We have been continuing with our Daily 5 literacy rotations this week. Students have done a phenomenol job completing their independent activities, allowing one-on-one teacher time to occur.
Today in math, we reviewed adding doubles. Students should be able to automatically state the answers to doubles: 1+1, 2+2 etc. This will become more important as we move into harder addition problems next week. Today, we drew and painted pictures to help us recall these facts.
We also brainstormed about writing about what we know. Students were challenged to think about something that happened to them today at school. They then had to draw incredibly detailed pictures and start writing about them. We learned how writing about what you know can develop into exciting stories!
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday.
January will be a busy month in grade 2! As always, there is lots going on!
In math, we are beginning our focus on addition and subtraction. Over the next few weeks, students will be practicing different stratgies for adding and subtracting numbers up to 18. Today, we began by working on a group problem and then practiced playing ten-frame games. Recignizing numbers and number combinations is an important skill.
We also started talking about the Arctic and Nunavut. Our next Social Studies unit will take us to an Inuit Community. Students had to brainstorm and draw pictures of what they already knew about this topic. We then used Google maps to locate where Iqualit is.
