AIS - Grade 2

Grade 2- Week 7- May 27th-May 31st, 2019 Bogart's Mom reads to the class for a bonus literacy week activity! LOOKING BACK Wow, can you believe it's already the end of May?? This week we finished up all of our units, and began new ones! Our important vocabulary words from our healthy choices unit! In UOI, students turned in the Health Action Plans they had been working so hard on. That same day, we got started on our very next unit. Students made predictions about what we would be learning about, and they began to think carefully about objects in motion around them. Students also observed and conducted experiments with forces, motion, and friction. Students set up mats for our experiment. Students measure how far the car rolled down the ramp.  We also started a brand new unit for writing this week: lab reports! Students got their own science notebooks to record all of the steps in the scientific method, including question, hypothesis, procedure, results...

Grade 2- Week 6- May 19th-24th, 2019 LOOKING BACK Happy Literacy Week! We had a wonderful week full of parents reading, stories being published, library visits, spelling contests and more! Keep up the great reading, spelling and writing at school and at home! Reading to the toddlers class! Reading to the toddlers class!  During UOI time this week, students worked hard to complete their Health Action Plans! This was a chance for students to show off all the knowledge they have gained about making healthy choices in their life! They created logs to keep track of food, exercise and sleep, and they made plans for themselves about staying clean, staying happy and staying healthy! This weekend they will have some time at home to finish these projects, and then they will turn them in on Monday. In writing, students took one final look at their stories to edit them for spelling and punctuation, then they created cover pages to officially publish their storie...

Grade 2- Week 6- May 13th-17th, 2019 LOOKING BACK Sorting words into good and poor mental health choices. We got to learn all about mental health this week! Students learned all about the ways that mental and physical health are connected, and discussed how our brains send messages to our bodies. They learned what well-being means (being healthy, happy and comfortable!), and talked about some of the ways that you can find well-being for yourself. Finally, they explored some important emotions in greater detail, such as worry, anger, and happiness.  Deciding how to sort the mental health vocabulary words. The group begins sorting their words into categories. Discussing with the group about how to sort the words! In writing, students continued their small-moment stories, and focused especially on creating stronger endings. They also chose one story to be their published story. They began to edit and revise their story using a checklist! In math, students...

Grade 2- Week 5- May 6-10th, 2019 LOOKING BACK Welcome back! I hope that everyone had a nice time during Golden Week- whether you traveled around or spent time with your family here in Osaka! I did a little bit of both, and it was a great chance to recover some energy! Students compete in Jack and Aiya's "Basketball Relay" game. The class tries out Rima and Shosuke's "Exercise Roulette" game! Speaking of energy- we learned all about spending and saving energy this week. Students shared what sorts of exercise they did over the vacation. They also created games to teach the class- games that helped us to get exercise, or taught us about physical fitness! Students also learned about the importance of good sleep, and good hygiene. We asked questions and researched the answers through videos and texts. Kyle and Mahmoud begin working on their dream-catchers. Yua and Ichika design their dream-catchers! Dream catchers in the making! I...