We began the month with an incredible bang! Principal's Choice Assembly!
The Grade Twos helped with presenting the May Value of "Courage" and they did a tremendous job! From the Grade Two class Maple received the Principal's Choice for April's Value of Honesty… Way to Go Maple!! Also, the Grade Twos who had perfect attendance for the month of were Jack, Spencer, Adelle, and Maple.
Following the assembly we returned to the classroom and engaged in our new unit in Mathematics which is, "Multiplication, Division, and Fractions". The Learning Goals for this unit can be found on the scroll tab under Subject Areas. The students focus was principled throughout the duration of the introduction of the unit and many inquiries were made. The math quizzes were also marked and returned, and I was extremely delighted with all of the results!
In Language Arts, we began our new Novel Study of the book "Little Princess". This novel was received with a slight disappointment from the boys in the class, but delight from the girls. I outlined to all the students that opening our minds to new text is how we can all learn new things about ourselves and that many different genres of books have been studied throughout the year! After, the novel study the students continued their Grammar exercises on ~are~ sound /air/.
Science, was a fantastic lesson! As a whole class we had a closer study of our unit of, "Movement". The lesson began with balanced understanding and reading from the book, "Move It". This book discusses and presents the concept of force. The children were inquisitive about the nature of push, pull, and friction. Following the group discussion the students completed a cross-curricular task of creating a template of information, which presented the type of force, it's definition and a diagram depicting the force that most interested them.
After, Science the students had a blast in Physical Education. They began their new unit "Soccer Skills". The children practiced proper passing techniques and trapping skills. After, practice the students went outside and had a fun game where they applied the knowledge they had gained.
