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February 2019 Blog

Term 3- February 2019- Grade 2 Blog LOOKING BACK: UOI *In February, we have worked very hard to understand WHY and HOW people tell stories. We studied trickster tales, folktales, and moral stories, and we also explored various ways to tell a story. After all of our research, we began to come up with our Year End Performance- a retelling of Lon Po Po, a story we read in class together. For the past 2 weeks we have been hard at work planning this performance, and practicing our different storytelling methods! Math *After finishing up multiplication and division word problems, we moved onto our final math unit- measurement! First, we shared everything we already know about measurement, including tools you can use, and units that we measure in. Then, we sorted various words like "liter", "gram" and "meter" with the things they are used to measure! Finally, we created our own centimeter rules so that we could measure and compare lengths around th

January 28- February 1

Term 3- Jan 28 - Feb 1- Grade 2 Blog LOOKING BACK: UOI *This week we wrapped up our previous unit by listening to each other's town hall reports from "Happy Life Town". We said goodbye to the simulated community we created, and then it was time to start our next- and last!- unit of 2nd Grade! We began by walking around the room and observing different pictures of stories, storytelling and storytellers. We brainstormed everything we knew about the types of stories, ways of telling a story, and the reasons why people tell stories!  Math *In math, we have been focusing on multiplication. We reviewed equal groups, arrays, and repeated addition, which are all great strategies to help us understand what multiplication actually means! We then used a hundreds chart to help us look for patterns, and fill out a multiplication chart! Finally, we used our multiplication chart to answer multiplication facts quickly! English *After  wrapping up our poetry unit by pu