Math Is Fun

Here is what our classmates want to share with all our readers!

Carlitos: "We love learning Math!"

Nathalie: "We have been learning some math games."

Denise: "We have been playing addition war."

Geoffrey: "We like learning math games because it makes us smarter!"

Olivia: "We play Even Steven and Odd Todd. We need erasers for two players. We roll dice and if it is an even number, then Even Steven gets to move. If it is odd, Odd Todd gets to move."

Daily Five

Daily five is fun and interesting to do, according to Gianna. Carlitos explains that we have reading groups meeting during Daily Five. Alex says our reading groups are fun because we learn so many new words. We can listen to stories on our i-pads with our headphones, shares Oliver. Krystal reports that we can read to each other during read to someone. Finally,  Nathalie adds that we can also read to ourselves.

OUR BIG NEWS!

We have joined the Global Read Aloud!!! We are reading "The Year of Billy Miller" by Kevin Henkes. If you look closely you can see some of our thoughts on thought or speech bubbles!

If you are reading our book too, be sure to leave us your thoughts or questions! We would LOVE to hear from you!

Another Great Week!

We met for our first Choir class. It was our first look at all the grade two and three students in one spot! Don't they look proud of how well they were standing?

Another first was our first session of Reading Buddies. We have partnered with Mrs. Beazley's Room 3 students. It was fun going into their room and reading some of their books too!

Finally, we are learning about the difference between wants and needs. Our needs are protected by our government. They are our rights! We had to work in groups to sort out which pictures were rights and which ones showed wants. This is what it looked like!

Wow! Another Great Week!

We started the week with International Dot Day celebrating the marks we all make in the world. We read "The Dot " by Peter Reynolds. We completed a colAR page and watched as our i-pads created a 3D image of our colouring that moved! You will have to come in and check it out sometime! Here are our friends that wore dots on dot day.

We have been using math manipulatives to explore what patterns are. Most students can point out the core, and can name the repeating pattern. We are learning what it is that makes a pattern. Here is some of our work!

Welcome Back to School!

It's great to see our returning friends and meet so many new friends! We are so lucky to have such a great group in room 18 this year! Everyone had a mixture of nerves and excitement on the first day!

On Monday we had our first school assembly to meet the new staff and those who returned from maternity leaves. We sang "Oh, Canada" and the 'Kind Hearted Heart" song that we worked on last year in music classes. 

We are getting to know each other through various activities and assignments in class!

We've Gone Buggy!

That's what happens when 20 students start researching all about bugs! We have been up to our elbows in glue and newsprint but we all think it was worth it! This is the display right across from the gym!

Mrs, Chapman's class also made bugs. Ours are on the bottom. Here are some closer views!

This week we also finished reading "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford. We enjoyed some popcorn with the movie "Homeward Bound" which was based on the book. We certainly enjoyed both! We recommend you read the book if you haven't!

Finally we finished off our Father's Day craft. We read the aboriginal creation story retold by David McLimans called "Big Turtle". We painted yogurt cups with acrylic paint. Next planted onion seeds or grass seeds and waited a long time for them to grow. Today we added the head and feet to make it look like a turtle. We thought it looked pretty neat. Some of us did have trouble getting the feet to stick though!

Next week we are having our Care Home Concert here at the school. If you are in the neighbourhood....

We would love to see you!

We're Going Buggy!

We have been doing some research on insects. They have 3 body parts: the head, thorax and abdomen. Insects have 6 legs, some have antennae, and most have wings. We read some books, saw some videos, we drew and labelled some diagrams, and now we are making a 3D model of our insects out of paper mache.

YOU can see some of our diagrams! There are some legs we have drying for our bugs. The bottom corner is the body of a dragonfly. Just wait until we add them to the thorax. We still have to cut out our wings! Then comes the paint! 

Grade Three Swimming!

There were a few nervous students but they all learned a great deal and FUN was had by all. Judge for yourself! Here is a peek at our first class!

On our second visit many students were trying new things!

All students learned a great deal about safety and building their stamina!

Our grade two classmates can look forward to all this fun next year!