Welcome to grade 2 in the virtual world!
Hello and welcome to the first week of grade 2 at AIS.I'm from Australia and I joined AIS in 2019 in Pre K. I've worked in Australia and Nagano, Japan for 7 years now. I've enjoyed getting to know your child this week through the online lessons and I hope it will run smoothly from now on. Our first UOI unit is: Transdisciplinary Theme: Who we are Central idea is "The choices we make affect our health and wellbeing." This week we started learning about the different elements that contribute to our physical health. For example, our diet, exercise routine, sleep, screen time (TV, online games, computer use) and personal hygiene. As many of us are staying inside for many hours a day this unit is very relevant to our lives right now! Some children have been running up and down the stairs to get exercise or doing jump rope, Just Dance videos, yoga and general stretches/exercises. The children were introduced to the health food pyramid and learnt that we should a