by Inayath MOHAMED | Jan 7, 2016 | Grade 3
As part of our current unit of inquiry we have been looking at water and the complexities of sharing this invaluable resource with other living things. We began by asking ourselves a simple question “what happens to water when it spills on the ground?”....
by Inayath MOHAMED | Dec 17, 2015 | Grade 3
Our first attempt at collaborative story writing proved to be very successful. Working in groups the children developed a narrative entirely by themselves. In rotation, each group wrote a beginning, middle and end to three different stories. Along the way all...
by Inayath MOHAMED | Dec 10, 2015 | Grade 3
For our unit of inquiry we had been exploring different forms of the performing arts as a way of expressing ourselves. After watching videos of Chinese shadow puppets and Vietnamese water puppets the class developed an interest in puppetry as a means of conveying...
by Inayath MOHAMED | Dec 1, 2015 | Grade 3
George’s Marvelous Medicine must have struck a chord with the children. This is a book by the author Roald Dahl that was read to class over a period of a couple of weeks. In it nine year old George, the main character, creates his own ‘marvelous...
by Inayath MOHAMED | Nov 26, 2015 | Grade 3
‘Dear (name of your child)’ began the letter ‘I really think I should give you more homework’it continued. …The letter, part of our persuasive writing exercise is a letter from the teacher attempting to persuade children that they should...
