Friday December 16th, 2016

Have a wonderful holiday season and break! We will see you back at school on Tuesday January 3rd, 2017.

Today we had a ketchup day:

•  We finished our good copies of our letter to Jan Brett. 
• We learned how to address an envelope so that our letter will get where we want it to
• We finished up our Todd Parr art and Mrs. Lagrana will mail it to him over break
• We finished up our Candy Conundrum problem in Math 
• We used a rubric of "I can statements" to make sure all details were included in our math work

Today we used the mini ipads to upload a picture of our rough copy and I can statements for our Jan Brett letter. We commented on the editing process. Mrs. Lagrana will comment on our reflection and picture over the break so keep checking IRIS. 

Elf Bobby Jolly brought us all a present today! Ask me about the magic elf dust and my bell. 

In math we created a repeating pattern to decorate our Jan Brett gingerbread door.

We helped our Kindergarten buddies to upload a picture of their work into IRIS and we wrote a comment for them. We like helping our buddies to learn technology!

Today we read the book "A Porcupine in a Pine Tree: A Canadian 12 Days of Christmas" by Helaine Becker and Werner Zimmermann. Mrs. Lagrana has a challenge for us over the winter break! If you read this book (you can pick it up from the library or their are many youtube versions of the story) can you figure out how many things his true love game to him if you count each day and put it all together. 

Day 1:

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me 1 porcupine in a pine tree

Day 2: On the second day of christmas my true love gave to me 2 Caribou

Day 3: On the third day of christmas my true love gave to me 3 beaver tails, 2 Caribou and 1 porcupine in a pine tree

Math

Day 1: 1

Day 2: 1+2=3

Day 3: 3+3=

Day 4: 4+6=

Day 5: 5+10=

Day 6: 6+15=

Day 7: 7+21=

Day 8: 8+28=

Day 9: 9+36=

Day 10: 10+45=

Day 11: ???

Day 12???

What is the grand total when you follow the pattern and add it all together? 

What strategies did you use to add it all together?

If the song kept going until the 15th day of Christmas what would the total be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mnuyk1M168

Wednesday December 14th, 2016

Today we had an assembly where we got to sing Christmas Carols. Ask me what a Boomer is? Today at the assembly one of our Educational Assistants (Mrs. Gibson) played the song "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" on the piano and she sang it. It was beautiful!



In gym we played a basic Dodgeball. We were the first class to play it this week!


We finished our rough copy of our Jan Brett letter. In Mrs. Lagrana's class we did editing. Ask me what I edited for?

Today we worked on our blue and orange cards for our Game of Frank. Ask me what the Orange and Blue cards are about? We are hoping to play our game together on Friday.

Today we did silent reading. Ask me what book I read.

Today we read two Jan Brett books (in Mrs. McDonald's class) Animals' santa and Berlioz the Bear. Ask me what my favorite one was?

In math we used long rolls of cut graph paper to make our own number line. We used different colours for the decades and the extras. Ask me what a decade is. Tell me a number and I will tell you how many decades and how many extras it has?

Tuesday December 13, 2016

Reminder: Report Cards were sent home today. Please send the signed envelopes back to the school so we can be environmentally friendly and reuse the envelopes in June. 

Reminder: Tomorrow morning at 9:00 am we will be having Caroling in the gym. Please feel free to join us for some festive singing until 9:30 am. 

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Can you figure out the pattern? What do you notice? What do we call the red numbers? Ask me what rules I learned today in math. 

Today we worked on our game of Frank. We finished our Townspeople/Jobs Cards and began our Resources/Supplies cards. We are so excited to play our game. We also made our game board pieces with modeling clay. Ask me what my symbol is? 

Monday December 12, 2016

Reminder: 4 more days until Winter Break!
Reminder: Wednesday December 14th at 9:00 AM we will be having Christmas Carols in the gym. Parents are welcome to join us for 30 minutes of singing together and listening to our grade 3 Choir. 
Reminder: It is cold outside. Today was our first day back outside at lunch. We need to make sure we are coming to school prepared (snow pants, jackets, hats, mittens, boots) because even if it was a blue day in the morning it may warm up enough for us to have some play time outside by lunch. 

Today we had an assembly for Caroling. Our next caroling assembly will be Wednesday at 9:00 AM

Today we worked on editing our Jan Brett letters and adding our keyhole pictures to our letters. We also read another Jan Brett booked Called "The Wild Christmas Reindeer".

In gym we played a new game called Santa, Mrs. Clause, Grinch and Elf tag game! At least thats what Mrs. Hennick calls it!! Ask me how the game was played!

Today Bobby Jolly came to Mrs. Lagrana's class first and then surprised us by going to Mrs. McDonald's class when we weren't expecting it! He challenged us to do some drawings for Mrs. Green. to say thank you for all that she does for our school.

Today in math we used base ten (ten sticks and ones) to build double digit numbers and add double digit numbers. Ask me which strategy I used for building my numbers or for adding them together.

Today in Mrs. Lagrana's class  we finished our Gingerbread baby art and our Todd Parr art. Some of us started making a repeating pattern for decorating our Gingerbread Door!

Today we finished up our Red Cards for our Frank Board Games. Red means we are thriving in Frank. Ask me what my card says and how many spaces I get to move on the game board if I get it?

Friday December 9, 2016

Today we wrote a letter (rough copy) to Jan Brett. We are going to type it out on GoogleDoc's next week. Here is a link to her website if you want to learn more about her and the books she has written and illustrated.

Today we finished our Neighborhood Holiday cards. We wrote a message and did some stamps. We are excited for our Royal Oak Neighbors to receive them.

In math we practiced building a double digit number and adding two double digit numbers in our head...ask me what my strategy was?

Today Bobby Jolly was in our Recycling bin. He had a mini bottle with a note inside. He challenged us to do something kind for our office staff (Mrs. Braun and Mrs. Jackson). He is a surprising little elf. We never know where he will be next!

http://www.janbrett.com/index.html

Thursday December 8

Reminder: Stephen's Backpacks items will be sorted and put into backpacks this upcoming Monday December 12th after school. Tomorrow and Monday will be the last day to bring stuff in to stuff backpacks!

Reminder: Early Dismissal Tomorrow at 12:48 pm.

Today we got to pick a middle name for our Elf. We named him Bobby Jolly. He gave us a new letter today about doing random acts of kindness for people at our school. Ask me what our first Random Acts of Kindness Challenge was?

Today we read "The Gingerbread Friends" again and we watched a video of Jann Brett drawing the Gingerbread baby. We practiced drawing the baby too!

Today we read "Home for Christmas" by Jann Brett. Ask me what it was about.

Today we made holiday cards that will be delivered to Royal Oak Neighbors. Ask me what I made on my card and how?

Today at gym we did a basketball game. Ask me what the rules were?

In math we used ten sticks and ones to make numbers and to add numbers together. Ask me what my strategy was?

Wednesday December 7th, 2016

Today we started making a game board about Life in Frank! Ask me what my game title is?

Today a new elf came to our classroom. Mrs. McDonald's class names him Bobby. Mrs. Lagrana's class is thinking of a suitable middle name for him because he disappeared during math and showed up in Mrs. Lagrana's class!!! We are very curious and excited about where he will end up tomorrow!! Our elf left us a note that he will be checking if we are naughty or nice and letting Santa know.


Today we had Centre Time in gym. We used the Scooter Boards, Hockey Sticks, Skipping Ropes and Hula Hoops. Ask me which centre was my favorite?

We used Modge Podge to paint our covers for our Pioneer Journals. Mrs. McDonald's class took some thread and after hole punching our buffalo art we practiced sewing by weaving string through our covers to bind our book together.  Mrs. Lagrana's class is excited to try this tomorrow!

Today we did a Venn Diagram comparing the story of Cinderella (Traditional Version) and Cinders: A Cinderella Story by Jann Brett.

We also Read Gingerbread Friends by Jann Brett. Ask me what I liked about the story?

Tuesday December 6th, 2016

Today we went to see "The Slipper" which is a distinctly Calgarian version of Modern Day Cinderella! Ask me what my favorite part and who my favorite character was?

Today we started a new Candy Conundrum Math Problem. Ask me which kind of number line I am going to try first?

Monday December 5th, 2016

Reminder: Tomorrow is the ATP field trip to see "The Slipper". ******A new form came home today to be filled out to give permission for your child to attend the performance. It must be returned by tomorrow morning in order for your child to attend. If you were away please come in to the office in the morning with your parent to sign it in order to attend. 

Reminder: We are giving one more day to student's who wanted to write in about why they would like to be picked to help pack the backpacks for Stephens's backpacks. After tomorrow I will pick one student from the class, based on their reasons for wanting to do it.


Today we finished all of our boat load challenges. We also finished our bar graphs to show our results. We are bringing home our graphs. Ask me which challenge my boat did the best on?

Today we read the traditional versions of Cinderella. We are going to compare it to the Slipper and see what is the same and what is different. All week we will be reading different versions of Cinderella and comparing and contrasting.

Today we watched the story "The Gingerbread Baby" by Jan Brett. We are going to be reading lots of her books over the next two weeks. We talked about how we could decorate our classroom door to look like the gingerbread house from the book and how we could cooperate to get the job done. We also read "The Hat" by Jan Brett. Ask me what I learned about Jan Brett's illustrations.

Thursday December 1st, 2016

Reminder: NO SCHOOL TOMORROW (FRIDAY DECEMBER 2nd, 2016)!!

Reminder: Field trip to The Slipper will be on Tuesday December 6th. It is important to be on time that day so you don't miss the bus to the Theatre. 

Today we were asked if we had any interest in helping pack backpacks for Stephens's Backpacks. There was so much interest in Room 74 that we decided to do a challenge in order to decide because we can only have 1 student from each grade 2 class. If you are interested in doing this on Monday December 12th, after school and from 3:35-4:45 pm please write a letter to Mrs. Lagrana explaining why you want to do it and why you think Stephen's Backpacks is important.

I will accept the letters on Monday and a form will come home on Tuesday for the one student who is picked based on the letter they write. 

If you want more information about Stephen's Backpacks please visit:
http://www.stephensbackpacks.com/about-us/who-we-are/

Today we continued our boat challenges but we added Cargo to our boat. We wanted to see how many cargo our boat could hold in the wind and in the rain. Ask me about how my boat did and ask me what I learned about my boat. We then completed a bar graph for our results. On Monday we will test in a hurricane and in a rainstorm. Ask me how I think that my boat will do and why?

We did self-editing on our Pioneer Journals today. We are so excited to bring them home next week and share with you all of our writing about Frank, Alberta more than 100 years ago!

Have a great long weekend!!

Wednesday November 30th, 2016

Reminder: NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY December 2nd. It is a Professional Development Day. 

Please remember to bring something in for Stephen's Backpacks. We want to fill up as many backpacks as possible! 

Reminder: If you have not paid for the upcoming ATP field trip ($18.00) please pay online, send in cash or a cheque as soon as possible. 

Today we finished building our boats. We tested them. We looked to see if they would float or sink. We also tested if they would be stable or unstable in wind/rain/and waves. Ask me what happened to my boat. Ask me what I might change if I do it again?

Today in gym we practiced ball dribbling, passing, chest passes and bounce passes and we also played take away. 

In math we started to learn about Bar Graphs. Ask me what I learned. Tomorrow we will graph our boat testing results. We are going to test load tomorrow. 

We wrote our Pioneer Journal entry 7. It is our last one. We had to decide if we would stay in Frank or move to a new place and why? Ask me what I decided? Tomorrow we are going to self edit for periods, capitals, descriptive double scoop words and spelling. 

Tuesday November 29th, 2016

REMINDER: THE FIELD TRIP IS COMING UP TUESDAY DECEMBER 6, 2016

THE SLIPPER: A DISTINCTLY CALGARIAN CINDERELLA STORY

Royal Oak School is collecting new items for Stephen’s Backpacks. Our goal is to fill 100 backpacks for children this Christmas. Donations of new items such as mittens, hats, socks, small toys, craft things, toothbrushes, books are being accepted. Donations can be sent to school with your child and they will be put under the Christmas tree in the gathering space. Thank you for your support.

Also here is the link to the Stephen’s Backpack Society website: 

 

http://www.stephensbackpacks.com

MATH

-One of our Open Number Line strategies involves being able to add (skip-count) by tens, starting at any number to 100. 

-I have identified this as an area of growth for most students. 

-Please review the following videos, GAMES and concept sheets with your child if you feel it would be beneficial

ADDING BY TENS: YOUTUBE VIDEO

https://youtu.be/QGyUgGLpeCE

Add 10 to 2-digit Alien Attack GAME!

http://www.snappymaths.com/addition/add10to2d/interactive/add10t2dattack.htm

Add 10 to 2-digit Top of the Class GAME!

http://www.snappymaths.com/addition/add10to2d/interactive/add10to2dtotc.htm

Today in gym we practiced our basket ball shots. 

We finished a new pioneer journal reflection about the slide. Ask me what I imagined I was feeling, seeing, smelling on the morning of the slide, on April 29th, 1903 at 4:10 AM.

We finished reading Keeley. Ask me about the ending and how I felt about it. 

Today we got to begin our boat building. Ask me how my boat is coming along and how I think that it will do when we test it?

Monday November 28th, 2016

Reminder: Please if you have not done so already we need your filled out ATP Field trip forms back.

Reminder: If you have materials to bring in for our boat building please do so tomorrow. We are hoping to have enough to start building!

Today in gym we played basket ball. We got to shoot in the nets. Ask me what the proper stance is for shooting a basketball?

We used a 100's chart and looked at 10 more, 10 less, 1 more and 1 less and what patterns we could find to help us.

Today we talked about what the best materials would be for our boat design. Ask me how I am thinking to design my boat and what materials I think would be best?

In Mrs. Lagrana's class we spent some more time on our Todd Parr art. Ask me what step I am on?

In Mrs. McDonald's class we read books with voices. We read Mortimer and Pete the Cat and the Magic Blue Sunglasses and Exclamation mark! Ask me which my favourite was and why?

Friday November 25th, 2016

Science:

Dear Parents, students have concluded their rotations in science where they were exploring all of the foundational knowledge around buoyancy. They have now been challenged pick a style of boat they wish to build. The following 2 sheets help them with what they need to know when designing their boat by thinking about the PURPOSE of their boat and what knowledge they have that can be thoughtfully applied in their design. Please review the following with your child, thanks! 

Next week we will begin building boats. On Monday we will go over the materials that we need and review how we will use these materials to design our boats. 

If you have any materials at home to donate to our building project it would be greatly appreciated. Things like tinfoil, popsicle sticks, plastic cups, string, the styrofoam containers that meat comes in etc please bring them in on by Tuesday November 29th. 

Thursday November 24th, 2016

Royal Oak School is collecting new items for Stephen’s Backpacks. Our goal is to fill 100 backpacks for children this Christmas. Donations of new items such as mittens, hats, socks, small toys, craft things, toothbrushes, books are being accepted. Donations can be sent to school with your child and they will be put under the Christmas tree in the gathering space. Thank you for your support.

Reminder: Please send back your field trip forms for ATP

Today we edited our Pioneer Journals and used exit slips and highlighters to check our writing.

Today we finished working on a math equation using the number line 4 different ways. Ask me which way I like the best. When you come to student-led conferences ask me to show you which number line is my favourite and which one I would like to improve on?

We finished our Buffalo Robe art and are excited to show it to you. 

We can't wait to show you all our hard work and learning goals tonight and tomorrow at Student-Led Conferences!

REMINDER THERE IS NO SCHOOL TOMORROW FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25th

Tuesday November 22, 2016

Reminder to wear ROYAL blue or Royal Oak shirts tomorrow for our Assembly at 10:30

No School on Friday due to Student-Led Conferences.

Please when you return field trip forms for ATP is your plan is to pay on line can you please indicate it somewhere on the front page of the form?

I noticed I put that the Scholastic Books orders for December were due back on November 25 but since we have no school that day I will postpone it to Monday November 28th.

Today we looked at all of our Math Candy problem posters and talked about how to share our understanding when we do math. We talked about how important it is to be clear about what equation you are solving by using pictures, labels and words to clearly communicate your understanding. At Student-Led conferences I can show you this problem and explain how I solved it multiple ways.

We also looked at a fourth way to do a number line. Tomorrow we will get to practice this way. At conferences I can share with you the way I feel most comfortable and successful doing number line and a way I want to get better at.

We are getting excited for Conferences. We have so many things we want to share with you!

REMINDER

Royal Oak School parent, Chris Milne, is coming to speak to the students about resiliency on Wednesday, November 23 at 10:30 a.m. Students are invited to wear Royal Blue on this day to celebrate school spirit.  Also, parents are welcome to attend.

Monday November 21, 2016

We are excited to offer all students at Royal Oak School the opportunity to visit the Martha Cohen Theatre to watch "Slipper: A Distinctly Calgarian Cinderella Story."  Each grade group will attend the production on different dates, outlined below:

       December 6:   Grade Two and Three

December 7:   Kindergarten (both morning and afternoon students)

  December 8:   Grade One

Please complete the Consent and Acknowledgement of Risk form that was sent home today, and return it to your teacher by TuesdayNovember 29, 2016.

We are very much looking forward to sharing this wonderful learning opportunity with your child(ren)!

Today we wrote our Pioneer Journal #4. It was about Turtle Mountain. Ask me what I wrote about.

Tomorrow we are going to start Basketball in gym? Today we watched a video of our dance performance and did a self-assessment. Ask me what I thought about my performance?

We added a math goal, a math strategy and an Understanding Myself as a Learner upload in IRIS. Ask me how I learn best?

Today we continued with our Buffalo Robe Art. We finished the First Nations story about Frank? We used sharpie to color it in and added a bead strip.

Today we finished our 3 Ways to do a Number line problem. Ask me which way I like the best and which way I would like to get better at?

Friday November 18

Dear Parents, we are excited by the response so far to the Spirit Wear fundraiser.  We would like to remind you that we will have samples available for trying during Student Conferences on Thursday, November 24th and Friday, November 25th.  Please allow time to visit us at the ROS Fundraising Society table!  If you need help with sizing and are not able to attend conferences, please email us to make alternate arrangements! Thank you and Happy Weekend! 

Cameo Delisle

Chair

ROSFundraisingSociety@gmail.com

Today we got to perform our Sound Kreations dance in front of the whole school! 

Today we uploaded one of our reflections about our Science Rotations to IRIS. We then commented on how what we had learnd about a particular concept would help us when we begin to design boats. Go to IRIS to see what my comment was?

In art we got our Buffalo Hides started and brainstormed how we could use pictographs to tell the First Nations perspective about Turtle mountain and the community of Frank. Ask me what symbols I am going to put in my art?

Mrs. Lagrana's class had our first Buddies. Ask me who my buddy is and what I am excited about for Buddies.

Math & Typing Links

Here are some links for practicing number line addition and becoming more adept at using the keyboard.

Number Line Math Game-Techno Tortoise

http://mrcrammond.com/games/techno_tortoise.swf


Typing Websites to Practice Keyboard Typing
Dance Mat Typing
http://www.dancemattypingguide.com/dance-mat-typing-level-1/

Typing.com
https://www.typing.com/

Thursday November 17, 2016

Reminder: Today Pictures went home with your student if you ordered them. Mrs. Lagrana's class also brought home book orders that are due on November 25th.

Tonight is our SoundKreations Dance Performance. All students will perform in the afternoon except for AM Kindergarten. If you do not have a ticket for the evening performance your child will not perform in the evening. Students are required to be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Please only bring your child if you have a ticket for the evening performance.

Today we had our first Dance performance at school. Tonight there will be more. Please remember to come 15 minutes early. We are meeting in Mrs. Devereux's room.

Today we did read to someone and read to self. We got 1 handful of marbles. Tomorrow we are challenging ourselves to get more by reading quietly the whole time (no voices or whisper voices)

Today we did our Pioneer Journals again. Ask me what I wrote about?

Two brave people from our class (Aidan and Jonah) came up front and presented their Candy Problem Math Poster. We practiced being a good audience.

Today we continued our science rotation reflections. Ask me if I did a picture? A diagram? A sentence?

Socktober - Thank you to all families who participated in our Socktober event at Pumpkinella this year. The Grade 2 students have completed their final count and we have collected 700 pairs of socks to help families in need at Inn from the Cold. Arrangements have been made to get the socks to Inn from the Cold on Friday. Thank you for this great act of generosity!

Wednesday November 16th, 2016

Reminder: Tomorrow is the Sound Kreations performance. Today was our last practice. Please be here early as each performance is only a few minutes long. Please remember to have your child wear dark black or blue pants or jeans with a bright, colourful shirt. 

Stephen's Backpacks

Royal Oak School is supporting Stephen’s Backpacks this holiday season.

The backpacks that we are filling are for children who range in age from infant to grade 4. We are looking for donations of new items that can go inside of a backpack (toques, mitts, puzzles, pajamas, socks, baby items, etc). These items can be sent to school with your child and they will be placed under the tree in the gathering space. 

We will begin collecting items in the gathering space beginning on Monday November 14^th and will be accepting donations until Friday December 9th. 

Today in science we were writing about what we did in our science rotations. We had to write about what we remembered and learned. We could use pictures, diagrams or sentences. 

Today we started our Pioneer Journal entry number 3. Ask me what I wrote about.

In math we learned about a third way to use the number line. We practiced adding two numbers together using the number line. We started at 0....then we tried starting with the biggest number, and last we tried solving the same problem by hopping by all of the tens, then skipping by all of the 5's and lastly jumping by all of the ones. Ask me which way I like the best?

SOUND KREATIONS PERFORMANCE!!

Here is the link for the music for the school Sound Kreations performance. Also the performance order/times and classes.



https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ahc9iq5ihnmkl2k/AABSdtisYLZljgHdCaT3txdga?dl=0

Performance	Time	Performance Order
1	2:00 pm-3:20 pm	1:55 PM Kindergarten 2:02 Daniels/MacDonald 2:09 Plaxin/Barley 2:16 Percival/Hansen 2:23 Devereux/Lagrana 2:30 McDonald/Vogan 2:37 Olson/Asis 2:43 Bennett/Mitschke 2:50 Rutland/Hillar
2	6:00 pm-6:40 pm	5:55 AM Kindergarten (Mercer/Power) 6:02 AM Kindergarten (Simpson/Morden) 6:09 PM Kindergarten 6:16 Daniels/MacDonald 6:23 Plaxin/Barley 6:30 Percival/Hansen
3	6:50 pm-7:30 pm	6:45 Devereux/Lagrana 6:52 McDonald/Vogan 6:59 Olson/Asis 7:06 Bennett/Mitschke 7:13 Rutland/Hillar

Tuesday

The 6:00 pm SoundKreations performance is sold out.  Tickets are still available for the 2:00 pm and 6:50 performances.

Mrs. Lagrana's class and Mrs. McDonald's class is asking that students please wear dark leggings/pants and or jeans and then a bright plain or patterned top for the performance.

Today in gym we had a full practice of our whole routine for Sound Kreations. We can't wait to share our performance with you!

Today at music we did a test and Mrs. Mann had to tell us to write down the notes that she played.

Today we learned a new way to use the number line. We can start from 0 or we can start from the highest number.

We did read to self/read to someone today.

Today we did writing in our Pioneer Journals. This writing will be our second page of our pioneer journals. Ask me what I wrote about?

REMINDER:
Calgary Reads-Read Up! Program Volunteer Tutors Needed
If you are looking to make a difference in the life of a child in your community, consider donating your time or resources to the Calgary Reads Read Up! Program at Royal Oak School.
The Calgary Reads Read Up! Tutoring Program pairs struggling readers in Grades 1 and 2 with trained adult tutors; the one-on-one tutoring occurs in a structured, nurturing and supportive learning environment within the child’s school. Tutors spend time tutoring young readers, while providing a strong adult role model in each child’s life.
By spending 40 minutes twice a week for approximately 40 sessions with a struggling Grade 1 or 2 student you can help a child become a confident, successful independent reader. Tutors receive 3.5 hours of training to follow the Calgary Reads lesson framework that includes a variety of effective reading strategies.
If you enjoy reading and have two hours each week to share with a child, we invite you to help us support our Calgary Reads Read Up! Program in our school It’s fun, meaningful and rewarding to help a child read with confidence and joy!
In order to participate in our program, a valid Calgary Police Clearance through the Calgary Board of Education is necessary. If you do not have one, this process can be initiated at the school on the training date. For the record check, a valid piece of photo ID will be required (drivers license or passport) and applicants need to have lived in Calgary for at least one year.
Tutor Training Date: Tuesday, November 29th
Time: 9:00am-12:30pm
Location: Royal Oak School
Please RSVP to Sandi Harrower by Tuesday, November 22nd via email:
slharrower@cbe.ab.ca
Please visit the Calgary Reads Website for more information: http://calgaryreads.com/join- us/volunteer/read-up/ 

Monday November 14th, 2016

Rem

Reminder: There is NO SCHOOl tomorrow for Remembrance Day. See you on Monday!
Please remember to send in your blue for to order tickets for the Sound Kreations performance that is next week. We have all worked so hard practicing our Bollywood and Hip Hop Dance moves and can't wait to share out final dance piece with you at the performance.

Today in gym we played a game about Pokemon. Ask me who the characters were?

Today we came up with different names for different shades of the same colour. Ask me what colour I worked on? This is too help me use more descriptive words in my writing.

We had a Remembrance Day Assembly. It was serious and we were not supposed to laugh or clap. Ask me what I remember the most from the assembly. Thank you to Jonah and Jack for being brave MC's!

We read the book "Its Ok to Make Mistakes" by Todd Parr. We started our own drawing based on a page from the book that we related to about making mistakes. Ask me what I started to draw.

In math we started to solve a Candy Problem. We had to figure out how many candies Mrs. Lagrana gets to eat! Ask me what strategies I used.

Wednesday November 9th, 2016

Today we continued our Journals in writing. Ask me me what I wrote about?

Today we did read to self and read to someone. Ask me which book I read?

In science rotations we tried to make a penny float, using materials like elastics, straws, plastacine, toothpicks and popsicle sticks and little cups. Ask me if mine floated?

Today in gym we did our routine for Dance. We can't wait to show it to you at our performance next week!

We watched some videos about the life of a coal miner and a farmer in the past. We talked about what Pioneers and Settlers are?

In math we worked on explaining our math Halloween Candy problem. We had to share the strategies we used and why we used them. Some of us were sharing our problem posters and some of us were practicing making numbers on an open number line.

Tuesday November 8th, 2016

Today in gym we continued to practice our Hip Hop and Bollywood Dance routine. If you have not brought in your forms for the Sound Kreations tickets please do so ASAP.

Today in writing we wrote our Pioneer Journals. We wrote a diary entry about where we came to Frank from, why we came, what our hopes and dreams are for the future, what we think our job will be and how we got to Frank. Ask me about my first diary entry.

Today in science rotations we learned about Displacement and talked about how heavy something is and how that contributes to how much water will be displaced. Ask me about the two experiments that I did?

Monday November 7, 2016

Remembrance Day Assembly

Royal Oak School’s Remembrance Day Assembly will be on Thursday, November 10^th at 10:45am. All families are welcome to join us. Students involved in Scouts, Girl Guides etc. are welcome to wear their uniforms during our assembly.

All students will be receiving poppies on Thursday. We welcome any donations for the Calgary Poppy Fund to help support local veterans.

Looking for Volunteers for the Wee Read Program:

Wee Read is about reading aloud and sharing the joy of reading with kindergarten and Grade 1 students. Reading volunteers would need to commit to 30 minutes per week for 8 weeks. In this 30 minutes, volunteers will have the opportunity to work with two students either in Kindergarten or Grade 1.

If you are interested in volunteering for this program, a valid police clearance through the CBE is required. Interested volunteers are asked to please attend a Wee Reads training session on November 8^th from 10:30am-11:30am or November 10^th from 2:30pm-3:30pm. Both training sessions will be offered at Royal Oak School. If you are interested in attending, please contact Sandi Harrower at slharrower@cbe.ab.ca and RSVP by Monday evening, November 7th.

Reminder: Please remember to bring back your blue forms about the Sound Kreations performance. Notices went home on Friday and need to be returned to school right away so tickets can be distributed.

Reminder: Book orders are due back on Thursday November 10^th. Scholastic has changed their policy now so that the order must be a total of $25 or higher in order to not charge any shipping fees.

Reminder: Today when we did read to self and read to someone we got to read a special newspaper about Animals in War. We got to bring the newspaper home, maybe we can read it together?

Today we had our third science rotation. Mrs. Lagrana’s class went to Mrs. Hansen’s class to learn about Density. We had salt water, baking soda water sugar water and plain water. We dropped different things into the water solutions to see which object came up to the top of the water more. We were testing if different things mixed into the water can affect density.

Today we read a new Todd Parr book called “Be Who You Are”. Mrs. Lagrana got to meet him at her Conference and he is going to be writing us a letter answering all of our questions about his writing and illustrations.

In math we worked on our Halloween Candy inventory problem. We used a number line to help us count or triangle math or ten frames. Ask me what my group and I figured out? We also did a math forum to see other peoples work and strategies and ask them questions about their work.

Today we talked about using Yellow, Red and Green cut out circles at our groups to let the teacher know if we are ok, need a little help or are stuck when we are working. Tomorrow we will get to try them out!

In gym we did some cool dancing. We did Bollywood! Maybe I can show you my favourite new move!

Friday November 4, 2016

Today we worked on our Venn Diagrams again. This time we filled out an exit pass to help us know what types of things we need to describe about our jobs in the past, Frank and in the present, Calgary.

In the morning we began the day by joining Mrs. McDonald to do silent  Read to Self and then we got with a partner to do Read to Someone.

Today in art, we each painted 3 coffee filters different shades of red. To change the red colour to a lighter colour  we added white in different amounts.

Today because we did so well with Read to Someone and Read to Self for 10 minutes we got the chance to build different buildings we would see in Frank Ab. We used lego,, robots, train tracks, circuit boards, building blocks, roller coaster tracks, etc. 

Coming home tonight is a notice about our SoundKreations performance tthat is coming up on November 17th. Please read and fill out these forms if you're interested in attending. ALL FORMS MUST BE RETURNED BY NOVEMBER 14TH!!!

Thursday November 3, 2016

Today we had a practice Fire Drill. It was around 10:30 so we did math instead of Science.

Today in gym, we quickly reviewed our hip hop skills.

Today in Social we began our venn diagrams for our jobs. A venn diagram is a picture of two circles that show how something has changed from the past to present.

Before Social, we did read to self and after we did read to someone.

Today in Math, we worked with Mrs. McDonald's class to talk about and to show how to hop (10), skip (5) and jump (1) on a number line to make new numbers.

Today we had a substitute, Ms. Russell, as Ms. Lagrana is away for her "meeting."  She did awesome!

Wednesday November 2nd, 2016

PICTURE ORDER REMINDER

DEADLINE – Thursday, November 3rd

Lifetouch picture order deadline is tomorrow – Thursday, November 3^rd.  Please order online or send the orders with your child tomorrow! 

Thank you.

Today we did our second science rotation. We learned about balance and unstable boats and why it is important. 

In writing we looked at our job cards for Frank, Alberta and wrote in our explorer journals about why our job is important for our community and how our jobs help people. Ask me about my ideas?

In the morning we did a capitalization activity. Ask me what I learned about when to use Capital letters?

We came up with Imagine If ideas for our Remembrance Day Assembly. Ask me what my groups idea was and why we picked it.

Tuesday November 1st

Reminder: Book orders are due next Thursday November 10th.
Reminder: If you want to order the special Student Nights Calgary Flames Hockey Tickets please go to www.NHL.COM/FLAMES/TICKETS/STUDENT-NIGHT

Today we had our first Science rotations for our Boats and Buoyancy study. We stayed in our own classrooms for the first one. For our class today it was all about Waterproofing. Ask me what experiment I did and what I found out? See if I can remember what the words waterproof, repel and absorb mean? Tomorrow we get to travel to Mrs. McDonald's class and learn about Load.

Today was our second day of Sound Kreations and we were doing Bollywood dance. Ask me what my favorite part was today?

In writing we continued to work on writing about Why we moved to Frank, Alberta from the perspective of our job...(ask me what my job is) and what my hopes are for my life in Frank.

In math we worked on Number Line math and building numbers using a hop, skip and a jump. Ask me what number each movement stands for. Maybe I can show you a double digit number using hops, skips and jumps and you can see if you can guess my number?

Monday October 31st

Today in inquiry we talked about First Nations. We were using our I see, I think and I imagine graphic organizer strategy and looking at different pictures of First Nations life from the past. We read a book called Hidden Buffalo.

In gym we started our dance unit with Sound Kreations. We were learning about Hip Hop. It is a type of dance that comes from New York.

Today was Pumpkinella. Ask me which pumpkin was my favorite and which one(s) I sketched? We ate in our class today due to Pumpkinella.

In writing we started our Explorer Journals. We are writing from the perspective of our Job/Role in Frank, Alberta. Ask me what I wrote about.

Today we did a hypothesis about whether a tiny pumpkin would float or sink. Ask me what my hypothesis was? Ask me what I observed?