Mrs. Bradley's Grade 2
We started a new routine called Weekly Words. Each week, we will be focusing on 10 sight words. On Tuesday mornings, students get to pick a strategy they'd like to use to practice the words. One strategy is making the words out of Play Doh: Another strategy is called Scribble Spelling:
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This week we used base ten blocks and stacking to help us find the difference when subtracting 2 digit numbers. First we used base ten blocks and moved them around to understand that when you subtract, the answer will be less. We also learned that when you need to regroup, it means one of the "tens" is split up and gets put with one of the "ones". Finally, we used stacking and learned 3 different rhymes to help us with subtraction. Finally, we practiced, practiced and practiced! We made flap books (which will be coming home next week), we did questions as a group on whiteboards, we worked on our own to practice and we used numbers lines to physically see the difference between numbers.
On Thursday we began the final project in our Boats and Buoyancy Science Unit. Each student was given a milk jug as their starting point. Then they had to plan their boat with the materials that were provided. Once the plan was complete and approved by Mrs. Bradley, they were allowed to start building. Each student has their own boat book which included the criteria that their boat needed to meet. ![]() By the end of our building period, some students had finished their boats and were testing them to make sure they met the criteria. If not, it was back to building! All the boats parked in our Harbour!
Actual items Mrs. Bradley found on the classroom floor this week: Small bales of hay, rocks in three different sizes, seashells, a small otter and a cardboard person. After a lot of hard work, we have finished our Model Communities. Students are very proud of their creations. The learning target for our project was for students to show their knowledge of one of the three Canadian communities we've been studying. They were asked to show the land, the people, the resources and "other" in their model community. Now that we've finished our building we will be putting them on display to share! We have been extremely busy this week building our model communities! There are lighthouses, grain elevators and igloos everywhere you look in our classroom. The first day we painted the background. Once that dried, we started building. And we just keep on building! Monday will be our last day of building...maybe...
![]() Students have been very excited to learn regrouping in Math! Many of them already knew how to do it and were happy to share what they knew with the class. We learned a little rhyme to help us remember the proper steps: You put your ones down low, You put your tens up high, You add them all together, It's as easy as pie!! We have practiced this using our whiteboards, practice sheets, a game called Race to 100, 12 sided dice and base ten blocks.
Summarizing a story sounds simple, but it's often challenging to explain an entire story in 2 to 3 sentences. This week we used a graphic organizer to help us collect our thoughts and explain the important ideas in a story. The graphic organizer we used helped us determine the important details of the story. We heard the entertaining story, Interrupting Chicken, and worked our way through the organizer as a group. Next week, students will be summarizing stories on their own using this format.
If you're reading at home with your child, ask them to tell you the important things that happen in the story. It's great practice to build reading comprehension. Over the past week we have had many conversations about the tragedy in Humboldt, Saskatchewan. I have been so proud of the thoughtfulness and maturity that my students have shown during these conversations. I had tears running down my cheeks on Friday that were a mixture of sadness for the victims and pride for the sincere gestures of goodwill that have come from the students in my class.
We have been reviewing some of the reading strategies we learned at the beginning of the year. Students have grown so much as readers this year that the strategies are being applied much differently than they were in September. One of the strategies we talked about was, "Good Readers Ask Questions." We made a page in our Visual Journals to help us remember all the questions that we could be asking. Then we watched the story The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires and practiced asking some of these questions. Finally, students took their lists to their Book Club group and applied these questions to their own reading.
In Math, we have learned 3 different ways to add two digit numbers. We tried each one, and then talked about which is the most efficient and works best for the task we're working on. Next week we will practice addition with regrouping and then move onto subtraction. One of the ways we practiced our 2 digit addition was to plan a weekend in Saskatoon. We had $75 to spend on food and $100 to spend on activities and we had to figure out what we would like to do. Many of the students asked if they could eat all of their meals at Tim Horton's so they didn't "waste" any money! There were some very entertaining conversations about this project.
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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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