March 12, 2013

For No Excuse Words we did cloze sentences:

We then sorted ime and ind words during word work:

In Social Studies we read the book "The House on Maple Street" by Bonnie Pryor.  I found a reading of it on YouTube so you can watch it at home:

We talked about how a piece of land can change so much over time.  It's pretty interesting to think about where we live now and what it looked like 300 years ago.

In LA we began talking about compound words.  Compound words are when you take two words, squish them together and you get a new word.  Here is the list we made:

Have a great night!

March 11, 2013

We put this week's No Excuse Words in our dictionary:

1. this
2. from
3. I
4. seven
5. white

In Religion we talked about the story of St. Patrick.  We learned that we used the clover to teach about the Holy Trinity; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

In Math we talked about traditional button blankets.  We watched the following clip:

We then made our own button blankets and used our grouping skills to count the number of buttons:

In Social Studies we talked about the way our community has changed.  The change that the students are most excited about is the MacDonald Island expansion.  Here is a video put out by MacIsland showing the expansion plans:

Have a great night!!!

March 8, 2013

Today we did the Nursery Rhyme Hey Diddle Diddle. You can watch it below:

We then had some fun with the rhyme and created some Mad Libs.. Why not try it them at home.

In Math today we talked about how you can represent numbers by drawing pictures.  We did the following word problem; A bike rack can hold 5 bikes.  The school has 4 bike racks.  How many bikes can park at the school?  After a lot of talking it through, we finally figured out that if we draw the 4 bike racks with 5 bikes parked in each one we can count 20 bikes parked at the school.

Have a great weekend!

March 7, 2013

First off, just a reminder that there is school tomorrow.  Also, tonight for homework we have a new writing book.  There is a letter in the front explaining what to do.

For Word Work today we created lists of ar and ade words:

In LA we worked with the Nursery Rhyme "Little Bo Peep".

We wrote about where we thought the sheep might have gone and what they were doing.  Here are some of the sentences the kids came up with (student written):

1. The sheep went to Edmintin.  They went shoping.
2. The sheps went to the medow.  When the sheps went to the medow they were eating grass.
3. The sheep went to Mecsaco.  They relast in the sun.  

As a little reward for working hard we watched this funny clip on YouTube.

In Art today we learned about the famous Artist Wassily Kandinsky:

Check out the Kandinsky circles we made:

In Social Studies we talked about how sometimes we loose people we love.  We read the story "A Place in my Heart" by Annette Aub.

In the story a little boy looses his grandfather and is sad.  We talked about what we could say to him to express our sympathy.  Here are some of the ideas we came up with:

Have a great night!

March 6, 2013

We started our morning with a Lenten Liturgy presented by 1K and 1C.  The focus was on the story of the Burning Bush, which you can watch below:

For No Excuse Words today we did the Code Breaker activity.  Why not try it together at home:

In Math we continued to work on ways to represent numbers.  Today we worked on using place value mats and counting on.  Here is video of us representing the number 64:

We also went on the following website as another way to practice:

http://www.ixl.com/math/grade-2/place-value-models-tens-and-ones

Have a great night!

March 5, 2013

So we started the day with a big bang, literally!  The Promethean Board fell off the wall.  Luckily, no one was hurt and the board doesn't seem to be damaged.  Check it out:

For word worked we created lists of ice and ide words:

In LA we read the story, "But, Granny Did!"  we talked about different text features, such as talking bubbles.  We even took turns acting out different parts of the story.

In Math, we worked on representing numbers between 40 and 60 on ten frames.  We also practiced the skill of counting on.

Have a great night!

March 4, 2013

Welcome back from the break.  I hope you had a nice week off.

For No Excuse Words we put this weeks words in alphabetical order.

For Word Work we made the following words:

In Religion we continued to talk about the season of Lent.  We watched this great music video:

We then created a Wordle of all the things we could give up for Lent:

In Math today we continued working with numbers to 100.  Here is a great game to play at home to review:

In Social Studies today we talked about how our lives would change if a new baby came to live with us.  We started out by reading "Berenstain Bears: The New Baby".  We then made a chart of things we would notice if there was a new baby in our house.

Have a great night!