by Inayath MOHAMED | Nov 3, 2016 | Grade 5
The children had a lot of fun building and testing their parachutes as part of our current unit on force and motion. They also presented a range of force related experiments they developed as part of their homework. In math we continued our work on fractions. Our...
by Inayath MOHAMED | Oct 20, 2016 | Grade 5
It’s not often children get to eat their math which is exactly what we did when learning about fractions this week. The task was to work out a fraction of the M&Ms in a small packet. We will continue to work on fractions next week as well. We began working...
by Inayath MOHAMED | Oct 13, 2016 | Grade 5
Our unit on forces began with a car race. The challenge was to build a race track using material available in class. In the discussion that followed the children explored the factors that led to cars slowing down and identified friction as a leading cause. In math we...
by Inayath MOHAMED | Oct 6, 2016 | Grade 5
Every Thursday grades five and work together on math and language tasks. The idea is to help and learn from each other while working on these tasks. In grade five this week we began working on division for math. We will continue with division into next week. In...
by Inayath MOHAMED | Sep 29, 2016 | Grade 5
A group of children investigated the origins of words used in English and made some interesting discoveries. They found that English has borrowed heavily from many languages including Hindi (pajama), Arabic (Algebra), Malay (compound), Italian (graffiti), French...
