by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Feb 4, 2021 | Grade 4, Grade 5
For STEAM this week we investigated the M, Mathematics. The students were given a challenge. Design uncle Jack’s farm so that it has an area of 50m². We started by drawing all the regular shapes which would give us an area of 50cm² and used a scale of 1cm on...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Jan 28, 2021 | Grade 4
Don’t be sad that she is gone….. be HAPPY that she was part of our lives. This week we learnt that Marie Usher, the wonderfully bubbly, honest, adventurous Ms Marie had died far too young. She died at home in Liverpool, surrounded by family. For many of...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Jan 21, 2021 | Grade 4
Drop Everything And Read has become a much anticipated time of the day in Grade 4. When we reorganísed the timetable for face to face teaching, a 20 minute silent reading time each day was a must. After lunch every day the students all drop everything and read. They...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Jan 14, 2021 | Grade 4
Grade 4 students have been working very hard on their Science Fair presentations and they have found out a great deal about physical and chemical changes. They know that freezing water is a physical change. It is still water, it’s just solid water. One of the...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Jan 6, 2021 | Grade 4
At the beginning of the year the Grade 4 students were given a “Number of the Day” with questions to complete about the given number. As the year went on, this became a “Fraction of the Day”. It is currently a “Shape of the Day”, a...
