Ms. Browne's Grade 2/3 Class

  What we Learned This Week December 11-15 Literacy: In Literacy this week, students were introduced to narrative story writing. Students viewed short films such as Partly Cloudy and Pip to demonstrate the elements of a story: characters, setting, problem and solution. Students also learned that the characters and setting are introduced in the beginning of the story, the problem is introduced in the middle, and the solution at the end of the story. Students then participated in a "Roll a Story" activity about either winter or Christmas to brainstorm ideas for their narrative stories.  Students also learned how we can hook our reader using sounds, action, dialogue, imagery and questions.  They then planned out their stories in their graphic organizer and began drafting the beginning, middle and end.  Students also focused on correct errors in sentences such as, punctuation and capitalization. Students learned about when to capitalize using the acronym MINTS.  Nu...

  What we Learned This Week December 11-15 Literacy: In Literacy this week, we focused on adding conjunctions such as " because", "so" and "but" to create sentences about Winter Solstice. Students also practiced orally reading their sentences as many students will be sharing their sentences at our Winter Concert next week! Numeracy: In math this week students were placed in their targeted math groups for our unit on shape and space. Grade 2's focused on identifying the faces, edges and vertices of 3D shapes.  Grade 3's focused on classifying polygons as either regular or irregular by looking at the length of their sides and their angles. They also explored right angles, perpendicular lines, parallel lines and intersecting lines.  Today, students looked at the artwork of Pablo Picasso to make their very own Picasso art pieces using polygons on Google Slides. Students reviewed the characteristics that make a polygon: needs to be 2D/flat, have straigh...

 What we Learned This week November 27-December 1 Literacy: In Literacy this week, we focused on identifying, understanding and correcting sentence fragments. First, we learned what makes a complete sentence which includes a subject and a verb. Then as a class, we practiced identifying them in sentences and then correcting sentence fragments that were either missing the subject or the verb. Students then practiced independently correcting sentences fragments and elaborating on their sentences by adding adjectives, verbs, and adverbs.  Next week, students will be focusing on adding conjunctions such as " because", "so" and "but".  Numeracy: In math this week students were placed in their targeted math groups for our unit on shape and space. Grade 2's focused on identifying 2D shapes and 3D shapes as well as sorting 2D shapes by two attributes. The Grade 3's worked on recognizing polygons and naming polygons based on their number of sides.  Telus Spa...