Holt's Hodgepodge & Hullabaloo in Two

Sunday 28 September 2014

Week 4!

Brooke was our star student this week.

Brooke is new to St. John XXIII this year so it was wonderful getting to know all about her love of soccer and pasta!

In Math this week we worked on our number sense. Click here to play Dog Bone which we used to practice our number awareness on a 100 chart. We also worked on counting to 100.

We counted by 2s starting on an odd number and discovered a pattern.

We counted by 2s starting on an even number and discovered another pattern.

We counted by 5s and saw another pattern.

Finally, we counted by 10s and identified yet another pattern.

We played some Power of Ten games to practice our basic facts. This game was called Face Off and helped us review our subtilizing from grade one.

We also worked on ordering numbers.

In science this week we continued to learn about liquids. Here you can see how we layered liquids to see which one was the lightest and the heaviest.

We also raced liquids to see which one moved the fastest and slowest.

This is our bulletin board with all our grade two scientists in their lab coats.

In Language Arts this week we introduced Listen to Reading as our last choice in Daily Five. Click her to visit Storyline Online and hear some of the stories we were listening to this week.

We continued to learn more reading strategies and added them to our Cafe Menu. We learned how to access our prior knowledge to help us comprehend and understand what we are reading. We read this book to help us practice this strategy since we all have lots of prior knowledge about listening.

We read this wonderful pattern book to learn how to cross check to make sure we are accurately reading the words on the page.

We read this book to practice the strategy of tuning into interesting words to expand our vocabulary. We certainly found lots of interesting words to tune into in this book!