June 1st 2015 week with Selimos

Greetings Parents and Students,

We began the school week on Monday with multiplication strategies (new Grade 2 mini-unit).  The children have been exposed to vocabulary including:  multiplication, product (answer when multiplying), groups of, sets, arrays,  “times”.  This week we have worked on creating sets using 0, 1, 2 and 5. 

Please continue to encourage your child to use Raz_kids for reading.  As well, see the following multiplications sites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BchpGkLvTy8   multiplication song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCJug1WlYJs  10 times table rock song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igoGDE5hLjw  2s to 10s times tables

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu3JSnRaaV0   multiplication tricks using your hands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzXcI49jdV0  1 to 12s songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBTGKiVgWcA  Multiplying by 9s HAND TRICK

Corbin was our awesome Star of the Week.  He is an only child who was born in Regina.  He has 2 pets; a cat named Tink, from the Humane Society and a male German shepherd named Rider.  He is a HUGE Rider fan.  He enjoys traveling and has been to Cuba, Mexico, Disneyworld, Banff and more.  His favourite colour is red and he loves to eat steak.  Thanks for the yummy cupcakes for the classroom on Tuesday!

Creative writing assignments this week included poetry responses and inventions.  The children created a SUNNY KEEP COOL MACHINE.  They drew their inventions, wrote about them and then presented to their classmates.   Writing traits focus was about naming/telling parts to plan sentences.  For this activity, the children were to think about what happens at a BAKE SALE.  They completed a chart with the following columns:  What to Buy/What to Do/ Who is There.

Our latest science theme is: Forces and Motion.  Vocabulary include:  push, pull, speed, motion, movement, force, position (over, under, behind, beside, in front of, etc.), friction.  Check out some of these short videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOcY37oGhj8  A Push or a Pull Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRNXvAbwS7M   Very short motion song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZlqas0tixo  Push and Pull song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcoYeNbyqvw  Force and Motion song based on Grinch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKmhS4qLj_s   The Motion Song

University of Regina, EYES (Educating Youth Engineering Science) students, Kelsey and Taylor visited our classroom on Wednesday afternoon.  The children were introduced to the terms “engineers” and “scientists” through drama.  Next, the children became “doctors” performing exploratory surgery on  little doll bodies, using magnets and toothpicks to find keys that Taylor “accidentally” swallowed. 

We are a good hour away from departing the school to head to BROWNS COULEE.  Pics to follow.

Wishing everyone an awesome June month!

Ms. Selimos J