Fidgit Spinners with Eight

Fidgit Spinners are certainly the hot toy with my age group of kids right now and to capture that interest and use it for thinking about numbers, Grade Twos were challenged to make fidgit spinners using 8 cube-a-link cubes in one or two colours.  Then they had to tell me a number sentence about eight that those cubes show.  The first one in the pictures below could be labelled as 7 + 1 and the next is 4 + 4.  

 Getting kids to see numbers in everything helps with their sense of numeracy and to think flexibly.  It was fun too!

Mixing Liquids

The new Grade Two class of 2017-2018 started the year off with learning about Solids, Liquids and Gases in Science Class.  Investigating and comparing properties of liquids is one of the outcomes for this unit and to work on our Scientific Literacy,  students completed a hands-on activity.  They were able to choose two liquids from the row pictured above to mix and then stir.  They observed the result and took turns describing what they saw to their classmates.

Open House happened to be the evening after so families were able to see our mixtures.  Students noticed some differences in some of the mixtures since they had left them at 3:30!