Is it REALLY your right?

by | Sep 12, 2019 | Grade 5 (GS)

Grade 5KL spent some time this week comparing rights with privileges. We read a variety of ideas and decided whether they were a right or a privilege. How knowledgeable Grade 5 was. It was a great activity.

Further Adventures with STEAM

by | Sep 5, 2019 | Grade 5 (GS)

This week the Grade 4&5 STEAM challenge was to make an artistic and free standing tall structure using only 10 marshmallows and half a bag of standard spaghetti. The students were also given 60cm of masking tape as an assistance. Great fun (and a little...

A Visit to the Farm

by | Aug 29, 2019 | Grade 5 (GS)

On Tuesday Grade 5KL students went to visit our animal friends at the school farm. We used the visit as a writing prompt for our first piece of writing. The goats certainly enjoyed our visit. The chickens….. not so much.

Full STEAM Ahead

by | Aug 28, 2019 | Grade 5 (GS)

STEAM started in Grades 4 and 5 on Wednesday. The students undertook a construction challenge using 30 straws and 60cm of masking tape. Both Mr. Eriks and I were really pleased with the way the groups worked and the wonderful ideas they came up with. Kirsty...

Playing Place Value Dice Games

by | Aug 28, 2019 | Grade 5 (GS)

This week we started our year’s maths by revising place value. In pairs, the students played a dice game where they had to make numbers after rolling a 10 sided die. Once they had made the number, they had to place it on the ladder between zero and 100. As an...