Happy Friday Everyone! Here’s the end of the week update on our Grade Five experience at Lincoln School: In math, we have been working on volume using Volume = Length x Width x Height or Volume = Base x Height. The students are also still trying to...
Peer to Peer Learning Leaves a Mark The READERS in Grade Five spent time this week looking into how other students their reflect on the reading they do. We took note of what we thought these students were doing well and hopefully walked away with a...
Happy Friday Everyone! Here’s the weekly update on our Grade Five experience at Lincoln School: In math, we hit the ground running in our first unit. We tackled area using a brand new method to us called “tiling.” It wasn’t everyone’s favorite, that’s why we also reinforced...
Happy Friday Everyone! This is just a short update on our Grade Five experience here at Lincoln School: In math, we have dusted off our multiplication skills and jumped into our first unit on area and volume. It even includes finding the area of rectangles with fractional...
Will It Float? Today the Grade Fives tackled to the idea of buoyancy by constructing a boat using only tin foil. We planned and tested out our designs by adding washers until the boat sank. The objective of today's activity was for the students to...
How High Can You Go? Grade Five welcomed in the new school year by accepting the challenge of constructing towers out of only paper and tape. Given forty minutes or so, students planned and carried out an investigation into constructing towers that were as tall as possible...
