Mr. Pressey

This week we went and visited our kindergarten buddies and did some art. We made reindeers out of popsicle sticks. The hard part was gluing the popsicle sticks because it was hard making them even. Another tricky part was also putting on the antlers because sometimes our buddies struggled twisting them. We continued learning about multiplication by practicing the easiest and most important times table, the fives. We practiced counting by fives to get faster. We are trying to get so good that we just know the facts without counting by fives. Someone also realized that we can sometimes count by tens to do this too or half a number that is multiplied by ten. The other day we made Tinfoil Men/ Tinfoil People. It was an art project that helped us learn more about light and shadow. It was used to teach us how an opaque object blocks light and makes shadows. One student said that he liked bending the men because they are very flexible. To learn more about multiplication we made array bu

We have been doing lots with Art and Science lately.  We read a story called Snowmen at Night and that inspired us to do an Art project. We used oil pastels to make a snowman and some paper towels to smudge the pastels. We shaded the edges to make it look 3D and we included a shadow because we are learning about light and shadows in Science. We have also been starting to learn about multiplication. We have been doing multiplication thinkboards to practice lots of strategies to solve problems like arrays, 100 charts. drawings, repeated addition and using known facts.We have been practice our 2 and 3 times tables when we do 2 minute math. We have also been playing some math games. Our Winter Concert is at 4:45 - 6pm on Thursday December 20th. We have been practicing dancing with 3 Left Feet.