by Nicola ANDREWS | Apr 22, 2021 | The Grades
We began our Sharing The Planet inquiry this week, our big idea is ‘Ecosystems have many components that are interconnected.’ We watched a couple of wonderful videos as provocations that got us thinking and then shared our learning and ideas with each other to...
by Nicola ANDREWS | Apr 15, 2021 | The Grades
In our Inquiry unit field to plate, we looked at the journey of food to plate. We created info graphs to display interesting information about our chosen products. We then used our math knowledge of measurement, shapes and nets to make our own packaging for our...
by Nicola ANDREWS | Apr 1, 2021 | The Grades
In grade 5 we have been learning a lot about measurement. Our last part of this strand was volume, so we were able to have fun using the blocks to help us with our volume problem solving. We worked collaboratively on our debates relating to our Inquiry learning ‘Field...
by Nicola ANDREWS | Mar 25, 2021 | Grade 5
In math we continued to use our knowledge of length, area and perimeter to help us in our maths problem solving by designing another ABIS food farm, which included rectangles, triangle and a circle. We have begun learning how to use Pi to calculate the area and...
by Nicola ANDREWS | Mar 18, 2021 | The Grades
This week our math journey is understanding area, from learning the formulas for finding the area of parallelograms and triangles, to applying that knowledge to real life situations. We used our persuasive writing skills to write about a student driven argument...
