by Rachel Louise MACLUGASH | Feb 7, 2024 | Grade 5
Opinions are easy, we all have them, and many of us love sharing them. However, as Grade 5 students discovered during this unit, opinion writing is HARD! When your opinions needs to be supported by evidence that you find through research, it becomes VERY difficult....
by Rachel Louise MACLUGASH | Jan 31, 2024 | Grade 5
Reports are home today. A huge well done to all of our students, who have made significant progress since the start of the year. Learning has really levelled up this year and there has been so much new knowledge to take onboard and new skills to develop throughout the...
by Rachel Louise MACLUGASH | Jan 25, 2024 | Grade 5
It’s hard to become an expert on everything, but a great cooperative learning strategy is when students each take a part of a whole and become an expert on one aspect of a topic, then share what they know with the others. That’s what Grade 5 students did...
by Rachel Louise MACLUGASH | Jan 18, 2024 | Grade 5
It was great to see so many of you at our learning celebration. Thank you so much for supporting your children’s learning and we hope you enjoyed hearing all about the process involved in the creation of the Rube Goldberg machines. This week saw a lot of reading...
by Rachel Louise MACLUGASH | Jan 10, 2024 | Grade 5, The Grades
We crammed a lot into a 4 day week! The most exciting was the introduction of our new Unit of Inquiry. For the next few weeks Grade 5 will be deep in Space Exploration. This week we kicked off by sharing what we already know about space and what we want to know about...
