Mrs. Hamm's Grade 1 & 2 Blog

What an exciting and busy week we have had.  We have been working on the following projects and concepts: Our Math work continues with more strategies for subtraction.  The grade ones are continuing practice for counting back and number line.  This week we also looked at being able to subtract 0, 1 and 2 quickly.  The grade twos have begun a new strategy for two digit subtraction - decomposing numbers.  As this is a new and challenging concept, they have been working with numbers that do not require regrouping. Our Science and Language Arts work on non-fiction research has continued this week.  Students finished with the book exploration and began working on the computers to learn more about their animal.  Appropriate website links, Epic books, and videos are posted in the google classrooms for students.  The researchers are learning to work collaboratively in order to gather information effectively. In Phys Ed. We wrapped up our Curling unit....

First, I would like to apologize... I am sorry that I have dropped our 'blog' ball two weeks in a row. I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter Weekend with family and friends. Please enjoy this catch up blog. April 11 - 14 We have had a short, but busy week.  Here are some of the things that we have been working on: In Language Arts we have been practicing reading non-fiction text and taking notes. Students are learning to just write down the important words to help them remember new information.  They have been working in groups to help find information in a variety of books and are learning how to collaborate in order to effectively find and share important facts.  Everyone has learned how to use a table of contents and an index to help them find the information they were looking for.   As our work on the prairies in the past continues, students have been examining artifacts of prairie life.  They have been learning to look at artifacts from a scientific p...

It is finally beginning to feel like spring and we are so happy to have the opportunity to spend more time outdoors with our learning.  Here are the highlights for this week: We were so excited to have another coulee adventure this week.  Our work this time was to notice signs of spring using our senses.  We looked carefully at the mud, grass, and the buds on the trees.  We listened to the sounds of returning birds (robins and woodpeckers).  We noticed that the earth smells differently when things start to melt.   We also explored two different types of art on the land during this trip.  Students explored creating designs with rocks in the snow.   We also worked with our artist, Karen on capturing shadows of things in nature and we will use these marks as a jumping off place for creating colourful images inspired by Na’a. In addition to our art work, we read a picture book called “Ishi”.  This story is about a rock character who giv...