This week we focused on how technology influences our lives. We discussed the positive and negative influence that it has and discussed what things we can do for fun without technology. The students had some great ideas such as reading books, playing board games and biking around outside.
In order to find out more about the role that technology plays in peoples lives, we decided to create some surveys to ask people in our school community questions about how they use technology in their lives and how they use it to work and connect with each other. We watched a short video explaining tips on how to make good survey questions and then in groups brainstormed questions to ask different people in the school community such as students, teachers and parents. Then the students chose one of the group questions and worked on coming up with the answers that people might respond with. Then after writing drafts of the questions in our unit notebooks we turned to technology to help as the students worked in their groups to create a Google Form Survey. We will check over and edit the forms on Monday and then share them with the community to collect some responses. Please answer the survey when you receive it next week.
In math this week, we continued with our unit on time and we looked at the different measurement units for time (seconds, minutes, hours, days, months….) We had some fun estimating and experimenting with how many things we could do in a minute, such as walk around the room, or stand up and sit down. We also tried a balancing challenge to see how long the students could stand on one foot without wobbling! Two of them went as long as 3 minutes and could have gone on longer.
In PE, we continued working on self-control and cooperation skills with partners and small groups.
We also had our first whole school assembly of the year, hosted by the school choir. Grade 2 will host the assembly in March!
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