Discovering Democracies

Last week Unit lessons saw PYP7 research an example of a democracy – Canada! Each student answered questions based on our Key Concepts to guide their research:

Form - What is the Canadian government like? (Structure - roles, responsibilities, rights, hierarchy/decisions, power)

Function - How does a bill become a law? How do Canadians choose their government?

Responsibility - What is the responsibility of the Canadian government? What is the responsibility of Canadian citizens?

Students used summarising skills to create the ‘gist’ of each of these concepts.

This week will look at other systems of government and students will need to demonstrate more independence to complete their research.

In Maths it was a week of addition and subtraction – with students using both mental and written methods for solutions.

Our prior knowledge of partitioning was used to add and subtract on number lines and students were also able to use the column method to allow for personal preference.

This week is all about special numbers: prime numbers, factors and multiples.

Predicting and summarising skills were developed in Language lessons – through the story:  The King’s Choice.

These skills are helping to develop independence and cooperation our Reciprocal Reading lessons.

This week will develop the skill of note taking in helping to write a balanced argument.