Fluency, Decades, Cards and School in the Past!

Reminder: There is no school this Friday December 8th. It is a Professional Development Day for teachers. We will see you Monday December 11th! Have a great weekend! We hope to see you at the ROYAL OAK SCHOOL CHRISTMAS MARKET from 1-4 on Saturday December 9th. 


Reading 

We are working on a new part of the Reading Cafe. We have started looking at FLUENCY: How you sound when you read. Fluency has many parts. Today used the strategy of: Use punctuation to enhance our reading.

we can follow this strategy at home when we reading our home reading or library books. We can also use this strategy with the reading passage that is coming home: In our Home reading bag or in our green home communication folder (if we don't take home reading books home anymore).  Please practise making your reading interesting! 



Math
We have been looking at Decades (groups of ten) in math and the numbers in-between each decade. This can help us when we are adding double-digit numbers together

We drew fence posts and pickets to represent how many decades we saw on a ruler.

We had to draw a fence using fence posts to represent the decades and the jumps (pickets) in-between? Ask me what I figured out?

We then looked at a metre stick with the challenge of how many decades we could see on it?


Cards

Thank you to so many people who donated $5 for your child's Christmas Cards. Today we made our last card. It was fun! We are expert cardmakers now and can't wait to see how much money Grade 2 is able to raise for Ryan's Well and helping answer our question "How can we Change" from the perspective of being global citizens and trying to change the world for the better.

https://www.ryanswell.ca/

Looking at Calgary in the past: 100 and more years ago!

Schools

Today we looked at pictures of calgary schools from the past. We had to sketch, write what we noticed, write what we thought it was for, and finally write any wonders we still had.

Ask me what I wondered about?
What did I learn about schools in Calgary, in the Past?

We had some classmates who shared some of their interview question answers. They attend Brownies and when they went to Christmas Carol at a Seniors Centre they were able to ask some interview questions about what life had been like in the past. They shared their knowledge with the class. It was amazing and perfectly connected to what we are learning about in Social Studies/Inquiry. If you have anything to share about Life in the Past in Calgary (surrounding area) from a grandparent or great-grandparent please let me know at imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca