Book and Culture Week on March 15, 16 and 17

 “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!

The 3 Little Pigs

 In this learning engagement, the students worked in groups of 3-4 members. They were given cut outs of pictures from the story The Three Little Pigs.

Their task was to arrange the story in proper sequence. In this task they were assessed in two ways:

- Observe good social skills by working together in a group; doing the responsibilities assigned to each; contributing to the overall quality of the task

- Show communication skills by participating in the presentation of their work; speaking in loud and clear way; maintaining connection with audience through proper eye contact

This task involved teacher assessing the students as well as students assessing their peers.

It was exciting to see them work collaboratively. It was also fun to know that they have different versions of the story, The Three Little Pigs ❤️❤️❤️

What is a SHELTER?

 As a class, the students collected information of their own perspectives of what a shelter is and what it does. Then they asked people around and compared the answers they got. They use the data they collected to define the word SHELTER as a class. Here is what they came up with.

How we organise ourselves

 Our next unit revolves around the transdisciplinary theme How We Organise Ourselves where in we will explore and look into the human-made systems and communities, societal decision-making and their impact on human kind.

The Central idea of this unit is

"Living things around the world build shelters differently for various reasons."

In this unit, we will explore the following lines of inquiry:

- different types of shelters around the world

- how shelters are designed and built

- why shelters are built the way they are

As part of our pre-assessment, we unlocked the word SHELTER. It is a surprise that students showed different meaningful ideas and viewpoints about what shelter is (as shown below)

Looking at their answers show a very promising learning experience for all of us. ❤️

Element of Colour

 As part of the warm welcome to our Grade 2 students, we started the week by introducing the third element of Visual Arts - colours.

The Grade 2s chose a black and white printed photo, traced it and gave life to it by choosing the right colours. The outcome is impressive.

Happy Holidays

 When it was the last day of school before winter break, guess who visited our school? The Grinch!

But of course, the Grinch couldn't stop Christmas. The day ended with Santa's coming, gift-giving and merry and joyous cheering!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

Simple Machines

 

This week, Grade 2s explored how forces make our lives easier. The learners connect force with work and found out that work happens when there is movement or change in location. Through this definition of work, the learners connect making work easier to machines, thus we explored different simple machines.

The class was divided into 6 groups and each group chose a simple machine to explore. They explained through their poster what that simple machines is, examples of where they are found and also created a simple model of it.