Grade 2 Class Blog

Welcome back! We hope everyone had a very restful and fun holiday. We are excited to get started on our final UOI of the year – How We Organize Ourselves.  This week, we will finish up our previous UOI – How We Express Ourselves – and we will begin the Tuning In to our new unit near the end of the week.

Today – Monday, April 22 – is Earth Day. G2 is in charge of trying to spread awareness about it in the the primary school.  It’d be great if parents could take a little time to talk their children about Earth Day and discuss why it’s important and things that they can do as a family to help lessen our negative impact on the Earth.

Learning Engagements

This week’s learning engagements include:

UOI – Making Conclusions – How We Express Ourselves

Language Arts – Story-writing elements; Playscripts

Math – 2D and 3D shapes; Addition strategies

 

Upcoming dates

Monday, April 22 – Earth Day

Tuesday, April 23 – Book Character Dress-up Day (Students are encouraged dress up as their favorite book character.)

Tuesday, April 30 – Coffee Meeting – 8:00 am.

 

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We hope that everyone has a wonderfully fun and safe holiday!

We have asked the students to do something different this year. This is a journal where all they need to do is to write down the best thing that happened on that day.

For example – Friday, April 12 – I flew on a plane to Singapore.

Or –   Sunday, April 14 – We had my favorite dinner – Cuban sandwiches!

Please encourage your child to just write down one thing during 8 or 9 days of their vacation.

Thanks!

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Last week we talked about how we could go further and take action with what we had been learning about how artists manipulate elements to create dramatic sensory.

We visited the IB exhibition in the secondary school and we were really impressed with how talented our older KIS students are. I think quite a few of our G2 students felt inspired by the artwork that we saw there.

We have continued to have Passion Time, where we try different mediums to express ourselves each day. A lot of the students have been risk-takers and are trying new things that they have never thought about doing before, and they’re discovering that actually enjoy doing different styles of painting, or acting, or miming, or making origami.

And here are some images from Chinese New Year.

 

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Learning Engagements

This week’s learning engagements include:

UOI – Finding Out– How We Express Ourselves

Language Arts – Story-writing elements; Playscripts

Math – 2D and 3D shapes; Addition strategies

 

Upcoming dates

 

April 8 – 19 –  Spring Break

Monday, April 22 – Earth Day

Tuesday, April 23 – Book Character Dress-up Day (Students are encouraged dress up as their favorite book character.)

Tuesday, April 30 – Coffee Meeting – 8:00 am.

 

This is from Ms. Daisy. It is posted in the Google Classroom, which all students have access to through their school Google accounts.

“Complete your profile.
It should have all the information that Raymond’s has.

Go to pantone.com to choose your favourite colour.
Go to www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/ to find your complementary colour.

Choose your own font. And make it yours!

Need help – email me on daisy.ca@kis.ac.th

Have fun! “

Our Coffee Meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 30, at 8am.

This morning, we held a Reading at Home workshop for parents. This is the information that was shared with the parents. If you have any questions or need ideas or suggestions for how to read more at home with your children, don’t hesitate to ask their teachers.

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This is a great event happening this weekend, March 30-31.

There will be drones, robotics, Sphero, 3D printing, LEGO power machines, and more. There are times and descriptions in the presentation.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vS4cvBQEMHldgZS2hk11x4IMrlNriTh29vJnRqsqCPfuCJNNamBRC0p-k0dUxyMsTYEvaxLPxl1hQ-d/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Last week was Artigras, which tied in really well with our current unit – How We Express Ourselves. On Wednesday, quite a few of our G2 students were risk-takers and participated in busking in order to help raise money.

We continued to learn more about different forms of artistic expression, while also developing a passion in ourselves and others.

A number of students are also really enjoying reading and acting out plays during reading class, and it’s great to see them finding such joy in reading and analyzing the scripts in order to make the best plays possible.

On Thursday, one of the G5 exhibition groups came to class 2B in order to collect date for their exhibition project. The students had to construct an eco-friendly home using legos, and then explain about how their home was good for the environment. The G5 students were actually quite impressed with the amount of knowledge that our G2 students were able to share with them.

 

 

 

 

Learning Engagements

This week’s learning engagements include:

UOI – Finding Out– How We Express Ourselves

Language Arts – Story-writing elements; Playscripts

Math – 2D and 3D shapes; Addition strategies

 

Upcoming dates

March 18-22 – ArtiGras!

March 19 – Battle of the Bands

Friday, March 29 – School Photos for Grade 2 – 8am

April 8 – 19 –  Spring Break

Monday, April 22 – Earth Day

Tuesday, April 23 – Book Character Dress-up Day (Students are encouraged dress up as their favorite book character.)

Tuesday, April 30 – Coffee Meeting – 8:00 am.

Last week, we continued Finding Out more about our new unit, How We Express Ourselves. The students inquired into how different picture books use different artistic styles to convey different meanings. They also spent some time listening to music and learning how musicians use silence and pacing to change the tone of their music.

During the last 40 minutes of each class, the students engaged in Passion Time. This is a time for them to explore ways in which they can express  themselves. Many students are doing it through painting at the moment, while others are experimenting with origami, and acting, and drawing.

 

Learning Engagements

This week’s learning engagements include:

UOI – Finding Out– How We Express Ourselves

Language Arts – Story-writing elements; Playscripts

Math – 2D and 3D shapes; Addition strategies

 

Upcoming dates

March 18-22 – ArtiGras!

March 19 – Battle of the Bands

March 26 – G2 Coffee Meeting

Friday, March 29 – School Photos for Grade 2 – 8am

April 1 – April Fool’s Costume Day

April 8 – 19 –  Spring Break

April 22 – Earth Day