Ms. Browne's Grade 2/3 Class

  What We Learned This Week: October 23-27 Literacy: In literacy this week, we began working on a descriptive paragraph about a monster the students created after reading the story Monsters Love Underpants to provide them with inspiration for brainstorming.  We began by planning the monster, adding very descriptive details using adjectives, and then we learned about similes using the words like or as.  The grade 2 & 3's are very excited to revise their writing and read them to their Grade 5/6 buddies next week. In phonics, students were exploring the long /e/ sound looking at the vowel team of ea.  Numeracy:  In math this week, it was Pumpkin math! Students were exploring estimation and skip coutning by using pumpkin seeds. Students created an initial estimate without looking inside the pumpkin, then opened up the pumpkin to make a better estimation using a benchmark, and then used skip counting to count the actual number of seeds. Students then compared the...

 What We Learned This Week: October 16-20 Literacy: In Literacy this week, we continued with our writing personal narratives.  As a class we read the book The Party as a mentor text to help students brainstorm ideas for their writing about a time they have been to a party using their memory pocket. Students continued to work through creating a plan, a draft, and revising their work using our 3,2,1 check it, then sharing their story about a party they had been to with a partner.   In phonics, students were exploring the long /e/ sound looking at the vowel team of ee in words such as, sleep, green, need etc.  Numeracy: In numeracy this week, students were placed into their small, flexible groupings for their Math centre rotations: Teacher, Practice, Game and Fluency. During the teacher rotation, students were in small groups focusing on a specific skill, practice rotation to reinforce the skill, game rotation is hands-on game that focuses on the current skill or a...

  What We Learned This Week October 10-13 Literacy: In writing this week, we continued with our writing process of plan, draft, revise, share. Our writing goal for this week was to add more details to our writing and creating a focus for our writing.  As a class we read the book  The Worst Best Friend  and students created a picture plan about what they like to do with their best friend, how they can be a good friend, a time when they were the "worst" best friend, how did they feel and how did they fix it. Students then starting drafting their stories by creating a five finger story (topic, detail, detail, one time, feeling). Students will be continuing to use the five finger story to help them stay on topic and add details to their writing. This is the beginning stages of creating a focused paragraph.  Students then used their 3,2,1 check it strategy to revise their work with a partner. In phonics this week, students applied their knowledge of the digraphs ai a...

  What We Learned This Week October 2-6 Literacy: In writing this week, we began our writing process of plan, draft, revise, share. Our writing goal for this week was to add more details to our writing and creating a focus for our writing. We talked about how sometimes we cannot fit all information into one sentence (becomes a run-on sentence), so we need to break it up into more sentences that still remain on topic.  As a class we read the book  If I Built a School  and students created a picture plan if they were to build a school, what would they include in their school. Students then starting drafting their stories by creating a five finger story (topic, detail, detail, one time, feeling). Students will be continuing to use the five finger story to help them stay on topic and add details to their writing. This is the beginning stages of creating a focused paragraph.      In phonics this week, students were introduced to /reviewed the digraphs ai an...