Semester 2 Week 5 Newsletter- Grade 2

Semester 2 Week 5 Newsletter- Grade 2

(March 12th - March 17th)

This Past Week’s Events

This past week was a busy one in Grade 2! We continued to learn about the growth of plants from seeds into flowers and more. Students began to learn about nouns and verbs and even adjectives, and how to identify them and use them in making sentences. We continued to learn to how to write about our growing plants and describe what we see. This week concludes our unit on plants!

Next Week’s Expectations

Next week, we will be starting a brand new unit about our senses. There will be some challenging words and concepts involved! We will begin with discussing our sense of sight and hearing. We will introduce the use of certain past tense words that students can use when describing what they did on their weekend. These words include:

saw, ate, came, went, watched, played, slept, woke, wrote

Key Words:

eyes see ears hear

senses listen use sound

Some related words your child might want to use are:

sight loud quiet bright dark silence vision

Key Social Conventions

1. What do people use to _____?

People use _____ to _____ (verb).

What do people use to see?

People use eyes to see.

2. What doyou see? vs What did you see? (present simple vs past tense)

I ____ a plant. vs I ____ a plant.

I see a plant. vs I saw a plant.

Homework

A: This Feels

B: Gracie’s Nose

D: What Do You See?
D: Senses

Raz-Kids Recording

This semester, teachers will award Raz-Kids Readers of the Week, every Friday. These students will be especially recognized by the teacher and have their best weekly recording played to the class. This will give the other students in the classroom an opportunity to hear their peers read. Stars will also be awarded to the weekly Raz-Kids readers to promote reading at home. Teachers will also begin to award stars to the students’ recordings as well.

Weekend Recount of Events

Teachers find it important for students to have the opportunity to practise free writing outside of the curriculum expectations. Therefore, students are encouraged to complete a diary entry to write about their weekend (recount writing). Students may write their diary in their homework book after completing Raz-Kids. This diary writing may include fun activities and interesting foods or places they visited. Please encourage your child to use social conventions and details to describe events. The ongoing practice of correctly using capital letters, punctuation marks, sentence structure and tenses is valuable to their learning progress.

Sincerely,

The Grade 2 Teachers

光仁小學ESL雙語班週報- 二年級

第二學期第五週

本週(03/12~03/17)

本週，是二年級學生非常忙碌的一週。我們繼續學習了植物的成長，從種子到花朵以及更多東西。學生開始學習名詞及動詞，甚至是形容詞，及如何辨別它們，並用它們來造句。我們繼續學習如何描述我們所栽種且正在成長中的植物，並且描述我們所看到的。這週我們也結束了植物這個單元。

下週(03/19~03/23)

下週，我們將開始一個全新的單元—我們的感官。這將會涵蓋一些具有挑戰性的單字及概念！我們將會以討論我們的視覺及聽覺作為開始。我們也會介紹一些過去式的單字，讓他們能夠在描述週末所做的事時使用。這些單字包括:

看、吃、來、去、看(電視、電影)、玩、睡、醒來、書寫等。

Key Words主題字彙

eyes眼睛 see看 ears耳朵 hear 聽見

senses感覺 listen聽 use使用 sound聲音

您的孩子可能會使用到的一些相關字彙:

sight視覺 loud大聲的 quiet安靜的 bright明亮的

dark黑暗的 silence靜默 vision目光

Key Social Conventions主要相關句型

1. What do people use to _____?

人們用什麼來_____?

People use _____ to _____ (verb).

人們用_____來______(動詞)。

What do people use to see?

人們用什麼來看?

People use eyes to see.

人們用眼睛來看。

2. What do you see? vs What did you see? (present simple vs past tense)

你看到什麼?(現在) vs 你看到什麼?(過去) (現在簡單式vs 過去式)

I ____ a plant. vs I ____ a plant.

我_____一株植物。vs 我_____一株植物。

I see a plant. vs I saw a plant.

我看到一株植物(現在)。vs 我看到一株植物(過去)。

Homework回家作業

等級A: This Feels

等級B: Gracie’s Nose

等級D: What Do You See?
等級D: Senses

Raz-Kids Recording閱讀錄音:

這學期，老師會在每週五表揚兩位當週最佳Raz Kids小讀者。這些學生會受到老師特別表揚，並將他們的錄音作為本週最佳錄音播放給全班共賞。此舉可以給班上其他學生一個機會，聆聽同學的閱讀。星星獎勵會同樣獎勵給本週最佳Raz- Kids小讀者，以推廣在家閱讀。老師們同樣會開始以給星星的方式獎勵有錄音的學生。

回顧式週末作業:

老師們發現對於學生能有機會在課後自由的練習書寫是重要的。因此，我們鼓勵學生完成週末的日記(回顧式寫作)。學生可以在完成Raz-Kids作業後，在作業本裡書寫日記。此日記寫作可以包含好玩的活動、有趣的食物及造訪的地方等。請鼓勵您的孩子使用主要相關句型並詳細的描述事件。這項持續性的練習將包含練習使用大寫字母、標點符號、句子結構和時態，這在他們的學習進程上是很寶貴的。

誠摯地，

二年級老師