AIS - Grade 2

            In this unit we learned a lot about storytelling! We practiced being good oral story tellers and practiced how our voice and body can move as we are telling a story. We used our bodies to tell stories and practiced telling stories without our voices, such as using pictures, miming, and shadow puppets.            Our favorite thing to learn about was how different cultures have told stories throughout history. We learned about shadow puppets, storytelling though dance, and the oral tradition of storytelling. Students worked really hard on writing their own stories and thinking about ways to express those stories in different ways. We also began practicing those stories for YEP!  This unit was cut in half by winter break! We had such a fun time with spirit week leading up to winter holiday. My personal favorite was our class theme where we dressed as crayons. We made hats for our specialist teachers and...

  During this unit, we had the International Children's Festival! Our classroom was Norway and we learned all about the Northern lights as well as Gnome folklore. We also had a fun time learning about all of the different countries that other classrooms were!      In this unit we were learning all about conflict and how to be peacemakers. We were able to practice how to bring peace to ourselves and how we can work to bring peace to our community and our world.  We wrote our own classroom books titles, "We are peacemakers." We were authors and illustrators in making our own scenarios and conflicts and showing how we can be peacemakers in those moments.  We learned about different historical conflicts and the ways in which people respond; protest, cooperation, fighting, ignoring, compromise. We learned about different protests and even wrote our own protest songs for different conflicts we see in our own communities.  Finally, we chose a conflict in our ...