In Language, we focused on letters, parts of a letter and types of letter. To apply our understanding, they wrote a letter to someone very dear to them. They personally drop the mail in to the post box.
Are you excited to find out the recipient of the letter? Let us wait for the letter to arrive at its destination. :)
This unit provided ways for students to uncover environmental issues that the whole world is facing. As we went on our unit journey, the learners showed small and simple but meaningful actions.
Here are them in action!
Some girls in the class shared books and excerpts from the books they read.
Pauline shared the information from the book she was reading about animals that are affected by water pollution.
Grade 2s learned about slogans and used this as their way to spread awareness around the school community.
Some of the learners had a hard time putting up right words to come up with catchy slogans. Others had an easy time doing it. Nevertheless, everybody did their best and came up with these.
Are they catchy enough for you? Hope they are!
Last Wednesday, Grades 1 and 2 were privileged to have invited and have listened to one expert on the environment - Mrs Josie Qian (Lingyi's mom), an environmental engineer.
She showed to the class the major difference between Green energy sources and Brown energy sources. She clearly explained the benefit of using renewable energy sources and emphasized the bad effects of using non-renewable resources.
She brought her a set of materials that she used to show how power from the wind is changed into electricity. It was fun!
To check their understanding of the concepts, retention of the process and mastery of Math skills, we did a Math-a-thon on seesaw today where they will compete with their own selves in solving Multiplication and/or division problems.
In this activity, they are free to choose the level they want to try and complete it to the best ability they could. They can try other levels too if they want more challenges.
The Grade 2s' expert groups shared their findings to the class about the different environmental problems we are facing at present.
The focused on the FORM, CONNECTION and RESPONSIBILITY concepts.
Endangered Species
Most of the questions and wonderings posted on the Wonder Wall show interest on how the environmental problems started and how they affect people.
In order to address these, we came up with expert groups. They were grouped based on their interest.
Each group will focus on the three key concepts of the unit:
FORM - What is it? How doe sit look like? Define it. Describe it.
CONNECTION - What are the causes of it? How does it affect people and others?
RESPONSIBILITY - What steps can we do to address this problem?
This week, they are FINDING OUT information that will help them become KNOWLEDGEABLE of their chosen topic. Next week, they will find ways on how they can share the information to others.
In Language, we focused on letters, parts of a letter and types of letter. To apply our understanding, they wrote a letter to someone very ...
