Celebration of Learning

Reminders:

Please remember to bring home reading books and library books back next week
Math practice has been sent home with students - please remember to bring the word problems booklet back, but the additional subtraction and addition practice booklet does not need to be returned.
Dates to remember:

Mar. 9 – Rescheduled Evergreen Theatre (The Wicked Witch of the Wetlands) at 2:00pm

Mar. 19 – PM parent/teacher/student conferences 4:30 – 8:00 (bookings open March 12 at 5:00 pm)

Mar. 20 - parent/teacher/student conferences 8:00 – 12:00 No school for students

Mar. 21 – Mar. 29 – Spring Break

Monday, Mar. 30 – School Back in

This week we had our celebration of Learning! It was a lot of fun to show off what we knew about heat and temperature, and its impact on life in the arctic.

These are the solutions that we came up with:

Which solution do you think is the best? And, why?

We also showcased the experiments that we did for learning about heat and temperature.

What is heat transfer?

What did you feel?

Did the temperature change?

What is heat conduction?

What materials are the best at conducting heat?

We got to share our finished art which was inspired by the aurora borealis

...and our soapstone carvings -this art was inspired by Inuksuk:

here is a ice structure inspired by an Inuksuk.

... and our watercolor paintings of arctic animals:

For writing we practiced descriptive sentences for our Arctic stories.
For math we were working on subtraction and fact families. We played math "Splat" to help us build our understanding of fact families:

this helped us to see that 10 - 2 = 8, AND 10 - 8 = 2 ....also, 2 + 8 = 10 and 8 + 2 = 10

Here are some other math games we played to practice our fact fluency:

Doubles and Near Doubles: playfactile.com/gr2doublesfacts
For more practice with stacking addition, try this: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/2nd-grade90