The hunt for 100
On February 6th, we celebrated 100 days of being at school this year. In our class, we each brought in a collection of 100 things, and shared them with the class. We also hunted for the numbers 1-100 around our school, and recorded them to reveal a secret picture! Source:: Mme Shannon’s Blog
Happy Friday!
Every Friday afternoon, we’ve been going skating at the park. We will be continuing to go until March Break (hopefully!). Source:: Mme Shannon’s Blog
Math building
We really love our math building games in grade 1/2! Source:: Mme Shannon’s Blog
We started our new unit!
Hello Grade 1/2 families! School has just been so busy that I haven’t updated our blog in quite some time. We’ve finished our unit on Machines, and wrapped it up with a project to design our own machine to help us solve a problem relevant to us. Now, we’ve moved onto our new unit: People […]
Catapult building, our Special Guest, and Types of Energy
In the last few weeks, we’ve have the opportunity to do lots of hands on learning. We built Rube Goldberg Machines as a school activity, and more recently, we learned how to build a catapult! First, we designed our own, and tried to see which designs worked the best. Then, Madame Shannon demonstrated a catapult, […]
November 23rd, 2018
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Simple Machine Riddles
This week, students chose a simple machine found in their house and wrote 5 clues to describe it. These clues were shared with the class and they had to guess which object they brought from their house. Students then identified what simple machines were part of the object. Source:: Mme Shannon’s Blog
Museum of Science and Technology
On November 20th, we got to visit the museum of Science and Technology. We participated in a workshop about simple machines, and spent the afternoon exploring the different exhibits with many hands on learning opportunities! Source:: Mme Shannon’s Blog
Our New Unit!
To launch our new unit of inquiry, we started this gloomy Monday morning off with an exciting building activity! The students were challenged with a task to build a pyramid out of sugar cubes, but the trick was they couldn’t use their hands! Students were encouraged to use simple machines that they learned about in […]
Native American Artwork
Our inquiry into culture has brought us towards Native American culture, and its impact that it has on current day society. We listened to Native American music, watched videos about Pow Wows, and looked at types of clothing. We were especially intrigued about their dot art work, so we created our very own dot art […]