Mrs Nowell's Class Blog A classroom blog from the students in Grade 1 and 2 

I hope everyone had a wonderful break!  We are back and ready to learn!  We did a STEM challenge this week.  The students challenge was to work with a partner to create a pom pom launcher.  They came up with a quick plan, presented and demonstrated their little machines and then we had a little launching contest.

 

We are moving forward in math with double digit adding and subtracting and this week the students had an intro to carrying and borrowing 10’s.  It would be very beneficial if the students can continue to practice their single digit facts to 20.  Knowing these simple facts helps them gain confidence and lets them move forward easily.

 

We are starting a new unit in Science about sound, I apologize now if there is extra noise at your houses over the next little while!

 

Don’t forget to log in and read with Raz-kids online.  The students are fairly well-practiced logging in and going to where they need to be.  I check this progress at least once a week and you can have access to reports from this program as well.  This is our home reading program, so no physical books will be coming home from the classroom.  They will still be getting library books out once a week though, so if you like to read out loud to them, don’t worry.

I am asked to remind parents to look for over due library books and/or pay the fines so that we can get those books back into circulation.  Also school fees are past due.  If you have not paid your fees yet, please contact the office and make arrangements to do so.

Today the students were given a lunch bag with the following things in it:

20 pieces of spaghetti

1 metre of string

1 metre of masking tape and one marshmallow

Their challenge was to build a tower with a partner,  that stood on it’s own with the marshmallow on top.  They had 18 minutes to do the challenge.  Some of the partners worked really well together, talking and trying different things.  There was a lot of great conversation going on.  At the end of the time, there were tow groups that had made a structure that stood on it’s own.

To end the lesson, we talked about what it means to keep going and trying different things, as well as ways that they could have used their supplies.

 

 

 

Today’s challenge came from here.

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