This week, we benefitted and contributed to our community in various ways. We also made connections between our prior knowledge and learning and our upcoming unit. Our school community at Paterson campus came together on Tuesday morning to celebrate World Kindness Day. Students and teachers shared smiles, kind words and some food. Back in class we thought about ways we could show kindness. The children also began tuning in to our next unit by adding messages to the art displayed around school. They chose pieces and wrote a short note to the artist, saying what they liked about it or how it made them feel. We will continue to interact with and add to our school displays. Grade 2 later supported and learnt from a student at the High School, when we visited Preston to see a weather station that was built and set up by a current student. Daffa, talked to us about the equipment and showed us the data it collected. This connected well with our learning about the Water Cycle, measurement and data collection. He made this interactive by creating a quiz and the children enjoyed their time at Preston, sketching and being in a "grown-up" classroom. Within our class community, the children collaborated to create a simple picture book, inspired by "It Looked Like Spilt Milk", by Charles G. Shaw. The book is about the different ways that clouds can appear and be interpreted. They created their own clouds and used the structure of the story to describe what it looked like. To further explore perspectives, they each commented on their own and each other's ink paintings (made while exploring how liquids move), by describing what they saw in the picture. Later in the week, the children discussed and then sorted simple images. It was great to hear them make connections and explain sorting as "putting similar things into groups, like we did with solids, liquids and gases." They used the new terms; symbols, signs and logos and two main groups appeared from these images, defined by the class as: Public Signs- they give information to people to help them and keep them safe. Signs or Logos- they tell us about things that we can buy to try and persuade us. Finally, we supported our wider Singapore community by inviting the author, Matthew Cooper, to lead a session with our Grade 2 and 3 classes. Matthew talked about the writing process, read one of his books, "Lost in Singapore" and generally engaged the children in an interesting discussion about animals, Singapore, transport, literary choices and history!
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