AIS - Grade 2

 This week the children finally got to go to the park and release all that pent up energy. Did that mean they were less talkative in class? Absolutely not! During our UOI lessons we have continued to look at how Native Americans have dealt with a long history of being treated unequally in Northern America. We listened to a few children's stories on Youtube based on real stories of Indigenous people who were taken away from their families and sent to live in 'boarding schools' or 'residential schools'. We also read a children's book about how the Native American tribes joined forces to resist European occupation but that after 300 years of resistance, sadly, they lost and accepted treaties. I showed the children videos of ceremonies such as Pow Wows and the girl's coming of age ceremony in a Native American tribe. We also drew pictures of Indigenous people in their special dress. Today they researched a tribe of their choice from anywhere in the world, and as...

Hello and welcome back to the new term. I'm sure you enjoyed saying goodbye to your child on Monday. The children are slowly getting back into the routine. We welcomed our new student Aiko to the class as well! This week our new Unit of Inquiry was introduced: Human exploration has positive and negative effects on people and the planet. It is part of the transdisciplinary theme: Where we are in place and time.  We looked at exploration in a few ways such as the hiking of Mt Everest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the importance of the Amazon rainforest to our planet, and the Great Barrier Reef. We had a little look into some older explorers like Marco Polo too. We also did an activity using cardinal directions and a map. Today we were able to use the gym for PSPE so they definitely burnt off a lot of energy. The children did revision of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions this week, as well as some English grammar and reading comprehension.  Man...