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Blog 2C

UOI

Students were acquainted with the transdisciplinary theme, ‘Sharing the planet’. A class discussion enabled students to unpack the central idea ‘People can make choices to support sustainability of the Earth’s resources , thereby setting the scene for inquiry and provocation. Students tuned into the new unit with a story on landforms. They identified different landforms and understood their importance. They enhanced their understanding with a map marking activity about the landforms found in India. A discussion then led them to discuss that landforms are a key source of various natural resources.

Students learned about the classification of natural resources into finite and infinite resources. Thereon, a class discussion enabled them to understand the differences and similarities between finite and infinite resources. Students were introduced to fossil fuels by engaging in discussions and viewing audio-visuals.

Delving deeper into the unit, students were introduced to the 2^nd line of inquiry, wherein, they identified that the impact of human behaviour causes problems for the availability of the limited natural resources. They also analysed that overuse of limited resources impacts the environment.

ENGLISH

English lessons commenced with students enhancing their reading skills with the fifth chapter of ‘Getting Granny’s Glasses’.

Students were introduced to alliteration. They further read a few tongue twisters. They learned about the importance of alliteration in writing and used their creative thinking skills to create a few of their own.

As they progressed, students were introduced to onomatopoeia. Students identified them in sentences, comics and graphic novels to express its sound effects.

MATH

Students were introduced to the concept of fraction. They compared fractions using manipulatives and fractional notation. . They understood the concept of equivalence to 1 , for example 2 halves = 1and three thirds= 1. They also represented and described the division of a collection into halves and quarters.

Students continued with the unit on mini tennis where they focused on rally against the wall to improve their forehand drive. They also showed their arm and core strength in backward ball throw test.

HINDI

During their Hindi classes students read Hindi story- ‘माँ की सीख’. They identified new words and framed sentences in their journal. They were introduced to अनुच्छेद लेखन (paragraph writing). They read paragraph अनुच्छेद लेखन on ‘गाय’. They wrote paragraph on ‘मेरी माँ’ या ‘मेरा घर’. They read Hindi story- ‘तोड़ो नहीं जोड़ो’ पढ़ेंगे| They answered verbal questions and wrote meanings of unfamiliar words based on the story. They listened to a Hindi story- ‘एक्की दोक्की’ सुनेंगे . They identified new words from the story. They attempted true and false for the given statements based on the story.

DANCE

During this week students started their classes with basic warmup routines focussing on their joint rotations and stretches. They revisited their class dance routines using the elements of choreography learned in class.

Song:- “Thousand years”.

Style:- Contemporary

Song:- “Hall of fame”

Style:- Freestyle

Song:- “Toca Toca”

Style:- Hip Hop

MUSIC

Students learned and explored the solfege. They were introduced to a song ‘Doe a Deer’ to reinforce their understanding of solfege. They sang the song in groups to improve their intonation and enunciation.

ICT

During ICT lessons students were introduced to Adobe Spark Post , an easy-to-use online tool that allows the user to create professional quality social media graphics and posters in just minutes. Students were briefed about the steps to sign up for Adobe Spark Post. They learned to choose a template and add text, images, icons, and layout to their poster. They also learned to share and publish their poster. . They are in the process of creating a poster on natural resources.

Students were apprised of the importance of being responsible and respectful online. . They strengthened their understanding on the same by attempting a quiz.

VISUAL ART

During the class, students learned about origami, the ancient art of paper folding has applications for teaching geometry, thinking skills, and problem solving. They learned to make various types of bookmarks.

LIBRARY

In library sessions, students explored the different fiction genres and read popular series like Bear Grylls, The Magic Tree House, Rainbow Fairies, Usborne series. . They immersed themselves in reading and discovered many authors in this genre.

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Unit of inquiry-

While furthering their understanding of the unit, students understood the various stages in the life cycles of different types of animals (butterfly, frog, bird).

They demonstrated an understanding that animals grow, change and have distinct characteristics.

As a part of unit integration

Students read the story ‘A Very Hungry Caterpillar’ wherein they understood how changes occur in the life of a butterfly. They further illustrated each stage of the butterfly’s life cycle, in their journal. They learned that living things, change and have offsprings similar to themselves.

Students delved deeper into the key concept of change by observing and inquiring into changes that take place in plants over time.

Students enhanced their critical thinking skills as they learned about the similarities and differences between the life cycles of animals.

Students also inquired about the effects of environmental changes on living things- like natural events (landslides, volcanoes) and human events (cutting trees, wasting water, pollution). They learned about natural and man-made changes to the environment and their impact on living things.

They shared their opinions on guiding questions like –

What might happen to plants and animals if their environment changed?
What if they were faced with conditions to which they were not well adapted?

, A class discussion, enabled students to explain the factors impacting the environment explicitly using the strategy of a cause-and-effect relationship.

Students viewed a guest talk on monarch butterflies, which focused on the threat to the species’ s plight as a result of environmental changes.

monarch Butterflies

Moving on with the key concept of causation, students learned about the impact of oil spills on ocean life.

The oil spill experiment helped them understand the detrimental effects on marine life. Another learning engagement helped students understand the impact of deforestation on the lifecycles of insects and birds.

Students attempted a formative assessment wherein they displayed agency ( voice and choice to demonstrate their understanding of similarities and differences between living and non-living things.

Students attempted another formative assessment wherein they displayed agency of choice to express their understanding of how living things change over their lifetime and the effects of environmental changes on them.

Finally, the week concluded with a summative assessment wherein students displayed their understanding of the central idea – All living things go through a process of change.

English

Students read the story ‘Emily, Monsoon, the Frogs’. The students used a visual thinking routine, the explanation game, to reflect their understanding of the lifecycle of a frog.

A game on listening skills to draw as per the instructions given by the facilitator attempted by students on prepositions helped them further understand its appropriate usage ..

Students were introduced to the subject-verb agreement explicitly. They selected the form of the verb that agrees with the subject of the sentence. They further read a few examples of sentences with different verbs.

Students were introduced to ‘words that begin with ‘un’. Students read the fourth chapter of the novel Getting Granny’s Glasses and summarized it using appropriate parts of speech.

Students used the strategy of cross word to attempt the spell bee..

Math

Math lessons began with a formative assessment on the concept of time.They reflected upon their understanding of the concept of timeusing the strategy of traffic lights to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses.

Students were explicitly introduced to how to answer would you rather scenarios with appropriate reasons.

The concept of data handling was undertaken,wherein students were asked guiding questions like:

What is data?
How to interpret data using different diagrams and graphs?

Delving deeper into the concept, students were shown different diagrams and graphs like bar graphs, pie charts and pictographs for interpretation of data.

Hindi

During their Hindi classes, students identified true or false for the statements based on the events from हिंदी कहानी- ‘बंदर और मगरमच्छ’. They listened – to a Hindi story- ‘मीठी सारंगी’. , They identified new words and wrote them in their notebook.. They attempted the task to fill-in-the-blanks based on the story. They attempted the formative assessment on ‘लिंग’. Students enhanced their writing skills and spellings with ’श्रुतलेख’. They completed ‘मात्रा अभ्यास’ in their journals.

Physical Education-Students continued with the unit on mini tennis where they focused on manipulative skills to improve their motor skills and coordination. They have learned forehand drive and wall rally in tennis.

Dance-

Students started with basic warm-up routines which focused on their joint rotations and basic muscle flexibility. They learned a new dance routine by incorporating elements of choreography.

Song:- “Thousand years”.

Style:- Contemporary

Visual art

Students learned about continuous line drawing by drawing in the style of artist Geoff Slater, who uses a single line that never touches or crosses itself.

ICT

During ICT lessons, students were introduced to an online app Storyjumper that allows them to create and share illustrated stories digitally. Students learned to add text, props, scenes, and photos to their stories.

Music

Students learned and explored the solfege. They were introduced to a song ‘Doe a Deer’ to reinforce their understanding of solfege.They sang the song in groups to improve their intonation and enunciation.

Library

Students participated in an exciting activity of ‘Character Parade’ on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day 2022. They selected a character from their favourite book and used recycled materials to dress themselves up. They enthusiastically recited a few lines in front of their peers to represent the chosen character.

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SEL

Students focused on their self-management skills. They played various games such as ‘Red light, green light’ to develop self-control by following some instructions and rules. In another game ‘Garage band’, they used different materials such as glass, spoons, and plates as instruments. One student set the music beat while the other followed him/her. While playing ‘Garage band’ they enhanced their listening skills and body control. They also watched a video and learned that we should make the right choices.

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Unit of inquiry- Students concluded their understanding of the unit food through a summative assessment.Students tuned in to the new unit with the conceptual lens change,under the transdisciplinary theme -How the world works.

Central idea – All living things go through a process of change

Lines of Inquiry and key concepts:

Similarities and differences between living & non-living things
How living things change over their lifetime.
Effects of environmental changes on living things

Students were introduced to the conceptual lens- change through an audio visual. . Students tuned in to the first line of inquiry with a sorting activity under the categories of living and non-livingthings perceived during a nature walk. Thereon, a class discussion denabled them to understand the differences and similarities between living and non-living things.

Students learned about the classification of animals using the VTR- Claim, Support, and Question. . The facilitator explained the reasons for the classification of animals into vertebrates and invertebrates. They categorized the vertebrates into different categories (mammals, reptiles, fish, amphibians, and birds) and wrote their characteristics.

A visit to the early years and then in middle school enabled students to observe and understand how living things change overlifetime. . They compared the timeline of different stages of the lifecycle of birds, humans, frogs, and plants to understand that every organism goes through different stages of physical growth and change.

Unit Integration–

The students read the story –What’s Alive? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld and reflected on living and non-living things.

English

Novel study

Students read the first half of chapter 3 of Getting Granny’s Glasses. After reading they used the VTR to predict what will happen next,, and gave reasons behind their prediction. After reading the second half of the story, they completed the VTR to write what actually happened in the story. The students practiced the reading technique of scanning using a paragraph.

Math

Students practiced measuring capacity with word problems. They were introduced to the concept of measuring time through a podcast. They practiced reading and writing time using digital and analogue clocks. They listed the actions/activities which can happen in seconds, minutes, hours, and days. . They practiced representing time in quarter past, half past, and quarter to time using clock templates.

Hindi

During their Hindi classes, students read a story -titled ‘कछुआ और हंस’.They identified new words and wrote them in their notebooks. They attempted their Formative Assessemnt on ’श्रुतलेख’. They were introduced to numbers ‘वचन’. They read examples of ‘वचन’. They played a game based on ‘वचन’ using the wordwall.net link. They converted एकवचन to बहुवचन and made sentences . They were introduced to ‘चित्र वर्णन’ with a presentation. They also completed‘चित्र वर्णन’ on given topics. Theylistened to the story of ‘बंदर और मगरमच्छ’narrated by their facilitator., Students listened to a poem called पकौड़ी. They enhanced their writing skills and spellings with a श्रुतलेख. Recapitulation of words, maatraa and vyanjans were undertaken with a reading activity . Students were also encouraged to read sentences and subsequently write them in their journals for better understanding.

Physical Education

Students continued to practice circuit training to improve overall motor skills. They learned backward ball throw and self-assessed their core muscle and shoulder strength. Also, they practiced manipulative skills in football.

Dance-

This week students started their classes with basic warm-up routines focussing on their joint rotations and stretches. Students then learned a new dance routine using the elements of choreography learned in class.

Song:- “thousand years”.

Style:- Contemporary

Visual art blog –

In art classes, students drew an umbrella colour wheel and coloured it using primary and secondary colours. Students enjoyed this activity as they learned about the colour wheel.

ICT

During ICT lessons students progressed in their learning of different blocks of code required for creating a project on Scratch. They used their creative thinking skills that demonstrated their understanding of processed and unprocessed food using the coding app Scratch. They learned about the term citation where they understood the importance of citing sources. They also learned to give acknowledgment or credit to the person who created the content they are using.

Music

Students of grade 2 were introduced to solfege and its use in music.They participated in a game wherein they were asked different solfege syllables and their placement according to ascending and descending order.

Library

Grade 2 students explored the fiction section of the library and read picture books, Dr. Suess collection, and other reading racers.

Students immersed themselves in reading a variety of books during the library class.

SEL

The students were introduced to a new dimension of social-emotional learning with focus on self-control and its importance. Through various activities like Red Light/Green Light and Garage Band, they learned self-control by being attentive and followed the given rules/instructions.

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Unit of inquiry

While progressing with the unit, students attempted a formative assessment on 1^st line of inquiry – how does food change from field to table with a task sheet. Students were introduced to the process of fermentation by engaging in discussions and viewing audio-visuals. They understood the steps involved in the process and how it is different from pasteurisation. Further, they pondered upon few questions:

What is fermentation?
Why do we ferment foods and what added benefits do we get due to the process?

The facilitator demonstrated the process of making curd in class. After following the required steps it was kept in class for students to observe the changes that happened overnight, with the help of a few questions:

What changes they observe(in look, feel, taste, consistency, smell, etc.) from the previous day?
What other food items are processed by fermentation?
Which gas is released in fermentation?

Thereon the process of curdling was introduced to the students with the help of few questions:

What is curdling?
What are the benefits of curdling?
Other food items made by the process of curdling.

During discussion, they understood the difference between whey and curds. Subsequently, they were shown the steps involved in making cottage cheese. Students illustrated the steps involved in curdling in their journals and wrote about them.

Delving deeper into the unit, students were introduced to the process of pickling / salting and how it is done. They were shown all the steps involved in this process and reasons for pickling were discussed. Students wrote all the steps involved in the form of a flow chart. Thereon students recapitulated all the processes they learned during the unit.

Formative assessment on the 2^nd and 3^rd lines of inquiry was undertaken to assess students’ understanding on.

why foods are processed
ways in which foods are processed

The students brought food packets to read the food labels to learn about the manufacture and expiry date, green and red dot for veg and non-veg, nutrition facts, net weight, FSSAI (food safety and standard authority of India), price, ingredients.

English

UOI Integration – Students read a book named ‘Milk from cow to carton’ by Gliki wherein they understood the journey of milk from farm to table, and were introduced to the process of pasteurization.

Students read a poem Little Brown Seed and then created illustrations to match with the text. After that, they were acquainted with rhyming words and their importance in a poem. .

To enhance their reading, students read Chapter 2 of the novel Getting Granny’s Glasses and further summarized the chapter in about 50 – 60 words. As an extension, they highlighted verbs in it and changed tenses followed by framing meaningful sentences with them.

Students were assessed on their knowledge of spellings with a spell bee.

Math

Math lessons began with a formative assessment on measurement of length based on real life scenarios.

Students were tuned into the concept of measurement of weight by understanding the meaning of weight of an object and how to measure it. They were asked various guiding questions like:

Whatdo you understand by the term weight? What do you think is meant by the weight of an object?
How do we measure the weight of an object? How can the weights of objects be compared?
How can we decide on appropriate units of measure?
Why is it important to know how to measure different objects using different tools of measurement?
What are the standard units used for measuring weight?
When do we use kg or g to measure the weight of an object?
Which is heavier 7kg or 7g?
What are the tools used for measuring the weight of an object?
How many grams make one kilogram?
What if there were no standard units of measurement of weight?

Further they learned to describe various objects in terms of heavier / lighter/ bigger/ smaller etc and this was followed by an activity wherein they compared the difference in weights of two objects (less than 1 kg and more than I kg).

. They listed few objects that can be measured in grams and in kilograms.

Delving deeper into the concepts, they were shown a weighing scale and they learned how to read the scale. They learned about various tools of measuring weight like electronic/digital weighing scale, simple weights etc.

SEL

During the session, the students enhanced their self-management skills . They learned about table manners after watching the online storey Pepper Learns Table Manners.. This way they were made familiar with the term self-discipline and how table manners are a part of self-discipline.

https://youtu.be/lJe2-dmwcJ0 .

Hindi

During their Hindi classes students read Hindi story- अधिक बलवान कौन. They attempted their F.A. based on विलोम शब्द. Through the story they found out new words and wrote them in their notebooks. They were introduced to cluster words अनेक शब्दों के लिए एक शब्द. They read examples of अनेक शब्दों के लिए एक शब्द through a given link. Thereon they answered and wrote words for अनेक शब्दों के लिए एक शब्द. They listened to a Hindi story narrated by the facilitator वाह चींटी! and later read it aloud. They identified new words and framed sentences using them. They were introduced to लिंग and thereon played a game on wordwall.net to practise the usage of लिंग. They listened to the Hindi story कछुआ और हंस and subsequently read it themselves. In their journals they wrote शब्दार्थ based on the story.

Physical Education

Students continued with the unit on athletics wherein they focused on circuit training to improve overall motor skills. They have learned various kinds of running, sprinter stance and run through cones, hurdles and ladder.

Dance

In this week students started their classes with basic warm up routines focussing on their joint rotations and stretches.

Students then learned a new dance routine using the elements of choreography learned in class.

Song: Thousand Years.

Style: Contemporary

Visual Arts

Continuing with their ongoing art activity on concentric circles, students learned about the colour wheel and experimented with warm and cool colours. They also used complementary colours to make another set.

ICT

Students began their ICT lesson with recapitulation of the main components of coding app Scratch. They learned to open a new project, save and load an existing project from their device. They continued their learning journey by adding different blocks of code like motion, looks, event and control blocks of code. While integrating with the unit on food, the students are in the process of creating a project that will demonstrate their understanding of processed and unprocessed food.

Music

Students were demonstrated how to incorporate various notes in playing of instruments. They were later asked to apply them on different instruments in small groups to improve their coordination and independence.

They were also introduced to a new song called Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles.

Library

Students physically visited the PYP library after two years and enjoyed touching, feeling, browsing, and reading various books in this week’s library visit. They took a library tour before choosing the books they wanted to read.

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Unit of inquiry

While furthering their understanding of the unit, students understood the journey of chocolate from farm to table. They delved deeper into gaining knowledge about how we get chocolate from cocoa tree by watching a virtual tour of a cocoa farm and chocolate factory. They also improved their oral vocabulary by learning the meaning of new words like preservatives, sweeteners etc. In continuation, they brought chocolates wrappers and read the food label ingredients that go into making the chocolate. This was followed by writing the journey of chocolate in their journal.

Moving on, students learned about processed and unprocessed foods and how processed foods are further categorized as minimally and highly processed foods. They were shown an experiment where they saw that orange in its natural form as unprocessed, whereas when it is consumed as fresh juice, it is minimally processed and when sugar and additives are added, it becomes highly processed. . They were also familiarized with words like food label, additives. By checking the food packets of various food items they figured out if any food colour had been added.

Later, students delved deeper into understanding advantages and disadvantages of processed and unprocessed foods.

Virtual tour of cocoa farm

Virtual tour of a chocolate factory

processed & unprocessed foods

disadvantages of processed foods

English

English lessons commenced with students enhancing their reading skills with the first chapter of ‘Getting Granny’sGlasses’. Further, they wrote its summary and highlighted verbs in their journals.

As they progressed, students were introduced to the concept of tenses – past, present and future. They further read a few examples of sentences with different tenses mentioned in it. .

As a part of UOI Integration, students read a book ‘I like pasta’ and demonstrated their understanding by answering questions like –

Which country is pasta originally from?
What is the most important ingredient of pasta?
Do you know any other food item that is made of wheat?

Also, they identified 4-5 verbs from the story and framed sentences using them.

Students were shown news clipping highlighting the increasing demand for organic farming and reasons why it is gaining popularity while they worked in pairs to use De Bono’s thinking hats.

Organic farming – Gaining popularity

Math

Math lessons began with a formative assessment for subtraction wherein students solved word problems based on subtraction using varied strategies.

Students were tuned into the concept of measurement of length by understanding the meaning of length of an object and how to measure it. They were asked various guiding questions like –

Whatdo you understand by the term length?
How do we measure the length of an object? How can length of objects be compared?
How can we decide on appropriate units of measure?
What if there were no standard units of measurement of length?
What are the standard units used for measuring length?
What are the tools are used for measuring length?
How much is a centimetre (cm)?
How many mm make one cm?
How long is a metre?
What is distance?
List few things that are measured in cm or km

They were introduced to standard and non- standard tools of measurement like – measuring tape, scale, metre rod, handspan, cubit . They learned how to use a ruler to draw a line of specific lengths as well as shapes like square, rectangle of specific measurements.

Hindi

During their Hindi classes, students read a Hindi story- ‘दोस्त की मदद’

They found out new words and made sentences using those words. They were introduced to cluster words ‘संयुक्ताक्षर’ एवं ‘द्वित्व व्यंजन’ वाले शब्द through PowerPoint presentation. They matched the ‘संयुक्ताक्षर’ एवं ‘द्वित्व व्यंजन’ वाले शब्द. They were introduced to ‘विलोम शब्द’ and played a game on wordwall.net. They also wrote few ‘विलोम शब्द’. They listened to a Hindi story- ‘सात पूँछ का चूहा’ and read Hindi कहानी- ‘सात पूँछ का चूहा’. Later they wrote question-answers based on the above story. During their prep class they practiced ‘संयुक्ताक्षर’ एवं ‘द्वित्व व्यंजन’ वाले शब्द.

They attempted their spell bee based on ‘ओ’ (ो) मात्रा वाले शब्द

Physical Education

Students performed standing broad jump, vertical jumps, tuck jump where they learned the proper technique of jumping such as take-off and landing on both feet, proper arm swing, and follow-through. Students also attempted a formative assessment to display their understanding of the skills of balancing, throwing and kicking the ball on the target.

Dance

This week students started their classes with basic warm up routines focussing on their joint rotations and stretches. Students then learned a new dance routine using the elements of choreography learned in class.

Song – “Thousand years”.

Style – Contemporary

Visual Arts

During the lessons, students learned about the famous artist Wassily Kandinsky. They made their own version of his famous painting of circles, explored colour theory using oil pastels. They created concentric circles with primary colours.

ICT

Students were introduced to Scratch and were briefed about the steps to download the Scratch app into their device. Students learnt the main components of Scratch like sprite, stage and blocks palette. They added a sprite and backdrop to their Scratch project.

Music

As students explore different notes during their music lessons, they incorporated types of notes while playing to enhance playability and their sense of independence.

Students also participated in karaoke singing wherein they sang “Hall of Fame” as a group.

Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

Students watched audio- visuals that persuaded them to be open-minded to understand the meaning of ‘perspective’ in context of others. They reflected on the story by answering various questions like –

What have you understood from the story?
‘We all have different opinions/perspectives’; do you agree with this statement?
Would you like to share any connection that you can make with the story?

During another learning engagement, they viewed an image with optical illusion where everyone had different answers to it. They understood that everyone’s perspective is different and we must respect it.

SEL- Audio visual

Library

The students learned about Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, adopted by the United Nations as a universal call to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.

Given the current Pandemic condition, United Nations is focusing on the SGD-3 ‘ ‘Health and Well Being’ which was discussed in detail with students .

International Mother Language Day:

Mother tongue plays an important role in a child’s overall development, it helps in framing a child’s thinking and emotions. Every year February 21 is celebrated as International Mother Language Day across the world with a purpose to promote linguistic and cultural diversity.

To mark the occasion, a French faculty member was invited to share greetings in French and a story. Students thoroughly enjoyed learning new vocabulary words in French. The session concluded with an interactive discussion and generated a lot of enthusiasm amongst listeners.

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Unit of Inquiry

A summative assessment marked the reflection of student understanding of the ongoing unit on body systems, thus paving the way for the introduction of the new unit with the conceptual lens – processes .

Students were acquainted with the transdisciplinary theme, ‘How we organize ourselves’. A class discussion enabled students to unpack the central idea ‘Foods go through a process of change before they are consumed’, thereby setting the scene for inquiry and provocation . Students identified the source and categorized different food items found in their kitchen into plant and animal sources. A discussion then led them to discuss the journey of food from farm to table.

As a classroom engagement, students identified food items from their breakfast plate and traced back how food found its way to their plates from the farm. Students gained an understanding of various foods during these class discussions. They traced the chosen food item back to its sources and recorded their findings in their journal.

Taking their learning further, students were introduced to the steps involved in farming. To make the learning experience more realistic, the facilitators created a model of a field on a tray and demonstrated the various steps involved in farming. In continuation, students summarised their understanding by sequencing the steps in the correct order and created a flow chart explaining the same.

Students were taken on the virtual tour to understand the journey of strawberry as fruit on the farm to jam on the table.

How yummy jam gets made

Math

Students were introduced to subtraction with regrouping by using a place value mat manipulative and base 10 blocks. Students applied their new understanding to find the difference using the regrouping method (borrowing). Extending their knowledge about subtraction, they practiced subtraction equations. They were introduced to addition and subtraction, 2 step word problems involving money using the R.U.C.S.A.C strategy. They also established a relationship between addition and subtraction as inverse operations.

The concept of vertical subtraction with borrowing was explained on the Whiteboard feature of Teams.

English

Students were introduced to the concept of digraphs. Students enhanced their vocabulary by reading words that begin with the digraph ‘ch’. .

Digraph ‘ch’ can make three different sounds: /ch/ as in the word cherries, /k/ as in the word chemist, and occasionally /sh/ as in the word chef. Later, they sorted the words into parts of speech- nouns, adjectives, and verbs.

Students read a phoneme spotter ‘ch’ sound story to practice recognition of the ‘ch’ sound.

Students were introduced to the concept of verb with a game. The facilitator gave words like a fan, jump, run, sing, table, microphone, pen and asked students to do the action to make them understand that action words are called ‘verbs’. Further class discussions helped them to differentiate between nouns and verbs. After the activity students wrote their understanding of verbs and created a mind map in their journal.

Unit integration:
Students read the book ‘The Little Red Hen’. They sequenced and wrote the steps involved in the journey of wheat from farm to table.

Hindi

During their Hindi classes students listened to a Hindi story- ‘भालू ने खेली फुटबॉल’

भालू ने खेली फुटबॉल

They read the above story and found new words from it. They framed sentences with the words. Students unjumbled words in sentences using an online tool wordwall.net. They talked a minute about their favourite object, toys, and character through- ‘बस एक पल’ activity. They practiced Hindi नाटक- ‘शरीर के अंग’. They read Hindi कहानी- ‘दोस्त की मदद’. During their prep class, they practiced अनुस्वार (ं) और अनुनासिक वाले शब्द (ँ) using a PowerPoint presentation They completed prep sheet on a word file.

They attempted the spell bee based on ‘ऐ’ (ै) मात्रा वाले शब्द.

ICT

Safer Internet Day was celebrated to promote the safe and positive use of digital technology. Students were shown a video to understand the difference between private and personal information. They were made aware of the types of information that should not be shared online with a PowerPoint presentation. They strengthened their understanding of online safety by attempting a quiz.

Visual arts blog

Continuing with their ongoing art activity on ‘still life drawing’, students were shown a visual presentation which was followed by a class discussion that eventually led to an understanding of the observational drawing. Students used a guided drawing and colouring exercise to develop three-dimensional drawings of various fruits based on the concept of still life.

Physical Education

Students practised standing broad jump, vertical jumps tuck jump where they learned about the proper techniques of jump such as take-off and landing on both feet, proper arm swing, and follow-through. Students also attempted a formative assessment to demonstrate their understanding of the skills of balancing, throwing, and kicking the ball to the target.

Dance

Classes began with a detailed warmup routine. Exercises for strength, flexibility, and core were performed or practised. Students were taught the basics and elements of choreography- body, space, time, energy, and action. Choreographic skills were taught with a class routine.
Song:- Thousand years
https://youtu.be/NfTS7gM7zQ0
Style :- Contemporary

Music

The students were assessed on their understanding of note values wherein they were asked to identify and play basic notes. They also sang ‘Hall of Fame’ with a karaoke track to improve the rhythm.

Library

Books are incredible things. They tell stories of superheroes and faraway lands, magical fairies and wicked witches, dragons, princesses, pirates, and more. During the library class, we discussed what exactly constitutes a book To assess students’ understanding of books that they read every day, they attempted a quiz to identify the different parts of a book such as the spine, the cover, the author, the illustrator, the title, the content page, index page, and the glossary.

The quiz included questions about naming the page at the back of the book that has words and their meanings,

who is an illustrator?

what is a glossary?

what information does a blurb contain?

SEL

Students of grade 2 focused on social-awareness skills with perspective-taking as the targeted sub-skill. A video was shown to students to explain the concept of perspective-taking. Students watched the story that guided them to be open-minded and to accept other people’s ideas and perceptions.

A tale of two beasts

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UOI

Students revisited the concept of digestive and respiratory system and discussed about its parts, function and ways to take care of them. They exhibited their understanding by completing a task sheet.

Students were introduced to the internal organs (heart, blood and blood vessels) and function of the circulatory system. The comparison between arteries and veins made them understand how blood flows inside our body. Students inquired about the importance of heart and its role in pumping blood to the lungs and then to all parts of the body. The facilitator conducted an experiment to demonstrate the expansion and contraction of blood vessels as blood circulates through them. Students measured the pumping of their hearts with the pulse and also described the relationship between physical activity and the heart rate. They recognized the need for the maintenance of the body’s strongest muscle, the heart and identified ways to take care of it.

As they progressed, they learned about the parts and function of skeletal system. They explored that skeletal system gives protection, shape and support to our body. It plays a major role in movement, protects the vital organs and makes blood cells too. They learned how calcium rich foods and vitamin D from the sun support strong, healthy bones. Students displayed their critical thinking skills by completing a task sheet that served as a formative assessment of their understanding on circulatory system, its functions and healthy habits.

English

Students’ revisited the concept of story elements. They identified the story characters, setting, problem, solution as well as learned about character traits and author’s purpose in writing the story. They carefully read a story to learn the details and recorded their understanding using a graphic organiser. It provided the students with a framework to identify the elements of a story and organize information and ideas efficiently.

Students learned about the difference between fiction and non-fiction books. There was a discussion about various types of fiction and non-fiction stories.

Students enhanced their writing skills withparagraph writing on winter season. They followed steps by creating a mind map (key words), then describing the key words and further adding details to the description.

Math

Students revisited the concepts of place value, face value, addition with carry over and the use of vocabulary related to subtraction. They practised various subtraction (without borrowing) strategies as part of their reinforcement.

Furthermore, they were introduced to the concept of subtraction using regrouping method. To gain a better understanding, they attempted a few sums with visual representation and used place value mat (hundreds, tens, and ones) from their math kit.

In addition, they solved word problems on subtraction using RUCSAC strategy. They also applied their new understanding to establish a relationship between addition and subtraction.

Hindi

During their Hindi classes students shared their शीतकालीन अनुभव and played a fun game on wordwall.net. They did recap sheet based on संज्ञा, सर्वनाम, क्रिया एवं पर्यायवाची शब्द| They attempted spell bee based on ‘ए’ (े) मात्रा वाले शब्द. They were introduced to विशेषण शब्द witha PowerPoint presentation. They wrote विशेषण शब्द and used them to frame sentences . They revisited गिनती की पुनरावृत्ति १ से १५ तक and further wrote गिनती १६ से २० तक. They listened to a kavita- ‘रंग- बिरंगे गुब्बारे’ and recited it with correct prounciation. They read Hindi नाटक- ‘शरीर के अंग’ and learned vocabulary associated with body parts . During their prep class they practiced ‘ओ’ और ‘औ’ मात्रा वाले शब्द. and poem रंग- बिरंगे गुब्बारे

Dance

During their dance lessons, students performed basic warm up routines that focused on their joint rotation and stretches. They were introduced to the basic stretching and core development exercises to improve muscle felt elasticity. Further, they also learned a new dance routine.

Song:- “Thousand years”.

Style:- Contemporary

Music

Students participated in an interactive session where they were asked a few questions on their previous learning in term I. They also had a listening and singing session, wherein, they enjoyed listening to a rap-rock song “Hall of Fame” and sang it in groups.

Students played poison rhythm a rhythmic game to make the lesson interesting.

Visual Art

During the class, students identified still life drawings. In a guided exercise, still life techniques in painting were demonstrated. This process involved using a unique set of techniques such as smooth shading, blending and creating highlights to make real life art.

Library

Books are incredible things. They tell stories about superheroes and faraway lands, magical fairies and wicked witches, dragons, princesses, pirates, and other characters. However what exactly constitutes a book was discussed in this week’s library class. Together with grade 2, we dissected these different parts of the book with their own physical books in their hands.

The front cover, back cover, spine, title, blurb, author, illustration, illustrator, contents, index and glossary were all discussed.

SEL

Students of grade 2 focused on social-awareness. They watched an audio visual presentation wherein they learned the importance of practicing gratitude in their daily lives. Students made personal gratitude jars using recycled containers. They promised themselves that they would practice gratitude everyday even for small acts of kindness performed by others for them.

Physical Education

The students displayed agency in taking lead to perform different warm up exercises. s They discussed elements and strategies which improve health and performance. They discovered ways to improve explosive strength through varied jumping exercises like standing broad jump, vertical high jump, one leg hopping, high knees and squat jumps. They were taught proper jumping techniques like take-off and landing on both feet as well as proper arm swing and follow through.

ICT

Students were welcomed into Term 2 with a recapitulation of the tools required to create a PowerPoint presentation. They were given a task to create a presentation on different types of body systems. Throughout the process, students enhanced their creative thinking skills.

In the next class, students were introduced to Scratch, a free programming language where one can create their own interactive stories, games, and animations. They were briefed about how to download the Scratch app onto their device.

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Unit of Inquiry

Students demonstrated their critical thinking skills by completing a task sheet that served as a formative assessment of their understanding on body system, its functions and healthy habits. Students identified, labelled the main internal organs of a human body. They associated each internal organ with its functions. In addition, they identified healthy habits for the given scenarios. To further explore the essence of the ongoing unit on ‘body system’, students understood the primary function of each body system and their interconnectedness using audio- visuals.

Students delved deeper into the unit by conducting experiments that allowed them to explore, examine and discover how the digestive systems function.

Students inquired and understood the importance of wellbeing of digestive system and respiratory system using audio- visuals.

Students were introduced to the circulatory system through audio-visuals.

They were able to identify potential consequences of failing to care for the respiratory and digestive systems. Students discussed and came to the conclusion that eating healthy foods, getting regular physical activity, and getting enough sleep are all important components of living a healthy lifestyle.

Students enthusiastically prepared for their unit of inquiry presentation, ‘Pushing Boundaries’. During the journey, they enhanced their communication skills, self-management skills, and organizational skills. Students confidently presented their learning and understanding to their parents.

English – As part of integration with the on going unit of inquiry, students read the book ‘Know Your Body’ and satisfied student’s natural curiosity about what goes on under the skin.

Math

Students were introduced to the concept of subtraction and they discussed vocabulary related to subtraction, symbol used for subtraction and its application in real world.

Furthermore, they learned about various strategies used in subtraction. Students learned about working on a number line using graph paper and counting backwards and number grid from math kit.

To gain a better understanding, they attempted a few sums with visual representation and used place value blocks (hundreds, tens, and ones) on class note books. In addition, students used the counting on and counting back strategy to solve an unknown-addend problem.

Students practised various subtraction strategies as part of their reinforcement.

Hindi

During their Hindi classes they answered questions from the story ‘दशहरे का मेला’ using Microsoft Forms. They were introduced to पर्यायवाची शब्द where they wrote a few पर्यायवाची शब्द. After watching Hindi story ‘जज कैप्सूल की अदालत’ they discussed their understanding about the story.

जज कैप्सूल की अदालत

They sequenced the events of the story in correct order. They read Hindi story ‘उँगलियों की लड़ाई’.

Music – As it was the last session of the term, students in grade 2 had a fun class where they sang their favorite songs and played various games (i.e. floor is lava, dance freeze, and poison rhythm).They also played different instruments as accompaniments for a Christmas carol.

Visual Art – Students focused on compositional skill for celebration themes, the emphasis was given to create compelling, expressive worksfor Christmas and New Year. They applied their understanding for the placement of objects within the picture plane.

ICT – ICT lessons began with recapitulation of the basic tools required to create a PowerPoint presentation. The students progressed in their learning journey and learned to add transitions and animations to their slides while creating a PowerPoint presentation on the unit on human body systems.

Dance – Students executed warm up which helped them to hone their motor skills and the agility based movements. Students were introduced to the basic stretching and core development exercises. They also learnt coordinating hand patterns and basic foot movement by correlating counts to the rhythm of music.

A new Christmas dance routine was introduced.

Library – With Christmas around the corner, students were acquainted with the traditions and beliefs about its celebrations across various continents like Australia, Europe, Asia, and North America. Students were apprised about some unique Christmas traditions like that of summer celebrations in Australia, Epiphany in Spain, a Buddhist monk dressed as Santa Claus for a Japanese Christmas, and purchase of poinsettia in Mexico.

To understand the joy of giving this Christmas, a short story about sharing and togetherness ‘Festive Feast’ was narrated to students. The story started when there was a power cut on Christmas Day. It looked like Orla and her neighbours had nothing to eat, but the entire neighbourhood came together to share what they had, Everyone in the community brought something from their home and they enjoyed a festive feast from countries around the world like fried chicken from Japan, tamales from Costa Rica, cookies from Poland, gingerbread biscuits from the UK, saffron buns from Sweden and fruitcake from the US.

This story encouraged children to think about love and kindness at Christmas and it also informed them about traditional Christmas foods from countries around the world.

To get everyone into the Christmas spirit, students played a fun and interactive ‘Guess the picture Christmas game,’ in which they had to guess the mystery object from a close-up image. They enjoyed playing this exciting and challenging Christmas quiz.

PHE – Students started the class with dance warm up. Stretching exercises helped students improve their flexibility. By performing spot jumps, students improved their understanding of the proper form for jumping with both feet and landing on the ball of the foot. Students also practised various yoga asanas to improve their body’s balance and strength.

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UOI: Students tuned into the new unit under the transdisciplinary theme ‘Who we are’ with the central idea being that ‘The functioning of our body systems contributes to our wellbeing’

Lines of Inquiry and Key concepts:

Our body systems
Functioning of our body systems
Ways in which we can aid the well-being of our body systems

Students identified and labelled the external and internal human body parts using online worksheets to learn about location of important organs in their bodies. They explored, inquired and investigated body systems. They investigated various systems by reading The busy body book by Lizzy Rockwell.

Students inquired about the digestive system by discussing the path of food and how it travels in our bodies while watching a visual presentation. They documented their findings in process journals. To further their understanding about digestive system, students were shown an experiment that allowed them to discover it’s working.

Students learned about the respiratory system, its structure, and how it works by performing simple experiments like breathing exercises and observing fogging on a mirror while exhaling on it. A discussion on the mechanics of breathing followed. They read an article on lungs: https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/lung/353400 and were shown the different parts of the respiratory system. They connected learning engagements to the key concepts of form and function.

English- Unit integration- Students identified the liver, brain, and the heart after reading a poem about body systems. They determined the location of these internal organs within the human body.

Students read ‘The Bone Puzzle’ and made a story element map. They chose a character from the story and wrote its characteristics (what makes them special). They filled in the events to elaborate on beginning, middle, and end based on the author’s purpose.

Students were introduced to the term adjectives. They used different objects like a toy and an orange to write describing words related to them. They used all the five senses to describe the fruit orange. They created a chart of all the adjectives used in their journals.

Math- Students identified, compared, and contrasted 2D and 3D shapes in their journals by drawing a Venn diagram. They took a 3D shaped object and traced it by observing the results to determine which 2D shape it resembled. Students drew a square and a rectangle with the given dimensions on graph paper. They compared shapes to real-world objects.

Students attempted a formative assessment on the concept of shapes and reflected on problem-solving scenarios.

Students tuned into the concept of measurement by estimating and measuring the actual length of objects. They identified and described standard units of measurement (length). They matched the appropriate tool with the correct unit of measurement (length). In their math journals or on graph paper, they drew line segments of the given measurement with a ruler. They understood the connection between the numbers of squares used in the measurement of that line segment.

Students compared and estimated the length by learning and listing the precautions needed when drawing a line segment.

Hindi: During their Hindi classes, they made sentences with a few words and wrote question answers based on the story ‘दशहरे का मेला’. They were introduced ‘रेफ़ और पदेन’ वाले शब्द.They also made T-chart and segregated ‘रेफ़ और पदेन’ वाले शब्द from the list given. They attempted their formative assessment on crosswords of ‘पदेन’ वाले शब्द.They also listened to a Hindi story ‘जज कैप्सूल की अदालत’जज कैप्सूल की अदालत

ICT-Students began their ICT lesson by reviewing the tools needed to create a PowerPoint presentation. They learned how to incorporate shapes and 3D models into their presentations. They were delighted to add design to their slides via the design tab and the design ideas tool.

In another class students observed coding week, also known as ‘Hour of Code.’ The primary objective of an ‘hour of code’ is to teach students computer science for at least one hour. There was a wide range of hour-long coding lessons and activities from which students learned the fundamentals of coding. Students participated in coding games in which they arranged blocks of code to complete an assigned task.

PHE- During their PHE lesson, students performed a variety of calisthenics exercises to music, which helped to strengthen various muscles in their body. They completed a fun online workout that helps them improve their motor skills and eye-hand coordination. On campus, they learned basketball handling and throwing techniques. Following the session, students discussed their experiences and learning. These exercises helped them to relax and become more energetic.

MUSIC- The students learned more about note values and were introduced to the eighth note and its significance. They also took part in a listening session in which they learned the Christmas carol “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.” They also played a fun called Dance is lava to make the lesson interesting.

DANCE

Students executed warm up which helped them to hone their motor skills and the agility based movements.

o Squat

o Squat Jump

o Squat jump and turn

Students were also introduced to the basic stretching and core development exercises.

They also learnt coordinating hand patterns and basic foot movement by correlating counts to the rhythm of music.

Students learnt and discussed the importance of dance exercises and how it contributes to the wellbeing of their body.

ART- For Visual art lessons, students explored the concept of art composition through an observational exercise on Warli traditional painting style. They explored lines and shapes used in this style of painting and created artworks utilising them.

LIBRARY- Our names are an extremely important part of who we are. They have strong personal, cultural, familial, and historical ties. With this in mind, students read aloud ‘The Name Jar’ during their library class. Unhei, a young Korean girl, moved to America with her family and, upon arriving at a new school, began to wonder if she should choose a new name for herself.

The Name Jar’ encouraged students to consider the origin of their own names. Students were tasked with investigating how their name represents their identity. How confident they are in their names, what their names mean, why their parents chose this name for them, and if anyone has purposefully mispronounced their name, how did they feel about it?

Students then discussed it with their parents and returned with lovely stories about their names to share with the rest of the class. Some had their names chosen by grandparents, while many others received them from a Hindu priest. Despite the fact that their names were frequently mispronounced due to their uniqueness, no one desired to change their names, and each of them was content with the name chosen by their parents and took pride in having such lovely names.

SEL

Students of grade 2 gathered an understanding of social awareness. They
reflected upon the different social awareness sub-skills such as empathy, kindness and respect for others and shared their learnings about how they would implement them in the future. They made a table to enlist them.

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Unit of Inquiry

UOI – Students continued with their ongoing unit of inquiry on ‘exploration’ by inquiring about the various reasons for explorations under the ocean and the sea. They watched audio-visuals and reflected on their understanding.

Following links were used

Later, students listed the various reasons for explorations in seas and oceans and compared them with the possible reasons in past and at present.

While approaching towards the end of the unit, recapitulation of all the topics was taken up in the classes. Students attempted an activity when they were sent to breakout rooms to discuss the systems followed at the airport, home and school. Later, they wrote their understanding on the Google Jam board.

English – The concept of diary entry was recapitulated in class where students read a book named ‘Curious George goes to an Ice-cream Parlour’ and later wrote a diary entry as George using appropriate pronouns.

Formative assessment was undertaken of the 2^nd and the 3^rd line of inquiry in the form of take and talk. A rubric was used to assess students. They expressed their understanding of old and modern systems of navigation.

Math- Students attempted a formative assessment on solving word problems using the R.U.C.S.A.C strategy on class notebook. They implicitly developed their critical thinking skills by breaking down knowledge into components to demonstrate their understanding of solving addition word problems using appropriate statements.

Another formative assessment was undertaken on addition using varied strategies wherein students displayed their thinking skills to solve it independently.

Students were introduced to a new concept about ‘Calendar’ with questions like-

How did you join the meeting?
Which feature of teams appraises you about the date and time of your classes and special events?
How do you know if your birthday falls on a weekend or weekday?
How do you come to know on which date Christmas will be celebrated?
What is the first thing you do when you have to plan a vacation?

The above questions guided them to the main topic ‘Calendar’. Then they wrote down the names of months in a year. They also wrote the number of days in a month and the names of the days in the week.

Moving further, they figured out the importance of using a calendar and how it helps us in our daily life. Further, they learned about yearly, monthly, weekly and daily calendars along with the differences among them. As practice, they attempted a tasksheet on the class notebook.

Students tuned into the concept of shapes wherein they identified the common 2D shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle) in their immediate environment and illustrated the same in their journals. They distinguished and expressed the distinct characteristics of the shapes as prior knowledge assessment.

Hindi – During Hindi classes, students listened to a story ‘बस की नीचे बाघ’ and predicted the end of the story. They completed their summative assessment based on the story titled मेरे पलंग के नीचे’ They read a poem ‘हमारा तिरंगा’ . They also read a story titled दशहरे का मेला and attempted a task to sequence the events of the story in the correct order. Students attempted a spell bee of मात्रा ‘उ’.

बस के नीचे बाघ

Music – The students were assessed on their understanding of note values, wherein they all played and differentiated different notes individually. They also participated in a fun game ‘dance freeze’ to make the lesson interesting.

Dance –Students executed warm-up which helped them to hone their motor skills and agility based movements. Students were introduced to the basic stretching and core development exercises. They also learned to coordinate hand patterns and basic foot movement by correlating counts to the rhythm of the music.

A new dance routine has been introduced on the song: This is me.

Visual Art – The students explored the easy and enjoyable drawing of cartoon characters and from there they moved forward and learned how to draw facial expressions and convey convincing emotions via guided exercise.

PHE – Students warmed up with dance and then did stretching exercises such as side bends, lunges, neck stretches, down dog pose, forward/backward bends, tree pose, and so on to improve muscle strength and flexibility. Also, students played a green light red light game to improve their reaction ability.

ICT – ICT lessons began with an introduction to the digital footprint that refers to the impression you create on the internet through your online activities which includes browsing, interaction with others and publication of content. Students understood the meaning and importance of digital footprint through a video and discussed the guidelines to manage their digital footprint by staying responsible and respectful online.

Students were introduced to PowerPoint that allows users to create visual presentations comprised of individual slides. They learned to open, create and save a presentation. They also learned to add slides and images to their presentation.

Library – Every name has a story behind it. The lesson allowed students to think about the story behind their names. The class began by reading aloud a story about a young Korean girl, Unhei, who moved to America with her family and when she arrived at a new school, she began to wonder if she should also choose a new name. ‘The Name Jar’ explored questions about difference, identity, self-acceptance and open-mindedness.

At first, Unhei was teased about her name by children on the school bus and she became afraid to share her name with her classmates. It also made her feel self-conscious about her differences from the other kids. Unhei discovered that her classmates were much nicer, and they made her feel welcome and at ease with sharing her name and culture.

The Name Jar was a delightful narrative that demonstrated the warm and welcoming spirit of the school and fostered an environment of acceptance and open-mindedness toward a diverse group of students.

Students will discuss the story behind their names with their parents to learn the meaning of their name, the reason for this name, the origin of their nameIf their names come from Sanskrit, Hindi, English or another language?

Has anyone ever purposefully mispronounced their name, and how did they react?
If they were to move to another country, would they prefer to change their name or keep their current name?

Students will record a video of themselves on flipgrid responding to the questions posed to them; this will be discussed during the upcoming library lesson.

SEL – Students of grade 2 focused on social-awareness skills whereby they filled their kindness bucket with different acts of kindness displayed by them during Diwali break. Students donated clothes, food, toys and books to the underprivileged and showed deep insight into kindness. They also shared their emotions after having such experiences. Most of the students were filled with joy and happiness.