6 B Johannes School

måndag 4 maj 2015

Newsletter Week 19

Dear parents.

Week 18 was a shorter week too. The children were free from school until Monday the 4^th of May. They had a longer time to spend with parents and siblings. We have agreed to become the best class in the school again as we were last term. The rewards for being the best class are worth sacrificing for.
Mathematics
The children will continue to work with tables and diagrams. On Friday of week twenty the children will have a test on the topic tables and diagrams.
Natural Sciences
Technology is still be integrated with physics. The children have continued with the theme Movement and Construction (rörelse och konstruktion. The children have used elasticity to provide energy to the “standard fordon”. During the exercise the children were required to identify a way of controlling the distant incurred by the” standard fordon”, manoeuvre its acceleration and make it reverse with a rubber band as the only source of energy. This was pure fascination and a preparation of a more challenging tax where a propeller will be attached to the “standard fordon” and both acceleration and wind will initiate rotation of the propeller. I will enclose structured information of the relevance of our study of rörelse och konstruktion” to the Swedish Curriculum
Lgr 11.
Homework
The children will train their parts on “ Romeo and Juliet”. For Mathematics they will do page (145-147) Mattebogren 4A.

More information will be in the next Newsletter.

Kindest Regards

Jacqueline Zettergren

About the class

Class 6b is a bi-lingual class consisting of 17 students. The languages of instructions are 50% English and 50% Swedish. The children hail mainly from families with one parent from an Anglophone country and another from Sweden. The children predominantly speak English during their free times.
The multicultural diversity makes the class a stimulating environment for children enhancing fruitful ,cultural and academic exchange. The class is a part of Grade 6a and 6c located strategically adjacent to one another enabling easy cooperation, interaction and application of similar routines.

Before entry to classes the teachers of the 6th grade classes have a ceremonial welcome to the children into the classroom. This gesture is an opportunity for the teachers not only to warmly welcome the children to the class but also to identify that all children are in a receptive mood for studies.