Mrs. Stringers Blog

 This week in literacy we continued our work on our Duck Diaries.  We added in a diagram and the life cycle of a duck. We also wrote about their experience swimming and doing a "Duck Walk" down the hallway.   In math this week, we learned about the 2 different systems of measurement, the metric and the imperial.  Then we looked at perimeter and how it is measuring the distand around a closed shape.  We build different rectangles with a perimete of 30 tiles. In Social Studies, we continued looking at culture in Ukraine and the beautiful artwork of Pysanky eggs.  In Science, we looked at plant life cycles and compared them to animal life cycles. Important Reminders & Upcoming Events: 1. Please,  NO Toys  at school! (No stuffies or Pokemon cards) 2. Field Trip to Fish Creek Wednesday ,  June 18th  3. Thanks to parent Council for the Yummy Cookies!! 5.  Friday, June 20th  is PJ Day!! 6. Please sign up for Healthy Hunger: h...

Ducks, Ducks, Ducks!! Welcome to our 8 ducklings that have joined the grade 2/3 team this week.  We watched them hatch from their eggs and begin growing into ducklings. Much of our learning this week and next week, will be connected to our ducklings. In literacy this week, we started our Duck Diaries.  Each day we will write an entry in our journal about the significant events that have happened with our ducklings.  So far we have written about being inside of the egg, hatching and being held.  We worked on adding in our sensory words and correctly forming sentences.   In our math groups, we began looking a measurement.  First, we worked with non-standard units and measures the length on objects around our classrooms.  Then we looked at standard units, mm, cm, m and km.  We first we estimated the lengths and then we measured with a ruler. In Science, we began looking at Living systems by looking at the duck's lifecycle. In gym class, we had a...

 In literacy this week, we began working on our last and final story based on the books by Laura Numeroff.  Her stories are circle stories, where the story beginngs and finishes the same.  This week, we planned and drafted our stories.  In word work this week, we focused on a new word part, prefixes!  This week we learned about the prefix, UN and how it changes the meaning of words to the reverse, oppostie and it can also mean not. In our math groups, we continued our work with fractions.  This week we learned how to compare fractions with the same denominators, the same numerators and how to place them on a number line. In Sciences, we learned about the layers of the Earth and made our own model with oreo cookies.  Ask your child what the 4 layers are.  In Social Studies, we learned about the traditional clothing, music and dance in Ukraine. In gym class, we enjoyed the beautiful weather outside playing mini soccer games and learning how to throw...

 In Literacy this week, we shared and planned what we did over the long weekend.  Then we began to  look at how to revise our own writing for capital letters, end puncuation and missing words, using 3-2-1 Check it!  In morphology, we reviewed how the endings, -est and -er change the meanings of words.  We reviewed how to drop the y and add an i when adding est and er.  We also created a graphic of how  -er and -est can be used to add decribtion to our writing. In our math groups, we continued looking at Fractions.  This week, we looked at representing fractions, naming fractions, comparing fractions and ordering fractions.  We also did a fraction talk, explaining what fractions they obsereved within a picture. We also did some basic fact practice outside with sidewalk chalk, working with our partner to roll dice and write the facts out on the compound. In social studies, we continued to learn about the country of Ukraine by learning about the...