April 28th

 Today we finished up some work from the week. Then we spread some kindness to the community by writing and drawing kind messages on the path by our school. If you have a chance take a look!

Reminders:

-read 20 mins

April 27th

Grade 2's have become so focused during math time! They are showing that they are getting ready for grade 3! Today we explored what equal and unequal means. We sorted equations using equal and unequal.

One way to explore equality is to use pan balances. Some of us discovered that one hexagon is equal to ten counters. We are excited to use the balances again next week!

In music we played a song using boomwhackers! It was so much fun!

Reminders:

-read 20 mins

 

April 26th

 Once again foiled by technology. Apologies for not being able to post pictures. When exploring odd and even we read the book "Even Steven and Odd Todd." We used the book for inspiration and created our own Even Steven and Odd Todd pages where everything had to be odd or even. Ask me what my page looked like.

Today we watched a video about farming in Saskatchewan. After watching we recorded what we saw, what it made us think about, and what we wondered. Ask me what my wonder was.

Reminders:

-read 20 mins

April 25th

Today we explored the natural resources of Saskatchewan. Ask me to name three.  

Today we explored even and odd. One task we did was write down as many even and odd numbers in the correct category in two minutes. Ask me how I know a number is even or odd. 

Reminders:

-gym is outside all week please make sure you are dressed for the weather

-read 20 mins

April 24th

Soon we are going to start researching about different animals who live in Canada. Today we started by researching Narwhal's as a whole class. Together we are reading a book and deciding on what the important information is that we should write down in jot notes. We are trying to put it in our own words. 

We are reviewing even and odd numbers. Even numbers can be divided/shared equally (in two) while odd numbers have a part left over. Ask me to tell you which numbers are odd and even within 100. 

 Reminders: 

-read 20 mins

April 21st

 Due to the snow we decided we would postpone our Earth Day Garbage Pick Up until there is nicer weather. Instead we went and explored the community of Harvest Hills and discovered a fun playground. 

Reminders:

-read 20 mins

April 20th

 Here are some pictures from yesterday!

Over the last two days we have been working on our surprise for some of our support staff. We wrote about what makes them important. Some of our writing will be used for a bulletin board thanking support staff for all of their of hard work! Next week is Support Staff Appreciation Week!

We made yummy pizza fractions today!

 Reminders:

-Community Walk Friday

-read 20 mins

-Friday spirit day: dress in green and blue

-Environmental Week is this week: try and bring a litterless lunch and walk or wheel to school if you can!

April 19th

 Technology is being difficult once again and preventing pictures from being posted on the blog. Today we observed Earth Hour, but we managed to keep our lights off for the whole day! We created a visual journal page showing what we can do to protect the earth and keep it healthy. 

In music we started boomwhackers! Ask me what they are!

 Reminders:

-Community Walk Friday

-read 20 mins

-Friday spirit day: dress in green and blue

-Environmental Week is this week: try and bring a litterless lunch and walk or wheel to school if you can!

April 17th

 We continued our exploration of fractions by comparing fractions with the same denominator. As we we learned about the <, >. and = sign. Try some at home. 

We have started exploring our final play in Canada, which is Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Asked me what I learned about the flag!

 Reminders:

-read 20 mins

-Friday spirit day: dress in green and blue

-Environmental Week is this week: try and bring a litterless lunch and walk or wheel to school if you can!

April 14th

Today we caught up on all of our work from the week. For one last experiment in liquids we made ooblek! It was a lot of fun. We also started a secret project, but we can't talk about it. 

 Reminders:

-read 20 mins

-Monday Spirit Day: Dress Like You Are Exploring Nature

-Environmental Week is next week: try and bring a litterless lunch and walk or wheel to school if you can!

April 13th

 I am continuing to have trouble uploading so sorry! I am hoping it will be resolved soon! Next week is Environmental Week. All week long we are encouraging Litterless Lunches! Today we looked at our lunches and snacks and our class had 55 pieces of garbage. Our goal is to have less next week. Also It is Walk and Wheelie Week. We are encouraging families as much as possible to use a different set of wheels or feet that is not a car to get to school. As a class we will be tracking how students got to school to see all of the different ways. 

Today we started an art project inspired by Ted Harrison. Ask me about mine!

Reminders:

-read 20 mins

-Monday Spirit Day: Dress Like You Are Exploring Nature

April 12th

Unfortunately I am still unable to upload photos to the blog. So sorry! Today we fractions of a set and whole. Looking at different fractions we practiced writing and saying what the fraction was. Get me to show you! 

We finished our colour writing. In our writing we tried to make our reader visualize a colour. Ask me what I wrote about. 

 Reminders:

-read 20 mins

April 11th

Unfortunately we are experiencing technical difficulties and photos aren't uploading. Today we continued our exploration of fractions by exploring fractions broken up into fifths, sixths, eighths and tenths. Ask me to show you what I learned. Also next week is Environmental Week. To help get ready for the week we created Walk and Wheelie posters. They are looking fantastic!

 Reminders:

-read 20 mins

-adults check your email for an email from Mrs. Brinson as Telus SPARK is offering a wonderful family night in May (more information in the email)

April 6th

Today we continued exploring fractions by using our fraction tiles to represent different fractions that have the denominator of 1. We discovered that as the denominator gets larger the equal pieces get smaller. 

We created a mind map of all the ways that we can dry wet things!

 

Reminders:

-no school Friday or Monday

-read 20 minutes