by Deborah BRADSHAW | Jan 28, 2021 | Grade 5
Hi everyone, This week has been all about how we comprehend the massive numbers and distances in space. We completed lots of activities to help us understand the scale of each object in our solar system – we linked our work in mathematics to our space unit by...
by Deborah BRADSHAW | Jan 14, 2021 | Grade 5
Hello everyone, We have had a busy week exploring our maths inquiry into time, multi sensory word study, language inquiry into characters (where we wrote descriptions, asked friends to draw from them and then improved our writing based on their feedback) and unit...
by Deborah BRADSHAW | Dec 17, 2020 | Grade 5
Hello everyone, We have been inspired by Rube Goldberg to create simple machines to complete simple tasks such as pop a balloon, open a door, ring a bell. We have applied our knowledge of forces to change the speed of our machines, using the scientific method and have...
by Deborah BRADSHAW | Dec 3, 2020 | Grade 5
Hi everyone, This week we have been experimenting using the scientific method – asking questions, predicting, testing using independent and controlled variables and seeing how we can test fairly. We have been having such fun changing cone designs to see how we...
by Deborah BRADSHAW | Nov 24, 2020 | Grade 5
Hello everyone, In grade 5 we have been learning to follow instructions by making pop up cards and origami cranes and dinosaurs hats. We are starting to make our own instructions so others can follow. In math we have been using multiple strategies to solve...
