Grade 2
Weekly
update for Grade 2 @ OIS
Welcome
back after the Diwali holiday!
Literacy
Objectives
and Learning Engagements:
Students
will continue to develop their writing stamina through a focus on descriptive writing,
the children write independently on various subjects that are interesting and
important to them. Students will plan/draft/proofread and present a near final
copy. To encourage confidence and independence children will be encouraged to
read work out, and discuss the quality of their work. Also the children are
encouraged to punctuate writing, by using capital letters, full stops and begin
to use commas. Students continue to
accumulate a bank of words, and checking spellings/meanings of words using a
dictionary.
Students
will continue to follow the writing process by prewriting, drafting, and
concluding their descriptive writing ready for sharing. A focus will be to develop an interest in
descriptive words through discussion of language use and choice.
Students will
be encouraged to continue to read their books of choice for longer periods of time
through the Daily 5. Students continue to develop and consolidate their
independent reading routines to develop enthusiastic, independent reflective
readers. Students are actively encouraged to read both fiction and non-fiction
books.
Maths
Students continue
to review number patterns. Students will work on addition with carrying over,
looking at double digits. The children will be given the opportunity to use and
apply maths practically in real life problems and within mathematics itself.
Unit of Inquiry
Students
will continue to investigate and research our unit of inquiry. Developing the
theme that people belong to communities and how these communities change over time.
Some children may research a local area or community and find out how it has
changed over the last century by using the Internet or talking to older people
to find out what the area was like when they were younger. Opportunities will be given for children to
present their work to their class.