Pathways World School, Aravali, Grade 2 : Our Learning Journey

A New Beginning

To start with the students took time to familiarize with the routines and procedures in the class by forming Essential Agreements. They went through a goal setting exercise during which they set short term goals for themselves. The students also articulated the Learner Profile. Last but not the least they made some new friends and shared the experiences they had during their vacation.

Mathematics

We started off with a revision of concepts completed in Grade 1. The concepts of Place Value, Number Names for 3-digit numbers, Ordering and comparing of numbers and Rounding Off of 2-digit numbers to the nearest 10 were taken forward.

Place Value using the Place Value Kit

The students were introduced to Tally Marks, Frequency Table and Bar Graph. They also enjoyed conducting a survey about the various choices of their friends and created the Frequency Table.

Tally marks using colour pencils!!

English

We started off with revision of vowels and consonants. The students also read and attempted comprehension tasks. We went on to learning of the arrangement of words in alphabetical order which led to the introduction of Dictionary. Rhyming words were also introduced, leading to children writing couplets and short rhyming poems.

Literacy Week
(9^th September to 13^th September)

'Celebrating Authors' was the theme for Literacy Week this year. Students conducted a lot of research on Dr.Seuss and his writing style. They donned their creative hats and became authors in order to write a short story of their own.

Our 'Student Authors' Writing Their Own stories

Ms.Malini Ghosh, Grade 3 and 4 Coordinator, sharing her favorite story during the story session

Story-time in Hindi

Students dressed up as their favorite characters from Dr.Suess books

Nouns - Common Nouns and Proper Nouns

Tuning in for Proper Nouns was done through a “Gallery Walk”. Students were introduced to Proper Nouns and Common Nouns.

Unit of Inquiry

Tuning In

Students were given inanimate objects to compare with human body. This led to the introduction to Central Idea - Human Body. Through this task they also utilized their skill of comparing and working with a Venn diagram!

Prior Knowledge Assessment

Students wrote what they knew about the Human body on a post-it through the “Lightning Writing” strategy. Thereafter “Chatterbox” – a pairing activity was used to give students a chance to ask their partner three things that they want to know about the Human Body. They also wrote the three things they already knew about.

Tuning In

First Line of Inquiry – Our Body Systems

Students were given Jigsaw puzzles of different body systems to be solved. This was followed by a video, “A Journey into the Human Body”

Tuning In

Second Line of Inquiry – Functions of Body Systems

The first system discussed was “Digestive System”, where students were asked to eat a slice of apple and trace its path.

The students enjoyed learning about Muscular, Skeletal, Respiratory, Nervous and Circulatory System in different interesting ways; by fixing the skeletal cut-outs together, jogging on the spot and breathing exercises, thinking about their favorite activity and the command brain gives them at that time.