Editing our Writing, Math Bar Graphs and Picture Graphs, and Prairie Art!

Reminder:

Halloween Reminders

Dear Parents, We would like to take this opportunity to remind families about Halloween festivities on Thursday, October 31. Students should arrive at school dressed in their costumes, as there will not be an opportunity for them to get dressed at school.  Please do not send your children in costumes that include masks, weapons, accessories or blood and gore.  Also, students need to be able to independently manage their costumes, for things like bathroom breaks, going outside for recess, lunch, etc.  A Halloween parade will take place at 9:30 am on Thursday, October 31 and parents are invited to watch. Please arrive a few minutes early so you can get a seat in the gym! As students are learning about healthy eating, we ask that parents do not send any special treats or snacks to share with other students. PM Kindergarten students are asked to arrive at school dressed in their costumes.  Again, please do not send your children in costumes that include masks, weapons, accessories or blood and gore. Happy Halloween, Royal Oak School

Writing a Good Copy

We have been starting to learn about some important editing tips. Writers always have a rough copy (sometimes many rough copies). They edit there work AFTER they get their ideas out.

We started practicing this week using our Fall writing and editing using COPS as a guide:

Last week we practiced underlining in red everywhere that we did use a capital letter correctly. We looked for places where we had forgotten or maybe used upper case letters where we should not have. If we edited to add a proper captial where we had forgotten we then got to underline in red to show we had done this. 

We also checked for proper finger spaces and if we had forgoten used a small line to show where we should put one next time. 

We will continue practicing this and adding in editing for Punctuation and Spelling next week. 


Math Graphing

In math we have been looking at bar graphs and picture graphs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYXmY5axC2I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWoya4T37PU


We have been practicing becoming familiar with reading a graph in order to answer important questions that the graph is telling us.

We have been practicing looking at data and then putting it into a graph.

This website as many bar graphs and picture graphs with questions about the data collected. You can practce reading and interpreting graphs here:

https://www.2nd-grade-math-salamanders.com/bar-graphs-2nd-grade.html

ART
We continued working on our Prairie Art. Last week we worked on mixing paint to create the perfect blue sky of the Praires. We looked at picutres and talked about colour mixing. We also practiced drawing a horizon line to show where the land and the sky meet.

This week we added wheat fields to our picture. We used a cardboard stamp to layer the yellow paint onto our brown dirt background. 

This week we will add another detail from the prairies. These landscapes are prairie art from the past. 

We are also very excited to start working with the Artist in Residence this week! 

Ask me how that experience was today?