Mrs. Reyes

Top Five Fabulous! February 7, 2020 1.      In PE we started our Rocks and Rings residency.  We are learning the skills to be able to play a curling game.  We have learned how to sweep and how to throw the rocks.  Ask me about some of the rules for curling and maybe you can check out the curling tournament this weekend. 2.      In Art, we have learned about a new artist.  Her name is Kenojuak Askevak.  She lived in the Northern part of Canada.  She was born in an igloo and she lived a very traditional way of life. She is a very important artist in Canada.  She was inspired by the animals that lived around her and many of the artists in Northern Canada were inspired by things around them. 3.      In math, we have continued to learn about 3D objects.  We learned how to draw these objects and then we recorded some of the examples tha...

Top Five Fabulous! January 30, 2020 1.      We had someone come to our school to teach us how to carve an inukshuk out of soapstone. First, we had to sand the inukshuk so that it was smooth and we could not see any of the cut lines.  Second, we used another tool to make the lines so that it looked like individual stones.  Third, we used two different grades of sandpaper to make sure that our inukshuk was smooth.  Finally, we used oil to do the magic and make the colours come out!  We had to persevere and it looked amazing! 2.      In math, we made a shape town.  We used 2D shapes to create a town.  We had to name the shapes and then count them up.  We used different mental math strategies to add the number of shapes together.  Some of the strategies included: doubles, doubles +1, doubles -1, friends of ten and zippy zero.  After using some me...

Top Five Fabulous!  January 24, 2020 1     We went to five different activities for the Chinese New Year! There were so many parent volunteers to help us at each of the stations.  The stations were: making lanterns, playing restaurant (making spring rolls and dumplings out of playdoh for our customers), train race across China, giant bingo and learning about zodiac animals.  It was so much fun to move through the school with our teams of kids from kindergarten to grade 6! 2     In science, we finished off our floating habitats and then we tested them to make sure that they would float.  We drew a picture in our visual journal to show how we would get food and water if we really lived on our floating habitat. 3     In math, we have been working on our doubles +1 (for example 4+5=9).  We also used our mental math strategies to add the number of shapes that we used in our shape mons...

Top Five Fabulous! January 17, 2020 1.      In PE, we have been working on our hockey skills.  We are working on controlling the puck (our beanbag) by moving the gym and moving around different targets.  We have to keep the blade on the ground so that we don’t get a high stick penalty. It has been super cold this week, so we also had one day of playing different tag games to run around and warm up our bodies. 2.      In math, we have been playing different math games to review some of the skills that we have learned this year.  We played, “Double the Snowflake”, “Triple X Knockout”, “Place Value Pathway” and “Ten Tens”.  It was so much fun! We have also been working on our calendar where we review skills like recording temperature on a thermometer, reading and making graphs, reading a calendar (days of the week and months of the year), making patterns, tally marks, counting by multiples of 5...

Top Five Fabulous! January 10, 2020 Welcome back to school! 1.       In science, we made a blueprint to build a floating habitat.  We watched a video that showed floating habitats and we talked about why people might live on water in the future.  We conducted another experiment to figure out how to make a cork stable.  The students have conducted many experiments so that they can use the results in their final project.  This week we also started to make our floating habitat!  We will continue next week and we will test them next week. 2.      In PE, we are working on a new skill.  We are working on throwing and catching.  We have been using bean bags to practice passing (underhanded) with a partner.  We also tried some tricks on our own and passing not one, but two bean bags, back and forth with a partner.  We had to use feedback, make su...