Weekly update ( 25th to 29th Jan)

Unit of inquiry

• Guest lecture by Mr. & Mrs.Chandorkar on systems (designing of buildings,Oberoi Garden City) and reflection in the class.
• Video on Brasilia ( by Mr.Alex) and students use a template to plan their city . They used De Bono's yellow thinking hat to analyse 'Brasilia'.

Language Arts

• Students start working on their second persuasive letter using the writing process.
• Spellings in their spelling groups.
• Mini lesson on regular and irregular verbs.
• Reading of the book 'Dear Mrs.LaRue-Letters from Obedience School'.

Math

• Students continue to practice division. They learn how to check their division answers.
• Students are introduced to division word problems.
• Formative assessment of division strategies.

Field trip to KidZania pictures

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Weekly Update ( 18th - 22nd Jan)

Unit of Inquiry

• Class discussion on systems which the students think are needed and the ones which are wanted in our community.
• Guest lecture by Ms.Shilpa Yashroy on systems which are present in Saudi Arabia.
• Student's reflected on the guest lecture and had a class discussion on the factors which affect systems in Saudi Arabia.
• Field trip to KidZania where the students got an hands on experience of how systems work in different organisations.

Language Arts

• Students work on their second draft of Persuasive writing.
• Students are introduced to different parts of a letter.
• Students write a persuasive letter using the writing process.
• Spellings in their spelling groups.

Math

• Students are introduced to the strategy of long division.
• Students practice long division.

               Field trip pictures

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Weekly update (11th to 15th Jan)

Unit of Inquiry

• Students break up the central idea of the unit.
• Students identify  various systems in our community. They use grafio app to  make mind map on the same.
• Class discussion on systems in school which are need and want based.
• Field trip to Whistling Woods to learn about the working of different systems in the institution.

Math

• Students practice the fact family related to multiplication and division.
• Students are introduced to chunking strategy to do division.
• Students practice chunking strategy.

Language Arts

• Students learn to present their opinion supported by valid reasons for persuasive writing.
• Students started the prewriting and drafting stages of writing a persuasive paragraph.
• Students are introduced to opinion sentence starters.

Field trip pictures

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Weekly Update (4th Jan to 8th Jan)

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!!!

Unit of Inquiry

• Students were introduced to the new unit through tuning in activities. 
• Students identified the different systems functioning in their class and school.
• Students chose a system in the school that they wanted to know more about and interviewed the concerned people.

Math

• Students were introduced to division with the help of manipulative.
• Division strategies introduced: Sharing equally; Repeated subtraction; Using multiplication facts to do division,fact family.

Language Arts

• Students were introduced to persuasive writing. The students identified the features of persuasive writing through read aloud and class discussions.
• Introduction to debates in groups.
• Spelling- different groups of students did different spelling strategies.

Tuning In pictures

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