viernes, 14 de diciembre de 2007

An Inquiry into: Water




Water is the most precious resource nature gives us. Second grade students were learning about its importance, its different uses, and what they can create with it. In this way, they discovered many things and the most exciting activity was playing music with water. Each student brought a glass bottle, they joined in groups and poured different amount of water in each bottle. After that, they were able to identify which bottle made a high or low sound and played "Mary had a little lamb". Students were working this theme in English they learnt songs, poems, stories, compound words, water cycle, and vocabulary related with the theme. In Spanish they were making their acrostics, investigating root words, they created their story about Water Cycle and many more things. Students are able to identify who is a good thinker, inquirer, communicator, open - minded, caring, risk-taker, knowledgable...


viernes, 7 de diciembre de 2007



Planets and everything we can find in the space is a theme every child enjoys learning. That’s why 2nd grade Dolphins was searching some information about their favourite planet , they worked hard on it. Some made amazing models or wonderful posters about their favourite planet. They enjoyed investigating, learning, and were anxious for sharing what they have learnt with their classmates. Let’s see what they did!