April 2026 - Grade 2

Second Grade

Mr. Davydov

Ms. Salmon

Ms. Johnson

🪻APRIL 2026🪻

Unit of Inquiry

Unit Theme: How we Express Ourselves

Description: An inquiry into different ways of expressing oneself and examining women's history in various timelines.

Central Idea: People’s ideas and actions have an impact.

Lines of Inquiry:

1) People, communities, and natural systems are connected and influence each other over time. (connection)

2) How people’s actions, inventions, and natural events cause changes in communities and the environment (causation)

3) People’s ideas, actions, and experiences can be understood differently depending on perspective and context (perspective)

Unit Description

Specified Concepts

Perspective: Students are responsible for expressing their perspective. In math students share their best strategy and evaluate their peer math strategies and explain which is the most effective and why.

Connection: Students are thinking about how learning connects to real life and across subjects.

Causation: Students focus on investigations and students are responsible for explaining why things are changing. Students can also use this in math.

Approaches to Learning

Research- Students will research different community members using a variety of media. They will gather information by watching videos, reading books, and viewing interviews with community members. Students will take organized notes to record important facts and deepen their understanding and discuss with their partners.

Thinking- Students will use their thinking skills to make sense of the information they learn about different time periods. They will participate in chalk talks and gallery walks to analyze ideas, pictures, make connections, and build new understanding.

Learner Profile Attributes: Communicators, reflective, responsibility.

Students analyzed pictures from time periods to determine changes and what caused that change to happen. In addition, they focused on showing representations of events using color, symbol, and image. This allows students to examine feelings of those involved and consider perspectives and thoughts of those people.

2A's IB Wall that Includes Women's History Month Posters & Earth Day Projects

Language Policy

All teachers in Our World Neighborhood Charter Schools are language teachers. We believe language is the key to all learning. Language learning is a lifelong process and essential in developing interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. Furthermore, we believe that all students should have the opportunity to learn multiple languages and that home languages should be honored.

This month of October, we focused on teaching students greetings in different languages, such as Italian, German, and Japanese. In November, students will receive the opportunity to give a presentation to a different class in regards to what they have learned with these specific greetings and reflect on their importance.

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