by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Dec 2, 2021 | Grade 4
Grade 4 students have been inquiring into the spelling of verbs in the past tense. Why do some verbs just have an ‘ed’ added and some don’t? What’s the difference between ‘I was hoping’ and ‘I was hopping’? In groups...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Nov 25, 2021 | Grade 4
This week Grade 4 looked at cause and effect in English. We worked with signal words like because, so, therefore, since, and for this reason. We then made sentences putting the cause at the beginning and the effect at the end, as in: It was raining so I got very wet....
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Nov 18, 2021 | Grade 4
Grade 4 students have been investigating states of matter and the difference between chemical and physical changes. As part of this we have been using the wonderful videos on BrainPOP to gain information. Having watched the video, the students worked in...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Nov 11, 2021 | Grade 4
Grade 4 students have been investigating factions this week and Grade 4KL designed new pizza topping combinations to look at a pizza divided into 16 equal pieces. We learnt that one of these pieces was one sixteenth and that a whole pizza would have sixteen...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Nov 4, 2021 | Grade 4
Did you know that we are all scientists? We are observing, predicting and testing every day without even knowing it. Today in STEAM the students were introduced to some of the vocabulary of the scientific method; question, hypothesis, observation being...
