{"id":330318,"date":"2026-05-14T13:29:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=330318"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T10:23:35","slug":"a-week-full-of-inquiry-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2026\/05\/14\/a-week-full-of-inquiry-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week Full of Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Dear Robloxian Parents \ud83e\udd0d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Firstly, I would just like to say a very big thank you to Ms. Cora and Ms. Sylvia for kindly covering my class for most of the week while I was away sick. I am very grateful to them both. I sent through my plans, and they followed through wonderfully with the students and did a fantastic job with the kids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">For our Unit of Inquiry, How the World Works, we continued exploring sound and light. We explored shadows and looked further into transparent, translucent and opaque.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">In English, the students worked hard on reading comprehension throughout the week. They read short stories and answered both closed and open-ended questions. We are encouraging the students not only to rely on the text itself, but also to use their own prior knowledge, experiences, predictions, and inferencing skills to deepen their understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next week our spelling words will focus on the months of the year. These are quite big words for Grade 2, so please continue encouraging your child to practice at home. Your support truly makes a big difference.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We will also continue revising our phonics concepts, including:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Prefixes and suffixes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Silent e<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Closed syllables<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Students will also revisit open syllables and explore the concept more closely. An open syllable has one long vowel sound and ends with the vowel itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">In Maths, we completed our unit on 3D shapes. Students focused on six three-dimensional shapes and explored their faces, vertices, and edges. They also investigated whether shapes could roll, stack, or slide, and practiced explaining these attributes using the correct mathematical vocabulary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please ask your child:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhat makes a cube a cube?\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">They should be able to explain the number of faces, edges, and vertices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Next week we will begin learning about symmetry and tessellating patterns. This is always a fun and creative week in Maths because it includes lots of colouring, drawing, and pattern exploration. Students will also learn the vocabulary:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Rotation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Reflection<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Translation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">A tessellation pattern is a repeating pattern of shapes that fit together perfectly without gaps or overlaps.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #cc99ff\"><strong>\u00a0IMPORTANT DATES<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 2nd = Grade 6 Graduation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 3rd = Secondary Summer Concert<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 4th = KG1\u2013Grade 2 Primary Summer Concert<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 9th = Coffee Morning<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 11th = Grade 3\u20136 Primary Summer Concert<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 17th = Last Day of School \/ Reports Issued<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/17GLv9bwdar-lr9lQtonOIoRrSZGY8xY4?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"color: #00ccff\"><strong>Photos this week<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Have a wonderful weekend \ud83c\udf37<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ms Cami<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Robloxian Parents \ud83e\udd0d Firstly, I would just like to say a very big thank you to Ms. Cora and Ms. Sylvia for kindly covering my class for most of the week while I was away sick. I am very grateful to them both. I sent through my plans, and they followed through wonderfully with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}