Mrs. Hachey-Melanson

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Be extra kind and polite to someone today.

Listen to a book on Epic or Raz Kids. Draw a picture of your favorite part and write about why it is your favorite part. Share with someone.

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A new STEAM Issue is on the Home Learning Page. This is a great way to do hands on learning and cross curricular activities.

Check out this week’s Camp Mathematician on the Numeracy Home Learning Page.

Pick your favorite game from Phys. Ed and teach it to someone, then play.

Pick a book from Raz Kids, a book from home or read a chapter from any other book. If it is a narrative: Talk, write or draw about the characters, setting, problem and solution. If it is an informational book talk, write or draw 5 interesting facts.

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Read or listen to a book. Write a book recommendation to one of your friends. Include your favorite parts and why you think they would like the book.

 

Write about something you are looking forward to doing this summer. Don’t forget to make a plan first and check to make sure you have your upper cases and periods in the right spots.

Number of the Day: Roll dice to create a 2 digits (gr.2) or 3 digits (gr.3). On paper, represent your number in as many ways as you can. Ex: tallies, addition, subtraction, repeated addition, base tens, money, story problem and words.

Posted: June 2, 2020

Good Morning Grade 2/3,

I am at school today and I find I miss you all so much! Hopefully we will be able to see each other soon. Today is June 2, 2020. Next week will be our last week of home learning. Do you have any plans for the summer? I am looking forward to watching Henry on his new playset and getting ready for our new baby. 

I hope you all have a fabulous day and know that I am thinking of you all. Remember to be kind.

Heart,

Mrs. Melanson

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On Epic, search “garden” in the Read to Me section. Then pick non-fiction books. Are there any books you are interested in? Listen to them. Tell someone about something interesting you learned about gardening.

After you read your book think about the title of your book. Why do you think the author chose that title? Use evidence from the book to support that answer.

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How many words can you make using the letters in “Planting Flowers”

Practice your addition strategies with the following problems:

Grade 2

56 + 27

23 +25

40 + 57

67 + 29

Grade 3

145 + 237

472 + 335

558 + 429

387 +194

 

 

 

 

Write down information (3-5 things) from the gardening books you listened to on Epic. Write about how you think this information would be helpful to someone doing gardening? How so?

Check out this week’s Nature Ninjas on the Numeracy Home Learning Page.

Think about your favorite part of the school year. Write about it. What happened? Include why it was your favorite. Who was there? How did you feel?

A new STEAM Issue is on the Home Learning Page. This is a great way to do hands-on learning and cross-curricular activities.

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Practice your subtraction strategies:

Grade 2:

72 – 45

68 – 29

45 – 34

89 – 67

Grade 3:

457 – 135

679 – 445

872 – 645

288 – 257

 

 

 

Posted: May 25, 2020

Good Morning Grade 2/3,

How was your weekend? Mine was great! We did some gardening and replanted some flowers. Today is May 25, 2020. It is Monday. How many days until June? How many weeks until the start of summer? It is supposed to be very warm this week. This week I would like to challenge you to do something kind for someone else. Can you find at least 5 small words within words in this morning message?

Have a wonderful week and remember to be kind.

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Mrs. Melanson

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Math

Find 3-D objects in your home – how many faces, edges or vertices do they have? Do you remember what they are called? If you can’t, have an adult help you.

Some of the names include: sphere, rectangular prism, cube, cylinder and pyramid

A new STEAM Issue is on the Home Learning Page. This is a great way to do hands on learning and cross-curricular activities.

Read a book. Can you make any connections? Text to self (that’s a connection to you)

Text to text (that’s a connection to another book)

Text to World (that’s a connection you make to the world around you)

 

Write the main idea from a book, magazine or newspaper article that you are reading.

The RAAP Strategy Read the book, magazine, paragraph or article. Ask yourself, “What is the main idea in what I read?” Ask yourself, “What are the important details?”. In your own words, write about the main idea and details.

On Epic search “soil” in the Read to Me section. Are there any books you are interested in? Listen to them. Tell someone about something interesting you learned about soil.

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Use playing cards- Remove the face cards from the deck. Flip over four cards and make two-two digit numbers. Add these numbers together in your head. Write down the problem and answer. Now it is your partner’s turn to do the same. Play until one of you gets as close to 500 as you can without going over. The person closest to 500 wins.

Collect your favorite books and toys. Make a super cool fort to read these books in.

Check out this week’s Nature Ninjas on the Numeracy Home Learning Page.

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Our essential workers have been working so hard. It would be kind to write a letter, make a card or a sign to say thank you!

Please take a look at the News section on the Home page of our website for more information on the Mental Health Session available for parents from John Fletcher. 

Posted: May 19, 2020

Hello Grade 2/3,

I hope everyone had a great Victoria Day weekend! Today is Tuesday, May 19, 2020. What did you do this weekend? We played outside and went for a bike ride. I loved being outside in the sun! I hope you enjoy this week’s choices on our Choice Board. Don’t forget that Mrs. MacDonald has some fun activities posted on her webpage as well.  Can anyone solve this math word problem? Mrs. Lee bought our classroom 72 books. I gave everyone in our classroom 2 books to take home. How many books do we have left in our classroom?

Have a wonderful week and remember to be kind!

Heart,

Mrs. Melanson

Making Words

How many words can you make with “Happy Spring”?

Check out this week’s Nature Ninjas on the Numeracy Home Learning Page.

After you read a book write a different ending for the book. Do you like your ending better? Did you make it silly or serious? Read the new ending to someone. Which ending do they like best?

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Math

Guess My Number- Roll a dice and create a number – write three clues about your number using base ten.

For example I roll 46. My three clues could be I have 4 tens and 6 ones, I have 3 tens and 16 ones, and I have 1 ten and 36 ones. Have the other person guess your number. Take turns rolling the dice and creating your three clues.

Do something kind for someone this week. You could make them a card, help them with something, give them a daily complement, or call someone who you have been missing and let them know.

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A new STEAM Issue is on the Home Learning Page. This is a great way to do hands on learning and cross curricular activities.

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As you finish up your assigned outcomes I will assign new ones.

After reading, record your personal thoughts, and any questions you may have about the book/chapter. You could also draw a picture of your favorite part.

Math

Roll a dice – Skip count by 5 from that number- Record the next 5 numbers in that sequence on your paper

Start at 114 - skip count backwards from that number by 10 to 0. Record the numbers you said.

Roll a dice- Skip count forwards by 3s from that number- record the next 5 numbers in that sequence on your paper.

Make up a story with someone. Take turns saying a sentence at a time.

Or

Each person starts a story on a separate piece of paper. Write a sentence and then pass the paper to your partner. They write a sentence and then pass it back. You need to continue the story from what they wrote in their sentence.

 

Posted: May 14, 2020

LEGO Challenge

Can you….?

Create a flag

Build a boat with exactly 15 blocks

Create a structure that could be used to hold a pencil

Create the first letter of your name using only 10 blocks

Create a heart

Good Morning Grade 2/3,

How IS everyone this morning? Today is May 12, 2020. It is Tuesday. What are you plans for the day? Henry and I are going to do a craft and play outside. I hope that you are enjoying some of the activities on the Choice Board this week. Did any of you think of a book recommendation for me. I look forward to reading your book recommendations. One of the things I have enjoyed doing with Henry is baking. We have made muffins pizza crust and oatmeal cookies. This week I think we are GoinG to make some banana muffins. Have you baked anything with your family It is a great way to talk and learn about fractions.

 I hope you all have a wonderful week and remember to be kind

Heart,

Mrs. Melanson

Hint: There are at least 7 mistakes in my morning message. Can you find them?

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