tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28773803673089963342024-03-12T19:31:39.549-05:00Room 21Welcome to our classroom! We hope you will visit often and write a comment!sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877380367308996334.post-4886864495191807462019-06-28T08:48:00.002-05:002019-06-28T08:48:51.847-05:00 Five Things I’ll Miss About Teaching<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">With June 27, 2019 being my last teaching day after 30 some years, I've been reflecting on what I will miss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. I'll miss the joy of discovering and learning something new! This video was taken the day I brought my <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Alexa"> Alexa</a> to the classroom. As I was watching the kids rattle off questions and wait for her reply, I sincerely hoped I was not witnessing the future of education being relegated to Google and devices! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. I'll miss the way it never ceased to amaze me how each child was a unique being. I taught siblings, identical twins and even children of former students but no two were alike. Given a quick lesson on panorama pictures, yellow paper and paint, each one put their own personality and twist on these pictures that will brighten the classroom for Ms. Henuset, the new Grade Two teacher!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. I will certainly miss reading a chapter book to my class from my chair with the students at my feet on the carpet. You could always feel the tension in the air when I ended for the day at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffhanger_(disambiguation)">cliff hanger.</a> One more chapter, PLEASE! I can hear the complete silence when the book is closed when we all want it to keep going. Students have told me they wonder what the characters are doing now and I would admit to them I have the same feeling. But wait - it's just a book!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. I will miss all the little things- a child losing a tooth right in the middle of a great lesson, being called Mom or Grandma, the first day of cursive handwriting, being there when they "get" adding with regrouping for the first time, hearing about their pets, sports teams, trips and so much more. Childhood is such a magical time and especially Grade Two. Learning to read is such hard work and the payoff starts when you can read about things that interest you all by yourself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">5. I will miss being a part of a great team of teachers who always were there to support each other through thick and thin. The good news is now our visits will end when we choose, not when the end of recess bell rings calling us back to class. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I close the door to Room 21 for the last time, I want to remember to thank my blog readers (especially my Mom and Dad!). Your page views kept me motivated to keep recording our day to day adventures. Now all I have to do is open up the blog to step back into my classroom any time I want. I might take the summer off first though! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Signing off,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877380367308996334.post-6863634127816635052019-06-19T15:59:00.000-05:002019-06-19T15:59:53.032-05:00Science Design Process<span style="font-size: large;">The last Science unit of the 2018-19 school year included an element of design. Students were tasked to create a Wind Detection Device from materials that met three criteria.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">#1 - The device needed to make noise from 3 meters away. We had to wait for a day when there was enough wind and today we noted the wind speed was 22 kilometers an hour. That would be perfect to set off our detectors but not destroy them! </span></span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: large;">#3 - The device needed to hold together during testing while hanging from a hook in our gazebo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was another successful Science design process in Grade Two!</span>sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877380367308996334.post-54836537432951459032019-05-31T10:42:00.001-05:002019-05-31T10:51:07.333-05:00Surprise Celebration! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the class arrived on this morning of May 31, 2019, they were greeted with this message on a mysterious box. There were many guesses as to what might be inside - a class pet? a new book to read? a book order from Scholastic?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After gym class, the helper of the day opened the box and found this note along with cupcakes!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Go Noodle dance party was a great way to celebrate together, After that, the class wrote their T.W.A.S. Journal entry (This Week At School). Many students wrote their longest and best entry so far this year. Was it the cupcakes? the dancing? the excitement? We may never know....</span></div>
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<br />sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877380367308996334.post-72574477670793752732019-05-23T10:30:00.002-05:002019-05-23T10:30:45.754-05:00Eric Carle Style Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our latest Author Spotlight has been the work of <a href="http://www.eric-carle.com/home.html">Eric Carle</a>. He is a famous author and illustrator that uses some very interesting art techniques.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mrs. Gillander was back last week as our substitute to help the Grade 2's create these seahorses based on his book <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvxFOnBLR4c">Mister Seahorse</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">April 11, 2019 - The class took a look around the playground to see the differences from our last Outdoor Classroom session. The only snow left was on the north side of the row of trees and there was lots of water on the east side of the playground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We noticed some garbage that had been hidden under the snow so we picked up what we could today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">April 24, 2019 - What a difference 13 days later! We didn't need coats or mitts today! The snow and water were gone. We had a chance to get to the rest of the garbage that was in the wet spots and put it where it belongs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also took our Outdoor Classroom Journals with us to record things we notice with 4 senses: seeing, hearing, feeling and smelling. No tasting outside today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the end of January this year, our Smartboard abruptly stopped working! You can read <a href="https://room21simms.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-new-smartboard-is-here.html">the blog post here</a> from when it was new, four and a half years ago. We tried all the usual technology tricks to get it going again - restart everything, unplug it and plug it back in and new cords but nothing worked. It actually still worked great to project the picture and sound from the teacher laptop but the pen and interactive functions had stopped working. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week, the Maintenance Crew from Fort La Bosse came to change it to an <a href="https://epson.com/For-Work/Projectors/Interactive/BrightLink-695Wi-WXGA-3LCD-Ultra-Short-throw-Interactive-Display/p/V11H740522">Epson Brightlink 695wi</a> Short Throw Interactive projector and a new whiteboard to display it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The main difference we noticed right away is that the pen needs to be used to drag, write and erase when we used our fingers before. (Unless it has a way to do that which we haven't discovered yet!) </span><br />
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<br />sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877380367308996334.post-44796187954029258582019-04-10T08:13:00.000-05:002019-04-10T08:13:06.039-05:00Learning About a Volcano<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">With books and a DVD from our school library, we were ready to begin. Scholastic Book Orders had a Volcano kit that we worked together to assemble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally it was time to follow the steps to make it erupt! The anticipation was incredible. Some students stood back from the table to avoid being hit by lava but...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Besides a little foaming, not much of what we were expecting happened. We even tried adding some dish soap, like the paper towel commercial on TV shows. Still nothing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With a generous amount of fresh baking soda, we tried again. There certainly was a little foaming but not the dramatic eruption pictured on the box. That led to a discussion about advertising and exaggeration - all important lessons! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The students were quite curious about a covered pan on my desk in the morning of April 1st. After they got back from gym class, I invited the helper of the day to pass out a brownie that I had made for each one of them. </span></div>
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<br />sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877380367308996334.post-7024330763028755082019-03-18T12:08:00.001-05:002019-03-18T12:08:09.202-05:00Green Foods<span style="font-size: large;">In honour of St. Patrick's Day, the Grade Twos tasted some green foods on Monday, March 18th. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The vegetable Kale is leafy and green and came from Mexico. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The vegetable called Brussel Sprouts had to be cooked in the microwave for 5 minutes and everyone in our end of the school said they could smell them! They came from California. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The kiwi fruit came from Italy. Although they were brown and fuzzy on the outside, the inside was green with black seeds and had a whitish core.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Honeydew melon came from China. There was a hard yellowish rind on the outside and seeds in jelly that had to be scooped out of the middle before it was cut in pieces. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our class got some special outdoor classroom journals and we used them for the first time on March 12th. Our task was to go outside and study the snow! We had rulers, magnifying glasses, our journals and pencils. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone packed a small container full of snow. We came back in the school and made a prediction of when the snow would be melted. Students used their Outdoor Classroom Journals to record observations like these:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: x-large;">some places the snow is packed down solid like cement </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;">some places the snow is loose because no one walks there</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: x-large;">tiny black dots in the snow - maybe it is dust?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;">snow only sparkles in the sun</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;">you can't see snow sparkle in the shade</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-large;">there was ice and even grass in some of the snow</span></li>
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sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877380367308996334.post-51643214569904139412019-03-05T08:13:00.001-06:002019-03-05T08:13:41.713-06:00Book Creator for IPads<span style="font-size: large;">New and exciting in Grade 2 is an Ipad app called <a href="https://bookcreator.com/">Book Creator.</a> Students are able to research for facts about different dinosaurs and show what they have learned on the Ipad. Along with typing in words, students can add photos and labels as well as record their voice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before starting to read, Mrs. Sawatzky told us about her job at CJRB and did an interview with Ms. Simms about I Love To Read month. She used a real microphone but didn't actually record it. Then the class helped to make a radio commercial for "Simms's Auction Company"! We thought about catchy phrases and sound effects and were able to help with recording the commercial. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then we used sound effects to help Mrs. Sawatzky read the story to us - "Go Jets Go" and the jet flying sounds added to the fun. Everyone also received a red bag from The Tim Horton's Brier</span><span style="font-size: large;"> that will take place in Brandon next week for being the first school to enter the contest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What an exciting way to wrap up a month of reading activities at Reston School. We DO love to read! </span></div>
<br />sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877380367308996334.post-51261601393529679962019-02-14T14:42:00.000-06:002019-02-14T14:42:20.799-06:00Global School Play Day<span style="font-size: large;">Reston School K - 6 classes spent the afternoon of Valentine's Day 2019 engaged in play to celebrate <a href="https://www.globalschoolplayday.com/">Global School Play Day</a>. You can watch a Tedx Talks video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg-GEzM7iTk">here </a> by Peter Gray that describes the importance of play to children and the decline of free play in our society. </span><br />
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sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877380367308996334.post-89346198739425351042019-02-13T16:04:00.002-06:002019-02-13T16:04:26.563-06:00Celebrating 100 Days<span style="font-size: large;">The Grade 1 and 2 classes at Reston School took time on Wednesday, February 13 to celebrate the 100th day of our school year. (Technically it is only 97 days of being here since we have had 3 closed days when it was too cold to come to school!)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We have been keeping track all year at our Smartboard calendar time and have also thought up and recorded one way to make 100 every day so far. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Parents and friends came to join us later for a number of fun activities that reinforce the concept of the number 100. Some counted 100 objects, wrote 100 words, did exercises for 100 seconds, and counted up $1.00 with coins. The Aging Booth I Pad app and the 100 piece snack were popular places! Thanks to our visitors for joining us in an afternoon of learning and fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My personal all time favourite author study is underway in Room 21! We tried to guess how many books <a href="https://robertmunsch.com/">Robert Munsch</a> has written and decided to read them all and keep track on a chart. Will we reach 100?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I shared with the class that I met Robert Munsch in person and told them the story behind his visit to Sinclair School in February of 1993. (I was teaching a few of my current class's parents at the time!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back in 1990, after we read some of his books, all nine students in Grade 1 - 3 wrote a letter to Robert Munsch. His reply back to the Halls sisters is below. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time went on and we kind of forgot about it until one day two years later on recess duty - Maureen told me Robert Munsch was coming to visit their house! I can still picture the moment when she showed me the letter that the girls had received back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a couple of reschedules, it was finally set to happen in February of 1993. Robert Munsch</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"> arrived at Sinclair School with his daughter Tyya for one of our amazing</span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"> pot-luck lunches and an </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: center;">afternoon of story telling. What an event to remember! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Twenty six years later and now I'm still reading Robert Munsch to my students and he is still writing books. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/bear-for-breakfast-1.4996523">Bear for Breakfast</a> (due out next week) is his latest and I can hardly wait to read it with a group of eager students at my feet! </span>sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877380367308996334.post-76473234541609593882019-01-17T11:31:00.002-06:002019-01-17T11:31:49.181-06:00Ahoy Matey!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Following the reading of G<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58O4am7KuQY">randma and the Pirates</a> and <a href="https://room21simms.blogspot.com/2019/01/grandmas-noodle-pudding.html">making noodle pudding,</a> we made pirate ships in Art class with Mrs. Gillander!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Choosing colours to blend for a sky and then making waves in the blue paint with our fingers was so creative and fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone made the hull of the ship and masts out of brown construction paper and then designed pictures for the sails that tell a story. We love how they look in the hallway!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Our feature author this week has been <a href="http://phoebegilman.com/home.html">Phoebe Gilman.</a> We enjoyed the Jillian Jiggs books and <u>Something from Nothing </u> which I told them was my son Joel's favourite book many years ago. I can still read most of it from memory!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can link to her website <a href="https://barbarareid.ca/">here.</a> Scroll doown to the bottom of the page to see work from students as well as watch her videos and get some project ideas. We used P<a href="https://www.staples.ca/en/Prang-Assorted-Modeling-Clays/product_1919700_1-CA_1_20001">rang Modelling Clay</a> and a piece of stiff cardboard to work on. Starting with the background, layers of plasticine are placed on top of each other to create the picture. We are pretty pleased with how they are turning out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also </span><u style="font-size: x-large;">slowly</u><span style="font-size: large;"> ate the 50 snack that we brought from home, working on subtraction as we went. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the week November 5 - 9, the Grade 2 class completed several activities in honour of Remembrance Day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mrs. Gillander was the substitute teacher in Room 21 one day and she shared her artistic talents with us to help create the stunning bulletin board display. Cupcake papers were cut and painted for the petals and brads were used to hold them together. Watercolour paints on special thick paper made a beautiful background. She also had a "Peace" stamp that set off each artwork perfectly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had been working on a list of vocabulary words that relate to Remembrance Day and traditional parts of a service to prepare for our school's annual assembly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Several children's books with amazing illustrations had helped further discussion and understanding of the topic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Learning resources supplied by <a href="http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/get-involved/remembrance-day/learning-resources" target="_blank">Veterans Affairs Canada </a> were used in class and sent home to continue the conversation and reflection at home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Grade 12 class led a program of music and information as a finale to Veteran's Week. We will remember them. </span>sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877380367308996334.post-77704098264817577292018-11-02T15:16:00.000-05:002018-11-04T07:05:20.415-06:00Outdoor Classroom Day<div>
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November 1 is known throughout the world as <a href="https://outdoorclassroomday.com/about/" target="_blank">Outdoor Classroom Day</a>. Reston School's Grade 2 class along with Mr. Schiltroth's Outdoor Education class took the opportunity to explore the <a href="http://www.rmofpipestone.com/main.aspx?CategoryCode=47615773-CD0B-4668-8B13-398E20D842A1&pageCode=6EA73AC8-B28E-443E-A6B9-487A426C90CB" target="_blank">Reston Memorial Park </a>and learn about some of its features. A Scavenger Hunt saw the students in pairs and threes looking for information on the interpretive signs and recording it together. Although it was a little rainy, the students had a great time and learned about our </span><span style="font-size: large;">own Outdoor Classroom!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reston School was pleased to have <a href="https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communities/metro/Mosaic-artist-sets-up-at-schools-223157431.html" target="_blank">Dimitry Malman</a> visit for a week to instruct us in Mosaics through the Artists in the Schools program. We learned that making a mosaic takes time and patience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We learned how the large tiles are cut and nipped into small pieces and then everyone made their own picture or design on a square of pre cut plywood. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Next, masking tape was applied over the top of all the work so it could be lifted off in one piece to glue it down to the plywood later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The glue reminded us of white icing and we needed to put pressure on the pieces to be sure they were well stuck in. The next day, we applied the grout, which reminded us of chocolate icing! We needed gloves to wipe and polish the grout off the places it didn't belong and then let it set up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next we used acrylic paint around the sides and then decided on a title for our Art Piece. Then they will be on display in the hall later in the week!</span>sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877380367308996334.post-3082903102063844262018-10-22T15:57:00.001-05:002018-10-22T15:57:11.784-05:00Balloon Day!<span style="font-size: large;">As a wrap up to our Science Unit on Matter, October 22 was dedicated to the properties of gas with Balloon Day! Too start things off, we talked about some things they would like to find out using helium and regular balloons along with some other materials that had been provided. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then the experiments began! Some students used vinegar and baking soda to create a gas that could blow up a balloon while others tested how much a helium balloon could lift. Later on in the day, some students tried building balloon powered lego cars and rocket balloons with a piece of string. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had read the Robert Munsch story called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP8w31b89TU" target="_blank">Where is Gah-Ning?</a> last week and we wondered if 300 helium balloons could really carry a person away! A number of other Science books gave more ideas to try with balloons. Rubbing them to make static, twisting and tying them to make different shapes and letting the air out slowly were all self- directed experiments that the students tried out. It was great to see them working together and helping to solve problems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Writing descriptive words was next and we will use these words to make sentences later in the week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a fun filled and educational day in Grade Two!</span>sharon simmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169261818373181696noreply@blogger.com0