Inuit Artifacts, Sky Sisters, Estimating on a number line

Reminder: If you are still wanting to donate for the Grade 2 Recipe book and recieve the link to download you have until this upcoming Thursday January 31st to do so. Also we have lots of room left in the Calgary Food Bank Donations boxes and would love to see them filled up before the end of the week. 

Inquiry
Inuit Artifacts

Today we finished looking at many different Inuit Artifacts. Our job was to sketch, label and write 2 I thinks and 1 I wonder about what we were looking at.

Today we got to share with the other groups and then find out if our predictions were correct.

We looked at the actual Inuktitut word for the artifact, what it was or is used for today, and what it was made out of.

Later we will add water colour to our sketches.

Ask me which one I remember the most or enjoyed looking at, exploring, and sketching?

Sky Sisters

Yesterday we read an Arctic story about two sisters called Sky Sisters by Jan Waboose

We then figured out some important things about the story through drawing, reflecting and taking some notes:

-title
-author
-characters
-setting
-important part or problem
-solution
-magic
-final lesson or message of the story

Number Line

We worked on solving number line addition problems using jumps, skips and hops. We practiced writing equations to go with the number line in order to add up a total at the end. 

How many numbers are there between two numbers? We have been exploring this all week using steps:
1: Draw the number line and place your smaller number on the left and your larger number on the right at the end. 
2. Use jumps, skips and hops to get to the larger number. 
3. Make sure you are adding as you go after each jump, skip or hop at the bottom of the number line so that you don't lose track.
4. Write an addition equation to figure out how many jumps, skips and hops that you did. Remember do not add the number you started at as you are already there!
5. Solve your addition equation. Be efficient. Group together all your 10's first, then your 5's. Did you use friendly numbers? Landmark numbers?