Water, Water, Water, Water, Water Cycle!

Learning Highlights:

• For inquiry we are learning about the water cycle. We learned that water changes state depending on the temperature. We also learned that the molecules in solids, liquids and gases behave differently. Ask me to "act" like the different molecules (gas, liquid, and solid).

• We used the Water Cycle movement break from GoNoodle to help us remember the key terms. If you would like to practice it at home, check out this link: Water Cycle - GoNoodle
• We also conducted a science experiment to find out what happens when we throw cold water and hot water in the freezing cold air.  (Please do not try at home without and adult supervising!) 

Here is the cold water in the freezing cold air...

Here is the boiling water in freezing cold air...

Click below to watch video of Ms. C throwing the boiling water:

Ask me why the boiling water turned into gas but the cold water did not!

A good review of our learnings about the water cycle can be viewed on this video here: Water Changes

• We have started a schema map of the Arctic. We started by sharing information that we already know, then as the week went on we added information under New Learning. 

• Ask us these questions to demonstrate our learning so far:
• Why do trees not grow in the Arctic?
• How much sunlight is there in the Arctic in the winter versus the summer?
• What languages are spoken in Nunavut? 
• Why are the pipes and sewage above ground?

• For literacy, we brainstormed a list of winter and arctic words to help us add descriptive language in our writing. Afterwards we discussed how descriptive language adds interest and details into our writing. 

Then, we used this picture as inspiration for a writing task. 

We had to make sure that our writing included all components on the Writing Checklist:

We also learned about orally summarizing stories that we read - and how it helps us to improve on our reading comprehension skills. We are using the story string to help us identify key moments from the stories we are reading, which will also be very useful when having to write our own stories soon. We will continue to use this as we read more Arctic stories in the upcoming weeks. 

In math, we worked on grouping numbers into tens and ones to help us add 2-digit numbers.

 

We also, expanded on our understanding of 10s and 1s by connecting it to the story of Grandma Eudora's T-shirt factory. We learned that 100 t-shirts can be bundled up into 10 rolls of 10 t-shirts, but if a customer came to buy a single t-shirt (rather than a bundle of 10 t-shirts), we would have to un-bundle a roll of 10 shirts first, making it into 9 rolls of 10 t-shirts with 10 loose t-shirts. Then we realized that 100 t-shirts could be groups into other ways - see picture below:

• Finally, we met with our Kindergarten buddies to create Buddy Bookmarks! We learned how to make bubble letters and we started decorating it with patterns. We will continue creating these the next time we meet with our buddies. 

Reminders:

1. Bow Habitat Field Trip will be on Jan 22 (Wednesday)!
• Bring extra pair of DRY close-toed shoes
• Bring a NUT FREE lunch, water bottle, and snacks
• Meet at gr.2 doors at 8:50am (we board the bus at 9:00am and will leave by 9:10am) 
2. Still needing volunteers for Guided Reading - sign up at: Guided Reading Volunteer Sign-up
3. Return the following items:
• Home Journals and Library Books (by Monday)
• Home Reading books (by Thursday)