On April 7, 2018, a young Albertan named Logan Boulet became an organ donor in the aftermath of the tragic Humboldt Bronco bus crash. By registering as a donor, Logan saved the lives of six others, and his story inspired thousands of people around the world to register as organ and tissue donors.
Logan’s generosity resulted in a spontaneous movement dubbed “The Logan Boulet Effect” — a huge spike in people signing up to be organ donors. According to Alberta Health, during the month of April 2018 there were 28,855 Albertans who registered to become a donor — an almost three-fold increase from the usual 10,000 who sign up monthly.
April 7th, the day Logan passed away and helped 6 others through his Organ donations, has been designated as Green Shirt Day. The Canadian Transplant Association and the family of Logan Boulet will carry on Logan's legacy by recognizing April 7th as Green Shirt Day, raising awareness of the need for registered organ and tissue donors so that access to life saving and life transforming transplants can be improved. To mark this annual event, 17 landmarks around the world, including the Calgary Tower and Niagara Falls, will be lit green this year.
This year, April 7th is on a Sunday and so we invite your child to please wear a Green Shirt or Royal Oak blue to school for Logan and Organ Donor Awareness on Monday, April 8th.
Thank you
Literacy
It has been so much fun watching your IRIS videos. You worked so hard and improved so much. I will comment on each of your videos with some feedback. Please make sure to check IRIS for my feedback. If you have not yet posted try to do so this weekend as we will continue sharing a few of these each day during literacy groups.
In Literacy we will continue with building our fluency. The homework came home in each child's home communication folder. Pick a new article of choice. Practice reading out loud with adding expression, reading at a good pace and volume and making sure to expand your vocabulary by circling words you do not know the meaning of or are unable to sound out or pronounce. Use www.wordhippo.com to help you figure out a different word that means the same thing but is more comfortable for you to use. Next week we will have time to practice reading this article to others and perfecting our fluency.
Homework:
Animal Research Presentations
Today we finished sharing our Animal Research Google Slides presentations. We practiced giving feedback to our classmates and being a good listening audience. Depending on whose room your child presented in you will see a comment in Google Slides from either myself or Ms. Boston regarding your work. It was so inspiring to see how much you learned and researched about Arctic Animals and also about using a new technology. Next week we will get to use Google Docs to type up our Arctic Animal stories.
IRIS POSTING
Today we got to use a new APP called Explain Everything. We used it to explain our math thinking and steps to solve a double digit subtraction problem using stacking and base ten as our strategy. Please go to IRIS and watch me explain my math!
Circle Fridays!!!
Tomorrow is our first Circle Friday club. Ask me what I did? Who is my teacher for this club? What am I most excited about so far?
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