The Learners of Division 14

Ms K Shellard and Ms M Flores - Grade 2 Class

Category: Mathematics

Making Pizzelle

December 19, 2024 / / 0 Comments

As a Math/Science/holiday activity we made Italian Pizzelle cookies with Ms. Ballarin’s class today. Ms Ballarin and I both have pizzelle makers at home, mine was given to me by my mom. While making the dough, we used Math concepts to measure using measuring cups and spoons. In Science, we also explored changes in matter through heating and cooling. It was exciting for the students to make cookies in a new way. Each child ate one cookie to 1 1/2 cookies at school today. We hope they enjoyed making and eating them!

Big Idea: Materials can be changed through physical and chemical processes

First Peoples Principles of Learning: Learning takes patience and time

Curriculum Competencies:

  • Observe objects and events in familiar contexts
  • Ask questions about familiar objects and events
  • Make simple predictions about familiar objects and events
  • Make observations
  • Develop, demonstrate, and apply mathematical understanding through play, inquiry, and problem solving

Core Competency: Critical Thinking and Reflective Thinking

  • I can ask questions and consider options. I can use my observations, experience, and imagination to draw conclusions and make judgments.

 

Calendar Routine and Math Learning

December 2, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Dear Families of Div. 14,

As a class community, Division 14 has engaged in a daily Calendar routine for 59 days. Each child is responsible for being the leader of this learning activity after one month of watching me lead the routine. There are many Math concepts and life skills that are included as part of the daily calendar routine.  These activities help students practice every day and build their number sense. They apply the daily number into different formats and math applications. We have also been learning to count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to lead us to our 100th day of school, which will occur in February. In addition, we have been learning about the number of the day (today it is 59), place value, addition, subtraction and about multiplication.  Also, the calendar routine provides opportunities for students to practice important skills such as self-regulation, oral language, presenting to their peers and leadership skills.

Big Idea: Collaborative daily routine as a class community provides structure, enhances academic and social skills and increases a sense of belonging for each member of the community.

First Peoples Principles of Learning:

  • Leaning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational.

Learning Involved:

  • Strengthens overall number sense
  • Patterning, counting, tallying
  • Skip counting by 2s, 5s, 10s
  • Graphing the Weather, Days in School, and Teeth lost
  • Months of the year, Days of the week, Number of days
  • Concepts of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (past, present, future)
  • Promotes self-esteem by presenting what you are good at at the end of each Calendar routine
  • Provides students with opportunities to practice leadership and presentation/public speaking skills
  • Enhances self-regulation skills to be an attentive and involved listener when being an audience member

Division 14 Math

November 19, 2024 / / 1 Comment

Curricular Competencies: 

  • Use reasoning to explore and make connections
  • Develop, demonstrate, and apply mathematical understanding through play, inquiry, and problem solving
  • Communicate mathematical thinking in many ways
  • Explain and justify mathematical ideas and decisions
  • Represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms

Content:  

  • Visualize to explore mathematical concepts
  • Develop and use multiple strategies to engage in problem solving
  • Describe and compare 2D shapes in the environment
  • Identify 2D shapes as part of 3D objects

Core Competencies: Critical and Reflective Thinking 

  • Profile 2: Develop and refine questions; create and carry out plans; gather, interpret, and synthesize information and evidence; and reflect to draw reasoned conclusions. 

First Peoples Principles of Learning: Learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on reciprocal relationships, and a sense of place).

Learning involved:  

  • Students demonstrate their current knowledge and understanding of numbers
  • Students deepen their understanding of 2D shapes by connecting them to real-life objects

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