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!
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