YEAR 6

FROM THE CLASSROOM

Smoking Ceremony

This week on Tuesday we had our Smoking Ceremony. After lunch, the whole school gathered on the basketball court. We do this for NAIDOC week and to clean the spirit and the soul. We said thank you to the sky and land. After that, we started the fire, and then the whole school took turns going around it, including the teachers.

- Mahnoor 6F

What We Learnt about in Maths 

In Maths this week we learnt how to balance fractions. Before our teacher explained it to us it sounded a bit complex, but when she carefully explained it and after doing a few examples it felt much easier to do. I like Maths because it feels like solving some sort of puzzle. 

This is what we did:

- Hridhya 6F

What We learnt about in Writing - ‘The Compass’:

BREAKING NEWS! 

This week Year 6 Students have reportedly learnt a new story about a stinky Jackaroo that hasn't showered in weeks, Gross! HOWEVER! The deeper they read the more the story came to life! At the beginning the Jackaroo named Frank stank as though he was a pile of RUBBISH! 

Next, a magical compass was discovered in the spiky grass! And after dismantling - I mean dismounting his horse and inspecting the strange compass with italicised inscriptions of waves a miniature map fell into Frank's hand leading to water. At this point in time and space, all the students in the room gasped in excitement. “What’ll happen next?” “Will Frank take a shower?” “Can I go to the toilet please?” All these questions were left unanswered. UNTIL the final paragraph. Frank takes a shower in the billabong and kills a snake and most importantly learns a lesson. How Every Little Pain. Made Everything.

- Jaxon 6F

LEARNING INTENTIONS FOR NEXT WEEK

READING 

• We are learning to make connections to previous knowledge to help understand a character's emotions.
• We are learning to infer meaning within a text by using context clues and phrases within a text. 
• We are learning to use evidence to infer a character's emotions.
• We are learning to make a connection from the text to prior knowledge.

WRITING

• We are learning our new Talk for Writing text, ‘The Compass’. 
• We are planning our descriptive narrative innovations.
• We are writing our descriptive narrative introductions. 

MATHS

• We are learning to add and subtract fractions with different denominators.                                         
• We are learning to add and subtract fractions in real world problems.

WELLBEING

• We are learning to effectively seek help for myself and others from a range of trusted sources. 

REMINDERS  

UNIFORMS

We are still seeing students wearing black pants or shorts to school. A reminder that Ramlegh Park’s uniform is navy blue. With the weather getting colder in the mornings, we also remind families that while white or navy blue sleeves are fine, long black sleeves and hoodies are not to be worn under school uniforms. 

CAMP INFORMATION

As mentioned in last term's newsletter, our upcoming school camp at Woorabinda is fast approaching!   

• 6AEF will attend camp on August 17th-19th
• 6BCDG will attend on the August 19th-21st

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