Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Identifying shapes

Students were given different illustrations related to nature. They identified points, lines, angles, quadrilaterals and 3D shapes in the pictures. This was a pre-unit assessment for the unit on shapes and Quadrant sheets were used.



ant sheets were used.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Wiki project

Students of Grade 5 were grouped according to different cultures around the world. They made a wiki based on their research:
http://grade5culture.wikispaces.com/
Please feel free to comment on the wiki - We will continue to use the wiki for the rest of the unit.

Snapshots

Carousel activity
Gallery Walk
More-True-than-False
Drop-everything-and-read (DEAR) time
Math project on data analysis
Surya and Ishan begin the Grade 5 Assembly
Aly and Aviral give an introduction to the wiki
Khushi and Umar talk about African culture
Sharon and Zahir talk about Bengali culture
Safa and Aayush talk about Chinese culture
Using manipulatives to create word problems in maths
solving math problems in pairs
Novel study: Prediction
Using Think-Puzzle-Explore for analysing artefacts
Presenting artefacts to class
Making a collage

Grade 5 students listen to a Carnatic Singer