Friday, 9 October 2015

Weekly update: 5th Oct to 9th Oct

Unit of Inquiry

  • Students learn about continents and oceans.
  • Students in pairs discuss their land explorers and use a Venn diagram to compare explorers.
  • Students inquire into the difference between discovery and invention.
  • Book study ( integration with language arts): students in their groups do book study on a particular exploration and reflect on it. 
  • Students are introduced to timeline and discovery of fire,invention of wheel,invention of money.
  • Introduction to maps.
Language Arts
  • Students continue with read to self and reading challenge.
  • Book study related to exploration in groups.
  • Students learn about 'describing words' .
  • Students start prewriting and drafting phase of their first fictional narrative.
Math
  • Students learn about associative and commutative property of addition.
  • Students are introduced to different strategies to do subtraction with borrowing.
Other Activities: 
  • Students upload their selected reading pieces on seesaw.
  • Lesson by Ms.Kruti Goradia related to 'Health Week'


Students discussing their explorers






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