October 19th - 23rd
Hello Room 17! Another busy week has come and gone in the grade 2 classroom. The students have been busy preparing their Acorn Art fundraising pages to come home next week and also completing a wintery scene to enter the contest to maybe chosen as the artwork for the Minster of Health's Christmas cards! The students were able to create some very amazing art pieces that they look forward to sharing with you!
In Writing, we have been working on adding more details to our writing and have recently typed out a good copy, using our Google Drive accounts, a piece entitled the Best Part of Me. The students had to choose a body part and then try to think of all the important reasons why that body part was important to them. We also tried to use a simile to compare that body part to something else using "like" or "as". The students will next be using their writing talents to create a piece on a scarecrow that they have created.
In Mathematics, we continue to work on fact families and seeing and understanding the relationship between adding and subtracting sets of numbers. Students are also gaining the understanding that when adding the order of the numbers does not effect the sum total, but when subtracting the bigger number has to be put first in order to subtract whole numbers.
In Science, we have explored the world of worms and also bees in our studies of small, crawling and flying animals. Students learned how worms and bees are both helpful towards humans and both provide us with different needs. Worms give us rich soil by moving through the soil and bees provide us with honey and also pollination of plants.
In Social Studies, we have virtually "flown" to Iqaluit, the northern community located in the Nunavut territory. We have been looking at the landscape and also what they building look like and why many are built up on stilts because of the frozen permafrost on the ground. We will be looking at the first people her, the Inuit, and their language and culture too.
A few reminders before the start of the next week. If students need retakes for pictures on Monday, you need to email me to let me know this. Students need to be in their formal uniforms for Monday and on Thursday it is a half day because of Parent Teacher Interviews. If students want to dress up on Thursday to celebrate Halloween, they need to come dressed on the bus and are allowed to bring a small treat only for themselves, not for their classmates. As Thursday night is Parent Teacher conferences and a reminder that they are being done virtually via Microsoft Team Meetings. Friday there is no school as there is a Professional Development day. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and see you tomorrow!