How We Express Ourselves Week 3 wrap-up

The weeks seem to go quicker and quicker. We have had another fun week of learning in Grade 2.

Readers Theatre
This week students presented their Reader's Theatre scripts. The students demonstrated excellent viewing and presenting skills.

Readers Theater is a dramatic presentation of a written work in a script form.  Readers read from a "script" and reading parts are divided among the readers. No memorization, costumes, blocking, or special lighting is needed. Scripts are held by the readers. Lines are not memorized. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures.
http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm

The hungry little caterpillar

One Fish, Two fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

Paperbag Princess

Where the Wild Things Are

Community Development

We had the opportunity this week to have six guest speakers come to Grade 2. Each guest speaker did two workshops with the students on an art form they are passionate about. Students were able to select the art forms they were most interested in and participated in those workshops.

Paper Mache

Photography

Poetry

Songwriting

Aspara Dance

Drama

Response Writing

We watched a silent film and dance. Students have been working hard on responding to these. The final copy is in the portfolio. We also wrote a response to a painting, please look at the individual student page for this.

PE
The students have been playing Hockey and Invasion games in PE.

Math
We started working on 2D shapes this week. We have been learning the names and properties of the different shapes.