Our first session with out of 4 with our Artist in Residence is tomorrow from 2:30-3:30 pm. I am in desperate need of at least 1 or 2 volunteers to help with this process. If anyone is able to volunteer for this 1 hour time period please email me at imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Monday, October 29, 2018
Reading Brains, Number Lines, Research from a website
Literacy
In literacy this week we are talking about Reading Power and the importance of Thinking While We Read.
This week and next we will be focusing on making CONNECTIONS when we read. These connections are usually in our heads in our Thinking Voice. Nobody else can hear our THINKING VOICE but good readers are hearing this voice ALL of the TIME as they read!
We read the book Jack's Worry by Sam Zuppardi
While reading the book we had to stop every page and share any CONNECTIONS we were having from our own life. Tomorrow we will work on connections we have to other books or to things from the world.
We will be practicing this COMPREHENSION strategy all week and into next week. My home reading homework will be about using this strategy at home to increase my understanding of what I am reading. Stay tuned for a PARENT PIPELINE on Wednesday October 31st on the BLOG.
Mathematics
Open Number Lines
Today we continued to practice exploring the open number line by creating two-digit numbers on an open number line using HOPS (10s), SKIPS (5s) and JUMPS (1s). We had to label the numbers at the top and write an efficient equation to go with our number line. We practiced acting out these numbers. Ask me to act our a two-digit number at home, using hops, skips and jumps.
Reading Like a Historian
Today we continued looking at the past through the eyes of a Historian. We used a website through the Glenbow Museum to research about the Blackfoot way of life past and present. We had to read parts of the website and then fill out a mind map with sketches and words about what we are learning. We will continue this activity tomorrow and Friday. Historians use many sources for their information about the past and websites/computers are one of them. If you would like to explore this website at home further use the following link:
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Reminders, Math, Halloween Updates, Voices of the Past and the Weather!
Reminders:
There is no school tomorrow Friday October 26th. It is a Professional Development Day for staff. See you Monday October 29th!
Volunteers Needed
Next week Wednesday October 31st is our first day working with our Artist in Residence. Our class will have our first session with the artist from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm this day. It would be good to have 2 or 3 parent volunteers for this session in order to support the students in their learning. If you are able to volunteer for this time please email me directly at imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca
The other dates needed are:
Tuesday November 6th 9:45 am-10:45 am
Monday November 12th 9:45 am-10:45 am
Thursday November 15th 9:45 am-10:45 am
Halloween Update:
Royal Oak is excited to move in a new direction this year! In place of Pumpkinella, students are invited to wear their Halloween costumes on October 31st. Please have students come dressed in their costume in the morning (PM Kindergarten, please come ready in the afternoon!). Please have your child practice getting in and out of their costume so they can independently dress for washroom breaks. We ask that costumes do NOT include: masks, weapons, accessories, or blood/gore. Regular learning activities will continue throughout the day. Students will get the opportunity to share their costumes with each other by participating in a parade in the halls. In keeping with learning about healthy eating, please do not send any special treats or snacks to share. Our Staff is looking forward to the 31st!
You are also welcome to wear black and orange if you do not want to wear a costume.
Voices of the Past Inquiry
We have been talking about the past and how Calgary came to be. We started by looking at the perspectives of First Nations, Settlers, Missionaries and Police. We looked at jobs that were important in the past. This week we have been extending this look at History by asking "Whose voices have we not heard". The students came up with Children and Women.
Yesterday we looked at children and talked about Children's voices/roles in the Past vs Present:
Today we looked at the Canadian Pacific Railway, particularly the Chinese immigrants who came to work on building the railway in hopes of a better life.
We read a book called Ghost Train by Paul Yee about this experience.
We posed the questions to the class:
We have been investigating the weather by visiting the website:
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/weather/alberta/calgary
It is a great website to look at forecasts and talk about temperature. Every week two kids from the class are our weather helpers and it is their job to go to the website, find the daily weather, and forecasts and explain their findings to the class.
There is no school tomorrow Friday October 26th. It is a Professional Development Day for staff. See you Monday October 29th!
Volunteers Needed
Next week Wednesday October 31st is our first day working with our Artist in Residence. Our class will have our first session with the artist from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm this day. It would be good to have 2 or 3 parent volunteers for this session in order to support the students in their learning. If you are able to volunteer for this time please email me directly at imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca
The other dates needed are:
Tuesday November 6th 9:45 am-10:45 am
Monday November 12th 9:45 am-10:45 am
Thursday November 15th 9:45 am-10:45 am
Halloween Update:
Royal Oak is excited to move in a new direction this year! In place of Pumpkinella, students are invited to wear their Halloween costumes on October 31st. Please have students come dressed in their costume in the morning (PM Kindergarten, please come ready in the afternoon!). Please have your child practice getting in and out of their costume so they can independently dress for washroom breaks. We ask that costumes do NOT include: masks, weapons, accessories, or blood/gore. Regular learning activities will continue throughout the day. Students will get the opportunity to share their costumes with each other by participating in a parade in the halls. In keeping with learning about healthy eating, please do not send any special treats or snacks to share. Our Staff is looking forward to the 31st!
You are also welcome to wear black and orange if you do not want to wear a costume.
Voices of the Past Inquiry
We have been talking about the past and how Calgary came to be. We started by looking at the perspectives of First Nations, Settlers, Missionaries and Police. We looked at jobs that were important in the past. This week we have been extending this look at History by asking "Whose voices have we not heard". The students came up with Children and Women.
Yesterday we looked at children and talked about Children's voices/roles in the Past vs Present:
Did you know about the Chinese immigration story to Canada?
Do you think it is important for us to remember this history? Why? Or Why not?
We will continue this discussion next week and look at some other voices that might be missing or not so present in our history books or understandings of the past.
WeatherWe have been investigating the weather by visiting the website:
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/weather/alberta/calgary
It is a great website to look at forecasts and talk about temperature. Every week two kids from the class are our weather helpers and it is their job to go to the website, find the daily weather, and forecasts and explain their findings to the class.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Literacy, Paragraph Writing, Number Lines, and Sketching!
Literacy
This week we have been Thinking about what we read. We have explored using THINK MARKS when we read in order to capture our thinking.
Think Marks can be in pencil, highlighter and even on sticky notes. When we have a thought about what we are reading we can stop and make a think mark in order to help us better understand and engage with what we are reading.
This week student's began by reading nonfiction text about water. We read with our partners and then re-read making think marks as we read. We then used these think marks to help us to summarize the main idea of the article:
By making Think Marks it is easier to summarize the main idea and give details or examples from the article or book that we are reading.
Parent Pipeline:
Writing
This week we are working on using all of the descriptive pumpkin sentence starters we created last week and putting them together in order to create a detailed paragraph of writing.
What is a paragraph?
We began a rough copy and will continue this writing tomorrow. We are trying to make our writing as interesting as possible and HOOK our audience or reader into wanting to read more!
When our rough copies are done we will be self-editing and peer-editing as well as editing with a teacher, in order to create a finished, polished piece of writing.
Math
Number Lines
Today we started learning about number lines. We looked at the open number line as a strategy for building single and double-digit numbers.
We also practiced skip counting on an open number line.
Hop=10
Skip=5
Jump=Extras
We had to make up numbers and act out the hops, skips and jumps of a secret number and our partner then had to guess what our number was using 10's, 5's and extras to help them count.
We practiced showing double digit numbers on an open number line by doing our hops (10s), skips (5s) and jumps (1s ) to get to our number.
Here are a few links where you can practice skip counting at home:
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/skip-counting-game.html
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fill-missing.php?g=5s50&name=Skip%20Counting%20by%205s%20to%2050
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fill-missing.php?g=10s100&name=Skip%20Counting%20by%2010s%20to%20100
Sketching
Yesterday we practiced sketching a pumpkin by watching a step-by-step video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4UfEbgGmmM
Today we added shading for depth and to create shadow and light in realistic ways.
Next week we will do this again but instead of a video we will use a real pumpkin (the same one that inspired our pumpkin writing) and we will explore using different graphite pencils like B, 2B and 6B to help us add light, medium and dark shading to these sketches.
This week we have been Thinking about what we read. We have explored using THINK MARKS when we read in order to capture our thinking.
This week student's began by reading nonfiction text about water. We read with our partners and then re-read making think marks as we read. We then used these think marks to help us to summarize the main idea of the article:
Parent Pipeline:
Writing
This week we are working on using all of the descriptive pumpkin sentence starters we created last week and putting them together in order to create a detailed paragraph of writing.
What is a paragraph?
When our rough copies are done we will be self-editing and peer-editing as well as editing with a teacher, in order to create a finished, polished piece of writing.
Math
Number Lines
Today we started learning about number lines. We looked at the open number line as a strategy for building single and double-digit numbers.
We also practiced skip counting on an open number line.
Hop=10
Skip=5
Jump=Extras
We had to make up numbers and act out the hops, skips and jumps of a secret number and our partner then had to guess what our number was using 10's, 5's and extras to help them count.
Here are a few links where you can practice skip counting at home:
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/skip-counting-game.html
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fill-missing.php?g=5s50&name=Skip%20Counting%20by%205s%20to%2050
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fill-missing.php?g=10s100&name=Skip%20Counting%20by%2010s%20to%20100
Sketching
Yesterday we practiced sketching a pumpkin by watching a step-by-step video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4UfEbgGmmM
Today we added shading for depth and to create shadow and light in realistic ways.
Next week we will do this again but instead of a video we will use a real pumpkin (the same one that inspired our pumpkin writing) and we will explore using different graphite pencils like B, 2B and 6B to help us add light, medium and dark shading to these sketches.
Friday, October 19, 2018
Math Update, IRIS and BUDDIES!
Math
Math
Base Ten and T-Charts
Today in math we continued exploding numbers using base ten and remembering to looks for groups of ten, five and ones. Instead of using lines to explode our numbers this time we represented them in a T-chart.
T-charts can easily help us to visualize the tens and the ones place value. We are getting really good at exploding out the tens but often miss the fives that are hiding inside the ones.
T-charts can easily help us to visualize the tens and the ones place value. We are getting really good at exploding out the tens but often miss the fives that are hiding inside the ones.
For example:
The number 38 exploded in a T-chart becomes:
There are 3 groups of 10. (10, 10, 10) and a group of 5 and 3 leftover ones in the number 38.
Using the link below you can practice giving your child double digit numbers and challenge them to depict them on this T-chart using base ten blocks. Challenge them to group the ones into a group of 5 if possible. Make sure when click on the tens and ones t-chart screen option on the bottom instead of the other options.
Here is another link that you can practice moving base ten blocks to create the number and you can reverse it and figure out the two digit number from the base ten that are shown. Try both ways. Make sure you click on numbers from 0-99 for this task.
http://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/BaseTenBlocks/play.html
IRIS
Today we posted a video on IRIS of ourselves reading part of a book. We wrote a comment about what we think we did well when reading out loud and what we think that we might need to improve. Please watch it with me and ask me about it!
Buddies
Today was our first day of Buddies. Ask me what my buddies name is? My buddy is in Kindergarten. We played outside. In three weeks when we have Buddies again we will read our buddies a book in an exciting voice with lots of expression!!
IRIS
Today we posted a video on IRIS of ourselves reading part of a book. We wrote a comment about what we think we did well when reading out loud and what we think that we might need to improve. Please watch it with me and ask me about it!
Buddies
Today was our first day of Buddies. Ask me what my buddies name is? My buddy is in Kindergarten. We played outside. In three weeks when we have Buddies again we will read our buddies a book in an exciting voice with lots of expression!!
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Literacy, Prairie Landscape Art, The Search for Delicious and Awesome Dancing Fun!
Halloween Update:
Royal Oak is excited to move in a new direction this year! In place of Pumpkinella, students are invited to wear their Halloween costumes on October 31st. Please have students come dressed in their costume in the morning (PM Kindergarten, please come ready in the afternoon!). Please have your child practice getting in and out of their costume so they can independently dress for washroom breaks. We ask that costumes do NOT include: masks, weapons, accessories, or blood/gore. Regular learning activities will continue throughout the day. Students will get the opportunity to share their costumes with each other by participating in a parade in the halls. In keeping with learning about healthy eating, please do not send any special treats or snacks to share. Our Staff is looking forward to the 31st!
You are also welcome to wear black and orange if you do not want to wear a costume.
Literacy
This week we have been focusing on two strategies:
The first one we call Skippy the Frog or Skip the Word!
Accuracy Strategy: I can skip the Word and come back to it later.
Royal Oak is excited to move in a new direction this year! In place of Pumpkinella, students are invited to wear their Halloween costumes on October 31st. Please have students come dressed in their costume in the morning (PM Kindergarten, please come ready in the afternoon!). Please have your child practice getting in and out of their costume so they can independently dress for washroom breaks. We ask that costumes do NOT include: masks, weapons, accessories, or blood/gore. Regular learning activities will continue throughout the day. Students will get the opportunity to share their costumes with each other by participating in a parade in the halls. In keeping with learning about healthy eating, please do not send any special treats or snacks to share. Our Staff is looking forward to the 31st!
You are also welcome to wear black and orange if you do not want to wear a costume.
Literacy
This week we have been focusing on two strategies:
The first one we call Skippy the Frog or Skip the Word!
Accuracy Strategy: I can skip the Word and come back to it later.
You can practice this strategy at home with your child with their home reading and library books by:
The second strategy we are practicing is a Comprehension Strategy:
I can make a mental picture in my mind while I am reading.
This is how you can practice this strategy at home with your child:
Prairie Landscape Art:
This week we added a buffalo to our prairie art. We have been talking about how in the past when Calgary was just becoming a city the landscape looked very different. We looked at pictures and have been reading stories of some of the first people to come to Canada. We started by looking at the First Nations as the first inhabitants of the land. We looked at what the view would have been like over a hundred and fifty years ago.
We also talked about the abundance of the Buffalo and the importance of this animal to the Blackfoot First Nations.
Click on the link above and click on the buffalo icon to take you to information about: How we lived with the Buffalo.
We added a Buffalo to our Prairie Landscape of the Past to depict what was here before us. We used oil pastels and watercolor to create the fur and texture of the Buffalo. Ask me what my favorite part of making my Prairie Landscape: Past was?
Novel Study
The Search for Delicious
We are starting to really get into the book "The Search for Delicious". We are about a quarter of the way through the book. Today we had to add the important places (settings) and main character, plus the pathway that he is taking from the castle to poll everyone in the land for the most delicious thing!
Right now Gaylen is in the forest. Ask me who I think he is going to meet there!
AWESOME DANCING FUN!
This weeks Dancing with Dance Pl3y Residence has been so amazing. Please feel free to come in and watch us dance and see some of what we have been learning on Monday October 22 from 9:30-10:10.
We have learned lots of different kinds of dance moves and practiced making up our own!
Everyone looks different and everyone is having FUN!
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Teachers Pet, Base Ten, Adjectives and Pumpkins!
Teachers Pet
Yesterday we got to enjoy a special presentation in our classroom from Teacher's Pet. It was an introduction to water and the three states water can be. We got to do 4 different experiments to learn about some important properties of water:
Some of the Vocabulary we started talking about and making note of:
Evaporation
Precipitation
Condensation
Water Cycle
Density
Repel
Absorb
Melting
Freezing
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Water Molecules (H2O)
We will continue working with this vocabulary and experimenting with the properties of water. Ask me if I remember the Water Cycle Song!
Base Ten
In math we started working with Base Ten materials to explode numbers into their tens, fives and ones. We will continue working with base ten this week to visualize the tens and ones in a number in order to strengthen our understanding of PLACE VALUE.
Using a T-Chart also helps us to remember the tens and the ones and which side they belong on:
Links to Practise Exploding Numbers:
https://www.coolmath4kids.com/manipulatives/base-ten-blocks
http://www.abcya.com/base_ten.htm
We built the number using base ten and then exploded it into its tens, fives and ones. We had to write it and draw it.
Writing
Adjectives
Today we started looking at Adjectives. Words used to describe Nouns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4XZDyxJ23Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZkMbLkGims
We looked at a pumpkin and had to think of as many describing words or ADJECTIVES for it:
We then used these adjectives to try begin writing sentences (using sentence starters) about the pumpkin in our classroom!
Yesterday we got to enjoy a special presentation in our classroom from Teacher's Pet. It was an introduction to water and the three states water can be. We got to do 4 different experiments to learn about some important properties of water:
Some of the Vocabulary we started talking about and making note of:
Evaporation
Precipitation
Condensation
Water Cycle
Density
Repel
Absorb
Melting
Freezing
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Water Molecules (H2O)
Base Ten
In math we started working with Base Ten materials to explode numbers into their tens, fives and ones. We will continue working with base ten this week to visualize the tens and ones in a number in order to strengthen our understanding of PLACE VALUE.
Using a T-Chart also helps us to remember the tens and the ones and which side they belong on:
https://www.coolmath4kids.com/manipulatives/base-ten-blocks
http://www.abcya.com/base_ten.htm
We built the number using base ten and then exploded it into its tens, fives and ones. We had to write it and draw it.
Writing
Adjectives
Today we started looking at Adjectives. Words used to describe Nouns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4XZDyxJ23Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZkMbLkGims
We looked at a pumpkin and had to think of as many describing words or ADJECTIVES for it:
We then used these adjectives to try begin writing sentences (using sentence starters) about the pumpkin in our classroom!
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