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Mad Science Team Time!
This past week’s Team Time, always a favourite in second grade, took on a whole other shape when it turned into Mad Science Team Time! In honor of our new unit ‘Climate affects people’s lives‘, the grade 2 students enjoyed weather-related science explorations and experiments. Students had the choice of investigating wind, water, or air […]
See Hot Air Rise: An Experiment
Lars, Lisa and Hannah had just read The Magic Schoolbus: Inside a Hurricane for 2R Book Club. They decided to do one of the little experiments described in the sidebar… See Hot Air Rise. After an unsuccessful paper spiral, they switched to a heavier card and presto! It worked! In this video, Lars and Lisa […]
2R Taiko!
As part of our unit of inquiry People can be enriched by their own cultures and the cultures they connect with throughout their lives, second grade have had the opportunity to collaborate and get a taste of many of the programs at YIS’s International Center for Japanese Culture. Check out earlier posts for details on […]
Japanese Dance & Calligraphy
What amazing opportunities second grade has had this year to experience parts of Japanese traditional culture. Continuing on our Sushi-making experience of a few weeks ago, we have been invited back to the ICJC to experience Japanese Dance and Calligraphy. A wonderful integration with our current unit of inquiry: People can be enriched by their […]
2R Sushi-Making!
As part of our Unit of Inquiry exploring how our lives are enriched by our own cultures and the cultures we connect with, Grade Two were invited to the ICJC to learn how to make sushi! Keep an eye out for our Japanese Dance class next week!
Culture Walk!
Today 2R braved the heat and set out for a Culture Walk around the neighbourhood to see what we could find that we connected to Japanese and other cultures. Students busily noted their findings in their inquiry notebooks and had lots of compelling questions about the origins of everything around them! It was amazing to […]
Day One in 2R!
If the first day is anything to go by… it’s going to be a fantastic year! The new 2R students came happily rolling into the classroom in the morning. We played some getting-to-know-each-other games and spoke a little bit about some of the expectations of our classroom. We had our first sessions in PE and […]
