Ms.Thomson's Grade 2 Blog

Making Music With Repurposed Materials – Sound Waves We are learning how sound waves move, transfer, bounce, and reflect. For an upcoming experiment on sound absorption , we are collecting paper egg cartons (the flat kind used for a tray of 30 eggs). If you know how we can get our hands on 30 of these , please contact me. In the meantime, please save your egg cartons instead of recycling them ! This week repurposed household materials to make musical instruments. We shared in a circle, explored words like pitch and volume and even had a little jam session! Math We are working on number partners that make ten. New vocabulary includes: addend sum fact family (“no strangers!”) inverse operation (using the opposite operation to check our work) Students are beginning to add 2-digit + 2-digit numbers with regrouping (also called exchanging or carrying).  Our Goal: *Always starting with ones column!* To be successful, students must be able to quickly recall (not coun...

Happy Friday Everyone! This week, we completed our dioramas on the regions of Canada, using collage, drawing, clay sculpture, and repurposed materials. They are now proudly on display in the library and look absolutely fantastic! In math we concluded our unit on statitistics, data and graphing. We will continue to revisit these concepts for the rest of the year. Check out our tooth graph! In literacy, beyond phonics and reading, we explored the story-poem book This is How I Know by Brittany Luby. This award-winning book truly deserves its recognition. After reading it once, we read it again more slowly, examining the four seasons through the lens of an Indigenous elder. The children then graphed the information from the book into the four seasons of the medicine wheel. Having recently studied traditions and heritage in Social Studies, the students were able to make meaningful connections to the text, deepening their understanding of both the story and the cultural perspectives it high...

  Happy New Year, Everyone! I hope you all had a fun and restful winter break. We’ve had a lovely start to 2026—hard to believe New Year’s Eve was only a week ago! Here is a quick update on our week: We began learning about data (information): how to ask strong questions, different ways to record data, how to give and take a survey politely, and how to represent data using tools like pictographs. In writing, we are stretching our sentences to include details such as where, when, and why . We wrapped up our research on the Regions of Canada and are now working on our dioramas, which will be completed on Monday. Students continued sharing their Heritage Hands , and we are absolutely loving it. Our class community is wonderfully diverse, yet we share so many meaningful connections. In phonics, we continued with our regular routine, focusing on open and closed syllables , and practiced a new “roll and read” game. Please ask your child to tell you about the photos...