Ms. Garner’s Class

Dear Parents and Students,

I am so glad that everyone is home safe and sound with their families. In this e-mail, I’ve outlined some learning that you can do from home on Thursday.

Our typical daily schedule is listed on the grade two blog with some learning activities.

http://inside.isb.ac.th/smarttwo/category/general-grade-2/

I’m going to add a few details in this e-mail that are more specifics for our class.

Reading – If you have some post-its at home, grab two or three to have with you while you read. Stop when you want to track your thinking about:
1. a strong feeling that you had
2. a connection you can make to another book or your own life
3. a prediction that you want to remember
Talk about your reading with your mom, dad, or an older brother or sister?

Writing – We’ve been working really hard writing poems and publishing them in “My Little Book of Poems”. Many of you have been wanting to write more poems about anything you want to. You can do that today! As you write, remember what good poets do and try to use the same techniques in your own poems.
Good poets:
write about things that are important to them and zoom in
describe things using all of their senses
use comparisons
add descriptive vocabulary and details
use personification (make things that aren’t humans do things that we do)
use repetition
Write several drafts of different poems. Read them to someone in your family and get some suggestions of how you could make them even better.

Math – Go to Smarttwo

http://inside.isb.ac.th/smarttwo/category/general-grade-2/

Go to the PortaPortal under links.
Then go to the Math section.
Finally, go to the TIME section and pick different websites that help you practice telling time.

On Wednesday, you took home 3 pages of math addition facts to practice. Which ones were tricky for you? If some were hard make a set of flash cards specific to the facts that you need to practice. You could write the answers on the back so you can quiz yourself and check if you are right. Or you can have someone at home ask you each question. Try not to use your fingers!

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Hopefully things in Bangkok will be safe for us to return to school soon.

Sincerely,
Ms. Garner

Growing ideas in writing, reading non-fiction books, sorting and classifying data, birthdays, a bug expert, shadow puppets, voicethread projects, and new friends…it has been a busy month!

Everyone brought their pjs, stuffed toy, pillow, blanket and favorite books so that they could get comfortable and read. We enjoyed a nice lunch together before breaking for the holidays.

To raise money to buy books for the Mercy Centre, our class decided to hold a bake sale. The students worked together to create posters, bake, package and sell the treats, and then count our profits. We made almost 6000 baht to purchase books. Thank you to the parents who helped support our efforts!

Last week second grade students had the opportunity to visit different classrooms as part of the We CARE program. The students were put into five groups and rotated to each of the other second grade classrooms throughout the day. They listened to stories, acted out different situations, made posters and murals, and other activities related to the six pillars. The students had a great time working with teachers and students from other classes while reviewing some important lessons about respect, responsibility, citizenship, caring, trustworthiness, and fairness.

Our first group of weather reports are ready for you to listen to! The students made careful observations of the sky, took photos, collected data about the weather from our weather station, and then recorded their own weather forecast using VoiceThread. We hope that you enjoy listening to them.