Mrs. Stringers Blog

It was very lovely to speak with parents this week about the progress the grade 2 & 3's have been making this year!  Thanks for taking the time to meet with me!  In Literacy this week, we completed our last personal narrative story independently for assessment.  The grade 2/3's did a wonderful job planning, drafting and revising their story about their BEST toy.  They did a great job with their writing stamina and writing independently.  In reading, we continued with our reading groups and each group did a great job this week practising their book and working on the phonics skills we learned in each small group. In math this week, we finish our work with data management.  We reviewed dot plot graphs, looking at how we can analyze and read them.    In Social Studies, this week we began our social studies unit of mapping.  We looked at a compass rose and how we can use it to give directions and read a map. Looking Ahead to Next Week: 1. In Literacy, we will focus on writing c

 Happy Métis Week!! In literacy, this week we wrote a paragraph on a Métis theme.  We read a story called the Giving Tree and had some great discussions about reciprocity and what we would give up to the tree.  We planned and drew what we would give up in complete sentences.  We also read again with our buddies on Friday, sitting Elbow to Elbow and Knee to Knee.  We continued with our literacy groups and practised the suffixes -ly on our white boards. In math this week, we continued with our data management unit.  This week, we worked on dot plot or line plot graphs.  We learned that they are a frequency graph and they help to represent the data in a more visible way. In the afternoons, we discussed Métis culture and learned about 3 distinct symbols of the Métis peoples.  We learned about the Métis Sash, the Red River charts and the Métis flag.  We also talked about how beading is important to the Métis people and completed some pointillism art.  Looking Ahead to Next Week: 1. In Liter

 In literacy this week, we continued our focus on poetry.  This week we learned about a specific type of poetry, Acrostic poems.  We read different examples and then wrote our own poem about Remembrance Day.  We also continued with our focused literacy phonics groups. In math this week, we continued our unit on data management.  This week we learned about pictographs, reading, interpreting and creating pictographs.  We also learned that each picture in a pictograph needs to be the same size and begin at the further left part of the graph. In science, we finished up the last outcomes in our Science unit on matter.  This week we focused on what makes reversible and permanent changes.  We defined the meaning of both and looked at various examples together.  Then we did an experiment of mixing baking soda and vinegar together and capturing the gas it produced in a balloon.  We also explored and investigated reusable hand warmers and watched the chemical change that created heat.   Looking

 In literacy this week, we began looking at poetry.  We looked at various samples of poetry and created an anchor chart about poetry. Then we brainstormed facts we know about bats and read a story called Stellaluna that gave us many more facts about bats.  Then we took what we learned and created our first poem about bats.  Also, this week we began our first session with our literacy groups moving classrooms and meeting a new teacher to work on targeted phonics learning.  On Friday, we worked on our buddy reading, sitting elbow to elbow and knee to knee with a partner. In math this week, we continued learning about data management.  We talked about different ways to gather data.  We can gather it from first hand or second hand sources.  We completed our first survey, asking the class what their favourite candy is.   In Science, we learned about the water cycle, and it's the important parts such as evaporation, condensation and precipitation.  The grade 2/3's created a visual re