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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 5:58 am
Does anyone know of some good sites for a project for a Grade 2 student. DD has to bring in supplies from home to build a boat a school. More than likely using recyclables etc. I have no idea where to start looking for something like this to give her ideas on the net. Any help would be appreciated. Other helpful resourse sites for grade 2 students would be helpful with other subjects too. (Canadian content if possible) I use to have a bunch bookmarked, however since the renewal of my computers etc. I have lost all of them..thanks
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 8:46 am
Tin foil, popcycle sticks, styrafoam cups, string, pipe cleaners
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 9:16 am
For all things Canadian, this is a fun site. Lots of history, etc. Still looking for something for the younger set.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 9:18 am
Link not working...trying again...Canada Canadian websites for kids Danielle's Place
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 9:30 am
And one more! Enchanted Learning:Canadian crafts
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 10:37 am
Cool Disney Site with lots of boat choices! Boats from Disney Preschooler Boat Craft Site: Boat Craft for Preschoolers Milk Carton Pirate Ship: Pirate Ship
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 11:01 am
These ideas and sites are great..keep'm coming
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Sunday, January 09, 2005 - 3:33 pm
Plastic bottles would make good barge-type boats.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 12:17 pm
More help needed.... Well dd will be off to school with her boat project, however need some help. DD is doing a project on Holland, the only meaning I can find on the flag of holland is a pretty complex one that I have no idea on where to begin trying to explain to her. She has to present this project to the class in her own words and by memory and not reading. I have been looking for over 1 hour to find something and I am at a loss...any help to find out the meaning of the flag and/or a kid friendly site that we both can understand.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 12:24 pm
skootz, try "ask jeeves for kids" it's a wonderful search site where you put in questions rather than keywords. it is also tailored for children. http://www.ajkids.com/
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 1:26 pm
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/europe/netherlands/flag/
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 1:40 pm
Thanks maris..I am just having so much trouble with her work this year...I don't think I should be the one doing "her" work, but when you are given such complex projects for a 7 year old, who else is to do the work. I wish the teacher would concentrate on things that they should be learning this year rather than projects that they should be doing in higher grades and can do by themselves or without little supervision Even reading your link..how is a 7 year old suppose to understand what the flag meaning is etc. and be able to orally tell the class this without reading from a paper. 
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 2:02 pm
Skootz, we've been having projects like this for second grade also. Sarah's teacher designates some of the big research projects as "family projects" which has been helpful. I think the explanation of the flag could be kept as simple as possible. Boil it down to the very basic since she has to memorize it. The colors are red, white and blue but the red used to be orange in honor of William of Orange. When the flags got older, the colors faded and orange turned to red. Has her teacher indicated how complicated she expects the oral reports to be? Sarah had to explain the Korean flag to her class in first grade but I was able to go with her and prompt her thank goodness.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 2:07 pm
Push, push,shove, shove, push. (No that's not to you Skootz, but to these people who make are kidlets work too hard.) Third grade is even worse than second. Caleb's got a written report that is due on Feb. 11 on Mercury (was assigned the day they went back to school from break though he knew about it before the break, just not which planet he was supposed to do.) This past Monday we got a second assignment for an oral report due Feb. 3. He spent one day last weekend on the internet for an hour and a half researching and taking notes on Mercury, and I noticed yesterday when we were working on the outline for the paper, he hadn't answered three of the questions. What's a good mommy to do? I looked em up myself. I shouldn't be doing his work either, but honestly right now, a little helping hand from me is the only way he's going to get it finished. LOL, I'm in a fussing mood. Last week was a short week, Dakota came home with homework for Mon-Thur, even though they weren't in school Monday. She did 14 pages of phonics that was sent home, 6 pages of math, all the spelling homework except for Mondays, and practiced her flash cards and reading. I was in class today and one of my jobs was to put last weeks work into their folders to take home, Dakota's packet has a check minus and a little note saying she's missing spelling homework...from the day they didn't have school! I've never been so close to shoving homework down the teacher's throat as I was today. This is first grade! When I asked the teacher about it, she said that it really didn't mean anything since 1st graders aren't actually graded on their homework...argh. Yup, frustrated mom with homework these days. And to keep on topic, any ideas for a 1st grade 100 day project? We have to do one with Kota this weekend (today is school day #94.) We did 100 heart doilies in a book last year, and 100 glass marbles (shaped as a fish tank) the year Caleb did his (his 1st grade teacher didn't do them.) I asked her to think about what she wanted to do, it's been a week or so and she still can't come up with anything.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 2:12 pm
I remember my son's first second grade project. I took the position that he should do it all himself and he did a heck of a job. He hands it in and I go to parents night and you wouldnt believe what I saw hinging on the walls!! We are talking photoshop, powerpoint you name it. All those kids who "got" help got As and my poor kid got a C. I learned fast that teachers expect parents to help kids out. So I would sit with my son while he researched his projects, helped him develop ideas and then we both worked on the projects together. Some even became family projects. I remember one rain forest project which aunt and uncle pitched in and a few glasses of wine, a few beers and lots of laughs we all had a memorable evening. Anyway, my position is that as you help your child with their project you are the teacher in terms of teaching them how to organize their thoughts, how to develop a theme and how to research and carry out the projects. By the time they are in sixth grade they know how turn out killer projects which are imaginative all by their lonesome and they will really invest the time and effort into it.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 2:17 pm
some I've seen: 100 pennies 100 stickers 100 book titles (that kid loved that write) 100 drawings (tiny in tiny squares) 100 m&ms or other candies or cheerios or popcorn 100 buttons these are just in seconds off the top of my head from when my kids did this. good luck
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 6:20 pm
That is what I don't understand Maris...she is not given any homework home that is not completed at school because she cannot grade it as she is unsure if the child did it themselves or not. Well what about this project...how is a grade 2 able to research a project of this nature..give me a break. It cannot be read, it has to be all known orally. All the pictures are suppose to be drawn..but that is not going to happen if you want to actually see what she is talking about. I am so P.O'ed at this teacher this year. Dd use to get A's and B's and she had one C+ in second term last year and had improved it to a B by end of the year. This year..she got one A and that was in music (not taught by her teacher) the rest were a couple of B's, C's and a D..talk about a blow for a child to see such crappy marks when they already give all they can. DD cried when she saw the report card. My child is not the best reader, not the best speller, writer, drawer etc..but she is not a D student. This teacher expects them to always answer and have their hand up in class and have all this work to be done by them. She also has a test on 5 different countries and facts on the morning of Valentines day...give me a break, like the kids want a test on a candy and card giving day. She did the same for a major test on Halloween day and then another major test in Science on Nov 2. I have lost all respect for this teacher. There are other things too but I think I have vented enough about her. I am also not the only one to complain about her either. I am ready to go to the principle because I think if I talked to her I would probably tell her off and that wouldn't do much good for dd. I think it a child should do some homework every night, but I think the teacher forgets that these kids are actually children. (Plus FYI to all Americans..teachers here in Ontario get paid a lot of money for what they do compared to teachers in the U.S.A.) A person should not have to spend over 1 hour a night with a child in Grade 2 for homework. I went to public, high school, college myself, I didn't think I would have to repeat it all over again. I have a family and other children to look after too. Okay, done venting...still angry but may be not quite as much..thanks for listening..and thanks to those who posted links
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 7:19 pm
Here is my recommendation. Touch base with other parents, see if you can get a few that agree with you. Make an appointment with the principal. Go armed. Go to education sites about what is age appropriate in terms of work and homework. Write down one weeks worth of assignments. Just lay it out that expectations are being made that are just not age appropriate. I dont know if it is the norm but it seems a little over the top to be grading kids that age A,B,C. My son didnt get lettter grades till he was in sixth grade. It is too much pressure on a little kid and it takes away from what they should be focusing on which is enjoying the learning process. Good luck.
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Jmm
Member
08-16-2002
| Wednesday, January 26, 2005 - 7:42 pm
War, Believe it or not I heard a woman talking on her cell phone today about this project her daughter had to do. She went out and bought a couple of bags of individually wrapped lifesavers and pinned 100 of them to the front and sleeves (not the back so she could sit back in her seat) of a tee shirt that her daughter wore to class. After the project was done she was allowed to share the candy with her class.
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Thursday, January 27, 2005 - 11:08 am
Maris...that is too bad about the kids with A's got the help. That is just wrong. The teachers at our elementary school grade just the opposite...if they could tell the parents did the project, they didn't get the best grades. I am so glad for that. Our school district doesn't give letter grades until 4th grade. I agree with Maris and think that learning to like learning and being at least relatively happy in school is most important in the younger grades. Skootz, good luck with the rest of the year, I hope it gets better...I wonder if transferring to a different class is an option and if it is...would it be better to transfer or leave her where she is...all kinds of ramifications to both situations... Our elem. school has guidelines about how much time the actual homework (aside from the 20 min of reading/being read to in K and 1st) should take for each grade per night.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 6:25 pm
just an update....talked to the teacher and she said today that dd did well on her project and we will get her paper comments (that she took during the presentation) soon after all of the students complete their presentation. Also, the teacher said that Julia aced her social studies test (the one on 6 countries) yipee. she/we worked hard on these, nice to hear a comment. now please go to the tips advice thread to help me out thanks.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Thursday, February 17, 2005 - 10:58 am
congrats skootz!!
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