Inukshuk Building

Pictures of students building their plasticine inukshuks. Please send in any empty egg cartons you have to help us build the next part to our arctic landscapes: igloos! 

Arctic Animals

Throughout the week, we have been talking about, watching and reading about the animals that live in the Arctic. Yesterday and today, students did a phenomenal job of drawing those animals.

After reading the book, A Promise is a Promise by Robert Munsch, we talked about what animals live under the ice and which animals live above - and those that live in both environments! 

Students had to plan out their pictures and spent time accurately drawing arctic animals of their choice. Today, we worked on using pastels to add colours. The art looks incredible! 

Becoming Arctic Researchers

Students are beginning a research project on an Arctic animal. They had a choice of what animal they would like to study. Choices have included polar bears, harp seals, arctic fox, killer whales and the snowy owl. We have created brainstorming webs. The students had to think of all the questions they wanted to answer about their animal. TOday, we learned how to look for information in a non-fiction book. Students have started recording their findings on their web as well.

In math, we learned a new strategy for addition: doubles plus one. This helps us for questions like 6 +7 - we know that 6 +6 is 12 and one more is 13! We will keep practicing this strategy tomorrow.

Adding doubles and Writing about what we know

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!

Happy New Year!

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.

 

Wrapping Paper and Math games

Students started the day by joining in Christmas Carol singing with the school. This will continue over the next three days. It was a great way to start the day!

We worked on a great writing project: The night Santa got stuck in the chimney. In math, students practiced their addition by completing a math christmas tree and then having a choice of math games to play.

This afternoon we brought out the paint and made some beautiful wrapping paper!

What we did today at math

We played a game and me and Chris were playing. First I won then when it was almost time to go we had a tie so it was kind of fair. Cadence

We had fun at math today! I worked with Adrianna and we both had the same amount.  Elysse

At math, me and Sofia tied and then we played again and we got the same numbers. Shauntae

Me and Shauntae were playing and we got the same numbers from the dominoes. Sofia

Me and Erdas, when we were playing the domino game I would keep on winning! Kaleb

We had lots of fun doing math! Declan

We were practicing how to play a new game. Erdas

We had lots of fun today and its almost home time so is the end? Daryan

The game was called 'End to End'. Brandi

In math, me and Daryan were missing one tile so we looked everywhere and then we couldn't find it so we just put the tiles away. Hope