by Meghan KENNEY | Feb 7, 2019 | Grade 5
This week students were inspired by their library visit to try to organize our own classroom library. We thought about what would be useful categories to use, and then had to examine the books carefully to find out which categories they belonged to. Students...
by Meghan KENNEY | Jan 31, 2019 | Grade 5
In grade 5, students were faced with the challenge of problem solving with geometric shapes. Each student was given a clue, and they weren’t allowed to show their clues to each other, instead they could only read it out loud. It was quite a challenge for them to...
by Meghan KENNEY | Jan 24, 2019 | Grade 5
Students in grade five have the chance to really see how language is used in all areas. The task was simple, to just agree on the right answers on the math sheet. Yet they quickly saw that they didn’t have the same answers, and had to figure out what was right....
by Meghan KENNEY | Jan 17, 2019 | Grade 5
Grade five students have been studying poetry using the book Love That Dog. They follow along as Jack, a student like them, studies different poems, and they are writing poems along with looking at different poems. It’s a great way to reveal how language is...
by Meghan KENNEY | Jan 10, 2019 | Grade 5
Grade 5s are back in class and ready to learn! We have been practicing division in Math, and discovering the magic of Poetry for our new unit of inquiry, How We Express Ourselves. Students have already written some short poems, and we will practice learning different...
