WOW! Earth Day was such a success last week! The Grade 2 students went all day without turning on the lights, made pinecone bird feeders, created a 'tie dye world', and worked with the Grade 1 students to pick up garbage around our school yard! So AmAzInG!
Last week I sent out an email about bringing recyclable items to our classroom. I appreciate all that has come in, but we still need a little bit more! Please feel free to bring some extras in for our students to work with. Items can be: plastic, glass, styrofoam, bottles, cardboard, etc.
Library this week has been moved to Thursday, so please ensure that all books are back by then to ensure that your child can take out new books.
Language Arts
Over the past week, the students have been working on developing a fictional story (although some chose non-fictional). They had to plan it out (problem/adventure, characters, setting, etc), and have began their introduction to their story. This week we hope to develop our story even further and start the body.
We continue to work on our phonics, 6+1 Traits of Writing, story prompts, and reading comprehension. It is fantastic to see the students using their skills they are developing in Language Arts (writing component) transfer into their other writing (journals and story prompt).
I introduced a rubric (1-4 rating scale) that focuses on 5 aspects: sentence structure, punctuation, detail, overall structure, and overall appearance. The students self-evaluate their writing and are reminded of important parts throughout their writing. The students have really taken to having this assessment available and enjoy the immediate feedback.
Math
We are simultaneously working on our Addition and Subtraction to 18 and 100 (separate units). With addition and subtraction to 18, we have really been working with strategies to determine doubles (ex. 5+5), and doubles plus/minus one. In addition and subtraction to 100, we started to touch on addition equations that involve 'carrying'. As this is an important concept, we will be working on this quite a bit over the next week.
Science
Our Boats and Buoyancy unit will take full swing over the next two weeks. Students will be testing items to test their buoyancy, testing multiple items (put together), create a boat/flotation device, and test their boat (hold weight).
Social
Natural Resources has been our huge topic of discussion lately. What are they? Do all 3 communities have the same natural resources? What are the natural resources in each community? What do they use the natural resources for? Ask your child what natural resources are in Meteghan, Iqaluit, or Saskatoon...and how do they compare to Leduc?
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