Mrs. Bradley's Grade 2
We've been using Geo-boards to help us identify the characteristics and attributes of 2D shapes. Today, students we given riddles and had to make the shape based on the clue given in the riddle. Students noticed that even though they were all building with the same characteristics, their shapes look different.
After building our rectangles, we collected what we knew about them.
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In Science we had a fascinating start to our Small Crawling and Flying Animals unit. The Grade 2 teachers set up stations for an Insect Inquiry. We spent 2 sessions exploring and learning about all sorts of different insects. Before we started our inquiry, we thought about what we already knew about insects and what we wonder about them. Students were given some questions as guidelines to help direct their thinking but were responsible for their own learning and proving their learnings by recording ideas in their visual journal. We discovered all sorts of interesting facts about different insects! In addition, Each student was responsible for finding one word they didn't know before to add to our "Web of Words". Ask your child to tell you what their word was. Mrs. Bradley's word was "Exoskeleton" (She already knew it, but thought it was an important word to add to the Web of Words;) Our Insect Inquiry had a variety of hands on exploration and research in books or on the iPads: ![]() This is one example of how students documented their learning. This students created a Mind Map using words and images. All of the Grade 2 classes have finished building their model communities. Everyone was very excited to share their projects! We all gathered in the Library and set up all the models on display. Then we took turns walking around and sharing our projects. Students were able to ask each other about their community, how they constructed things and why they made the choices they made.
This week we began our Math unit on 2D and 3D Shapes. We started our unit by going on a Shape Hunt in the Launch Pad and Library of our school. We found shapes everywhere and the more carefully we looked, the more shapes we saw! We collected our data in a tally graph. Some students found over 50 rectangles!
This week students were introduced to a type of story called a, "Stuck Story". In a stuck story, the main character or object physically or figuratively gets stuck. The storyline is all about the characters working to try and get the person or object "unstuck". The first stuck story we read was Grandma and the Pirates by Phoebe Gilman. In this story, the Grandma is captured by pirates and the story is about the ways that she tries to escape. We used a story map to organize our thinking about the story and identify the setting, characters and the main events. Over the next few weeks we'll be reading more Stuck Stories and learn about the format so we are able to write our own.
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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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