^th January, 2010 is a non-school day for pupils for professional development.

Thanks!

Mr. Lowe

Search Resources for Our Class

Below, you will find a somewhat extensive list of reference and research resources. Please make use of them during your research:

Have fun exploring!
Mr.L

08 January, 2010

Week in Review for 07/01/10 Merry Christmas to all Orthodox Christians!

MATH
This week in Math we were working on decimal fractions. We had to decide what column the decimal number belonged to. For example, 10.563, the 3 is in the thousandths column.We also had a number line and we had to decide which numbers went in between two other numbers.

ENGLISH
This week in English we have been working on persuasive writing. We watched a video of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech and were focusing on how he made it persuasive. Another day we saw a slide show of some of the tools that help make writing persuasive. Some of them were logos, kairos, research and more!

INQUIRY
In Inquiry we have been learning about biodiversity which means living things that depend and rely on other living things. We watched a video of "Bill Nye the Science Guy" on biodiversity. We also had a special guest come into class who was an Egyptian Tortoise called Mr. George. Then we split into 4 groups and had to find out the history, habitat, future, and lifestyle of the Egyptian Tortoise. After that we split into groups again and told each other what we found out so we could present it to everyone else in the class.

Thanks K!

03 January, 2010

Welcome back! Happy New Yar!

Welcome back to all the pupils and their families in Year 6L. I hope the New Year finds you well and ready to start the new year with a bang!

Parents are advised that our class schedule on Wednesday (6th January, 2010) will change temporarily to the Thursday schedule. On Monday (25th January, 2010), the schedule will also be the same as on Thursday. This is being done because the specialist teachers need to make up lost lessons due to secondary school closures earlier in the year.

These changes are temporary and only affect this Wednesday, 6th January and Monday, 25th January.

Regards,
Mr. L

10 December, 2009

Trade DayReport

I have enjoyed term 1, as we had a very interesting topic which was called "The Global Marketplace". During trade day, each partner had a country, in my case it was Russia. We (my partner and I) started off with 16 units of currency and ended with 34 units of currency which was brilliant. My partner and me thought of first selling all our things and then buying all the things we needed. Everytime we bought an object or we sold one we had to record it on the balance sheet. At the end of the day, we had to work out whether we had more or less money than when we started. The Phillipines started off with 3 units and ended with 4 units of currency which was ok. They thought that bringing people to their country table was quite hard this was hard because no one wanted to listen to them as they thought they had nothing to sell to them. Egypt started with 6 units and ended with 25 units of currency which was excellent. They thought that finding all the things they needed to buy was quite hard as it seemed like no one had the things they needed.
over all me and my partener enjoyed it as we pretended to be real countries.

Thanks B

06 December, 2009

Week review of English

In english we were writing biographies about different people like Terry Fox.
We have writen lots of different biographies and also read different biographies.
Close to the end of the Topic we had to write a biographie about a person in our family as an assesment.
I learnt much about biogrphies because it tells information about other people.(Mostly about famouse people)
You can learn much about biographies.How people act, caring, helping and badness.

Week review of Inquiry

In Inquiry this week we took a peas of paper with a country on it and, used it for trade day next week.
Me and Bassem are partner and we had Russia as our country.
Bassem already found some information and me and bassem made some desings of oil barrols.
I realy like the task because it has some stiking and art.