Differentiation

Year-to-Date: 508.1; Apr 2023: 19.9; Last Week: 38.0 This year we have such a diverse group of students in the fifth grade learning community. There are students, teachers, and all of our families from … a majority of continents or many different places and...

Cause (why) & Effect (what)

This week in maths students worked in teams using the concepts and formulas of volumes to create and build a sculpture using rectangular prisms. They then had to peer assess another group. In language we continued to explore poetry through both reading and creating...

Problem-Based Learning

Year-to-Date: 508.1; Apr 2023: 19.9; Last Week: 38.0 In the lead up to the mid-module assessment, students worked within small groups to solve a problem together. Teachers provided simple materials, such as templates and stationary. Teachers and students discussed...

Rain by Volume?

This has felt like a very short week with the unexpected rain day! I don’t know if there would have been enough rain for us to use to measure volume this week as we discovered that one cubic centimeter is the same as one millimeter! We even proved it! Websites...