How the world works

This week we began our new unit of inquiry with tuning into forces: what is pushing and pulling? We were given pictures of activities and with our partners needed to decide if they were a push, pull or both action, then we added these to a Venn diagram. This will form...

Sharing the planet

I hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable Eid celebration last week. Maths: this week we have begun working on 2-digit number addition. We have completed the entry task of analysing a story problem, then creating our own questions for the problem and afterwards choosing...

And that’s a wrap!

It’s been another busy week in Grade 2. We’ve also had the fun of celebrating World Maths Day on Wednesday and Thursday. Some of the students were able to teach in Grades 1 to 6 new maths games and able to learn some new ones too. The confidence of these...

Research, research, research!

This week has been all about research: what is is how we do it what questions we need to ask how can we find information efficiently what do we do with our information The Grade 2 students have been working hard on completing their mini tiger research booklets and...

Grade 2 continues their learning

In literacy this week, we have: reviewed nouns begun to use adjectives to describe nouns written descriptive sentences about people or objects made words using the vowels a, i and o practised writing ascender letters in handwriting practised using capital letters and...