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 trips  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...

Oman Week (postponed)

In Grade 2 we had a whole raft of activities planned as well as two interesting field trips. Unfortunately, the weather had other plans so we had a very short week and as you are aware, all field trips have been postponed. We hope that our trips will happen during the...