What is Growing?

Health and Healthy Living is a concern for all of us!
As a class we have been talking about healthy choices.

The Ministry of Education outlines, in the overall expectation for Grade 2, that grade two students:
2p1 -identify healthy eating practices and use a decision-making model to make healthy food choices
2p5 -identity a balanced diet and apply decision-making skills to create menus for healthy meals.
2p6 - describe the importance of food to the body (e.g. for energy and growth)
Ministry Of Education Curriculum Expectations for Grade 2

In partnership with our Growing Chef's program we are growing, discussing and will be creating a menu with the foods we are growing in class. It has been very exciting watching our food grow!



Here is a special message from all of us here in Mrs. Goodwin's class!

Constructing in Math

We have been busy working with 3D shapes.
As part of our unit we have been constructing! We have constructed structures using many different shaped and sized boxes and we also constructed some cool pyramids with toothpicks and marshmallows.

We are studying geometry and spacial sense as part of the overall expectations set out by the Ministry of Education.
In Grade Two students:
-will identify two-dimensional and three-dimensional figures and sort and classify them by their geometric properties and compose and decompose two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional figures;
–identify and describe various three- dimensional figures (i.e.,cubes,prisms,
pyramids) and sort and classify them by their geometric properties (i.e.,number
and shape of faces),using concrete materials (e.g.,“I separated the figures that have
square faces from the ones that don’t.”);
–create models and skeletons of prisms and pyramids,using concrete materials (e.g., cardboard; straws and modeling clay),and describe their geometric properties;
–build a structure using three-dimensional figures,and describe the two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional figures in the structure (e.g.,“I used a box that looks like a triangular prism to build the roof of my house.”).
Ontario Curriculum Expectations Grade 2

Parting thought, have you ever asked yourself if Sponge Bob's Pants are really square?

Kids of All Ages!

As Mrs. G. promised here are some great interactive websites!
Be sure to check out these three sites. These will help you with the classroom activities of the coming weeks.

As you all know we do a lot of writing in our classroom! Sometimes we all have a hard time getting started. So please check out Story Starters! This is a very fun and exciting game to play with your whole family!

Also, when we are doing our story writing we have been talking about the Elements of a Story. This is another site that will be fun and educational, for all ages!

Finally, with Spring comes the Birds. On our nature walk we listened for many birds. Test your knowledge of the Sounds of Spring!

Helpful Resource Links

Students and Parents,
I'd like to bring your attention to some very helpful resource links.
You will find a collection of links in the 'Resource Links' section, off to
the right side of our Blog site. I encourage you to explore these sites!
Here you will find valuable information about what we will be doing in
the classroom and some online tools that will be beneficial for all of us.

I will continue to add resources as our school year progresses.

If anyone has some valuable resource links they would like to share,
please let me know!

Enjoy!
Mrs. G.

P.S. Kids of all ages, watch for some fun new links Mrs. G. will be adding!

Come grow with us!

Growing Chef's first visit Friday April 9, 2010.
I encourage you to visit the website and check out
Classroom Gardening Project.
Parents, I invite you to stop by the classroom and see what we have growing!

Math in the Classroom

Mrs. G. needs your help!
We are working with 3D shapes in class this month.
As part of the unit study we will be building structures
using different shaped and sized boxes. If you have
small to medium sized boxes (i.e. jello, cereal, hot chocolate containers) that you could donate please send them in to school
by April 9th.
Thank You!

Visitors to our Class!

Spring brings many wonderful things,
including babies.
We will have a special guest visiting in our classroom starting this month.
Please click Visitors to our class for more information on this special program coming
to our classroom.

Many New Additions to our Class!

Tootsie and Footsie are coming to Mrs. G.'s class!
Students will be making their own puppets this month!
Watch for some mail from your child and their puppet!

W E L C O M E

Welcome to our class Blog! What better time than Spring to start something new! Starting this month we will be publishing our classroom activities on our new Blog! My Grade 2's, be sure to encourage your parents to check out our blog and tell them all about what is happening in our classroom! We all work very hard in our classroom and sharing our work with your parents is very important. We are very excited about our Blog Page! There will be lots more to share in the coming days! Please read on to see what April brings!
Look for important news in "What to Watch For!"