The Breadwinner Vocabulary

Breadwinner Vocabulary Picture Dictionary

Mr McDonald's Dog Pound

Check out some really neat Gr 2 projects on Mr McDonald's blog. Scroll down to the links, click on STUDENT BLOGS and then click BACK TO MR MCDONALD's Site and start checking out their projects! Pretty amazing!!

THIRST

You'll be very interested to take a few minutes and go through the slides in the Jeff Brenman's slideshare presentation called THIRST. Make some comments about what you learned or found interesting. Take note of the presentation style.

THIRST

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Water Related Diseases Role Project

Here are your choices for your water diseases role project. In both cases, try to find an NGO (non-governmental organization) that is trying to help out and incorporate into your project. This link will be a great place to start! It's a listing of all of the NGO's associated with the United Nations (UN).

Water Related Diseases Research

Go to our Google Spreadsheet Water Related Health Issues and enter your info!

Finished your research? Try the Water Quiz.

The past couple of weeks we have been doing a Nelson Literecy book called "Fears and Phobias". We have been learning about Summerizing while listening the 5 main keys. They are what is the speaker talking about,what is the speaker trying to tell you, what details support the main idea, what details are not important to the main idea and what is the speakers point of view or tone. Now we are on text patterens the 6 main keys are begin with the background infor,retell the events in order, use the past tense,give percise details and use transition words. This is what we have been doing and it has been lots of fun to do.

WANTED Poster

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Scaredy Squirrel Wordle Assignment

We've been reading Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt in our focus to read like a writer. We have discussed some strategies that writers use to improve their word choice. Click on the comments to read our reviews of the book (from a writer's perspective).

After your review has been posted, create a Wordle about Scaredy Squirrel (use a ~ between words that you want to keep together in your wordle). When you are finished, post it to our wiki in the Fears and Phobias folder, on the Scraredy Squirrel page. Make sure you upload your wordle with your name in file name!!

What we're reading

As you can see, we LOVE to read! Check out the comments for some books we'd highly recommend.

Bracelet of Life

We've been learning about hunger and the kinds of challenges that countries are up against. We learned about the Bracelet of Life and how it helps Doctors Without Borders quickly assess children so those who need help the most get it the quickest. Check out our writing assignment where we imagine to be a child who is in the red zone and how this program assists us.


*After you've posted your RAFT, you can check out the Doctors Without Borders website and see what other kinds of assistance they provide.

Choir Trip

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Starvation

Here's the link to our Google Doc about the kinds of diseases, causes, and symptoms that can result from a lack of proper nutrients.

Jane's Practical Guide to Human Rights

We watched the video Jane's Practical Guide to Human Rights and made some startling discoveries. Read the comments to see what we thought.

World Leader Research

Here's the link to our Google Doc to research the current World Leaders.

TIP: Go to the doc and type your name beside that of a leader who has not been chosen. Then go about doing your research. Hopefully this will eliminate double up on the same leaders!

Release the Crickets

We've started to talk about being literate media consumers. We looked at a Zits cartoon in our literacy guide to spark this discussion. We're practicing identifying audience and purpose of types of media. Here are the questions to hand in: