May 5 - 9

 

I Can:

- create written messages that align with an intended audience or purpose

- organize sentences in a logical sequence to create written messages

- collect ideas that are inspired by a variety of experiences

- apply creative thinking to create representation of messages

- include adjectives and adverbs to add interest and detail to writing

- use organizational tools to record or categorize information

Grade 2 ELAL

I Can:
-discuss ways to respect plants and animals while interacting in various environments. 
-explain positive and negative impacts of human behaviour on plants and animals. 
-discuss how humans might interact with land, plants, and animals if they see land, plants, and animals as equals. 
-discuss how various components of Earth interact to support life. 
Grade 2 Science

Students have worked hard this term learning about different types of writing and practicing their skills. We connected our science curiculum to our writing by learning about life cycles, where in Canada we can find different animals, what we can do to help protect the environment, and other amazing facts. We were super engaged in our learning and became pretty attached to the animals we chose to write about!

Going to the zoo on Monday was an exciting chance for us to see our brochures and migration stories come to life. Students were thrilled to see the moose, porcupine, buffalo, caribou, monarch butterfly, and polar bear, and goose that they wrote about, in the flesh!

During the program, our facilitator, Tom shared important information about the animals living in Canada's Arctic region. We learned about adaptations, like large polar bear paws, their three layers of fur, caribou antlers, how long seals can hold their breath, prickly stems on arctic poppies, muskoxen with their thick, heavy fur, and the difference between animals with eyes in the front and animals with eyes on the sides. We learned about the divergence of ice in the spring and the convergence of ice in the winter. Tom read us a story about our beloved polar bear, Siku, and how he came to our zoo from Winnepeg. We even felt some real polar bear fur!

Thank you to the parent volunteers who joined us for this off-site activity!