The Masai Visit

How are we going to answer all our questions about the Masai?

'Ask a Masai' they said!

So.........we invited them to school!

Check out the photos using the link below.

Masai Visit 

Math IS fun!

In our class, we believe Math is great fun! AND we enjoy using the different manipulatives to challenge our brains!

Click on the link below to see 'all-smiles' during Math Lesson!

Maths this week! 

Exploring the Masai Culture

This week we delved further into the Masai culture - we danced, sang, read, 'googled', explored and showed what great 'inquirers' we were. 

Click on the link below to get a snapshot of some the things we did:

Masai learning in 2FH

Week 3

We have had the opportunity to work closely with Ms. Lynn (our counselor) this week!

Kelso has now joined our classroom and has been sent home too!

 

We have been working hard at data collection this week discovering and collecting information about different people in our classroom as we delve further into our unit on 'Who We Are'.

Click on this link to see more photos: Week 3 in 2FH

Seating

We have introduced a variety of seating arrangements within the classroom to meet the needs of the students. These are working well so far and students are choosing to use these areas of work depending on what they feel will help them learn the best. 

Week 2

We have begun our unit of inquiry: 'Who We are' and spent time 'unpacking' the central idea. To link with this we are exploring our identities: looking at where we come from, where we've lived, the places we have visited. 

We now also have our focus author: Tomie DePaola. Ask the students to tell you about his books!

We also had our first reading session with out buddy class: 4AM. This was an exciting time for us as they came to read with us and explore the books in our classroom!

Click on the link below to see pictures:

Week 2 in 2FH 

School - Read in

It was a calm and peaceful start to the day today with the whole-school read-in which was thoroughly enjoyed by all. 

Students were reading either in buddies, in groups or by themselves. 

Our First Week in Pictures

Click below to see our first week!

Our First week

Our Class Schedule

Welcome! Karibu!

Welcome to IST's grade 2FH Blog

Here you will find what’s happening, student activities and much more. Please check back often and feel free to leave us a message!

I will try to post updates on here regularly (especially pictures) showing snippets of what we have been up to in class. This will provide a good opportunity for you to view the pictures with your child allowing them to explain what the pictures show.

 

Our Class Agreement

Our First Week in 2FH

It's been an exciting week in Grade 2 - from learning about our new classmates and teachers, walking around school reminiscing about our times at EC, KG and Grade 1, visiting the grade 2 EAL and Learning Support teachers and just settling in! 

We've also been hard at work putting together a plan for the year including what we NEED to learn, how we are going to do it and when. This is our classroom Agreement. We shall sign our names to it this week!