Math in the real world and probability 

This week the children engaged in a range of activities involving probability. During these activities we looked carefully at how probability affects us in the decisions we make and also how companies, especially fast food chains that give free toys with...

Recounting stories

We continued with our recount writing this week. One of the tasks – an enjoyable one at that judging by the expressions on the children’s faces – was to choose some images from magazines and connect them to form a story written in the past tense. The...

Factors, multiples and divisibikuty rules

The class made good progress in their understanding of various number theory in the last week. Following on from the week before Oman Week they worked on developing their understanding of common multiples, least and highest common factors, divisibility rules as well...

Oman week is almost here

There was a lot of excitement and anticipation as our final preparations for Oman Week got under way. Setting up the tens and testing them proved to be the highlight of the week. In math we concluded our work on angles. In writing we consolidated writing persuasively...

And the winner is…

Grade five engaged in a bit of friendly competition this week. As part of our persuasive writing we designed our own cereal boxes and made posters after which we close to fifty children from lower primary chose their favorite.Persuasive writing will continue into next...