Hi everyone
Welcome back to an exciting second half to the year. We were very sad to lose Souta at the Christmas break but we have three new students this semester. Alexandr, Suhha and John have all started this week.
Our unit of Inquiry for this quarter is about sharing the planet and in particular the issue of conflict. We will be looking at a lot of different conflicts, researching ones that we know about but also trying to broaden our knowledge on some more unfamiliar ones. An important part of the unit will be discovering ways in which we can find peaceful solutions to conflicts.
Just before we finished in December we undertook a small measurement unit where we investigated area, perimeter and circumference. We used this knowledge to create scale models of Castles. I have included a couple of pictures of some of our final products.
I would like to give a special thank you to the wonderful Grade 5 Mum's who helped provide a (farewell to Souta, Christmas party and birthday cake for me) combined celebration on the last day. We had a lot of fun and it was a great way to say goodbye to our friend Souta.
Over the next few weeks we will start preparing for the Exhibition unit and because of this we have started looking at current events. Through this I am hoping to get the students better prepared about some of the issues going on in the world in which they are living.
I am also going to post some of our math strategy videos in the next couple of days, so keep a look out for those.
Mike
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