MathWe coded a house! This week, Mrs. Craig and Mr. Sandberg's class used our understanding of patterns, numbers, and shapes to collaboratively code a house. Below is a short video of our Class House Program, as well as a link where you can interact with the Class House.
We have also been busy continuing our work on growing and repeating patterns. We've looked at shape, colour and number patterns. Students are asked to identify missing elements of patterns, extend patterns, and describe patterns.
A few students were working on the Brain Buster challenge and a few students even solved this pattern challenge. This pattern is known as the Fibonnaci sequence and is found all over nature, such as pinecones, shells, sunflowers, etc. With your child, try to extend and describe the pattern below.
Inquiry
This week, we continued comparing the past to the present using Venn diagrams.
We also had a farmer from Grow Calgary come in to talk with and answer questions from our Grade 2's. This expert helped us to find further connections between entomology and farming on the prairie. The Farmer blew our minds when he told us they had purchased approximately 70,000 Ladybugs to help protect their crops from pests like aphids.
Writing
We have been working on increasing our descriptive word vocabulary and using our new descriptive words to write descriptive sentences and paragraphs. First students brainstorms a variety of descriptive words for insect shape, colour, size, and movements. Next, we used our descriptive words and transition words to create sentences about our insects.
James and the Giant peach
We finished James and the Giant Peach and then we watched the Disney movie by the same name. Afterwords we compared and contrasted the book and the movie.
Art
We also finished our work with the Artist in Residence. Students created thoughtful insect art. Ask you child which insect they chose and if it's a helpful or harmful insect to gardens and crops in the Prairies.
Comments
Post a Comment