REMINDER: TOMORROW IS ROOM 10's TRIP TO YPT! 

Room 10 has begun Measurement in Math.

We have been focusing on Nonstandard units (such as measuring objects in the classroom using paperclips, snap cubes, feet etc..).

This week and next week we will be focusing on Perimeter, Area in the next few weeks.

Measurement Math Resources (to practice at home):

http://homeworkzone.tvokids.com/category/educationaltags/mathematics/measurement

Honesty Assembly:

The students of Room 10 created posters for our Honesty Assembly, check out what they came up with!

TVO Kids Science Resources for Grade 2 (Air and Water):

http://homeworkzone.tvokids.com/hwz/science

The Water Cycle Song

Room 10 has been practicing a song that helps us learn the water cycle....

Water Travels In A Cycle
(Sung to She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain)

Water Travels In A Cycle, yes it does.
Water Travels In A Cycle, yes it does.

It goes up as Evaporation.
It forms clouds of Condensation.
It comes down as Precipitation.

Yes it does!

In the last few weeks Room 10 has.....

Done a few Science Experiments: How to turn a solid into a liquid and back into a solid
by: Veronica and Eva

Step 1:Take the jello powder and pour it in the bowl.

Step 2: Now get one cup of boiling water. You can use a boil pot
(solid) or hot tap water (liquid) when you have chosen you can pour
your cup of hot water into a bowl and stir until your powder has completely dissolved in the bowl.

Step 3: Next pour one cup of water into your bowl (solid) and stir until thicker than normal water.

Step 4: Put your liqiudish solid into the fridge.

Step 5: let set for about 12 hours.

Step 6: Enjoy :) !!!!! :)
                   

Planting Broccoli, Watermelon and Swiss Chard...
by: Jordayne and Sidonie

Materials:
-Soil
-Seeds
-Germinator
-Water
-Sunlight

Opening: Room 10 planted swiss chard, broccoli and watermelon.

What did we do:
Step 1: We got the soil then and the seeds. (We all chose what we wanted to plant)
Step 2: We put the soil in and the seeds were very gentle
Step 3:  We put a little bit of water in it every morning.
Step 4:  give it sunshine and water every morning and afternoon.

One week later...the broccoli and swiss chard are sprouting!

Starting Poetry

By: Eva and Sidonie

On April 9^th Room 10 started poetry. So far it’s great (Everyone likes it). We made acrostic poems with are names and put them on our lockers. They all look AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! We are getting inspiration from the book “Everything on it”. I think it’s going to help us a lot (plus its so funny)!!! We are poetry heros!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

REMINDERS:

Math:
The Grade 1 and 2 students will be having a Math Money Quiz on Friday, April 12th.
Science:
The Grade 2 Animal Project is due April 17th.
Literacy:
The Grade 1 and 2 students have begun poetry and will continue throughout the month of April.
The Grade 1 and 2 students will have a Literacy Test on April 25th.

Thank you.

-Ms. Givelos

Room 10's Coin Song:
Sung to "What does the fox say"

Verse 1:
Penny's brown, the silver ones are... nickel, dime and quarter.
Loonie's gold ,and toonie has both, silver and go-o-o-o-o-ld

Bridge:
The dime is small and the toonie's big and the rest are in between.
So listen up because room 10 knows how much they're wo/o/o/o/o/o/o/o-rth.

Chorus:
How much is a nickel? Five Five Five Five (repeat to beat)
How much is a dime? Ten Ten Ten Ten (repeat to beat)

Verse 2:
A nickels five, a dime is ten and a quarter is twenty-five
Loonie is a hundred cents but it's also a d-o-o-o-o-o-llar

Bridge:
The dime is small and the toonie's big and the rest are in between.
So listen up because room 10 knows how much they're wo/o/o/o/o/o/o/o-rth.

Chorus:
How much is a quarter? Twenty-five, twenty-five, twenty-five (repeat to beat)
How much is a loonie? A hundred, a hundred (repeat to beat)

Written by: The Students of Room 10
Typed on blog by: Sidonie, Eva and Ms. Givelos

This song was created by the students in Room 10 to help them learn about the different coins (Number Sense and Numeration). If you would like to sing to instruments click this Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSJ_F3Oy3gs

MATH RESOURCE:

As we continue to learn/practice Money (Number Sense and Numeration), here is are a few resources the students can use to practice counting money at home:

http://www.tvokids.com/games/coincombo

http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-2/count-money-up-to-1-dollar

MATH UPDATE:

The students of Room 10 have begun learning about Money (Number Sense and Numeration). We are currently practicing using different coins (understanding value) to represent different numbers. Every Friday the students will be able to purchase items in the "Room 10 Store" with school money they have received throughout the week as a result of achievement points/classroom behaviour etc...Have your student discuss the concept and possibly seek help with counting coins.  If you would like to work on money at home using the school money with your child, please let me know and I can provide a few activities.

Thanks!

Please note the below curriculum expectations for Money under Number Sense and Numeration:

Grade 1:
-identify and describe various coins and state their value
-represent money amounts to 20 cents using coin manipulatives
-count forward by 1's, 2's,5's and 10's to 100

Grade 2:
-compose and decompose two-digit numbers in a variety of ways using materials (such as coins)
-estimate, count, and represent the value of a collection of coins

GRADE 2 ASSIGNMENT:
The following message was sent home today with an attached checklist.

Dear Parents,

For the past few weeks we have been learning about Growths and Changes in Animals. Throughout the next few weeks as we continue on with our Science Program (Air and Water, Liquids/Solids/Gases, Mapping) we will continue to explore the various types of animals and discuss where they live.

The students will be creating their OWN animals and will be presenting it to the rest of the class. All of the required elements of this project will be due on: April 17^th, 2014. Presentations will begin on April 17^th, 2014.

Please see the attached checklist as the students will need to answer the questions during their presentation.

The students will have class time to work on their animals and if are able to work with me during recess if they need extra help when answering their questions, researching different types of animals, help with their poster.

Please note over the next few weeks the students will be completing research, be shown examples of a completed project/poster and will have an opportunity to discuss their ideas with each other.

Ms. Givelos

Wishing everyone a happy, fun and safe March Break! See you all back at school on Monday, March 17th.
-Ms. Givelos

REMINDER: Please return the following permission forms by tomorrow March 5th.
a) The Great Big Crunch (March 6th)
b) Young People's Theatre (March 18th)

*Please note: there is a $10.00 ticket fee for Young People's Theatre

Thank you in advance!

Check out what the students of Room 10 are saying about...

ARTFEST!
By:  Michela (Grade 2)

Last week we had “Artsfest”,it was fun. We did a Greek dance. We also sang three songs in choir. It was fun watching other school and classes. It was exciting when we were about to perform.

Post by Ms. Givelos: The students danced the Greek Cultural Dance "Sirtaki" and worked with Levels, Forms of Dance, Pace as part of The Arts Curriculum.

Daily Math Riddles
By: Veronica (Grade 2)

Every day we have a riddle on our lockers some are different and some are the same. It is going to help us with our math program. Every day we take it of our lockers and go into the class and write it. If we don’t know how to write it we can draw it. 

Post by Ms. Givelos: As part of our Geometry program and recognizing/describing 3D shapes the students of Room 10 have a Daily Math Riddle that relates and describes shapes by their real life connection, number of 2D faces, edges and vertices. This week the students will be creating 3D shapes using straws, they will be assessed in their ability to create and describe the shapes based on their attributes.

In Art, Room 10 has also been exploring the use of lines and colour to create an image of 2D Shapes (math).

The Arts

Learning a Greek Cultural Dance
By: Brigid and Sidonie

We learned how to do a Greek dance. Sirtaki is the name of the Greek dance. Step 1slide to the right slide to the left then slide to the right. Step 2 step forward and kick behind you with your right foot. Step 3 Kick forward with your right foot and then your left and then your right again well going backwards. Step 4 step forward with your right then pretend to step forward with your left and tap your heal with your left foot. That’s all we know. We like the dance because it is fun/cool and you get to learn new dance moves.

REMINDER: Report Cards go home on Tuesday, February 11th. I will be sending home interview requests with potential dates and times for parents that I would like to meet with. If I do not send home a request, you are more than welcome to request one.

*Please bring back SIGNED permission forms for the Field Trip on Wednesday

-Ms. Givelos 

January News

What's new in SCIENCE?
The grade 2's started researching facts about different animals and their characteristics.... We will be creating our own animals and discussing why they have certain characteristics! (e.g. a shell to protect themselves)

The grade 1's are taking care of plant (they named the plant "Minty") and are going to watch how it grows. In February, they will be putting the plant in a bigger pot with more soil to observe the changes. They will be recording this information in their Observation Books.




















What's happening in Math?
GEOMETRY. The students of Room 10 have been creating pictures using 2D geometric shapes such as triangles, squares, trapezoids etc... We have also been exploring SYMMETRY. The students began creating pictures using geometric shapes to demonstrate their understanding of SYMMETRY.

We also rearranged our class mat to be symmetrical.

Throughout the month of February we will continue Geometry and also focus on Number Sense and Numeration (Addition).

LITERACY:
We have been exploring and retelling the MAIN IDEA and DETAILS in various stories in order to improve our sentence writing and our oral communication. The students of ROOM 10 worked with a partner to describe steps on how to colour in the same pictures. They were not allowed to see their partners picture, they had to use their words to describe their actions.

THE ARTS:
The students of Room 10 are collaborating with Room 9 to learn a Cultural Greek dance. They will be performing this dance at Arts Fest in February.


LAST WEEK OF JANUARY:

Wednesday - Officer Eric came in and discussed Internet Safety and Street Safety with the students.
Thursday - We went to Humber College and the students got to check out some great inventions.
Friday - We went to the ROM and the students got to explore the different exhibits.

*REMINDER: Report Cards go home February 11th!*

Room 10's New Years Resolutions

At the beginning of 2014 the students of Room 10 learned about resolutions and the definition.
We then brainstormed ideas about what we all wanted to do better in 2014.

Each student then individually created their own resolutions. Come by our lockers and check out our individual goals!

Memories from 2013 by Eva

Baking Is Fun!

To help us learn how to write Recipes, Room 10 (Ms. Givelos’ class) and Room 15 (Ms.Kondo’s class) got together and made some delicious brownies and rice crispy squares! We used about 100 marshmallows for the rice crispy squares and the brownies had lots of cocoa! We separated in to groups, some grade 1/2s went to help the HSPs make brownies and some HSPs went to help the rest of the 1/2s make rice crispy squares. When everything was baked, ready and cooled down we all ate them, they were all so delicious. At the end we all made recipie books for each other. BAKING IS FUN!!!

Eva
Room 10
Grade 2

Welcome to Room 10's blog!

Hello Everyone and welcome to Room 10's blog!
Check in weekly to see all of the exciting things that we are doing!
-Ms. Givelos