Miss Nettleton's Grade 2 Classroom

- We are planning to make boats on Friday this week and have NO supplies yet! Please send your child with some supplies to build their boat. Ask them about their boat plan and the supplies that they are planning to use. - Ask me about the Thinking Routine "It is/It is not"  - Scholastic orders are due FRIDAY 

Today we practiced our subtraction skills with a new game called Race to 0. The goal of this game is to try and get from 100 to 0 first. All you need is a dice, pencil and paper! Try it at home!   We are working on the Think Addition to do Subtraction strategy right now. How to use this strategy: 1. Look at the numbers in the ones place and look at the BOTTOM number. Is it smaller or bigger that the number above? 2. If smaller then think "how many more do I need to add to get to the bigger number?" If bigger, then look at the whole number at the top and think  "how many do I need to count back to get the to smaller number?" 3. Make sure you line up the numbers using place value!

March Scholastic orders are due this Friday March 6th!  The February orders are on their way! Sorry for the delay.

Today we logged on to Prodigy for the first time. Prodigy is an online resource that helps students practice their math in an interactive "game-like" way. It's great because it gives the students automatic feedback about their answers. We will be using this in class about once a week as a support to our math learning. If you would like to send your child with headphones that can plug into the computer that would be great! If your child would like to practice more at home our Prodigy class code is: FB0071 play.prodigygame.com FB0071

We have started learning about subtraction in class! Subtraction can be a hard concept to understand so the first strategy that we will be learning is called "think addition to do subtraction". We are learning this one first because we have been working on a variety of addition strategies all year long. Ask me to explain how to use this strategy on the following questions at home!

Over the next few weeks we we be experimenting with materials and building different kinds of boats. If you have extra supplies at home that you would be willing to send to school that would be great! Here is a list of helpful supplies: - tinfoil - Saran Wrap - toothpicks - Popsicle sticks - cardboard (please cut the boxes up as it is easier to store this way!) - duct tape - styrofoam cups - plastic cups - straws If you would like to come in and help to build boats in the classroom, I would love the extra adult hands! Please email me to let me know. We will likely be building boats on the following days (this may change depending on how many days we actually need!): - Wednesday March 11 (1:00-2:00pm) - Thursday March 12 (1:00-2:00pm) - Friday March 13 (10:30-12:00pm) - Tuesday March 17 (1:00-2:00pm) - Wednesday March 18 (1:00-2:00pm)

Today we did some research on boats and how they float. Along the way we learned some other interesting information about what helps different items float.  -        Metal boat floats because of the air pockets (Anderson)  -        Chocolate sauce sinks in milk (Oliver)  o    because it is heavier than milk  -        A feather can float because it is really light (Wes)  -        A penny sinks because there are no air traps (Melanie)  -        A ferris wheel sinks because it doesn’t have any air bubbles (Cali)  -        A ship could sink if too much water gets in it because it makes it heavier when water goes in (Ethan)  -        Metal does not have the weight as cork (Hayden)  o    Metal don't have...