by Marie USHER | Jan 10, 2019 | Grade 1, The Grades
I hope everyone enjoyed the winter break. It was great to be back in school and see all the children rested and ready to work. This week we have been concentrating on the processes of different life cycles. We have looked at how both butterflies and frogs grow and...
by Marie USHER | Dec 20, 2018 | Grade 1, The Grades
This week saw all of Grade 1 showing great school spirit. A sleepy Sunday morning saw us all in our PJs. We continued working on our life cycles UOI and shared our knowledge of how different living things grow and change over time. While the rest of the school were...
by Marie USHER | Dec 13, 2018 | Grade 1, The Grades
This week we started our new unit of Inquiry on life cycles. We started out by looking at living and non living things. We then inquired into what all living things need to survive. In English we read about plants and what they need to grow. We also looked at the...
by Marie USHER | Dec 6, 2018 | Grade 1, The Grades
This week Grade 1 carried out their metamorphic rock experiments to help them understand the properties of different types of rocks. We also became rock detectives, exploring and identifying the properties of the 3 different types of rocks. In maths we explored bead...
by Marie USHER | Nov 29, 2018 | Grade 1, The Grades
The highlight of another busy week was visiting Wadi Faras and making fossil art from rocks. We worked in groups to collect rocks, Mark the outline and then produce our art. In maths we have been working on measuring. We made dinosaur fossils by measuring and cutting...
