Reading, Math and Dancing Elves!

As a reading focus for the past few months, your child has be working on “visualization”.  This is an excellent strategy for readers to use when recalling details in a text.  Making a picture or mental image assists readers in understanding what they read by creating images in their mind, based on the details in the text and their own schema (prior knowledge). We also have been making connections to what we are reading.  When reading, a student might think to themselves how a story reminds them of a time something similar happened in their own life.  The text might remind them of another story they read.  A book may also remind them of something that happened in the world (text to world connections).  These connections help readers to understand parts of the story, how a character feels or make them think about how they would respond if they were in the text.  Reading really is THINKING!
On Fridays, we have math stations before heading off to gym.  We are becoming very good at choosing activities that interest us and staying on task for longer periods of time.  

Prodigy is a favourite!

Using the smartboard

More Prodigy math fun!

We had more elves dancing at Holy Redeemer on Friday.  They have some smooth moves!

Greater Than Less Than and Forces

In Math, we are looking at ways to represent numbers as well as compare them.  Today we began our math stations during second block.  Some of us were using Dreambox and others were using Seesaw to represent numbers.  Another group used ABCys to work with base ten blogs and guessing what a number might be.  A lot of us need more practice with the greater than and less than sign.  We watched two short videos that helped us understand the signs better.  I really like the idea of drawing two dots beside bigger number and one dot beside the smaller number,  You connect the dots and voila!  You have the correct sign!  What a great help:)


In Science we are learning about Forces Causing Movement.  One force is static electricity.  Andrew was going down the slide and his hair stood up-I decided to take a video of this occurrence. Well...let's just say that the static electricity won!

Kindness

We had a fire alarm today at school and we did very well!  Way to go grade 2s! Please check out our blogs here to look at what we have been up to at our math stations.
We also continued to look at being good digital citizens and brainstormed words about kindness.  Our words were turned into this beautiful heart:)

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