Mrs. Hamm's Grade 1 & 2 Blog

It is hard to believe that we have now completed our last full week of school and there are only a couple of days left, both are all day.  We have had an exciting week of interesting activities.  Here are some of the things we have been working on We were excited to learn about the solstice and to be able to enjoy the longer days of sunlight.  We used this opportunity to get outside and celebrate National Indigenous People’s day by listening to a recording of Elder Saa’Kokoto telling a story. We have been reviewing addition and subtraction in math, as well as playing games to practice our facts. Sadly, our Sports Day was rained out this week.  Many thanks to the volunteers who came out to help and stayed to make sure that our final Fun Lunch was successful. As part of our Social Studies and Health curriculum, we watched the movie, “Inside Out” and are talking about how our actions and emotions affect ourselves and the people around us.  Students are learning to ...

The days in June just seem to fly by.  Here are some of the things that have kept us busy learning this week: In Language Arts we have been putting our writing skills to work in a variety of ways.  Students did a great job finishing up their stories.  They are now typing their work into a google document.  If you want to check out your child’s story, it is in their google drive.  We have also been gathering information about the small crawling and flying animals that share our environment through observation, reading books, and watching videos.  We have then been writing about what we have learned about these amazing animals and their important roles in our ecosystems. In Math, we have been learning about different types of graphs as a way to show data.  We learned how to read bar graphs and how to use the information from the graph to answer questions.  We also learned about pictographs and how you can use a single picture to represent a specific...

Students have spent this week working on their adventure boat stories and some of them are really taking off.  Next week, if they finish early they will begin to type their work into a google document for practice.  Speaking about typing, students were introduced to the web-based program Dance Mat Typing.  It is free and online and is a fun way to begin to learn how to type using the correct fingers.   In Math, students have been reviewing addition and subtraction equations, watching for the appropriate sign in order to perform the correct operation.  It has been joyful to watch and experience as they grow in their confidence in applying the skills they have learned to this work. We had our final in-line skating session this week and students had an opportunity to skate with the gym lights off and have some fun disco lights to see by.  They have done an amazing job of learning how to skate or advance their skating skills.  I wouldn’t be surprised ...

The time is flying by this past week.  Here are some things that have kept us busy: We finished reading our read aloud novel, “Gooney Bird Greene” We talked about how stories have characters, take place somewhere, and often have a problem or exciting event.  We were inspired by our Art and Social Studies work this week and decided to set our fictional adventure story in the Maritimes, either on , by , or in the ocean.  Students will create a story plan to record some ideas and then work on writing our stories down this coming week. Speaking of art, we completed our multi-media art piece of an Atlantic shore line.  Last week students created the background using watercolour paint and torn paper.  This week they added a 3D lighthouse that they made our of toilet roll and paper cups.  Finally, they used coloured card stock to create additions to their picture of something that would be found in the maritimes.  Many students added boats, a harbour, starf...