Weekly update 24-28th September 2018

Dear Parents/ Guardians,

I am aware that the reading colours links on the blog were not assessable to you. I have reorganized my resource folder. Please revisit the blog for the 17-21st September you should be able to assess the reading links.
Have a look in your child's book bags to find your invitation to the 3-way conference.

Here are some videos of our assembly.

Have a great weekend!

Photo's and video's of the Field Trip

Dear Parents,

As promised here are some photos and videos of our Field Trip to Fabkidz Hair salon.

View our album.

Grade 2D Assembly this Friday at 7:40 in the auditorium, see you there!

Weekly Newsletter 17-21st September

Dear Parents,

Next Friday the 28th of September will be Grade 2D's Assembly, please allow and encourage your child to learn the following songs.
Adjective song
Five food groups song

Please feel free to add your comments and suggestions to our virtual meeting on the Lino platform for International day.

I have added some links of readers in the differentiated reading levels of your children. All reading books have a follow-up comprehension worksheet to be done.
Your child will know what colour they are on.

Pink Worksheet
Bro0wn Worksheet
Green Worksheet 
Grey Worksheet
Black Worksheet
Purple Worksheet
Pale Blue Worksheet
Lemon Worksheet

This week we discussed gathering data for different purposes. We looked at different ways that data can be recorded and presented.
We made students thinking visible by using practical and visual demonstrations to create a bar and pictograph with the data collection of our class shoe sizes.

Thank you, Ms Frieda, for making our Field Trip to Fab Kidz Salon possible. More photo's and Video's will posted Monday.

PYP Family Workshop

Weekly Newsletter 10th-14th September

Dear Parents,

In Literacy, students learned about making connections to understand their reading. Ask them about the 3 types of connections that good readers use and how they made connections to our class reader Charlotte's Web. They worked on word creation for homework this week, I trust they were able to do this activity. This activity help students to build the vocabulary by unscrambling the letters to make1 letter, 2 letter, 3 letter, 4 letter words and eventually they discover the secret word. The secret this week was swings/wings.

Students did words sorts, this is an activity where each student receives their leveled words.
They then do closed and opening sorting of the words and explain to a partner why they have
sorted their words in a certain way.

Ms. Sinead and I rotate through groups to observe understanding, correct misconceptions and introduce new patterns found in words e.g CVC/ CVVC/CVCE  etc

Homework for next week:

UOI:

Theme: Who We Are

Central Idea: Our well-being is reliant on a combination of factors ( physical, social, emotional and mental health)

• Students will be wellness experts.
• They need to collect information and items ( optional)
• presentations shall be done in class.

• Math:
• Please talk to your child `about how you use math every day by demonstrations giving and examples.
• We would like some clean empty beverage and food containers.
• We will be looking at nutritional value.

Thank you Reuben for this wonderful slide of Botswana.

Home work for the 11-14th September

Dear Parents,

This year Grade 2 will represent Botswana for International day the 10th of November.

Homework:

1. UOI

•  Gain information about Botswana and share this with the class.
• Draw up a weekly schedule or journal of how you spend your time after school. Start at the end of your school day until bedtime add things like what you eat for meals, what activities you do.
•  Go grocery shopping with your families, students will need to identify and pick food from the different food groups.
• Start thinking about what kind of wellness expert you would like to be, then gather information. You can present in any style of your choice in class. 

2. Math

•  Listen to brainpop.jr video's to improve on number sense ( to be shown in class) 

brainpop (login - windhoek; password - brainpop)

•  log in and select place value, Even and odd, Patterns video's to listen.
• Go on to Mathletics and do live Math( Students will be shown in class)

3. Literacy

• Spelling city
• Word creation ( letters this week i,g,s,w,n)
• Find out information about Botswana ( International Day country)

4. Home Connections in Math

• Here are two math games you can play with your child: Fact triangles and Perfect tens go fish.

PORTRAIT POP-UP EXHIBITION

Whole Primary School in the Art Room




Dear Parents - This is our first of several

Pop-Up 2018-2019

@ Drop-off Time Art Exhibition in the Primary Art room.




All students have created a portrait of themselves at this point in their school life. It is interesting to see the development of art at this stage from EY1 through to Grade 5 with the unit Who We Are.




Please pop-in at drop off time on Friday 14th September from 7.00am - 7.45am followed by Assembly, if you wish to attend. The Portrait Exhibition will run til Friday 21st September.

You are welcome to come each morning, except Wednesday 5th September (as we have a class first period) , to view this.

VENUE: PRIMARY ART ROOM (Room 41)

DATES: 14th - 21st September 2018

TIME: 7.00am - 8.00am (except Wednesday 19th September)




An interesting read: The Hidden Meaning of Kids' Shapes and Scribbles

ISABEL FATTALOCT 25, 2017 h

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Weekly Newsletter 3rd-7th September 2018

Dear Parents,

What a busy week we had! firstly I'd like to thank all parents for your generous contribution towards our fundraising week, it was a HUGE success!!! We Made N$ 3538.

This week kicked off with our grade 2 students confidently and happily taking their MAP tests for Math. One of the benefits of using i-pads as a learning tool in the class is that students become comfortable and confident when working with them.

For further inquiry into our unit, we had a few interactive guests for a wellness day share their knowledge and expertise about wellbeing with the students. The students had fun making authentic connections to real life activities about keeping well, they discovered physical, mental, social, and emotional factors that all contribute to their wellbeing. The excitement extended to home as students shared stories of how they are striking a balance for their well-being by encouraging parents to serve and pack balanced meals! The discussions led to talks about the food pyramid and making informed choices about our lives. We are glad to note all the things parents are doing to keep themselves well, amongst them are eating healthy, exercising and resting and sleeping well.

In math, we are consolidating and getting to know numbers, and the value thereof (number sense) to build up a base for future reference when they are solving Mathematical problems. They were identifying patterns within the Hundreds chart. and used the 10 base, place value to gain a better concept of numbers and their values.
Find our weekly photo album here

Homework shall be posted on the blog Monday.

Home work for the week 4-7th September

Dear Parents,

Please remember to support our Bake Sale 4-7th September, find the sign-up sheet here

Homework for this week:

• This coming Tuesday we are planning to have a wellness day in class, students can bring anything to school that they would like to add to our wellness center e.g eye covers, nail polish, face masks etc.
• Students need to find out how parents keep themselves well.
• Students should collect data about where their family shops.
• Translate the kiddies version of our Central Idea (Our happiness and health depends on many things) into their mother tongue.

View our class Album here