Blogfolio Posting: Landmark Books and Reading Growth

Well, it’s nearly the end of the year and it is time for you to think back over the whole year and how your reading has come along during your time in Year 6. You have been given a lot of freedom to choose the kind of books you like to read and have also been expected to get good at choosing books that are “just right” for you. You have all really impressed me with your ability to read independently this year, and even the people who were not really readers at the start of the year are finishing the year very strongly.

So, create a Blogfolio posting to share the following information.

• The best book you have read this year and why
• The most challenging book you have read this year
• A book you tried to read but gave up
• The genres and authors you like and why you like them
• How you use reading skills to do research
• The Landmark Book you are reading at the moment and why it is a Landmark Book and not just any old book

Homework: Numbers in your PYP Exhibition

 

We will be basing quite a bit of our work on this homework task so please take this seriously, think carefully, deeply and beyond the obvious.

How are numbers connected to your PYP Exhibition work?

• Did you need to calculate the cost of anything?
• Did you need to count money?
• Did you gather data?
• Did you calculate percentages?
• Did you count the number of people you spoke to?
• Did you measure anything?
• Did any of your research contain numbers?
• Was time important in your exhibition?
• Was distance relevant to your exhibition?

Think about the questions above and also any other ways that numbers may have been involved in the work that you did at any stage in the PYP Exhibition. Make a comment to explain and to give as much detail as you can with the information you have at home.

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PYP Exhibition Checkpoint#4

This video shows the students and parents of 6SS working together in their latest PYP Exhibition Checkpoint. The image below shows what the students were using as a guide for the Checkpoint. The parents were asked to focus on the students’ plans, what actions they are working towards and what actions they have already put in place.

Checkpoint#2

Homework – making progress

Tonight is really your only chance to prepare for tomorrow’s checkpoint. This has been a crazy week!

Tomorrow, I will be expecting you to do the following things:

• Explain which key concepts you think will help you become an expert on your spark and why
• Share the driving questions you have created so far and where you think you can get answers to those questions
• Share some of the most interesting information you have found using those questions
• Involve the adults that visit us tomorrow in conversations about your spark, the work you have been doing and progress you think you have been making
• Find ways to involve them in your learning by asking questions and seeking advice

Make a comment to tell us what you plan to do tonight to make sure you’re ready for tomorrow.

Homework – Asking conceptual questions

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You did some amazing thinking today. It was really important that we revised the Key Concepts so that you could use them to full effect during the Exhibition. By the time we did the third set of photographs your questions were much, much more conceptual, more powerful and more interesting – you really seemed like you wanted to know the answers.

Make a comment to share the following information with us:

• What were the most interesting questions you asked about the photographs?
• Which questions did you really want to find answers for?
• What questions have you created that will really help you become an expert on your spark?

Why is this a good presentation?

What makes this a good presentation? What does he do well? Could you do this?

Homework: Energy Menu

 

We are going to make a menu of strategies that you can use to create energy in your PYP Exhibition. Think of all of the strategies that Jamie Oliver used in the Food Revolution, think of strategies that you have seen other students or adults use, think of other strategies that are your own ideas.

Make a comment to tell us the strategies you know. Read each other’s comments so you don’t just end up repeating everything over and over again.

Homework: Knowledge is Power

 

This is a very old and well-known saying. But, what has it got to do with your PYP Exhibition? Well… it’s up to you to think about and explain that!

Make a comment and tell us:

• How this saying is connected to the PYP Exhibition
• What knowledge you will need to find out about your spark in order to make you powerful