The highlight of our week was definitely the realization of the prize for which we've been striving for months - a full-class Minecraft play session. For many of us, this was our first experience of Minecraft and we were completely at a loss not only on how to login, but also how to place blocks and maneuver through the game. But we had lots of "experts" in the class to help us, including Madame's kids, Ella and Miles, who revel in the fact that they know WAY more about this game than their mother. The experience was such a positive one that we are looking forward to another game day in the future. We also got to go back to Hoffman Park again for the first time in what feels like ages! A huge "merci" to Alia's dad, Allan, for coming with us! In Math, we continue to work on our skip-counting and our addition. Madame had us use the "counting collections" this week and challenge ourselves to group the items that we were counting in a logical way so that they would be easy to count quickly and accurately. We are getting much better at coming up with appropriate counting strategies on our own. The addition work that we've been doing has spilled over into word problems. We are learning how to extract the important information, draw a picture to represent it, create an equation, and write a concluding sentence about it. This task was kicked up a notch for our Grade 2s this week with double-digit addition that required them to carry the "1". Madame is impressed with how well we are catching on to these complex topics! And speaking of complex, we continued our work with nouns this week, practicing the differences between common nouns and proper nouns. Madame gave us the task of sorting a variety of nouns into their appropriate categories and at first, we thought this was impossibly hard. Many of us believed that we couldn't read because the words weren't on flashcards or on the whiteboard like we're used to seeing them, but when Madame simply covered parts of the words with her finger and had us piece them apart, every one of us was able to read independently. The first go-around with this task was tricky, but Madame switched up the words and gave us the assignment again the next day and this time, almost everyone aced it on the first try! We discovered a sneaky trick... the proper nouns all had capital letters! We have also been trying to expand our writing lately. Instead of writing a simple sentence like: "I walk with my dog", Madame challenged us to take that sentence and add as many details to it as possible. Some of us got really creative! We also had another session with our Katzie friend, Lilly, who brought back the drums to continue teaching us a song that she wrote in her language of Halkomelem. We are getting pretty good at the lyrics and the drumming patterns!
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