by Liezel BOSHOFF | Mar 6, 2013 | Grade 2, The Grades
In our unit on mapping, we have been talking about scale and coordinate grids.We thought it was not fair that the world doesn’t have coordinate grid lines drawn on it for us to see. It would make finding things and figuring out scale so much easier! We wanted to...
by Liezel BOSHOFF | Mar 5, 2013 | Grade 2, The Grades
We have been learning about all sorts of punctuation. The best place to find out about it is to look in books to see how writers use it. Turns out, there is a lot in a book! We figured out together what kinds of punctuation are used the most, we included capital...
by Liezel BOSHOFF | Mar 5, 2013 | Kindergarten 3 (ICS), The Grades, Uncategorized
Dear parents Your child’s art will be for sale tomorrow night at the International evening. It will be displayed by the front desk. Please come and have a look tomorrow. If you are not coming tomorrow evening, I will not...
by Liezel BOSHOFF | Mar 4, 2013 | Kindergarten 3 (ICS), The Grades, Uncategorized
This week we are looking at the “ou” sound and the two ways of writing it “ou” and “ow” Today we focused on ” ou” ( house, out, our, mouth, around, ouch, etc ) So if you are reading at home, try to look for...
by Liezel BOSHOFF | Mar 2, 2013 | Grade 2, The Grades
We worked very hard last week creating two collaborative pieces of art, inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. We took one painting and placed a grid on it. This really helped us understand coordinates, something we are studying in Maths and UOI! Each of us got a piece of the...