Art, Math Sharing, and Buddies!

You’re Invited!

Dear Parents and Students,

You are invited to the grade 2 students’ Celebration of Learning on Thursday January 24^th from 6-7. Your child has been working extremely hard to prepare for this Celebration of Learning and is excited to share their learning with you. Please make sure to also bring a cash donation of $5 (minimum) in order to receive  a digital copy of the Grade 2’s amazing Search for Delicious Recipe book. Your donation will go directly to the Calgary Food Bank. You are also welcome to bring a non-perishable food item donation. 

We cannot wait to see you there,

From the Grade 2 team

Watercolor Snow-person Art

Yesterday we painted a background for our Snow-person art. We used cool colors from the color wheel to make a winter sky background.

We could use one cool color or two or three to make our background. 

Then we added salt to our wet watercolor to get a cool texture:

Today we used white paper and cut our snow-person shape. We added details for the face, eyes, nose, scarf, etc. We used pastel and rubbing to colour our circles. We put our circles together to make a birds-eye view. Ask me what birds-eye view means? 

This art will go beside our How to Build a Snowman Writing after the Celebration of Learning. 

MATH

We continued working on using the number line in order to add to find the difference between two numbers. We were also challenged to use the number line to subtract by hopping back by ten. 


We had a Gallery walk to share out work and give feedback to our peers about things they could add, things they did well and areas where they could improve. 

We then had time to go back to our posters and make changes or edits to our work.

Ask me what I changed? Ask me what I did well? Did looking at other groups work help me think about my own work? 

Today some groups came up and shared their math thinking. 

Buddies

Today we had buddies. We went to the Learning Commons and helped them to choose picture books that they were interested in reading. We read to them and helped the explore the learning commons and comfy reading areas available!