Please join us this evening from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm for our Royal Oak School Parent/Student Literacy Night. There will be 11 different literacy sessions to choose from. Come learn how to help your child become literate across the disciplines.
Reminder: Please go to one of the websites for getting a child's new article. They were posted on the blog on Monday January 8th. Please have your child find one that they are interested in and print it out to bring to school tomorrow. We will be doing this every Friday for the next month. Fridays they will get a chance to share with a partner and practice Reading Like a News Reporter!
Arctic Stories
Today we read a story about the Northern Lights. The story we read is called Sky Sisters by Jan Bourdeau Waboose.
We talked about:
-setting
-characters
-problem
-solution
-magic
-message or lesson
Ask me what I remember from this story? How does it explain the phenomenon of the Northern Lights?
We talked about what a myth is and that often a myth tells a story of how something came to be. Often a myth will have a lesson or a message for us to learn. They are stories from the ancient people of a particular culture. Many of the stories that we will be looking at come from the Inuit Peoples since they were the first inhabitants of the Canadian Arctic.
We will mostly be learning about the area in the rectangle that is the Canadian Arctic, particularly the city known as Iqaluit, in the territory of Nunavut. Sometimes there is some crossover in the stories as they are old and passed down from generation to generation. Since Inuit people were traditionally semi-nomadic we may touch on a story that comes from the Alaskan area or the North-West Territories or the Yukon.
We also talked about how Scientists study natural phenomenon to figure out why and how they occur. Here is the scientific explanation of the Aurora Borealis:
Temperature
We have been looking at Temperature. Here is a video that helps us remember what it means when the mercury moves in a thermometer and some common temperature measurements:
We talked about how a thermometer is a weather tool. It can help us measure the temperature of things. In our Arctic Centres we have been practising using a thermometer to measure the temperature in degrees Celsius of 4 different kinds of water.
This link will take you to a interactive thermometer that you can move to see some common temperatures:
MY GOALS-IRIS
We have been writing Understanding myself as a Learner, Goals and Strategies in IRIS. Please see IRIS today and tomorrow to see what my reading goal and strategy is and how I learn best. There is a permanent link at the top of this blog so that you can log in quickly without having to go to the Royal Oak School Website.
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