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  • Plants in Space

    5/16/12 • (0)

    6th graders finished their plant study today with a short quiz on the structures and functions of flowers and other parts of a plant, the role of pollinators in plant reproduction, and a bit about the nourishing foods we get from plants. Next week we’re heading away from plants on planet earth into space.  Students [...]

  • Grade 6 Maths, Mr Paul’s group – short week 7, term 2.2

    5/15/12 • (0)

    News flash … The test on Chapter 10 will be postponed until next Monday 21 May. Following the test, we will start on Chapter 11 – Percentages, ratio & proportion. PMH: 15 May 2012

  • Due Tomorrow!

    5/15/12 • (0)

    Grade 6, unless you come see me and ask for an extension, your Portfolio Assignment is due tomorrow in class, Wed May 16. Please be prepared to share some part of your Portfolio to the rest of the class. I also handed out today the Scoring Guide to your Portfolio assignment. Please use this to [...]

  • Plastic Workshop

    5/14/12 • (0)

    We’ve gotten the outline of our Plastic Workshop presentation established and are now working in groups to developed the different aspects.  Projects include, a litter pick-up, a game inspired by the trash collection, an introduction to get us all on the same page when we talk about prevention, a prezi, a movie, a song, a [...]

  • Irrigation Project Pics

    5/11/12 • (0)

      After the third day out there, we finally made a LOT of headway on getting our irrigation scheme to cover as much area as possible. The whole class participated (well, except for a couple rapscallions) in making it flow across our land, with several dams and diversions put in place. Here are pics for [...]

  • Grade 6 Maths, Mr Paul’s group – week 6, term 2.2

    5/11/12 • (0)

    Short test: Wednesday 16 May at 11:30am At the end of this week, we have nearly completed our work on Integers, functions and graphs in chapter 10. Students should make sure that they have finished all classwork up to unit 10f2 on page 161 by the end of our lesson on Monday. We will have [...]

  • The Irrigation Project

    5/10/12 • (0)

    This week we worked on our irrigation project, with the students solving some new issues that arose. The original irrigation canal we created had all but ceased, and so the kids opened up our secondary canal. It started to flow strongly, which means that many kids were drenched before long. The kids tried several things [...]

  • Ibu Jenya’s Group – Upcoming Quiz this Monday

    5/10/12 • (0)

    Hello group! You have all been doing so well in our Algebra unit. Your performance of the “function machine” was great to watch, and I think that you all understand the concept of what a formula is. A couple of important announcements: – On Monday, May 14th we will have a quiz on Chapter 10. [...]

  • The Workshop Takes Shape

    5/09/12 • (0)

    A big thank you to  Plastic Free Bali , who joined us last week to share their plastic-reduction workshop that they’ve developed for Indonesian schools.  As they will be discontinuing this program, they agreed to show it to us so that we can try to continue raising awareness of the waste management issues on Bali [...]

  • Flowers, Plants and Food

    5/08/12 • (0)

    6th Graders are learning about the structures and functions of a flower.  They are also learning how to draw flowers artistically and with scientific detail.  Their beautiful drawings will be showcased in the lab shortly.  Nice work, 6th Graders!  The flower, plant and food exploration will continue this week with a second lab on the [...]