Ms Courtney's Class

Next week is book week. There are a lot of activities for the students to participate in. The students are excited for the dress as your favourite book character day on Wednesday and don't forget about the Candlelight Read aloud.

Here are a few photos with our buddies from this morning. The students are learning valuable teaching skills and becoming excellent role models for the younger students.

We started looking at our next unit of inquiry this afternoon. Six teachers brought three artefacts that represent something about them to school and the students had to guess which artefacts belonged to each teacher and why. The students demonstrated some excellent thinking and reasoning skills trying to guess which table belonged to each teacher. Can you guess which teacher the artefacts belong to?  The teachers are Ms Anita, Ms Karyn, Ms Tatiana, Ms Leigh, Ms Dana and Ms Courtney.  Table 1 Student guesses:  Ms Anita - she always dresses up - Yi Lei Ms Leigh - because she is the music teacher and the ear muffs are headphones - Nicole Teacher 2 Student guesses:  Ms Courtney- I think the sweater fits her son. - Eliza Ms Anita - because I know that Ms Anita has a son - Xander Table 3 Student guesses:  Ms Tatiana - She's wearing the same clothes - Josiah Ms Courtney - because she wears skirts everyday - Jasmene ...

We spent some time today looking at the essential agreements we made at the beginning of the school year. We discussed why each one was important and reminded ourselves about how to make sure we are demonstrating each agreement. 

Welcome back! I hope you all had an enjoyable break. The students were very happy to be back at school today and told some fabulous holiday stories. We welcomed two new students to our class, Tashi and Hailey. They were made very welcome and settled in well. Please find some important information and dates for this semester below. Homework: The ISPP homework policy states that in Grade 2 students will complete 20-30 minutes of homework 4 nights a week. This includes reading time. All Grade 2 classes send the same homework out each week and we really encourage nightly reading. We try to make the homework unit of inquiry focused. If you have any difficulties with completing homework please let me know. Timetable: The timetable is still the same as first semester and can be found here . Unit of Inquiry:  We are at the completion of our third unit of inquiry. Next week we will begin Where we are in Place and Time. This unit is focusing on artifacts and how we can lear...