This week the children began to sort the various ways to communicate and began using the terms "verbal" and "non-verbal" communication. We also played games and enjoyed special talks by Ms. TIna, who taught the Grade 2 classes some American Sign Language. Ms. Linda and Ms. Song shared their experiences of learning English and also some Mandarin Sign Language. We were lucky to have Julien's mum, Marie Pascale, visit to share her family's experiences with communicating in new places and with using new languages. A common theme was remembering why we want to communicate and learn new languages- both Ms. Linda and Marie Pascale wanted to travel and meet new people. Also, they told us to remember to keep trying, not give up and show respect for other people's cultures when we meet them. Xie, xie and Merci bien to all the speakers. The children used their own communication skills when they shared their beautiful family trees with a partner. They explained their own tree and asked questions about their partner's. We found out lots about each other through this exercise- some people have family who live in Brazil, some have younger siblings around the same age, some of their parents are the oldest/youngest, Ms. Nisah loves cats etc.. Finally, in UOI we explored how we can make friends and what makes a good friend. One idea was teaching something to other people and Yuuki took action by asking to teach us a game called "Splash". This is something we will continue throughout the year so all volunteers, students and parents, are welcome. In Literacy we explored how we can use our senses to help us learn new words by tracing the word, letter by letter on our backs.
The children also developed their listening skills when they heard Mrs. Vaughan recount a personal story about miscommunication. In small groups, the children listened out for particular parts of speech (Nouns, Pronouns, Past tense verbs and Time words) and added them to their respective posters. We began connecting our learning by using Charades (non-verbal communication) to make a Character (Nouns) List for narrative writing. We also continued to develop our sequencing and collaborative skills by working in a group to first order and then write each stage of a simple recount. In our Maths learning this week, they reflected on things they enjoy in maths during Maths Writing and consolidated their skills in comparing numbers and making 10. We made connections to how knowing how to make 10, can help us make 100, 1000...The children practised adding and subtracting 10 from various starting numbers. They soon spotted the pattern and saw that only the hundreds or tens digit changed while the unit digit remained the same.
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