by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Mar 25, 2021 | Grade 4
Did you know that this Sunday, March 21st was the Vernal (Spring) Equinox? The Grade 4’s do! There are 2 equinoxes a year and it is when night and day are the same length. Grade 4 graphed the time of sunrise and sunset for the 21st of each month all year to see when...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Mar 18, 2021 | Grade 4
Maps of the world looked very different 500 years ago before explorers had travelled to the far flung places of the world. Most maps just had a large blob of land at the bottom. This was because people knew about all the land in the northern hemisphere and they...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Feb 25, 2021 | Grade 4
What sort of government exists in your home country? Grade 4 students investigated this very question and produced wonderful posters to share their work. This was the final task for our How We Organise Ourselves unit about government systems. The students learnt that...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Feb 18, 2021 | Grade 4, Oman Week
Grade 4 enjoyed Oman Week so much we decided to continue some of our activities into this week. On Monday, we made Omani bread. Not the traditional way as that involved getting hands in the dough, which we just couldn’t do! Mr Eriks and Ms Kirsty mixed the dough...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Feb 11, 2021 | Grade 4, Oman Week
What an exciting Oman Week Grade 4 had. Our major classroom activity was a weaving project and it proved to be very educational. First, we learnt that there were many different ways to weave, and objects to weave with! The students learnt what a loom was. We used a...
