Last week in
English students comprehended phrases and their usage. They highlighted phrases and did role plays on different phrases.
In writing they also did their English assessment.
In reading they understood the features of non fiction books: Title, subtitles, page numbers, diagrams, pictures, captions and sequence.
In
Maths students practised splitting strategies and number bonds.
Students also inquired into the concept of BODMAS. They were given different equations and each group was asked to solve them. The equations were interchanged among groups.
Each equation had come up with a few variety of answers. Students had to reflect on the question-
Below are some photographs of the above:
What do we do to come to a common answer?
Students felt that rules are required to solve equations with a variety of operations.
They also tried to understand
which operations are stronger and which are weaker?
They came to a conclusion that stronger operations are those which can change a number to a great extent in one attempt. Weaker operations are those which take longer time to change a number.
Below are some photographs of students inquiring into strong and weak numbers:
In
unit of inquiry students inquired into the positive and negative effect of media and were engaged in their second formative assessment.
