Given the students' growing skills with two-digit addition and subtraction, they were given a mission this week to make a selection of toys for themselves with a budget of $100. All the students stayed within the budget (except for a few who felt confident to add beyond $100), and their selections and adding strategies were varied and impressive. We look forward to planing more shopping trips with our math skills!
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We're almost done our focus on measurement in Math, and the students have really enjoyed measuring mass using a variety of units. They've become pros at estimating, measuring, and comparing different masses, and selecting the appropriate unit to use when measuring mass. Check out some of the games we've been playing during this unit below
In preparation for the Tokyo Olympics this summer, 2B held its own Paper Kicking Olympics in Math this week. We’ve been practicing two-digit addition recently in Math, so the students worked hard to measure and tabulate their totals, and their were some impressive kicks! Some of the students challenged themselves to add up the totals of large groups of students, which led to some very accurate three-digit addition!
We’ve been learning all about measuring length this week in our math classes and the highlight of our measuring was comparing the lengths of our limbs, torsos, and heads. We found that if we used different units (such as small snap cubes vs. popsicle sticks) our measurements were different (but still indicated the same length). You can watch the video below and play the games that are linked to learn more about measuring length. The last day at school before winter break was a fun one in 2B with some coding, games, a movie, and lots of delicious treats sent by generous families. We have a caring and friendly group of students in our class, and it's always a treat to celebrate together!
The most bittersweet part was that we had to say goodbye to Miss Rebecca, which certainly brought some tears and sadness. She promises to come back and visit in the New Year, though! We really enjoyed playing our first Breakout Edu game today to review our learning in Math so far this year. The Breakout box is a student-friendly version of breakout or escape rooms where people have to solve puzzles to escape the room. In our Breakout game, the students had to use their knowledge to solve a variety of clues that unlocked the locks on the Breakout boxes (which contained small prizes). All the groups this week beat the timer on all our Breakout Edu game, which is no doubt a testament to both their knowledge of not only these subject areas, but also their problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking! In Math, we are beginning a new focus on addition and subtraction up to 18, and solving word problems. This unit will focus on deepening your child’s understanding of number relationships, counting, and place value. Below you can find a game and video we've been playing to get this unit off to a fun start! The learning goals for this unit are to:
You can also play the video and games below for extra practice at home! We've been working on estimating in Math this week with Miss Rebecca, including talking about how our estimates need to be informed and logical but not perfect, using referents (a smaller group of objects) to make an accurate estimate, and comparing our estimates to our counts. We also used grouping by 10 strategies to more accurately and efficiently count large groups of items. There are some great number sense and estimating gurus in our class! We've been busy with numbers up to 100 recently in Math, whether we were skip counting with money (a big highlight), investigating even and odd numbers, counting toothpicks like Raymond from Rain Man, and using ordinal numbers to describe objects (such as first, second, 3rd, 4th). The students were expert money counters, and felt quite prepared to spend their pretend money! If you'd like more practice at home with numbers to 100, the linked games below are focused on some of our learner outcomes for this unit.
In Math, we are beginning a new focus on numbers up to 100 and solving word problems. This unit will focus on deepening your child’s understanding of number relationships, counting, and place value. Below you can find a game and video we've been playing to get this unit off to a fun start! The learning goals for this unit are to:
You can help your child achieve these goals with the following activities at home:
In our continuing work on repeating patterns, we enjoyed touring the school this week in search of repeating patterns around Millgrove. The students took their iPads and posted patterns they saw around the school on Seesaw. We found that repeating patterns are truly all over the place, and the students composed collages of some of their favourites. Even Mr. Cherry had patterned tie on when we were searching close to his classroom! It’s neat to see that the concepts we learn about in Math time are visible all around us in real life
We are wrapping up our focus on increasing patterns in math this week. Increasing patterns are a brand new concept in grade two, and can often prove to be tricky, but the students in 2B have worked hard to describe, reproduce, extend, and create increasing patterns over the past couple of weeks. You can practice increasing patterns by taking the link to the game below!
We have been patterning up a storm here in 2B! Patterning is one of our first units in math, along with skip counting and word problems. This past week we worked hard on repeating patterns, and will soon learn about increasing patterns. The Learning Goals for this unit are to:
You can help your child achieve these goals by using some of the following activities at home
We got to visit the expert mathematicians in 4C this week who helped us explore a variety of math concepts as we rotated through their presentations and activities. The grade four students had prepared lessons, games, and online suggestions for our class to work on curricular math concepts, and we had a blast learning about math from them!
We’ve been working on data analysis in Math recently, and the class has enjoyed collecting and analysing a variety of information. In this unit, your child will be learning about graphs, and about asking questions to gather information! The Learning Goals for this unit are to:
You can help your child reach these goals through the following activities:
In Math this week we’ve been further exploring 3D objects, and focused especially on making models of different 3D objects (such as cubes, cones, spheres, pyramids, and cylinders). Take a look at the students representations in modelling clay (some of the cylinders got impressively long)! In Math, we are beginning a new focus on geometry. In this unit, we will be learning about 3D objects such as cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, and pyramids, as well as 2D shapes such as triangles, squares, circles, and rectangles. The learning goals for this unit are to:
You can help your child achieve these goals with the following activities at home:
You can also play the video and games below for extra practice at home! We made good use of our two-digit addition and subtraction skills this week as the students set up their own classroom stores and went shopping with pretend Millgrove Gift Certificates. There was lots of adding sums, subtracting to figure out change, and thinking about how we use math in our everyday lives. We also performed some price comparisons between items from a toy store flyer to see the difference in price using subtraction.
Recently we've been working with dot collections from Gerri Lorway to look for smaller groups of dots within a set of them. The students have loved using these different images to estimate the amount of dots after just seeing them for a flash, and then analyzing the sets of dots to decompose them into different groups. This helps us to use the commutative property and associative property (see above), and as Gerri Lorway says, "The ability to flexibly name numbers is foundational to building long term recall of facts."
The students to 2B have been demonstrating growing skills with two-digit addition and subtraction, so today they were given a mission to make a pretend selection of toys for themselves using online children's stores with a budget of $100. All the students stayed within the budget (with a few approvals to go over budget if their three-digit math was accurate), but their selections and adding strategies were varied and impressive. We look forward to planing more shopping trips with our math skills!
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Mrs. BarkerMrs. Barker is a grade three and literacy teacher at Millgrove School. She loves science and reading, and lives in a little brick house with Mr. Barker and her kids Jack and Ellie. Archive
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