Dear families,
Reminder: If you have the envelopes from your child's report card, please send it to school with your child
This week, Ms. Tang built a snowman which we called Polar and we voted on his name. Polar had a red scarf, a blue hat, black buttons, and he was a snowman, but he was not made out of snow; he was made out of ice! It took two days for Polar to melt from a solid into a liquid. Then today we boiled Polar! He turned from a solid, to a liquid, to a gas.
In gym this week, we played some circus stuff! We were practicing how to do tricks with stuff like devil sticks (two sticks and a kind of sticky thing that you can try to catch with the two sticks), hula hoops, doing partner balances, diablos (it's like a yo-yo but it isn't attached to the string), balancing on the bench while holding things on different body parts, juggling with scarves (it was very hard until you got the hang of it!), and skipping ropes.
We continued to work on our inuksuks. An inuksuk is a stack of rocks that expresses a feeling or shows people where to go like places to hunt and eat. We used small rocks to build our own inuksuks. Inuksuks have their own names (in Inuktituk!).
Some of us are typing up our Ted Harrison artist statements. We used oil pastels to draw pictures of the arctic that were in Ted Harrison's style, with not much detail. Then, we wrote about what we drew and why we chose to draw it.
In math, we learned different strategies for mental math to figure out answers to addition questions, like doubles, doubles plus one, and turnarounds! Ask us about them!
Have a great evening!
Love,
The Grade 2s
Reminder: If you have the envelopes from your child's report card, please send it to school with your child
This week, Ms. Tang built a snowman which we called Polar and we voted on his name. Polar had a red scarf, a blue hat, black buttons, and he was a snowman, but he was not made out of snow; he was made out of ice! It took two days for Polar to melt from a solid into a liquid. Then today we boiled Polar! He turned from a solid, to a liquid, to a gas.
In gym this week, we played some circus stuff! We were practicing how to do tricks with stuff like devil sticks (two sticks and a kind of sticky thing that you can try to catch with the two sticks), hula hoops, doing partner balances, diablos (it's like a yo-yo but it isn't attached to the string), balancing on the bench while holding things on different body parts, juggling with scarves (it was very hard until you got the hang of it!), and skipping ropes.
We continued to work on our inuksuks. An inuksuk is a stack of rocks that expresses a feeling or shows people where to go like places to hunt and eat. We used small rocks to build our own inuksuks. Inuksuks have their own names (in Inuktituk!).
Some of us are typing up our Ted Harrison artist statements. We used oil pastels to draw pictures of the arctic that were in Ted Harrison's style, with not much detail. Then, we wrote about what we drew and why we chose to draw it.
In math, we learned different strategies for mental math to figure out answers to addition questions, like doubles, doubles plus one, and turnarounds! Ask us about them!
Have a great evening!
Love,
The Grade 2s