Grade 6 IB Newsletter
Balanced
THE MONTH OF MAY
The IB Learner Profile Balance aims to
develop learners who are balanced.
The
goal is to allow students to discover and
understand the importance of balancing
different aspects of their lives. Focusing on
the intellectual, physical and emotional in
order to achieve well being for themselves
and others. We would like for our students
How the students of Grade 6
demonstrates balanced at
home and at school:
-Students are encourage to create and follow
a daily schedule that includes time for school
work, outside physical activity, arts and
music, rest, balanced meals.
~Allow time for a variety of activities daily
to recognize their interdependence with
with friends and family (classroom activities,
other people and with the world in which
indoor play, outside play, active play and
they live.
quiet activities)
~Students are praised for demonstrating a
balance lifestyle.
~Visits many different places with friends
and family this amplifies the ability to learn
new things example such as
museums,
nature
trails
and
libraries,
nature
preserves, parks, Historical Parks
~Explore different hobbies: jogging, cards,
marbles,
football,
dancing etc.
swimming,
baseball,
In Grade 6 balance also means
Some of these factors include:
accounting for the various
Intellectual— which involves thought
and reason. These skills are being used
elements of life and education
daily in the classroom.
and giving them equal weight.
Physical—taking care of one’s body. In
Physical and Health Education the 6th
Graders are learner new strategies that
encourages healthy eating habits and
enforcing physical activities daily.
Emotional—the feelings of one’s
experiences. In our classroom we
encourage our friends to share their
feelings whenever it feels needed.
To be balanced is to understand that all of
these areas are equally important, and if one
is neglected, the others will be impacted too.
Therefore Grade 6 encourages everyone to
spend time each day doing many different
things, and to remember IB teaches the
The Grade 6th Teacher- Ms. Tirbeni
importance of taking positive actions for
not only the mind, but also the body and
feelings.