Home School Book – Year 6
Dear Parents,
Finally, this week, it was my
turn to succumb to this very nasty flu virus; I do hope that the ‘flu’ season
will come to an end soon and stop disrupting our life in Year 6!
The Year 6 interior designers are
hard at work; their ‘mini-business enterprise project’ is to transform the
basement into the new ‘BISB Fitness and Dance Studio’. Armed with tape measures, they took detailed
measurements of the room and are now busy entering the data onto a 3D ‘room
builder’computer programme. There were squeals of delight as replicas of the
room began to appear on their computer screens.
Again, the children were put
through their dance routines by our visiting choreographer and finally, with
the help of the techno members of class 6, I managed to work the video camera
on my Epad; I have uploaded, to the blog, two of the film clips for you to view
and enjoy.
In Literacy, the children have
continued their reading of ‘Tintin in Tibet’, and we have analysed how writers
use different sentence structures and rhythms. Interestingly, one of the 100
Word Challenge showcase winners last week provided an excellent example of how
sentence length variations develop rhythm. The pupils continue to receive
complimentary comments from teachers across the globe for their efforts in
writing; this is writing for ‘real’; please take time to read some of their
entries.
Students are working on a range
of mathematical topics at the moment, these include: transformations, congruent
and similar shapes, translation and vector notation, enlargements and scale
factors and scale drawing. The children are now encountering exceedingly
challenging topics and I am impressed with their determination to achieve –
well done to you all!
As part of the Tintin project, we
have begun our science topic about air pressure. To start things off with a bang, I used the
‘Egg in a Bottle’ eggsperiment to demonstrate that once a partial vacuum had
been created by heating and cooling the air molecules in a bottle, with a
boiled egg acting as a cork, air outside the bottle would try to fill the
bottle, however with the boiled egg in the way, and the air pressure outside so
great, the egg is literally ‘pushed’ into the bottle. We had tremendous fun
changing the variables with speggtacular results!
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