Some resources

Hello Grade 2s

We hope you are healthy and staying safe :)

Here are some optional resources and suggestions on how you can continue learning from home:

Math:

• Continue practicing your Number Facts and Subtraction. Here are some websites for practice:
• https://www.prodigygame.com/
• https://www.khanacademy.org/
• https://www.math-aids.com/Subtraction/

Art and Games for Cognitive Flexibility

• Play board games! Here are a few to try:
• Cribbage: https://cardgames.io/cribbage/
• Card games
• Monopoly
• Scrabble
• Boggle
• Checkers
• Art with Mo Willems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjaYnyCJDdU

Inquiry:

• Work on your design thinking challenge for the Arctic. Work through the ideation process and prototype. For fun, if you want to build your prototype and send your teacher a picture, we can post it on the blog! 
• Check out this fun movie about life in the Arctic - David Suzuki and the Nature of Things follows two different groups of polar bears: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5eseix 
• Explore some other options for documentaries such as Planet Earth, Frozen Planet, and Human Planet. These are all amazing documentaries where students can continue to make connections about what we have done in the class and to the world. 

Writing:

• Continue writing your arctic stories 
• Type up on google docs and share with your teacher
• If you would like a picture of your storyboard, email your teacher 

Reading:

• Raz kids  https://www.raz-kids.com/
• https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html
• For upcoming live readings from popular creators:
• Oliver Jeffers: https://www.oliverjeffers.com/
• Mac Barnett: https://www.macbarnett.com/books 
• Story Line Online: https://www.storylineonline.net/