AIS - Grade 2

Term 2- Week 7- 2nd Grade Blog LOOKING BACK: UOI *Students got to present their future exploration plans to the class, as well as teach other students during an "exploration museum". We also started thinking about our next unit, discussing what "peace" and "conflict" mean to us. Math *This week we learned a handful of new math games to help us practice and review three-digit numbers and place value, making a friendly ten, and building arrays. We also reviewed the difference between rows and columns. English *We took a spelling test to figure out what strengths and areas of growth we have. We also practiced choosing from a spelling "menu" by completing different fun activities to practice our spelling word lists! LOOKING AHEAD: UOI *We will discuss how human life is organized, and how people might encourage peace at each different level (home, school, community, city, country, world).  Math *We will be...

Term 2- Week 4- 2nd Grade Blog LOOKING BACK: UOI *Students worked very hard this week to get their final projects completed! They made models, created brochures, wrote comic books and put together posters in order to teach and present about their planned explorations! Math *This week we practiced using a number line to add and subtract two and three-digit numbers. We thought about ways to make the problem easier to solve mentally. English *We spent one more week practicing our opinion letters. We paid special attention to making sure our letters had elaboration and persuasive language to convince our readers! LOOKING AHEAD: UOI *Students will present their projects on Monday. We will then move into our next unit, which is the "Sharing the Planet" theme! Our central idea will be around maintaining peace and resolving conflicts. Math *Based on the quiz we took this week, I will reteach and review certain concepts, while students are...

Term 2- Week 5- 2nd Grade Blog LOOKING BACK: UOI *We created webs to map all of our ideas and questions about future explorations. We watched videos, read books, and started thinking about an exploration that we could plan for our end-of-unit project! We also took the train to explore a new museum on our field trip. We got a chance to go back in time and explore what Japanese neighborhoods and towns looked and felt like many years ago!  Math *This week we practiced different ways to show simple multiplication problems, including writing repeated addition sentences, drawing equal groups, and creating arrays! Students made a city of skyscrapers, each with a different array of windows. English *We continued writing letters, and specifically practiced how to write an opinion letter. We planned our letters ahead of time by coming up with reasons to support our opinion. In reading, we practiced going back to answer o...