CANDY GRAM UPDATE

So...here is the update on the grade 2 Candy Gram Project!

Aside from being the most valuable experience of the year (this far...) in terms of social justice, responsibility, and accountability, this project covered so many curriculum expectations and gave the students a real life example of how to use and apply what they learn.  You may not have seen homework pages about this and there is not a lot of paper/pencil 'proof' of what they learned, but a conversation with your child and a look at these photos is all the proof we should need to know how much they learned in the last week or two. 

Curriculum Covered

*estimate, count, and represent the value of a collection of coins

*count by 1's, 2's, 5's, 10's, and 25's

*solve problems involving the addition of numbers

*describe relationships between quantities

*add and subtract money amounts

*identify, describe, and create patterns (of course the groceries are lined up in patterns in the classroom)

*organize objects into categories

*organize primary data in concrete graphs (of course we graphed our groceries!)

These are just some of the math expectations covered during this project.  This doesn't even include any literacy components (which were immense)!  So take a look at the photos, and know that your child worked hard at school.  Ask them about their experience, you might just be surprised at what they tell you!!!

 Here is a look at what we have been doing.  

The money was all sorted (as seen in a previous post) and ready to be counted.  Each group was given

a bag of coins to count.  One group counted loonies, another toonies, quarters, dimes, nickels, and another group was responsible for counting the bills.  

'4 quarters make a dollar, so let's put them in groups of 4 and then we can 

just count by ones to see how much money we have...'

'...wait, piles of 4 are best for quarters...'

'...counting toonies is just counting by 2's...'

'...what is $1 called again?...oh yeah, loonie...'

'...we have $150 in bills...'

'...first we counted the $20's then the $10's and then the $5's...'

'...start with the biggest numbers first...'

The grand total for Candy Gram sales was $411!!!!!!

Way to go Grade 2

It was decided before any money was raised that they were going to buy food for

 the St. Vincent de Paul Society.  So we walked to Freshco to buy some groceries.

Everyone got to buy one or two items (depending on how heavy they were)

from the list of items needed by the St. Vincent de Paul society.

Thank you FRESHCO!

The groceries will be dropped off tomorrow!

We still have some money left to use for another project...so stay tuned 

for our next social justice effort!!