Term 2 in 2A and 2B
We are loving Grade 2! We have been learning so many new and exciting things!
This term in our inquiry lessons, we are learning about innovation in schools. Did you know that in the past, students used brown paper bags as their lunchboxes?! They also used a quill and ink to write with. Oh, and they didn’t have the internet, so they had to use something called an encyclopedia to find out information…. which was often outdated! We even interviewed Miss Burgess’ nan, as researchers, to find out more information. At her school in the 1950’s, they only had one long drop toilet, no toys and they only had one swing to play with during recess and lunch times. Check out our learning journey so far!
Miss Ross has also been working in our classroom and helping us with our word inquiries. We know that spelling words correctly is really important as effective communicators. We have been looking at the /k/ phoneme and when to write the <k>, <c> or <ck> grapheme to represent the sound. Our hypothesis is ‘usually we put a <k> if the next letter is <e> or <i>’. Here we are practising!
We’re also lucky enough to have Mr Percy working in our class for a couple of weeks. He has been teaching us all about 2D and 3D shapes, as well as how shapes can flip, slide and turn. We have been doing lots of hands-on tasks in small groups as collaborators. Look at us working together and helping each other!
We are also in the process of writing our very own fairy tales. We know that fairy tales need a beginning, middle and end; in the beginning, we introduce our characters and setting; in the middle, we introduce the problem; and in the end we solve the problem. Check out some of our amazing fairy tale characters and settings!
