Jot Notes, Insulating Materials, T-Shirt Factories and more!

Reminder: There is NO SCHOOL tomorrow Friday March 1st as it is a PD Day. 

Today was our last day of Alien-In-Line Skating. We got to play a cool game and skate with the lights off and the disco ball!!

PINK SHIRT DAY

Today we celebrated PINK SHIRT DAY and talked about how we can make a difference and help spread kindness and inclusion.

We made pink shirts with slogans to display in our hallways:

Literacy

This week in Literacy we have been practicing making Jot notes when we are reading for research. There are different purposes for reading. Sometimes it is because we are interested in a subject, sometimes it is purely for entertainment,  and sometimes it is to learn specific facts. During our Arctic animal research we have been reading articles about our chosen animal and making jot notes about what we are learning.

After making Jot notes for each of our graphic organizer categories it is much easier to create each slide of our Google Slides presentation because we already have the important information and just need to add it into our slides in bullet or list form. Today an article on the Polar Bear came home. Please use the graphic organizer and page provided to do some jot notes on this important Arctic animal. 

Next week we will continue to add information about Habitat, Predators, Problems and Interesting Facts to our Animal Research slides.

Insulating Materials

Yesterday we did an experiment to learn about insulation in the Arctic. We looked at Polar Bears and made polar bear mitts to determine the difference in temperature we felt when using one versus not using one. Ask me what I learned?

Next week we will do one to simulate how Blubber helps animals in the Arctic!

We have also been looking at how we insulate ourselves against the cold, how our houses use insulation, and how animals use insulation in the wild to keep warm. 

Next week we will be designing and building insulators. Our challenge will be to keep an ice cube as cold as we can over a 1 hour time period. 

Here is a list of materials that we brainstormed as a class:

-cotton balls
-sponges
-fur
-foam
-paper towels
-tinfoil
-duct tape
-sand
-leaves
-fabric
-wood chips or sawdust


We will provide the 2 plastic cups but if you have something else that you would like to use (so long as it is cut and ready to use) feel free to send it in.  Please talk with your child and send in any materials that your child would like to build with by Tuesday March 5th. Please send them in a bag, labelled with your child's name so they are easy to store keep organized. 

T-Shirt Factory Math Investigation

After reading a story about the Masloppy Family and hearing how Nicholas organized all of the t-shirts into rolls and loose to keep his inventory organized we have been practicing using this strategy to help us organize double digit numbers and add them together accurately.

Ask me what my T-Shirt Factory Name is!! 

Ask me to show you how I organize the numbers into the T-Chart and use it to then find a total number of T-Shirts by adding the numbers together?

Impact of our Thermostat Challenge: 

Thank you for participating in the Thermostat Challenge. We totaled our class degrees and Before the challenge our total Heat usage was at 462 degrees Celsius. Our AFTER the challenge by going down 2 degrees from our normal temperature brought us to a class total of 419 degrees. We subtracted as a class 462-419 to figure out that as a class we saved a total of :

43 degrees of heat energy!! 

We graphed our before and after usage. Imagine if we did this all of the time and as a whole school, community, city, country and even world!!

Iqaluit Video

We watched a video on Iqaluit and learned a few new things about living in the Arctic. Ask me what I learned? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x30lPvBuFA4

Fundraising, International Polar Bear Day and Pink Shirt Day!

ROS Fundraising Message:

Attention Coffee & Tea lovers. Our current fundraiser is almost complete. We will accept any outstanding tea/coffee orders up until Monday Feb 25. Please emailrosfundraisingsociety@gmail.com with any questions. Lets warm up this chilly winter!!

Thanks so much for supporting our kids school!

ROSFS

Thermostat Challenge

On Wednesday February 27th the Grade 2's are being challenged to turn DOWN their thermostat by 2 degrees. They will bring home their pledge stickers and we will calculate our total Energy down on Thursday February 28th to see what kind of an impact we can have individually. as a class and as a Grade 2 team! 

PINK SHIRT DAY!

Pink Shirt Day!

Hello ROS families. On Thursday, February 28th, we will be recognizing Pink Shirt Day. It is a day where we encourage everyone to practice kindness and wear pink to symbolize that we do not tolerate bullying. Throughout the day, students will participate in activities that inspire acceptance, care for others and themselves and will conclude with a school wide assembly. To show support, students are encouraged to wear pink or their blue ROS shirts.

For more information about Pink Shirt Day, please check out: https://www.pinkshirtday.ca/about

Literacy, Heat Transfer, International Polar Bear Day!

Literacy

This week we have been practicing our Literacy by looking at non-fiction articles about an Arctic Animal and coming up with think notes and making jot notes about what we are learning. 

We are focusing on:

Appearance (Adaptations and Unique features)
Diet 
Habitat (place in the world and specific details about their homes)
Predators 
Problems facing this animal
Interesting Facts

We are also building our comprehension by using the strategy of questioning before, during and after we read. 

We will continue working on taking jot notes to summarize the important parts about what we are learning next week, as well as practicing strengthening our ability to ask BIG questions before, during and after we read.

Heat Transfer

This week we have been looking at how heat is transferred from one object to another. We have looked at different heat sources and how heat moves.

We were challenged to try to make room temperature water from hot and cold water. Ask me what I did and if it worked and what I learned about this?

What is Heat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGKg3TSO4v8

Next week  (Wednesday February 27th) is International Polar Bear Day. 
Did you know the Polar Bear is losing sea ice due to polar ice melting faster and more than before?
Did you know the polar bear needs this sea ice to hunt and get the fat it needs to survive the Arctic Cold? 
Did you know that we can help by turning down our Thermostat and using less heat?

https://polarbearsinternational.org/get-involved/thermostat-challenge/

Please check your thermostat and write down what it is normally kept at? One day next week we will be challenged to put our heat down 2 degrees and see what an impact we can make. 

Animal Research, Temperature Comparisons and Graphing, and Sedna!

Reminder: Tomorrow is our first day of Alien-In-Line skating. Please bring a helmet if you have one. If you are able to volunteer and have a valid security clearance please come in to help out. Our session is from 11:25am-12:10 pm. 

Science/Literacy

Yesterday we had to decide what Arctic Animal we would like to research more about. We will be reading small articles about our Arctic animal of choice in order to help us research and record important information about Diet, Habitat, Appearance, Predators, Problems and Interesting Facts. 

Today we previewed some of the Arctic Animals that we already knew lived in the Arctic and learned some new ones that we did not know about.

Here was our list to choose from:
-Musk-Ox
-Narwhal
-Beluga Whale
-Grey Whale
-Arctic Tern
-Lemming
-Arctic Fox
-Arctic Wolf
-Walrus
-Seal
-Arctic Char
-Snowy Owl
-Polar Bear
-Caribou
-Puffin
-Orca (Killer Whale)

After using Articles to learn about these animals, next week we will use computers and websites such as national geographic kids to help us research online with the aim of eventually completing a Google Slides presentation we can share with the class.

We will collect our information by using articles, think notes and graphic organizers and then some websites before beginning our Google Slides Presentation:

Temperature Comparisons and Graphing

This week we will continue to measure some different temperatures and we will be challenged with the task of making room temperature water from different temperatures of water. We will be learning about Heat Energy Transfer.

We will also be graphing our results and comparing the different daily temperatures of Calgary, Alberta to Iqaluit Nunavut. 

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca


How to make a Bar Graph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYXmY5axC2I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y9n67yG9d8

Arctic Stories

Today we listened to the Arctic Story of Sedna. Sedna is an important character in Inuit stories. She is the goddess of the sea and rules all the creatures that live in the Ocean. If she is angry storms will rage and fishing will not be good. The story of Sedna is how she came to be. Ask me what I learned about Sedna and how she became the Goddess of the Sea

Reminders

Reminder: 

On Wednesday February 20th we will be having a presentation in our classroom about Zones of Regulation. This fun, interactive presentation will help student's to identify emotions in themselves and in others, start to recognize their own energy levels/emotions, understand how their emotions/energy levels can change throughout the day, and develop tools to support them to move between these emotions//energy levels 

So far I am still missing 8 signed blue forms. In order for your child to participate in this presentation I require the form back, signed and with your child's name. If you have not done so already please send this form in, signed by Tuesday February 19th. If you require a new form please email me so that I can send one home on Tuesday:  imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca

Green Team Club

The Green Team Club at Royal Oak school is creating a recycled art project out of plastic lids. Milk jug lids, juice carton lids, yogurt drink lids, water bottle/pop bottle lids are all needed. Please send them in to school as you collect them. We need enough to make a masterpiece! 

Short Week!

Reminder: There is no school Tomorrow, Friday or Monday. See you back at school Tuesday February 19th! Have a great break. 

Literacy

For literacy this week we have started reading Polar Bears in the Arctic. This is the non-fiction text that goes with the Fictional Magic Treehouse story Polar Bears Past Bedtime. 

This week we will be practicing listening for important facts about the arctic and recording them as we listen. We will also be thinking of wonders and questions that we have while reading, in order to generate some researchable questions that we might be able to find out more about in our ongoing study of the Arctic. 
Ask me what I learned about the sun and Arctic? 

Land of the Midnight Sun

One fact we learned from the book was about the earths tilt and its rotation around the sun and how that causes many months of no sunlight and just a few months of complete sunlight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndlQNicOeso



Asking Questions is an important way to help us understand what we are reading. We can ask questions before, during and after reading.

Parent Pipeline

Arctic Centers

Landmarks and Symbols

Today we looked at different landmarks and symbols of the Arctic. 

We read a book called Hide and Sneak by Micheal Kusugak.

This book talked about Inuksugaq and Inuksuks and how they were built and used as landmarkers to help people in the Arctic find their way home. There are different kinds of inuksuk and some serve different purposed but all are symbols of the Arctic. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKQ97rOwBH0

We also learned about a mythical creature called the Ijiraq. Ask me what I learned about this character in the story. 


Science

Yesterday we finished graphing our different temperatures from around the school:

Graphing is tricky. There are so many steps to remember when making a bar graph. There is data to record. There is horizontal and a vertical line to label. You have to space out your information so that it is neat and not to squished. You have to draw a bar straight as can be, using a ruler to help. We will continue practicing these skills of creating and interpreting graphs with weather in Calgary and Iqaluit as well as important temperatures and heat sources. 

http://www.abcya.com/fuzz_bugs_graphing.htm

https://jr.brainpop.com/math/data/tallychartsandbargraphs/


We also looked at Sources of Heat, measuring heat and Where Heat comes from?

Sources of Heat

We also looked at molecules and what happens when they gain energy.

Next week we will be using thermometers to measure the temperature of snow, ice and cold water.