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OLYMPIC
HEIGHTS SCHOOL
Learning and Inquiry Studies
2006-2007
Grade 2 - Mrs. McCulloch
Grade 2 children’s interest was piqued by studying a variety of bugs and insects.
After learning about these little creatures, children used their imaginative skills to create their own unique creatures.
The students made a frame of an insect using pipe cleaners and paper rolls. Then they covered them with thin strips of foam and wrapped them with colorful strips of fabric. The children decorated them with using a variety of objects.
The children then wrote stories about their creatures.
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As part of the grade two social studies curriculum the children studied
about life on the prairies. Our overarching idea is “What gifts
do we each bring to the classroom from our varied backgrounds?”
We read the book by Jo Bannatyne called “A Prairie Alphabet”
which had beautiful pictures of life on the prairies. The children
drew pictures on burlap and did some stitching using different colors
of wool.
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| We read “The Gift of the Inuksuk” by Mike Ulmer. The children enjoyed constructing their own inuksuks from rocks I collected from the west coast. The children have been studying the Inuit people as part of our inquiry of life in Nunavut, our Canadian north.
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| We have been studying “Magnets” in science and the children have been very curious about the northern lights and the effect of gravity and magnetism. We read “Northern Lights the Soccer Trails” by Michael Kusugak and it inspired us to do water color pictures using only purple, green and blue paint. We then sprinkled the painting with salt for a frosty affect.
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| Students enjoy cutting out material and glueing glaciers, polar bears, owls, and caribou on a tapestry depicting an arctic legend. |
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| As part of our Inuit study we completed a tapestry after reading the book “Ulaq and the Northern Lights” by Harriet Taylor. |  |