by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Mar 25, 2021 | Grade 4
Did you know that this Sunday, March 21st was the Vernal (Spring) Equinox? The Grade 4’s do! There are 2 equinoxes a year and it is when night and day are the same length. Grade 4 graphed the time of sunrise and sunset for the 21st of each month all year to see when...
by Margot SIMONDS | Mar 18, 2021 | Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Library
This week the library has been hopping, with books coming in and out, a new Scholastic Book Order opening ( see more below) and students talking lots about reading. We are still working hard to organize and get the library up to date. There are quite a few...
by Kirsty LOTTKOWITZ | Mar 18, 2021 | Grade 4
Maps of the world looked very different 500 years ago before explorers had travelled to the far flung places of the world. Most maps just had a large blob of land at the bottom. This was because people knew about all the land in the northern hemisphere and they...
by Eriks KRONITIS | Mar 18, 2021 | Grade 4
This week we introduced the students to the idea that all good writing includes six key ingredients: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions—the Six Traits of Writing. We started with ideas and some practice writing.
by Margot SIMONDS | Feb 25, 2021 | Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Library, The Grades
Primary Information Literacy classes read ” Stand Up Tall, Molly Lou Melon” by Patty Lovell this week and really took a close look at ways to describe characters. We looked at physical descriptions, as well as personality characteristics and also...
by Nabawia AL BALUSHI | Feb 25, 2021 | Arabic, Grade 4
تزامنا مع يوم اللغة الأم الذي صادف يوم الأحد الموافق ٢١ فبراير،والذي يحتفل العالم به، سطرت أنامل طلاب الصف الرابع عبارات جميلة وبراقة يعبرون فيها عن حبهم للغتهم الأم اللغة العربية الخالدة والباقية للأزل وسيطرت لغة الفخر على كلماتهم المعبرة عن لغتهم العريقة الخالدة لغة...
