Thank you to all of you who have sent me your book talk. Some of you have sent it as a video of you talking, some of you have sent it as a google slide presentation and both ways are just fine. If you did a google slide presentation please remember to share it with me at imlagrana@educbe.ca and if you did a video you can email it to me at imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca and I can post it to IRIS for you.
Remember to log into RAZ-KIDS using the link above if you would like some more reading material. I have updated most student's reading levels and will have done all by Monday.
Also if you did build a prototype for solving one of the Arctic Climate change problems please email me a video or picture of your work as I would love to see it!
If you completed your 1 page Google Slide of your Arctic animal please also share that with me so I can see your wonderful work!
Please stay tuned for a message coming on Monday through School Messanger regarding ongoing work, assignments, expectations and support. If you are not recieving the school messages via school messanger please email me right away so that I can ensure that you are added.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Saturday, March 21, 2020
More Ideas...
Hello
Enjoy your Spring break!
I will post on here next Friday as well but just wanted to remind students if they took home their writing books to please type up their Arctic Stories in Google Docs and share them with me at imlagrana@educbe.ca so that I can have a final copy.
Also for those that wish they can create their Google Slide (challenge is to only use 1 page) that reflects everything important about their Artic Animal: Habitat, Diet, Appearance, Enemies, Interesting Facts, Problems facing this animal.
Use a graphic organizer to jot down and collect all of your ideas before creating your final slide.
They are encouraged to add a a video link and a website link to their 1 page Google Slide as well. Please share this with me so that I can see the wonderful work they have created.
Again these are only suggestions (not mandatory) as after spring break there will be ongoing communication from CBE for assignments and school work. This is more for fun and to finish off our Arctic study.
Stay positive and curious and know that I miss you and am thinking of all of you in these strange times...
Mrs. Lagrana
Enjoy your Spring break!
I will post on here next Friday as well but just wanted to remind students if they took home their writing books to please type up their Arctic Stories in Google Docs and share them with me at imlagrana@educbe.ca so that I can have a final copy.
Also for those that wish they can create their Google Slide (challenge is to only use 1 page) that reflects everything important about their Artic Animal: Habitat, Diet, Appearance, Enemies, Interesting Facts, Problems facing this animal.
Use a graphic organizer to jot down and collect all of your ideas before creating your final slide.
They are encouraged to add a a video link and a website link to their 1 page Google Slide as well. Please share this with me so that I can see the wonderful work they have created.
Again these are only suggestions (not mandatory) as after spring break there will be ongoing communication from CBE for assignments and school work. This is more for fun and to finish off our Arctic study.
Stay positive and curious and know that I miss you and am thinking of all of you in these strange times...
Mrs. Lagrana
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
UPDATES for March 16-March 20
Hello Grade 2s
We hope you are healthy and staying safe :)
Here are some optional resources and suggestions on how you can continue learning from home:
There will be future messaging from the CBE regarding ongoing learning. For now use these suggestions and enjoy a rest and family time over Spring Break. Continue to check your emails and the classroom blog for ongoing communications.
There will be future messaging from the CBE regarding ongoing learning. For now use these suggestions and enjoy a rest and family time over Spring Break. Continue to check your emails and the classroom blog for ongoing communications.
Math:
- Continue practicing your Number Facts and Subtraction. Here are some websites for practice:
Art and Games for Cognitive Flexibility
- Play board games! Here are a few to try:
- Cribbage:
- Card games
- Monopoly
- Scrabble
- Boggle
- Checkers
Inquiry:
- Work on your design thinking challenge for the Arctic. Work through the ideation process and prototype. For fun, if you want to build your prototype and send your teacher a picture, we can post it on the blog!
- Check out this fun movie about life in the Arctic - David Suzuki and the Nature of Things follows two different groups of polar bears: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5eseix
- Explore some other options for documentaries such as Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, and Human Planet. These are all amazing documentaries where students can continue to make connections about what we have done in the class and to the world.
Writing:
- Continue writing your arctic stories
- Type up on google docs and share with your teacher (if you have not already done so).
Reading:
- Raz kids https://www.raz-kids.com/
- Calgary Public Library
- For upcoming live readings from popular creators:
- Oliver Jeffers: https://www.oliverjeffers.com/
- Story Line Online: https://www.storylineonline.net/
Don’t forget to go outside and play!!
BOOK TALKS!
Over Spring Break please choose a book of your choice. Do a Book Talk that you can share. You can share this with me at imlagrana@educbe.ca
Use the link below to use Graphic Organizers to help guide the steps of a book talk. Feel free to download and print and then use to create the finished product on Google Slides. This is NOT mandatory but just a suggestion for a fun activity to do over break or while at home over the next little while.
Book Talk Graphic Organizers
Practice sharing with your family and having someone video tape you sharing your Google Slides presentation.
Friday, March 13, 2020
Identifying Fiction and NonFiction, Fact Families, Ideating and Designing!
Literacy
This week we have been working on practicing identifying Fiction and NonFiction texts. How do we know if a book is fiction or nonfiction?
What clues can we look for to help us determine what kind of text we are reading?
For reading homework please compare two books either from your home reading bag or your home library and determine fill out the accompanying graphic organizer in order to prove that you can identify Fiction Versus NonFiction text:
Math
Fact Families
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tw_G6JYa48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK3FKEZJKec
You can practice fact families at :
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families
Ideating and Designing a PROTOTYPE!
This week we have been Ideating. This is when after thinking about the problem and empathizing, you and your group now come up with as many ideas as possible to solve a problem. No idea is too crazy and the more ideas you can generate with your group the better.
After coming up with as many ideas as possible we read the story The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind to think about creating something out of odds and ends to solve a problem:
We were then given a little more time to reflect and add any new ideas or inspiration we may have had to our groups original ideating.
Yesterday we began building our Prototype.
We will finish building this prototype next week and will upload our designs to IRIS so that we can share our ideas and building with you!
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Oral Story Telling and Writing our Beginnings, Design Thinking, and Subtraction using the Stacking Strategy!!
Reminders : Book orders are due by Monday March 9th, 2020.
Oral Story Telling
This week we have been practicing orally re-telling our ideas for our Arctic Story. Our story boards are all done and now we are practicing using story language, transition words, and sentence starters orally to prepare for writing our story. We used the five finger retell to help us retell as well as some simple sentence starters to help get our ideas flowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VlyAb2qaGI
This week we will start writing our Beginnings for our Arctic Stories. Maybe I can re-tell it to you orally at home to practice and solidify what is going to happen, who is starting my story, and where this story is happening.
Design Thinking: Climate Change in the Arctic
This week we have continued to look at some specific problems in the Arctic due to climate change. After brainstorming different problems we then decided which one we were interested in learning more about and have been working in groups to DEFINE the problem and EMPATHIZE about the problem.
We created mini replicas of the problem that we cannot wait to share with you this Thursday at our upcoming Celebration of Learning at 6pm.
We have also been starting to move into the IDEATING stage where we are trying to come up with some solutions to these problems. Please come visit the IDEATING room (Ms. Reynolds Room) at our Celebration and see if you can come up with any that we have not thought of!
Subtraction
This week we continue to work on practicing solving double digit subtraction problems using the Stackng Strategy.
First we have to make sure that the bigger number is on top or is the one being taken away from:
After we build the first number using our tens and ones we do not need to build the number being taken away. We are not adding so we don't need to put the 2 numbers together so we only write out what is being subtracted below (in this case 18).
***Always always always start with the ones when using stacking as our strategy. So 3-8 is not going to work. We do not have enough so we need to steal from the tens:
When we steal a ten and move it on over to the ones it needs to EXPLODE into ten ones:
Now we have 13 ones and can easily subtract 8:
We must remember to cross out the 3 tens because we now only have 2 left. After subtracting 8 ones we only have 5 left and we write that at the bottom of our ones. We then still need to rememeber to take away the 1 ten. 2 tens take away 1 ten leaves us with 1 remaining ten, which we write at the bottom of our tens.
This is the same as the traditional method only in stacking we draw out all of the steps using tens and ones to explain our regrouping:
We will be practicing these types of problems all week. Ask me to show you a few at home!
ROS Students are currently participating in a ‘Circus’ unit in PE class. We are learning a variety of new tricks using various equipment such as juggling sticks, scarves, hula hoops, spinning plates, diablos, tossing rings and juggling clubs. Students are encouraged to check out the Youtube channel, the National Circus Project. Below is a list of videos that students can watch to inspire them to try new tricks while in the gym. We are very excited about this unit! Thanks for your support!
***Beginner videos are a great starting point***
Devil Sticks (juggling sticks)
Scarf Juggling
Hoops
Plates
Diablo
Oral Story Telling
This week we have been practicing orally re-telling our ideas for our Arctic Story. Our story boards are all done and now we are practicing using story language, transition words, and sentence starters orally to prepare for writing our story. We used the five finger retell to help us retell as well as some simple sentence starters to help get our ideas flowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VlyAb2qaGI
Design Thinking: Climate Change in the Arctic
This week we have continued to look at some specific problems in the Arctic due to climate change. After brainstorming different problems we then decided which one we were interested in learning more about and have been working in groups to DEFINE the problem and EMPATHIZE about the problem.
We created mini replicas of the problem that we cannot wait to share with you this Thursday at our upcoming Celebration of Learning at 6pm.
We have also been starting to move into the IDEATING stage where we are trying to come up with some solutions to these problems. Please come visit the IDEATING room (Ms. Reynolds Room) at our Celebration and see if you can come up with any that we have not thought of!
Subtraction
This week we continue to work on practicing solving double digit subtraction problems using the Stackng Strategy.
First we have to make sure that the bigger number is on top or is the one being taken away from:
After we build the first number using our tens and ones we do not need to build the number being taken away. We are not adding so we don't need to put the 2 numbers together so we only write out what is being subtracted below (in this case 18).
***Always always always start with the ones when using stacking as our strategy. So 3-8 is not going to work. We do not have enough so we need to steal from the tens:
When we steal a ten and move it on over to the ones it needs to EXPLODE into ten ones:
This is the same as the traditional method only in stacking we draw out all of the steps using tens and ones to explain our regrouping:
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