PYP 8 News
Week of 17th of October, 2016
Dear Parents,
I hope everybody had a fantastic and restful Half-Term break. But we start back full tilt as our science unit continues and our Exhibition Journey is well underway. For the exhibition we are focusing on developing research skills and how to use the internet effectively for research. The skill we have been focusing on is how to evaluate if a website is going to be useful and appropriate for our research purposes.
Before the holiday students presented their findings, which included an experiment or demonstration regarding their understanding of Newton´s three laws and other natural forces that govern our lives.
The next few weeks are full of reasons for parents to come into school to see what we are up to. Of course we have the Exhibition parents meeting on Friday, but also both PYP 8 Beta and Sigma have their assemblies coming up in the next few weeks.
We enjoyed such a wonderful assembly about Peraltas from PYP 8 Omega!
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Our work in Class…
We will be starting to introduce the Scientific Method this week to help guide students along their own inquiry paths to further their understanding of our central idea, Natural Laws Help us to Understand and Explore the World Around Us. Students will understand that good scientific research starts with a strong question that is based on something they have observed in the world, or have wondered about. We will make sure students have a strong grasp of conducting science experiments where only one variable is changed.
In language students are finishing up their Science Fiction stories, with a strong focus on editing skills. We are going to begin work on explanation texts, this will link to the work we will be doing on Rube Goldberg Machines, which are nonsensical machines that explore Physics, Newton´s laws and Cause and Effect. As students start designing their own machines, they will write explanation texts about them that explain their understanding of scientific principles.
Our math work is involving multiplying and dividing decimals by factors of 10 and learning about place value on the right side of the decimal point.
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Things to remember this week….
Friday 21st October - Exhibition workshop for Parents
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