Time in Grade2SB

This week in maths we have begun a new unit on time which logically follows on from our learning and practise with fractions. We are learning the face of clocks, how to write time to the hour and half-hour and to identify time using both analog and digital clocks. You...

What’s up in Grade 2SB?

This week we have continued to write poetry, working on using our senses and colours to describe things in the world around us. We have challenged ourselves to expand our vocabulary by using new verbs and adjectives for adding description to our poems. While writing...

How do we learn?

We have begun a new unit in maths where students extend and deepen 2nd grade practise with ‘equal shares’ to understanding fractions as equal partitions of a whole. They formalise their knowledge as they work with area models and the number line. During...

Rainy Oman Week

We have had a really fun week exploring Omani culture through our field tripsĀ  and in class activities this week. Sunday began with our trip to the Sultan Qaboos Mosque where we were met with a docent who guided us around the mosque and told spoke to us about...

Complex Machines

We had had a very busy and varied week in Grade 2SB. The main focus has been on creating a plan for our complex machines, and then building our machines using at least two simple machines based on given criteria. The students have worked in teams of 2 or 3 and have...