Dear Parents,
We hope you all had a great weekend!
This morning we started off with our music/gym flip flop. In Gym we got to use the scooters! Our favorite exercise was going on our stomach and using our arms to propel us. While in our half-groups we looked at a poem called Blubber written by two students around our age. It talked about how the Inuit hunted whales to use the blubber for lamps. We connected this poem to the Glenbow Kit we had the past two weeks. Some of the artifacts that we saw were used in connection with blubber. For example, we saw a blubber pounder (to break up the blubber), and a soapstone lamp where blubber is placed on top and lit on fire.
In Math we created number puzzles. Each student was given a number and 4 puzzle pieces. We represented the number in four different ways ( a number sentence, ten frame, picture, number line, etc). After we mixed all of our pieces together in our table group, we had to create "number puzzles" using the pieces that other people made.
It was an art-filled afternoon! We started off by quietly looking at this painting.
We hope you all had a great weekend!
This morning we started off with our music/gym flip flop. In Gym we got to use the scooters! Our favorite exercise was going on our stomach and using our arms to propel us. While in our half-groups we looked at a poem called Blubber written by two students around our age. It talked about how the Inuit hunted whales to use the blubber for lamps. We connected this poem to the Glenbow Kit we had the past two weeks. Some of the artifacts that we saw were used in connection with blubber. For example, we saw a blubber pounder (to break up the blubber), and a soapstone lamp where blubber is placed on top and lit on fire.
In Math we created number puzzles. Each student was given a number and 4 puzzle pieces. We represented the number in four different ways ( a number sentence, ten frame, picture, number line, etc). After we mixed all of our pieces together in our table group, we had to create "number puzzles" using the pieces that other people made.
It was an art-filled afternoon! We started off by quietly looking at this painting.
Then we wrote down five things that we noticed in our journals. Afterwards we paired off and shared what we noticed. We then went back and wrote down five more observations. This thinking routine is called 5x2. We found out that this piece of work was done by Norval Morrisseau. He was a First Nation artist from Ontario. When he was six he was placed in a Residential School and wasn't allowed to speak his language or celebrate his traditions. He was a self-taught artist and focuses his pieces on his peoples' culture and legends. We then created a representation of his work using crayons. Ask me what this style of painting is called! ****hint*** you have one of these done when you break a bone*****
We have a visitor in our classroom this week! Anja is a teacher from Frankfurt, Germany! Over the Summer, Ms. Watkins went to Germany for two weeks to check out what schooling was like there. Now it is Anja's turn to visit Canada. We learned some German words this morning. The German language is similar to French in the fact that there are 3 articles (male, female and non-gender specific). One of the words we learned was der Hund, which means dog!
Have a fantastic night!
Love,
The Grade Twos
We have a visitor in our classroom this week! Anja is a teacher from Frankfurt, Germany! Over the Summer, Ms. Watkins went to Germany for two weeks to check out what schooling was like there. Now it is Anja's turn to visit Canada. We learned some German words this morning. The German language is similar to French in the fact that there are 3 articles (male, female and non-gender specific). One of the words we learned was der Hund, which means dog!
Have a fantastic night!
Love,
The Grade Twos