FINDING OUT - How we organise ourselves

 In our unit about shelters under the theme How we organise ourselves, quite a number of students posted on the wonder wall about different types of shelters/houses found around the world. This is directly connected to one of our lines of inquiry for the unit. In order to answer their query, we brainstormed different houses/shelters they know and looked through the internet others that are unknown to them. 

From the list we have, the students chose one to research about. When asked about what they think are essential to know about these shelters, they came up with 4 questions:

1. What is the form? (shape, colours, size)

2. What materials are used to make it? (directly hits some of the questions in their wonderwall too)

3. Where are these houses usually found?

4. Why are they made the way they are? (function/use)

As they will present the information they gathered in a poster form, exemplars were shown to them. They set the GOOD points of the exemplars and based their success criteria for the poster from them. 

Most of the learners are in the process of finding information, while a few of them are working on their posters already.

After the spring break, they will share their findings by doing a gallery walk. We also have a special guest - Mr. Kohberg, coming over to speak about building sustainable houses.

Enjoy the spring break everyone❤️❤️❤️

Celebrating Book and Culture Week

 This week was full of new learning about cultures of different countries. 

Monday, the students came dressed in their home country. Mrs Gras shared to the class great information about France. 

Tuesday, we had the instagram photo shoot with the help of Mrs Fujiwara.

Wednesday, Mrs Josie shared the story about the Monkey King (Journey to the West). In the afternoon, Mrs Kohberg shared information about Denmark and a story written by a Danish author.

Thank you Dearest Grade 2 parents for your full support. Enjoy the spring break!❤️❤️❤️

BOOK and CULTURE Week

 “Weaving Diversity through Reading and a Culturally Responsible Learning for a new future.”

The activity for each day is as follows:

Monday, March 15 - 

• Instagram (Photo Booth) - students can pose and have their photos taken in the first-floor sitting area.

• D.E.A.R - From 9:00 - 9:15, the whole school will read a book in their classroom.

• Spirit Week (National Dress) - wear the clothes from your country and bring your favorite book from your country (or a printout of the cover).

• Match the Book Launching! Which teacher likes which book? Take a guess!

Tuesday, March 16 -

• Instagram (Photo Booth) - students can pose and have their photos taken in the first-floor sitting area.

• D.E.A.R - From 9:00 - 9:15, the whole school will read a book in their classroom.

• Spirit Week (Pajama Party) - Bring your favorite book and come to school in your pajamas!

Wednesday, March 17 -

• Instagram (Photo Booth) - students can pose and have their photos taken in the first-floor sitting area.

• D.E.A.R - From 9:00 - 9:15, the whole school will read a book in their classroom. • Spirit Week (Character dress-up day) - Come to school dressed as your favorite book character.

• Match the Book Revelation! - The answers to Monday's contest will be revealed!

TUNING IN

This week, we explored the connection between the story The Three Little Pigs and the unit we have. The students made meaningful connections. They talked about people building sturdy houses and not sturdy houses. They mentioned using different materials in building shelters. They also connected the wolf as the natural disasters that can destroy our shelters.

This led us now to collecting different queries they have on shelters. The questions they shared show the students' burning curiosity.

This led us now to our learning direction - different types of shelters/houses.❤️