What is his story?

Our class had a visitor. A migrant who is of immense help to us in school and someone we see daily. Mr. Shekar, one of our school custodians, has been in Oman for twenty one years. He was part of the construction crew that built the current school but how many of us...

How hot is hot? How cold is cold?

We continued our learning about temperature for math. One experiments helped us understand how hot boiling water was and the other to understand how cold ice was. In writing we continued working in the recount genre while focusing on the past tense. We also briefly...

Planes, airports and angles

A plane has taxied and just taken off. At what angle was the plane when it was parked and at what angle was the plane when we saw it take off? This and other angles related questions were explored as we continued learning about different types of angles and ways to...

So many firsts….

There were so many firsts during our Oman week trip to Fizh. A number of children were camping for the first time, some sat around a campfire for the first time, others ate roasted marshmallows for the first time, quite a few were staying away from family for the...

What is the area? What is the volume?

In measurement we have begun to work on developing our understanding of area and perimeter. We measured a number of objects in the class as we went about developing this understanding. In writing we continued with writing information reports. For our unit of inquiry...