Math Number Explosions, I am Collage covers and Printing Practice!

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Math

This week we in math we have been practicing breaking whole numbers up into their number bonds or parts.

We practiced doing this ourselves using blocks and number bond models:

Knowing our number bonds and how to break up numbers really helps us when we move onto addition. 

Today we practiced with some double-digit numbers. We were also challenged to explode out the sneaky 5's or 10's first as seeing these important numbers can help us add more efficiently!

https://www.abcya.com/games/fuzz_bugs_number_bonds

Collage Covers

Today we finished creating our all about me collage. We had to choose pictures from magazines that meant something to us or that we liked. We covered our paper with these pictures. We will  then brainstorm words that describe us to add to our collage: 

I AM:

Friendly
Patient
Funny
Athletic
Dancer
Sister
Brother
Daughter
Son
Happy


This will then be laminated and be the front cover to our Visual Sketch Books which we will use all year to document our learning journey in Grade 2! 

Printing Practice

This week we practiced printing two simple sentences on Grass, Ground and Sky paper to help us see where our letters should be sitting on the lines. 

We will contine practicing this method to ensure that our upper case and lower case letters are being formed correctly, used appropriatley and that we remember to use finger spaces between each word. 
This will not only make our printing neat and oraganized, but it will help us read our writing back when we are sharing and allow others to read our writing more easily.