AIS - Grade 2

This week has been super busy in Grade 2. We have been working on UOI so the children learned about different peacemakers. We read about Greta Thunberg and they learnt how to summarise information about her. Learning how to do this is still quite a new skills for the grade 2 students.  The children had to choose a peacemaker from a shortlist of names and research why that person is important. It could be an environmental activist, an anti-poverty activist or a human rights activist.  As a formative assessment, they had a few days to research and work on a poster about their person of choice.  For literacy, we looked a little more at prepositional phrases and a new topic: homonyms (words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings) and revised homophones and homographs).  In math, the students revised how to read time and do word problems related to time as I noticed some students still can't read time very well. They also learnt a new skill of adding an