Mosque Trip: 21/12/2011
Week 14 Pictures:
Importante comunicazione
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| Sharing a snack outside the mosque |
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| Listening to Aziz |
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| Coming down the mosque steps |
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| The beautiful building inspired us all! |
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| Trying to write in Arabic |
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| The expert writing in Arabic! |
Week 14 Pictures:
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| Mia's mum talked to us about Judaism |
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| We had fun filling bags for homeless men. |
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| We made tags which said 'For a Friend' |
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| We worked with friends |
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| When the bags were full Mr. Mullane took them to the homeless men |
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| Taking action made us reflective and we felt happy to help others |
Importante comunicazione
Cari genitori a partire da venerdì p.v. organizzeremo degli incontri individuali per condividere con voi il target setting degli studenti per l'italiano.
Vi preghiamo pertanto di prendere appuntamento collegandovi al wiki e indicando il nome del bambino.
conkers
Hello grade 2 blog readers. This is the short film clip we watched before preparing our conkers it's from 1957 but the children were quiet as mice when they watched it- simple fun! This is the follow-up      it seems that Natalia is a tough adversary to beat......  Language arts - family booklet additions- emphasis on using correct verb form fo the past- personal spelling words- first spelling test with choice of self-correcting or peer correcting- long e study. The children have been making small rhyming books using the long vowel of the week. They are very funny! Math- emphasis on using strategies to add faster and more accurately. Doubles plus 1- doubles plus 2.... On going review of time and euro coins. Unit- The century number line is progressing well - more comparisons of old customs vs. new - read-aloud Jane Goodall biography - preparation for Family Afternoon. This week you will receive a letter explaining what will happen on the Family afternoon.... A very good way for your children to practice their spelling is the Look-Cover-Write method. The following link is great because you can decide the words that you want to practice Enjoy your week!  |
| We found a connection! |
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| We are writing our connections in rough |
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| We are writing our neat copy |
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| This is our display |
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| Our puppets hang together to show our connections |
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| The whole grade came together for this activity |
The year has begun well and there's a happy and fun atmosphere pervading our days.
Sofia and Natalia have been wonderful in adapting to the new school. Aden has joined us and Ignacio's arrival is still uncertain. That makes a lively group of 18 -a nice round and even number -.
Thank you so much for your support in sending in the supplies. It's working!
Each morning we all comment on the new erasers, pencils, folders.... Niccolò divides and stores our working tools. Manfredi takes care of the labeling stickers and Giuseppe supervises the supervisors!
They are our supplies. We are a team. We do our best and we do it with care and love.
Parent Information night will be held in our classroom on Monday, September 26 at 4:00 pm.
It will be a good chance to meet and talk about the coming year. Mr Francesco will also be present to inform you about the Italian curriculum.
I look forward to seeing you on Monday. Have a good week.
Ms Chiara
Week 2
It's been a hot but productive week and the sense of 'team' is steadily developing.
The central idea of our Unit on Family Histories is our driving theme.
This is an outline of the week's work.
Language Arts
-writing- family journals
-spelling- unit vocabulary (years, different, the same as, time..)
-grammar- formulating questions
present and past of verbs
-poetry- listened to Allan Ahlberg reading two funny poems about crazy teachers....
http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/searchBoth.do
this is an excellent site
try it- you'll see!
Math
-review of basic addition and subtraction facts
-telling time on the hour and the half hour
-bar graphs and collective class birthday chart
Aden and Min Woo are preparing some tricky questions on the birthday chart...
-personal timelines
- we've begun to map out a collective century timeline outside our classroom
Uma has begun to divide the timeline in 5 year segments
Unit
-journal writing
-sharing the personal timelines with a partner
-looking at different family trees
-labeling objects in our museum and determining how old they are
Whewww... that's a lot
New week beginning- new things to do
Please remember healthy snacks ---they give us a boost in the middle of the morning.
Have a good week
Ms Chiara
