Welcome to the 2019-2020 school year. We are delighted to have your child join our PS2 community and look forward to a fun-filled and fulfilling year of exploration and inquiry. The first two weeks were smooth and very enjoyable. All the students were quick to settle in and eager to play with their new friends in their new classroom. They have been able to meet and spend time with the teachers for PE, Music,Uzbek Cultural Studies, Art, and Russian, and are learning about our community of friends here at TIS. UOI: This week the students were introduced to our first Unit of Inquiry which falls under the transdisciplinary theme Who We Are. The Central Idea is “Health and well-being shape relationships, learning and growth”. The Lines of Inquiry which will be guiding our learning are:
Within the Unit of Inquiry, the students will work to establish their own routines, guidelines for acceptable behavior and consequences, with the teachers taking cues from the children’s behavior. Our main focus will be to develop the idea of how our choices help to build our learning environment and how they can affect our class community with either positive or negative outcomes. We will explore a variety of different types of games from around the world in order to reinforce social skills such as sharing, taking turns, cooperating, collaborating and developing self-management and problem solving skills. As our inquiry centers on relationships, learning and growth, we began our unit by talking about how our choices can influence our class community. As a provocation, the teachers acted out a scenario in order to encourage the students to consider how their choices might affect others and whether the choices they make are wise or not. The students discussed and brainstormed some sensible choices that might help us build a friendly learning environment. Together, we came up with some classroom routines and agreements which will be used throughout the year. To support this inquiry, we would very much appreciate it if you could talk to your child about wise and unwise choices at home as appropriate. Thus far we have agreed that:
Some Reminders
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