Room 3 - 2018 - 2019

Today, we learned more about about Remembrance Day by watching a video that talked about the  history of the poem  "In Flander's Field"  by John McCrae. We painted and created our own poppies to remember the soldiers  that fought for our freedom. We read an easier poppy poem with a friend and decorated our poem  page with symbols  and important words for Remembrance Day.

I can't wait to see how our poppy art will look when we add the flowers on Thursday! We tried a new technique for the sky where we added salt when the sky was wet. It made a cool look! Grade 2 Math: We reviewed mental math strategies. Ask you're child about them. Doubles (6+6 up to 9+9) and doubles plus one. (8+9 for example) We will finish our review on Thursday. See if they can think of an example for each of those strategies. They can even quiz you.

The kids were very creative today using shapes to make a variety of objects and designs.

The class has earned over 50 golden tickets this month for all their kind and respectful behaviour! For their reward students are welcome to wear their PJ's to school on Friday and bring in a stuffed animal.

Halloween Fun! Today was a very exciting day! This past week, all students have had a chance to  do some little pumpkin  measuring activities. We created pattern pumpkins! We did some "Just Dance Kids" Halloween themed dancing for gym time. Thank you to Mrs. Taylor who bought everyone their very own little pumpkin to decorate! We drew faces with sharpies and googley eyes or painted our pumpkins!  For work period, we had some math and language  Halloween themed activities students could choose!

Tuesday, we learned how to create a rainbow using a prism  and sunlight. We remember the rainbow colors and order of colours by the mnemonic R O Y G B I V ( red , orange , yellow , green , blue , indigo , violet ) We, then, created suncatchers with crystals to create our own  rainbows with a crystal and showed the rainbow with coloured beads. We have been watching as the crystals create beautiful rainbows all around our classroom!

Today, we did some estimating and measuring activities with our class Jack-O-Lantern we carved (with the help of a wonderful parent volunteer yesterday). We looked at how many links could go around the pumpkin, how many snap cubes tall and how many pumpkin seed were in our pumpkin. To help us count ALL the pumpkin seeds, we made groups of 10 seeds and skip counted.   We found we had 467 seeds!!! We also used base 10 blocks to show 467. Challenge:  If you are trick or treating tomorrow, you may want to have your child group their candy in groups of 2's, 5's or 10's and skip count their candy! *And don't forget to check out the previous blog post on our fundraiser for any unwanted candy you may have!*