In grade two we are starting to develop our digital literacy skills. We have been reading emails from our teacher in order to share information and links. We have been creating Google slides to demonstrate our understanding of topics, including Canadian Animals and Acadian Villages. We are beginning to take the skills we have learned about healthy, positive relationships with people, and learn how to continue to have healthy relationships in the digital world. We will be having a series of mini-lessons in our classroom as we learn about being digital natives, creating digital footprints, time spent using technology, and how to maintain healthy relationships while online (also called Netiquette). We know that many of us have limited screen time with TV's, computers, laptops, and Smartphones. This is a good beginning to developing healthy relationships with media tools. We also want to encourage you as our parents to talk with us about health, safety, and respect while online. Here are some initial resources that you can use as a parent: If you have any resources that you think would help other parents or would be great to share in our classroom, please email the online links to Ms. Bates: [email protected] We look forward to learning more about the digital world with you! - Ms. Bates' class As we learn about Nova Scotia, we discovered that curling is an important part of their local culture. Curling is a sport that was invented in Scotland in the 1600's and brought to Canada with Scottish emigrants. It includes throwing special curling rocks down sheets of ice toward a house made of concentric circles. Since Canada already had ice and rocks, it was a natural fit for a sport that has now spread across our country. ![]() Thank you to Edgemont's Parent Council, the school has been gifted with curling sets that allow us to experience the sport without the need for ice or the cold. We watched an instructional video that taught us how to throw a rock, sweep the ice, and communicate during the sport with sayings like, "Hurry Hard!" We adapted the sport for our learning environment, learned how to take turns throwing rocks, how to keep score, and how to congratulate the winners knowing that learning a new sport made us all winners. We will continue to curl throughout the year as we have enjoyed it so much! In early February as began to learn about buoyancy, boats, and liquids. Using hands-on activities coupled with real world experiences, we began our science experiments to explore these ideas. The first experiment we tried was bringing in 10 different objects from home, 5 we thought would sink in water, and 5 that we thought would float in water. During the experiment we wrote down our hypothesis for each object (sink or float), then we placed the object in water to observe the result. Students documented their learning as our test either supported or didn't support our hypothesis. We learned that it is not about being correct, it is about learning from our hypothesis and from our test. Adult scientists make hypothesis that are not always correct, which is how they learn and grow as scientists. We learn and grow in the same way. We will continue to develop our research and scientific skills as we learn about buoyancy, boats, and liquids.
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