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The students have now
completed the final
assessment challenges for
the Materials unit and we
have just begun our new
unit about "Messages." The
provocation for this unit
started with a "silent
morning" when the
students had to
communicate without
words and only use hand
signs and body language.
This unit includes writing
letters, poetry and
exploring the various forms
of communication. Please
can you write a "secret"
letter to your child and
pass this to the teacher of
your child and we will
place this in the grade
level letterbox.
Unit of Inquiry
GRADE 2 NEWSLETTER
Reminders
Student Led Conferences -
21st-22nd March
Saka New Year -
23rd March (no school)
Mid-semester holiday -
24th March - 2nd April
First day of term 4 -
3rd April
Date: 9th March, 2012
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Book Week and Mother Tongue Week has
been a very exciting time for the students.
They have enjoyed listening to stories read in
different languages French, Korean and
Dutch. Wednesday was a great day of
activities, a fun assembly and a deliciousbreakfast. Parents,
thank you for sending
along the wonderful selection of food for the
ES to share. The range of literacy experiences
included stories from New Zealand and
Australia, and activities included cooking,
visual art and construction. The students were
also involved in "I Read to the Head" when
they had the opportunity to read to Ms Jacq
Mr Bruce and Ms Karen.
We hope that this week exposed the studentto a new selection of
books and encouraged
their love for reading and the "world" in
literature.
Literacy
We are now completing unit 7 in Mathematics
and moving onto unit 8. In this new unit, we
will review basic fraction concepts, use
fractions to name parts of a whole and a
collection, find pairs of equivalent fractions
and solve number stories involving fractions.
These are the beginning concepts of division
It would be useful for the students to be
involved in tasks such as cooking and
measuring in fractions at home.
Maths
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The students showed their creativity when theycreated a scene
for their own digital stories. They werealso more confident when
they used the Keynoteapplication to create digital stories. The
studentsstarted to learn how to play "Wayang Kancil". Thestudents
worked collaboratively during thisperformance. The students have a
variety of roles such
as, "Dalang", Musician, singer and narrator. We learne"Wayang"
because "Wayang" is one of the ways tcommunicate with other
people.
In the next two weeks, we still continue to practicusing
"Wayang", to create a digital story and will publissome of our
poems.
Indonesian
Chinese
BeginnerOver these two weeks, the Chinese beginner class focused
on songs, stories, and expressions related to time,school life and
hobbies. Though story telling, students learned to express that
they like/dislike doing something.Students also learned to read
some character radicals and write simple characters.
Beginner+Students learned new vocabulary and sentence patterns
associated with hobbies. They learned a story about
Justin Bieber. They also learned PinYin and mouth()as a radical
for characters.! Students also made a bookabout one day of my
life.
Intermediate
Over the last two weeks in Mandarin Intermediate lesson,
students continued to learn to write Chinesecharacters, number of
strokes and stroke order. We focused on expressions associated with
the unit of inquiryand students had a wonderful performance in
Chinese assembly. We also learned about stationery and weather.
AdvancedOver the last two weeks, the advanced Chinese class
lessons have focused on Watt's story and were told theextend story,
Lu Ban Invents Saw. The students also began to know the Chinese
characters' history this linkswith the unit of inquiry on People
communicate in different ways for different reasons.
