by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Sep 11, 2018 | Grade 5
This week grade 5 has been celebrating Dot Day. For our STEAM session, grades 4 and 5 learnt about pointillism, an artistic movement, which was started by the French artist Georges-Pierre Seurat in 1886. We studied his painting “A Sunday afternoon on the Island...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Sep 6, 2018 | Grade 5
Well…. What a great week we have had in Grade 5. 5KL took the picture below to remember the first day. People Bingo- Maths StyleAs a chance to get to know our class mates, we played People Bingo. The first task was to calculate the Maths for each question. Next...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Jun 7, 2018 | Grade 5
This week the students made a cover for an autobiography. We looked at some titles of famous autobiographies so we could get an idea of what to call ours. I wanted them to choose a clever title and make a book cover with a blurb. Lots of references to living in the...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | May 31, 2018 | Grade 5
To finish up our unit, the Grade 5’s are working in groups to make brochures about conflict resolution for younger children. There are some really useful websites they have been using as a resource and it has been a great opportunity to learn about using concise...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | May 23, 2018 | Grade 3, Grade 5
As part of our Unit of Inquiry Grade 5 wrote a survey for younger children about the conflicts they experience and what they do about them. This tied in nicely with our mathematics where we were learning about percentages and averages. We visited the Grade 3 and 4...
