Mrs. Bradley's Grade 2
We have been exploring adding doubles as a way to learn our basic facts. We started the week with a catchy tune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUprfk7UWNA We practiced our facts with a game called Twin Bump. After playing this game, we had to invent our own game to practice adding doubles. Everyone worked really hard to make a game that was fun and helped us learn our addition facts. We also did some problem solving. Our next step will be adding "near doubles" or "doubles plus one".
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A huge thank you to everyone who made it possible for us to go to Arts Commons last week. Our program was designed to enrich our learning about the Acadian and Inuit cultures. We started our day with a lesson on Acadian dancing. There was a lot of stomping and twirling. In the afternoon, we impressed our instructor with our knowledge of the Canadian Arctic. We looked at examples of Art from Inuit artists and then used printmaking to create our own Arctic inspired Art. Here's what we did: First, we covered our page in water. Lots and lots of water! Second, we painted the Northern Lights all over our page. We added salt to make them sparkle! Third, we drew patterns on one side of a styrofoam container and an Inukshuk or animal on the other side. ![]() Then we used these images to make prints. We were shocked when our instructor asked us to rip the prints we had just made to create the landscape! Finally, we glued all our pieces together to create our colorful arctic art!
Foxes and Owls and wolves, oh my! We have been working hard over the past few weeks to write Legends about an animal from one either an Arctic, Prairie or Acadian community. We started the process by discussing what we already know about legends. We read many legends when we were learning about the First Nations people. We then moved on and began our planning. We all started with the same sentences to get us started. It took us many days to finish all our planning. We had to come up with a story about how an animal got it's special quality. Here are some ideas we came up with: -How the wolf got it's howl. -How the fox got it's orange color. -How the otter got it's tail. -How the bison got it's horns. -How the owl got it's talons. -How the wolf got it's sharp teeth. -How the whale got it's size. After we did all our planning, we started to write. We read "The Legend of the Beaver's Tail" to help us get started. We used the beginning of this book to help us with our legends:
Long ago, (insert your animal here) did not look like he/she does today. Our legends are coming along beautifully. We're almost done editing them and creating our good copy in the form of a book. The finished product will be posted soon! Fact Families were introduced this week. Students are learning how addition and subtraction are related and how changing the order of the numbers can turn an addition sentence into a subtraction sentence. We've been practicing our skills with dice games and the very popular "Math Bracelets". (Otherwise known as beads on a pipe cleaner ;) Please challenge your child to tell you all the fact families they can make with their "Math Bracelet". It's a great way to practice basic facts!
The Grade 2s have started learning about 3 very different Canadian communities. They are Meteghan, Nova Scotia, Iqaluit, Nunavut and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. They represent an Acadian community, an Arctic community and a Prairie community. We will be studying the diversity of the 3 communities, learning about where they are in Canada, and how they are alike and different. To tie into our Science unit on Hot and Cold, we are also keeping track of the weather in Calgary, Meteghan, Iqaluit and Saskatoon. Last week students were surprised to discover that Saskatoon was just as cold as Iqaluit! Students were introduced to the 3 communities with a pile of photos from each community and a map of Canada. They were challenged to figure out where the photos would go on the map of Canada and how the pictures were related to each other.
If you've been hearing the tune from The Adam's Family lately, it's our Days of the week song. Students have been learning calendar skills such as the days of the week, months of the year and how to write the date. We've been singing songs, practicing by writing our birthdays and working with the calendar every day. We've also been learning about ordinal numbers and the days and months position in the calendar. We noticed in our class that we all needed extra practice spelling the days of the week. We made flashcards to help us learn the days, please help your child with this. (It's a great exercise to do when you're traveling in the car. )
During the last week of school before holidays, all of the Grade 2 classes worked together to create their Windows in the Past. Mrs. Bradley taught students how to draw animals and First Nations people, Ms. Gerrish showed students how to make tipis and Ms. Bell helped students paint the backgrounds on our windows. Students were divided up and had a chance to work with other teachers and grade 2 students to create their contribution to our project. We are thrilled with the results! If you are walking past the Grade 2 classrooms, take a moment to imagine yourself looking out onto the prairies!
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AuthorMrs. Bradley's class is made up of 24 students from Dr. Roberta Bondar School. Archives
June 2018
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