How We Express Ourselves

 This year, Grade 2s also have a year-long unit to explore. The unit is under the trandsiciplinary theme, How we express ourselves.

In this unit, we aim to understand the central idea: We can express and appreciate uniqueness through art. As this unit is directly connected to arts, lessons in Music and Visual Arts are integrated to it. 

A few weeks ago, we uncover the meaning of EXPRESS by asking each child to share different ways they show different emotions. This week, we focused on the word UNIQUENESS. They agreed that UNIQUENESS is similar to 'what makes each one of us different or special'. Through our brainstorming, according to the students, these are the factors that make us different from others.

We also did a simple art work that applies the forces - PUSH and PULL. Hence the name, Push and Pull Painting. See the finished work below. Try to guess which one is whose and what each one looks like to you.