Bucket Lists, Plasticine and Pastel Bugs and Word Problem Review

Bucket Lists! 

Today we made our very own summer bucket lists. We thought of all of the things we would really like to take the time to do over the summer. 

Last week we brought home our 'Are you a ___?' insect narrative nonfiction stories. Please share these stories along with the plasticine insect character we made to go along with our narratives!

Math Word Problems

We have been practicing solving math word problems. We are remembering to follow the CUBES steps as a way to help us determine the important information and what the question is asking us to figure out. Here is one example of a question we might try to solve using the CUBES steps to guide us. 

Last Tuesday the Grade 2 class went on a wetlands insect adventure to see how many insects they could find. It was a beautiful day outside. They found twenty-three ants, sixteen grasshoppers and thirty-nine dragonflies. How many insects did they spot in total? 

We will continue to practice our problem solving skills for both addition and subtraction for the next the remainder of this week. 

BUG ART

Today we completed our pastel resist bug art! 

First we practiced sketching: butterflies, dragonflies, bumblebees, bettles, ladybugs, and even grasshoppers!

Then we chose the one we liked the best and felt the most confident drawing a good copy of:

We then used oil pastels to create our insect:

Next we used a watercolor wash in an opposite color (we looked at the color wheel to determine what our opposite color would be) to paint over our insects to create our final product:

We will bring our final products home tomorrow, mounted and ready for you to display proudly in your living rooms!