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!

Eric Carle Author Study

Eric Carle has written lots of books and some we had seen before but others were new to us.  Here is a link to his website. http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html

Other teachers in the school and the school library helped us out with lending us more copies of Eric's books that they had,  We love having more than one copy of a book so two or more kids can read side by side.

We finished the unit with one of his art techniques by making butterflies by dropping paint on one side of a wing shape and folding the paper to make the other side match.  They made a great display in the hallway!

Bunny Art

With Easter fast approaching, we worked on a Bunny Art Project last week.  The idea came from this blogger who calls her online space Learning in Spain. Thanks for the inspiration!

We started with watercolour paints in stripes for the background.  For some students, this was their first time using watercolours and it took a few tries to get the hang of wetting the brush enough but not too much.  

The next step in the process was drawing a semi-circle for the head and 2 long ovals for ears.  We spent some time working on the show me boards on cartoon eyes, lashes, brows and nose/mouth/whisker options.  These boards allowed kids to share their ideas with everyone and erase and make changes until they liked what they saw.  Then they used markers to create that face and add some colour to the ears.  Assembling the pieces with glue was the final step.

We hope you will stop in to see the display across from Room 21.  It is a bright and attractive way to get us in the Easter spsirit!