Dear Parents/Guardians,
Welcome to Room 2's first week of Virtual Learning! Below you will find an outline of learning tasks for your child until the end of Friday, April 3rd.
As this is the first week, please just focus on the activities and learning intentions, rather than trying to submit evidence of learning. I'd rather have your child engaged and having fun, then worrying about getting their ideas down on paper.
As always, please email me with any problems or questions. :)
Staples: 'Staples' are those activities that we want to incorporate into our daily routines to help keep our minds and bodies healthy.
Everyday encourage students to do 1 staple every day for at least 30 minutes from the list below:
- Reading together. Children should read to adults and adults to kids all the way from K-12. The degree of difficulty doesn’t matter. Share the words. Look at the pictures. Talk about the ideas.
- Working around the house. Learning to cook, meal planning, home repair, yard work, managing schedules and budgets—these are all good learning. Model how to do some, explain how to do some, and also let kids figure some out on their own.
- Physical activity. A combination of indoor and outdoor, solo and with others, game-based and not.
Please note that you have the entire week to complete all learning tasks. You do not need to finish all tasks in one day! Some days you may do more literacy and some days you may do more numeracy. It's up to you!
Personal Challenge:
Learning Intention: I can find materials that will insulate myself to stay warm outside.
At the beginning of each week, please have a conversation with your child about setting an attainable goal for the week. On top of setting the goal, please have a conversation about how you and your child will know if the goal has been achieved. During some weeks, the goal may have a specific direction while other weeks the goal may be student driven.
This week's Grade 2 challenge is to get outside every day for at least 20 minutes in the morning and afternoon. Remember what we learned about hot and cold temperature and how animals in the arctic insulate themselves from the cold. How can you dress so that you are insulated against the cold temperatures this week? What materials will you wear and how many layers will you have?
Sharing your learning: By Friday, make a scientific visualization/diagram of how you insulated yourself one day this week.
A Scientific visualization/diagram should include:
1. title
2. labels
3. picture should be realistic
Literacy Focus:
Learning Intention: I can share my ideas through writing 2-3 sentences on my own. I can make my writing easy to read. I can check my writing for capital letters, periods, and spelling (focus on sight words).
This week’s focus is gratitude. For your gratitude journal, define the meaning of the word ‘gratitude’ and brainstorm ideas on how one can show gratitude during times like this. (You may want to create a web of ideas or a make a list of jot notes).
Each Friday students will be asked to write a letter to their teacher about their past week of learning. Students can select how they would like to make their learning visible (ie. written on the computer or on paper) depending on the events that took place that past week. During some weeks, students will be asked to respond to specific questions while other weeks will be more open ended.
*what have you learned about yourself this past week?
*what have you wondered about?
*how did you explore this week?
*what questions do you have for myself?
Bonus activity: Write a letter or create a card of gratitude to someone in your family or someone in your community that you are grateful for and why.
Sharing your learning: Please share your work via picture of work on paper, or a digital copy if it is on a device.
Numeracy Focus:
Learning Intention: I can accurately measure different objects using non-standard units of measurement.
This week your focus is to practice measuring different things found in your house. Some examples of non-standard units of measurements include:
-Q-tips
-Lego
-popsicle sticks
-dried pasta (macaroni noodles)
-paper clips
-body parts (hands, fingers or feet)
Task: Choose 1 non-standard unit of measure to complete the following learning tasks below:
Here are some measuring challenges to complete this week:
-what is the tallest "stuffie" you own?
-which room is the longest?
-which room is the shortest?
-who has the longest foot in your house?
-if you own a pet, how tall and long are they? (if you can keep them still!)
-what is your longest piece of furniture?
-what is your shortest piece of furniture?
-what is your tallest piece of furniture?
If you finish all the challenges above, choose another non-standard unit to measure with and repeat the tasks.
If you finish all the challenges above, choose another non-standard unit to measure with and repeat the tasks.
Reflection questions to discuss with a parent or adult:
-What are some of the benefits and problems of measuring using non-standard units of measurement? (you may want to create a T-chart to show this)
-What non-standard unit worked the best and why?
-What non-standard unit worked the poorest and why?
Listen to the story: How Tall How Short How Far Away by David Adler
