Mrs. Bonnie Vickers

Grade 3/4

Grade2/3 work for week of April 27-May 1

Posted: April 27, 2020

Good morning Boys and Girls!  I hope that you are enjoying your time at home with your family.  It might be a good time to try something new like a new board game or card game.  My kids love Skipbo which includes numbers to 12.  Dig out your markers and crayons and make a calendar picture for the month of May.  Just tape it over the one on your calendar.  Yours will be much cuter because you made it.  Don't forget to have fun!

Math

This week I would like to focus on pictographs.  I have included a You Tube video to watch how pictographs are made.  You could ask your family members a question such as :  How many eggs do you eat in a week?  Then create a pictograph to show the data.  You should be able to answer questions about the data from your pictograph.

 

3D shapes

After watching the video take a look around your house to find objects which look like cubes, cylinders, cones, spheres or pyramids.  

Grade 3 extension of 3D Shapes

How many verticies (corners)does a cube have?

How many faces (flat surfaces) does a cylinder have?

How many edges (where two flat surfaces meet) does a shpere have?  Did I trick you?

 

Subtraction of two or three digit numbers using a number line

Watch the video to help you see the process.  ie.  87-54 =     

                             -4         -10         -10         -10         -10        -10

                       ___I_______I___________I___________I___________I__________I__________I            Begin at 87 and subtract fifty.

                         33     37           47         57          67         77        87             Then subtract 4.

 Therefore 87-54=33

Try some of these, they are fun to draw out.

 

 

 

Language Arts

This week I would like to talk about the "Past Tense."  The past tense is something that has already happened.  It could have happened a long time ago or just a minute ago.  The point is it has already happened.  When we tell a story about something in the past we have to change our action words(verbs).  For example:  Today I sing a song but yersterday I sang a song.  Today I march to a drum but yesterday I marched to a drum.  Today I sit in a chair but yesterday I sat in a chair.

There are some simple rules to changing action words to the past tense but I must warn you that in English almost every rule we have is broken from time to time, so don't get discouraged.  

Past Tense Rules:

Add "ed"

laugh - laughed

walk - walked

 

If the word already ends in an "e" then simply add "d"

joke- joked

rule- ruled

pile- piled

 

Some words change completely (these are the tricky ones)

steal - stole               send - ____________                 eat- ___________               keep- ____________

make - made             buy - bought                       get - got                       sing- sang

 

Action words that end in "y" change the "y" to an "i" and add "ed."

cry - cried       

try- tried

 

Sometimes action words do not change at all.

put-put

read-read (pronounced "red" in the past tense)

Create a sentence in the "present tense" (right now) and then change it to the "past tense" (earlier).

ie.Today I will pick flowers for my mom.  Yesterday I picked flowers for my mom.

Today I will break my toy.  Yesterday I broke my toy.

Try some.

Reading

Grade Two -Read 15 mins./day

Grade 3  -Read 20 mins. /day

Writing

Try writing a story in the "past tense."  Tell me about something that has already happened and underline all of the action words.  

Try making as many words as you can from the letters in the words    "Millerton School Rocks"

llook,mill,cool,etc.

Try writing a "procedural" story which tells how to do something in steps which should go in order.  Use the following words to help you put things in order:

First,

Next, 

Then,

After that,

Finally,

 

Make sure you add lots of details to each step.  This makes it clear to the reader what to do and also makes your story longer and more interesting.  Pick a topic of your choice or use one of these.  How to make a piece of toast.  How to clean your room.  How to ride a bike. 

I hope you have fun trying some of these activities this week.  Do a little bit each day and before you know it you will be finished for the week.  I am looking forward to talking to you on Wednesday.  

Mrs. Vickers

 

Due Date: 

Monday, April 27, 2020

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Grade 2/3 Homework for April 20-24

Posted: April 19, 2020

Good morning Boys and Girls,

I hope you had a good week and enjoyed all of the nice weather we have been having.  I know Evan and Susie have been out biking because I saw them while I was out walking.  I hope each of you are getting outside on nice days.  It won't be long now and the snow will be all gone and we can begin to pick up broken twigs on our lawns and rake flower gardens. I can't wait! 

Thank you to those of you who responded to the Technology Survey.  I have submitted the data to District Office. 

This week I will be e-mailing a list of You Tube Videos which deal with Math concepts.  Take your time and go through them for some of the concepts we have covered and some we have not.  They are cute and easy to follow.

 

Math Concepts:

Mass- is measured in grams (g) and kilograms (kg).  When you weigh something light you measure in grams and when you weigh something heavy you measure in kilograms.  Look in our cupboard for a box of noodles or rice.  These will likely be measured in grams.  Weigh yourself on a scale and it will be in kilograms.

You can choose two items and put one in each hand.  You will be able to feel the difference in their masses.  You will know which mass is greater.  A balance scale is used to do the same thing (check out the video in your e-mail).

Distance is measured in centimetres (cm) and Metres (m).  A centimetre is about the width of your pinkie finger.  A metre is equal to 100 centimetres (you remember the metre stick at school).  Which unit would you use to measure your bedroom, your book, your house, your car, etc.  Watch the video about measuring distance on you Math Video page on the e-mail.

 

Polygons- are figures which have straight lines and are joined.  

Triangles- three sides

Quadrilaterals- four sides

Pentagons - five sides

Hexagon - six sides

Heptagon- seven sides

octagon- eight sides

nonagon- nine sides

decagon - ten sides

*** A "standard polygon" is one where all sides are the same length and have the same angles.  ie. A "square" is a standard quadrilateral.  A "rectangle" is not a standard polygon because all sides are not equal even though all angles are the same.

Check out the Math video on polygons.  Practice drawing some.  Make the standard polygon then practice others.  Have fun with it.

Continue to work on time and money.

Literacy Concepts:

Reading Comprehension- This week we will focus on being able to summarize in your own words the beginning, middle and ending of the story. 

Beginning - Where does the story take place and who are the characters?  What is it about? (ie. baseball, babysitting, shopping trip)

Middle- What happens in the story?  What is the problem that arises or series of events?

Ending- What happens in the end?  How is the problem solved or how does it end up? 

Grade 2 reads 15 mins. / day

Grade 3 reads 20 mins. / day

Writing:

This week I would like you to focus on your beginnings and endings.  We have spent quite a bit of time working on these this year so think about it while writing a story of your choice.

Beginnings for a story:

Begin with a Question- Do you like to go shopping with your mom?

Begin with the setting of the story- It was crowded at the Wal-Mart on Saturday morning when mom and I arrived.

Begin with a character description - My mother is a power shopper.  She likes to get in and get out with her list of items.  She doesn't mess around in a store.

Begin with a "sound"- "BANG" the automatic door slammed shut behind us as my mother and I entered the Wal-Mart.

Begin with dialogue (conversation):  "How long is this shopping trip going to take Mom?"  I asked.  "Not long dear, just stick close and we'll be out of here in no time," mom promised.

Endings for a story:

Sum it up- Well, I learned my lesson this time.  I will never wander away from my mother in a store again.

Show your Emotions- I was so relieved to be reunited with my mother.  I cried happy tears.

Ask a question- I wonder if mom will ever take me shopping with her again?

 

The middle tells the details of what actually happens in the story.  Details answer the questions:  who, what, where, when, why and how.

 

I hope you have a good week ahead and I will be calling on Wednesday to see how you are doing.  I miss you all!

Mrs. Bonnie Vickers

 

 

 

Due Date: 

Sunday, April 19, 2020

April 13 - 17

Posted: April 13, 2020

Hello boys and girls!  I hope you had fun with all the snow we got on Friday and the Easter Bunny was able to find you on Easter Morning!  My plan is to check in with you on Wednesdays so if you have any questions or concerns you can ask me then or you can contact me anytime via e-mail.  So here goes for another week:

Math

I want to emphasize that the work I gave last week should not just be forgotten but rather continue to be practiced this week and in coming weeks.  The more familiar you are with these concepts the better prepared you are to build on them.  So keep skip counting, choosing a number of the day, etc.

Money- Students should be able to identify Canadian coins by name and value of the coin.  (ie. nickel=5cents and has a beaver on it).  They should be able to add coins together by skip counting (ie.  5 nickels = 5,10,15,20,25cents)

Helpful Hint- Always begin with coins that have the greatest value. ( ie.  one quarter, two dimes and two nickels = 25,35,45,50,55cents)

Grade Two should work with coins up to $1 (quarters, dimes and nickels)  Record amounts as 55 cents

Grade Three should work with all coins including loonies and toonies.   Record amounts as $4.35

Grade Three should be able to create a monetary amount in at least 2 different ways.  (ie.  55cents could be two quarter and a nickel OR 55 cents could be five dimes and one nickel, etc.)

Playing Store is always fun.  If pencils are 10 cents each and I am buying 4, how much will they cost?  (This store has no tax, hooray!)  You can take this even farther and say you have a loonie to pay for your purchase, what will your change be?  This would be an enrichment activity.

Time

Grade Three has already learned to tell time on an analog clock but should be practicing at home if you have such a thing.  Grade Two was just beginning to learn about skip counting around the analog clock by 5's landing on each number.  Again, Kahn Academy is great for tutorials where the children can watch a lesson in progress about telling time.

With extended learning time at home it would be a great time to teach your child how to tie shoe laces if they do not already know how to do so.  Velcro has ruined us all on this time honored skill.  It is a great time saver if they can do this themselves.

Ordinal Numbers  (ie. First, Second, Third...Tenth)

Students could line up stuffed animals or pokemon cards and be asked to point to or identify the third card in the series.

Equalities and Inequalities  (ie. equal/not equal)  

It should be noted that the unequal sign is simply an equal sign with a slash through it.  I can not demonstrate but can give you the two symbols which you can envision overlaid.      = (equal)        =/  (not equal)

7+5  equal/ not equal 18-6                         13+7  equal/ not equal 5+8                  87-12 equal/  not equal 14+61

12      =                   12                            20            =/       13                         75           =              75

Two - Digit Addition

Continue to work on "Tens and Ones" and "Compensate" methods but now you can include the way you were likely taught "Ones and Tens."

12+ 15 =                              OR                 12       Make sure your tens and ones are lined up and your _____ means =

Ones 2+5 = 7                                          + 15

Tens 10 +10 = 20                                    _________

Now add the two together 20+7=27                27

The children know that if the ones add up to 10 or above they must put the zero in the ones place and the 1 in the tens place.  We call this "regrouping" because we are trading in ten ones for a group of ten.  You likely called it "carrying."  It is the same thing but the new term is actually more specific.

Grade Two can try these with 2-digit numbers while Grade Three can try 3-digit numbers.  This is not a new concept for either group.

Multiplication (Grade Three)

Hopefully, you were able to look at Kahn Academy for a tutorial in this.     Factor X  Factor = Product

         (number of groups)            (number in each group)

           Factor                 X                Factor              =          Product

          3 groups              X        4 in each group          =            12

           0000       0000      0000       =    12         (Three groups with 4 in each group)

            4      +     4      +    4         =    12   (Repeated Addition)

Try some of these up to 5X5.  Have fun with them.  Make "equal groups" of smarties, marbles, bread tags, etc. 

 

Language Arts:

Reading

Grade Two - 15 mins. per day

Grade Three= 20 mins. per day

Our reading comprehension this wwee will be on the setting in your book.  Where is the story taking place?  ie. city,town, kitchen, backyard, etc.  How does the author describe the setting?  Do you get a clear picture in your mind from their description?

Writing

Describe the setting of your room.   Include colors, textures(ie. soft, rough) sizes ( enormous dollhouse), etc.  We always want the reader to be able to picture where your story takes place so they can feel like they are there too.

Fun Challenge:  Find a picture of a room in a magazine or picture book and describe it to your parent/sibling and have them draw it from your description.  Don't let them see the actual picture until the end then see how close they were.  This doesn't just help you descriptive powers but helps their listening skills too.

Home Story #2

Again this week you can write a story about something that you remember doing in the past or you can write a make believe story or you can write about something you know alot about (ie. Lego, dinosaurs, tractors, baking).

We had been working on plurals (more than one) when we finished school.  You could practice some of these with your child.  Here are the rules but unfortunately in English you can always find an exception to a rule.  This makes English one of the most difficult languages to learn.  Most of the time these rules will work.

+s

chair- chairs

 

+es if word ends in x, ch, sh, z, s

box-boxes  church - churches  bush - bushes  buzz-buzzes  glass-glasses

 

Change "y" to "i" and add "es"

baby - babies   body - bodies

 

Change "f" to "v" and add "es"

shelf - shelves    

 

Some words do not change at all from singular to plural

moose - moose

deer - deer

sheep- sheep

 

Some words change completely from singular to plural

tooth-teeth   

goose-geese

mouse - mice

Website to check out:  www.abcya.com         www.prodogymath.com

 

I hope you have fun with these activities and concepts.  You should also continue to work on your Dreambox and Epic.  I have been in touch with Ms.LeBlanc and she has loaded all kinds of "key math skills" into your Dreambox and we will both be watching your results from home.  I look forward to speaking with you on Wednesday.  Meanwhile make sure you play outside every nice day to get some fresh air and vitamin D.  Try to contact one or two of your friends from school to see how they are doing.  Stay safe at home and I will too.  

Miss you all,

Mrs. Vickers

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Due Date: 

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Homework for April 6-9

Posted: April 6, 2020

Good morning Grade 2/3.  I hope you are all doing well at home.  I miss you all!  I have prepared some things for ;you to work on this week.  If you take some time each day to work on these activities they will help you to complete the work for this year.  You do not have to hand anything in but if you have any questions you can contact me at bonnie.vickers @nbed.nb.ca and I will get back to you a.s.a.p..  I will be checking my e-mails daily at 1pm.

I would like to encourage you to check out Kahn Academy which has excellent teaching videos for Kids in Math.  It is free and you just click on your grade level then proceed with whichever topic you want to explore.  Grade Three should look at multiplication (equal groups).

Math (I have given examples but you can do as many as you like of your own or look on Kahn Acadamy)

Skip Counting

Begin at 14 , count forward by 2's to 48.  Do orally or written up to you. Try marching on the spot lifting one knee every time you count.

Begin at 75, count backwards by 5's to 15.

Begin at 63 , count backwards by 2's to 31

Grade 2 should work forward and backwards by 2,5,10 up to 100 

Grade 3 should work forward and backwards by 2,5,10, 100 to 1000

Adding or subtracting zero (nothing changes)

27+0=            43-0=          12+0=            55-0=

Adding/Subtracting 1 or 2 

27+2=           35+2=          12+1=          87-2=          35-1=            39+2=

Making Ten Pairs

6+4=           5+__=10           1+__=10           3+7=           10-5=           10-8=

 

Fact Families (two addition and two subtraction number sentences)

7+8=15          8+7=15           15-8=7          15-7=8

Your turn to make Fact Families:    (12, 8, 6 )         ( 9, 14, 5 )         Make some more of your own.

 

Number of the day:     Grade 2 number to 100, Grade 3 numbers to 1000)

Standard Form        67

words          sixty-seven

expanded form          60+7=67

place value         Tens   I  Ones

                         6         7

Base Ten Blocks         I I I I I I  *****  **

Number Line          I__________I__________I_______I____I___________I

                         40         50         60     67   70          80

ODD  /  Even

Addition and Subtraction of (Grade 2- 2digit numbers)  (Grade 3- 3 digit numbers)

Adding Tens then Ones then put them together:

25 +63 =

20 +60 = 80

5+3 = 8

80 +8 = 88

 

Compensating (find a friendly number to work with.  Hint- they end in zero)

28 +63 =

30 +63= 93

93 -2 = 91

*We added two to 28 so we could have a friendly number to add easily so then we had to subtract two off again.

 

Adding and subtracting using open number lines:

97 -28 =

             -1    -7        -10         -10

             I__I________I__________I___________I

            69 70     77          87          97

 

Compensating

78 - 26 =       ( I rounded to the closest friendly number by taking away 4 more than I really needed to)

78-30= 48

48 +4 = 52     (Now I must add those 4 back )

 

Tens and Ones

78-26 =

70-20=50

8-6=2

50+2 = 52

 

Subtract using Base Ten Blocks

43 + 28=

I I I I ***    +  I I *****   ***       (make another group of ten from your ones)

I I I I I I I  *

71

Solve and Create Word Problems:

Grade 2 use sums and differences to 100

Grade 3 uses sums and differences to 1000

If Evan had 18 toy trucks and he got 4 more for his birthday, how many toy trucks does Evan have now?

Step 1  Create an equation       18+4 =

Step 2  Solve your equation       18+4=22

Step 3  Answer a word problem in words as well as numbers.        Evan now has 22 toy trucks.

 

Language Arts

Spelling:

Grade 2 No Excuse Spelling Words

Grade 3 No Excuse Spelling Words

I will e-mail these to grade 3 students.  Grade Two has a copy in the "Home Stories" packet I sent home.

Reading:

Grade 2 - Read 15 mins./day

Grade 3- Read 20 mins./day

This week I want you to focus on who the Characters are.  Think about what characteristics would describe them.  ie. kind, mean, funny, smart, etc.  What do they look like?  Would you like that person to be a friend and why?  Do they change throughout the book?  How so?  Do they remind you of someone you know in real life?  Why?

Writing:

Write a story about the things you have been doing at home since school stopped.  

Create a Title

What is your beginning?  Let the reader know what your story is about.  Begin with a sound, description of the setting or a character (you).

Give me a minimum of three things that you have done.  I don't want a list but rather a description of each activity you have done.  ie. sliding, baking cookies with Mom or Dad, walking in the woods, etc.

Remember capital letters, punctuation marks (. ? !), use complete sentences (who did what).  Use some short sentences and some longer ones.  Try to use some fancy words (more interesting words "funny" could be "hillarious")

Endings are important as they let the reader know you are coming to a close.  Sum up the story, ask a question or tell us your feelings about the outcome of your story.  

Wellness

Play outside every nice day.

Be kind to your brothers and sisters.  Remember to smile!

Stay Safe!

Mrs. Vickers

Due Date: 

Monday, April 6, 2020

Hello at Home!

Posted: March 31, 2020

Hello Grade 2/3,

I hope this note finds you all feeling well!  I miss all of your smiles and eager minds.  I am sure you are enjoying all this time with your families.  I am enjoying mine too, but the time can be a little long.  It looks like I will be sending some suggestions of things to do at home beginning next week.  So you can check out this page beginning April 6th for some activities/work which will help you keep up your academic skills and hopefully cover some of the work we are missing.  No pressure, just do what you can to keep covering our work.  Have a terrific week and stay home to stay safe!  

Love,

Mrs. Vickers

Due Date: 

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Posted: March 27, 2019

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