Jack needs some new toys to update his playroom, and 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 him with a budget of $100. All the students stayed within the budget, 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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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 We really enjoyed playing a Breakout Edu game this past Friday to review our learning in Math. 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 games, the students had to use their knowledge about adding and subtracting to solve a variety of clues that unlocked the locks on our Breakout box (which contained small prizes). The class is looking forward to playing more Breakout games in the future! 2B was very excited to borrow the Lego WeDo 2.0 kit from PSD 70’s Mobile Learning Initiative, and we learned lots about problem solving, coding, and building. It was great to see the students play to their different strengths, and different leaders and roles were elected for our different tasks. You can see some of the creations and coding that the class achieved in this video from our final day with the Lego WeDo kit! In Math we’ve been continuing our work on basic addition and subtraction facts up to 18. The students have had lots of fun playing a variety of addition and subtraction games, and you can ask them at home to tell you a number story. See if you can answer their word problems at home! 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 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:
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!
In our continuing work on repeating patterns, we enjoyed touring the school this week in search of repeating patterns around Millgrove. We found that repeating patterns are truly all over the place, and the students composed collages of some of their favourites. We also learned about the process of designing fabric, and used our knowledge of repeating patterns to design our very own fabrics and identifying their elements, rules, and cores. It’s neat to see that the concepts we learn about in Math time are visible all around us in real life!
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’ve really been enjoying playing Breakout Edu games this month to review our learning in grade two. 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 games, the students had to use their knowledge from math, science, and social studies to solve a variety of clues that unlocked the locks on our Breakout box (which contained small prizes). So far the students have beat the timer on all our Breakout Edu games! The students expanded their repertoire of coding skills this week as they programmed a variety of behaviours and interactions for the robots Dash and Dot. The robots were telling jokes, dancing, and navigating around the classroom with their programmed sequences and responses to the environment. 2B found has been finding coding very rewarding and entertaining! 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:
We’ve started coding in our class, which means that we’re telling a computer, app, phone, or website what we want it to do. This week we used an app called Lightbot and a couple of robots named Dash and Dot to practice our skills in communicating, solving complex problems, and thinking logically and critically. As this CBC article reports, Today, computing is involved in almost all aspects of our lives, from communications and education to social media, banking, information, security and shopping. Networked computers are capable of controlling our homes’ thermostats and lighting, our cars and our health records. You can read more about the thinking behind students being exposed to coding here, and we will keep you updated on our further adventures in coding! 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). We practiced our calendar skills by ordering ourselves from first to last birthday in the year In Math we have started a new focus on the topic of measurement. In this unit, your child will learn to better use a calendar and develop an understanding of linear measurement, distance around, and mass. The learning goals for this unit are to:
You can play the games below with you child and help your child achieve these goals with these activities:
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!
Jack needs some new toys to update his playroom, and 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 him with a budget of $100. All the students stayed within the budget, but their selections and adding strategies were varied and impressive. We look forward to planing more shopping trips with our math skills!
In preparation for the Rio 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!
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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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