Mrs. Bradley's Grade 2
Looking for educational ways to entertain kids during the holidays? Here are some ideas for you:
Printable mad libs: https://www.woojr.com/printable-mad-libs-for-kids/ Word Cookies: This is a free app for androids. This app is highly recommended by Mrs. Bradley's 8 year old daughter. :) Basic facts practice: www.factmonster.com/math/flashcards.html Math games: www.mathplayground.com
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I love reading these books! The books are written in rhymes and are very entertaining to read. Students love to listen to them and learn about nouns and verbs. After reading the books, students were able to name a person, place or thing as an example of a noun and an action that was an example of a verb. They got to test their new knowledge by going on a Noun Scavenger Hunt around the classroom and recording examples of a person, place, thing or animal. They also got to be Verb Detectives and "spy" on their classmates to see what actions they were doing. At first we thought our classmates weren't doing much, but we soon discovered that they were writing, thinking, breathing, looking, scratching, erasing and talking!
During the last week of classes before our winter break, we will be applying our knowledge of nouns and verbs to write Mad Libs. Mad Libs never fail to entertain children (and this teacher)! As part of our Social Studies program, we started researching six different subjects about the First Nations people. First we had to learn about jot notes. Research is not just copying down the words you see in front of you, but rather summarizing the main points and recording them in short ideas. It's an important skill to learn and we will continue to practice it throughout the year. Students were shocked when I told them they didn't need to use periods and capitals! Our research topics included: Tipis, bison, clothing, ceremonies and celebrations, food and symbols. Each table group is researching a topic and will become the expert on that topic to share with the rest of our class. As a culminating project to close our learning about the First Nations people, we will be creating a "Window into the Past." We will be designing a mural/diorama that looks like we are looking out a window onto the prairies hundreds of years ago. The scene will include the landscape of the prairies, tipis with symbols painted on them, animals such as bison, deer, coyotes, and eagles, and Blackfoot people that lived on the prairies in the past. It is an exciting project that all the Grade 2 teachers are looking forward to. Pictures will follow!
Base ten blocks allow students to visually see the tens and ones place value in a number. They're learning place value and the the value of a number while they rearrange the blocks. It also allows them to physically "regroup" the ones into tens and helps them understand that it takes 10 "ones" to make up a "ten". This concept is important for students to understand because we soon will be regrouping in our addition and subtraction.
This week we worked on some challenging problems using our base ten blocks. A commonly misspelled word is "people" . We've been learning a song from Mrs. Bradley's childhood (way back in the 80s!) to learn how to spell this word correctly. The song is called, "People Is a Funny Old Word" by Lee & Sandy Paley. The course goes like this:
Pe-o-ple is a funny old word. Pe-o-ple is a funny old word. It's the most absurd word I have ever heard. Pe-o-ple is a funny old, pe-o-ple is a funny old, pe-o-ple is a funny old, is a funny old word. Simple, but catchy! The Grade 2s couldn't believe their ears when I told them they got to build something with the base ten blocks. It was a dream come true! Our learning target was: I can build something with base 10 blocks and calculate how many blocks are in it. First students had to work with a partner to build something, then they had to regroup the loose pieces and efficiently count how many blocks they had in all. Find your child's structure and ask them how many pieces was in their object. Students arrived at their table to discover a messy pile of base 10 blocks. Their task was to "clean up a mess" to use the least number possible. In other words, they had to regroup the loose ones into tens so there were less individual pieces and then count how many they had in all. Once the piles were cleaned up, it was easy to count by 10s to find the total. We also practiced regrouping on the Smartboard by grouping the loose ones into a ten and figuring out how many blocks there were in all.
Storytelling using symbols was a very popular lesson this week! We learned that we already knew many common symbols. The First Nations people used symbols as important part of their storytelling and as a way to share their histories. Using the pictographs, students wrote their own exciting story. There were many adventures being had in this stories!
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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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