Welcome to Grade 2!
Getting back to school on Sunday!!!!
I am looking forward to seeing everyone face to face next week. It has been a long two weeks online. When we get back remember to wear your PE Kit to class, a hat, proper sports shoes, and a water bottle. We are still keeping our mask on in class and keeping social...
Last Offical Online Week
What a great fortnight we've had online, but we have now come to both the end of this era of learning and of our Unit of Inquiry on weather. Next week we are back face to face and with a new Unit of Inquiry on the agenda. Please find details below of some of the...
Last week online!
We did it! We completed what is hopefully our last week of online learning. We learned to tell time to the half and quarter hours, we read a fiction and nonfiction book together, we learned about different types of wild weather and some of us created a masterpiece!...
The Weather Report in Grade 2…. 2021 is Going to be Fine.
It has been so lovely to see everyone back online again for the start of a brand new year. The students have been really impressing me with their hard work and eagerness to learn. LITERACY Adjectives We have been continuing to practise using adjectives to make our...
Back Online
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Ms. Simonds and I had a chance to travel around Oman. What a beautiful country! We have been working online the last week and will be online for next week. Here are some reminders for our online class:...
Together Again in 2021!
It was great to see everyone again! We studied about the 4 seasons this week. We learned that the seasons are a cycle. We made season circles after eating stories and watching a movie about seasons. Here are our season circles.
We’ll See You Next Year!
We have made it! Thank you one and all for all your time, effort, fun and laughter. I have loved being in the classroom with you all and getting to know you all in person (and the parents via email). I hope you all have a wonderful winter break with friends and family...
A Wintery Week in Grade 2
We made crystals, read stories about snow and winter, made snowflakes, wrote winter stories and celebrated the end of 2020! Happy New Year! Making crystals with Mr Greg, the science teacher. What is in the Box? Our snowflakes! Our wintery week.
Happy Holidays from Music
Have a wonderful holiday and a fantastic New Year! Enjoy this performance from the band by clicking on the picture below...
Clouds, Seasons, Time and Tiny Books
Cloudy with a 0% chance of rain We started to explore and categorise different types of clouds for our Unit of Inquiry. I would love it if students could use their sheet to go on a cloud hunt this weekend. Seasons Combining our Unit of Inquiry on weather, and...
Dance: How’s the weather
We are learning about the weather in class. So we decided that we would all paint our favourite kind of weather. As you can tell by the video, lots of students had their minds on snow. But we also had a bit of rain, a tornado, and a storm on mars! To add to our...
Comparing skills in grade 2
In grade 2 Information Literacy classes, we have been working on our comparison skills. This week students listened to the story "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson. They had fun retelling the story of this clever mouse and other silly creatures by moving the characters...
CHOIR & BAND
We are continuing practicing! Singing and playing at safe distance in the open air for future performances ( hopefully)!
Fantastic First Full Face to Face Week
MATHS -making patterns Unit of Inquiry / Maths - Temperature sort Cause and Effect Machines - Rube Goldberg inspired Daily Class Award Winners....How would you spend Ms Fiona's currency?
Another Fun Week in Grade 2
We started some new things this and had a fun week of learning! This week we ready a story called Library Mouse. We learned about the main character Sam and that he lives in a hole in the wall in the library. He started writing tiny books for the children in the story...
Libraries Get a Facelift!
Wow, we have been very busy in the primary and secondary libraries rearranging, organizing, and categorizing! Furniture has been rearranged to allow for easier browsing ( once we are back to normal), along with reading, meeting, and working spaces. Books are...
A Short and Fun Week
We had a fun week writing with Ms Michelle, sharing our opinions, playing math games inside and outside, and reading a lot! Enjoy your weekend and we will see you on Sunday. Sharing our opinions with the class and the reasons that support our opinions. We are...
World Record 1 Mile Challenge
Grade 4 students in PE this week were set the challenge of trying to beat the World Record for 1 Mile (1609 meters). This was set by a Morrocan athlete named Hicham El Guerrouj, with an amazing time of 3 minutes 43 Seconds. That's just over 4 laps of our athletic...
Music lessons in the open air!
Since we are back face to face the music lessons, singing and instruments playing has been taking place in the open air! Children are enjoying, singing and having fun while being outside.
Week 2 in Grade 2
The week went so fast! The children have settled into school just in time to welcome Ms Fiona next week! Here are some highlights from the week. Together apart. National Day Sharing work. Making puzzles. Making our shields to keep us safe! Outside art...