Gr. 2 Scientists in School

The grade 2's learned about liquids, solids and gases. They had fun playing with bubbles and mixing materials together. They learned that salt makes ice melt and also lowers the temperature of the solution. They learned about temperatures above and below zero and that when a liquid is brought below zero it will freeze, become a solid and expand.

My apologies that there is no picture... the pictures I took all have students in them, so I'm unable to post them here.

Grade 1 Scientist in School: Energy

These are windmills and you have to blow in the pocket so that it can spin and that's how energy works. We made the windmills from paper with dotted lines to cut on and first we coloured in the stuff that you could colour in. Then we cut it. Then an adult folded it and then we put something in and pushed it down so it could stay. Then we got a straw and put it through and then we blew on it and it was a windmill.

Sun is energy.

The Thank You Poem

We made posters for the thank you poem and we said it to the parents that helped out at skating, pizza lunch and in the classroom. At the volunteer tea, we said the poem and held up posters when we were saying it and had three different groups: the red group, the green group and the blue group. The blue group was the third group and the green one was the second and the red was the first. At the end we all said the last words.

THANK YOU ...

Such a simple word;
It's often underrated.
And yet, in truth,
It's always good
To feel appreciated.
So here's my chance to say it!
It's absolutely true....

Thank you, thank you, thank you,

For everything you do!

The Helping Hands

We were making hands and we wrote on them what we can do to help people and animals. Help people, love people, care for people. Help animals that are injured. Help a grandpa or grandma read. Help someone find one of their lost pets. We should give clothes away that don't fit us or that we don't use. Give money away to someone who doesn't have that much.

We made them because we went for an assembly and the three people showed us why we should lend a hand. They said that they would give everyone's teacher hands so we could write what we could do to lend a hand in the community.

You'll find the hands in the Markham Fair!

The Biggest Sunflower

We were making a sunflower and it took a lot of work, but now we're done and it only took two days and we started making it yesterday morning. The leaves were a lot of work. For the leaves, you had to get a piece of paper and fold it four times and then you had to cut out the shape of a leaf and then you had to draw veins. Leaves have veins to keep them alive. It keeps the plant living. They need them because it stores all their water and nutrients. I saw that they were using a ruler to do the stem. We used a metre stick to do the stem and for the sunflower, we used blocks to make the leaves. The blocks were triangles. The sunflower is four and a half metres tall!

Marshmallow Worlds

We are continuing to learn more about 3-D solids and have been building models of them using toothpicks and marshmallows. Students are learning about the number of vertices or corners (marshmallows) and edges (toothpicks) on each 3-D solid. They are working in groups to make "Marshmallow Worlds" including zoos, boats, cities and castles.

Ask your child what his/her group is building and what 3-D solids he/she built for this project.

Big Dig

  

 

We bought the Dinosaur Dig off a Scholastic order. We got it because keep on buying things for the class from Scholastic. We had tally marks and we had a bunch of stuff if we were going to choose anything: Sponge Bob, Scooby Doo, but the Big Dig had more tally marks.

We were looking for the bones of the dinosaur and then we took them out.

We used tools to dig the bones out and under the bone, there was the picture of the bone in the sand. We used a special kind of hammer to hammer some of the sand.

When we found some of the bones then when we were digging for bones we saw a bump and when we opened it it was different because it looked like all the bones together but we only found one. They were all separate.

There were two different parts of the dinosaur, the head and the body. First we dug the body and we found lots of pieces and after you find all the pieces you use all the pieces and make the dinosaur.

I was the one who washed all the bones off and I was starting to build it and I only got a little bit far because you need to glue gun it.

When we were making them we saw some fossils and we didn't even notice they were in there and when people were breaking the rocks, some people were breaking the fossils too.