Our frozen world unit culminated with the grade 2 to 5 students taking on the task to create their own non-fiction text using a digital medium.

Grade 2 and 3 focused on building digital books using Book Creator with a focus on exploring some of the lesser known Arctic and Antarctic animals.

Grade 4 and 5 constructed websites using WIX, a website building tool, around a chosen topic about the Arctic and Antarctic.

Click on the images below to explore the creations from grade 2 to 5.

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DIGITAL BOOKS – BOOK CREATOR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEBSITES – WIX

 

 

 

 

 

Vital – Polar Bear                        Simon – Gentoo Penguin

 

 

 

 

 JJ – Edmund Hillary                Júlia – Antarctic Interests

 

 

 

 

 

Kelechi – Scientists                       Mouza – Atlantic Puffin

 

 

 

 

 

Raef – Narwhals                               Modou – Shackleton

 

 

Batisite – Snowy Sheathbill                  Reem – Wolverine

Over the trimester we have been putting together a portfolio conference of our work. This has included choosing different work samples and reflecting on them to show both what we have learnt and what we may need to work on yet. Following on from our Frozen world theme we also decorated the front covers by building our names as icebergs. We are looking froward to sharing our work with our parents on Thursday. 

 

In class we have been practicing our inferring skills. Inferring is when we make statements from a text that using evidence to support our idea, but the statement is not specifically said in the text. We read a number of non-fiction texts on cities around the world and had to identify information that we could use to infer further statements from.

 

 

Grade 2 begun looking at our new science unit. We are exploring matter, the little particles that make up everything in our world. We first used blocks to represent the particles and discussed how they can be arranging in different ways to make different objects. Then we created a poster showing the three states of matters and draw diagram of the different objects and listed them as solid, a liquid, or a gas. We are looking forward to completing some experiments in class to learn the scientific method which we will use to complete own science fair projects.

 

The Antarctic Treaty was signed in 1 December 1959 by the twelve countries whose scientists had been active in the region. The treaty focused on maintaining a peaceful area for scientific inquiry that is aimed to better mankind. Starting with just twelve countries, now over 53 separate countries have joined.

Grade 4 and 5 begun studying the different aspects of the treaties and identified how it enabled cooperation between countries and limited the areas of conflict. We begun by sorting though a list of statements that helped us determine what the treaty did and did not cover. Then we looked at specific terms such as the land use and explained how it encouraged international cooperation without the need for conflict.