Bike to School Day, 3D Nets, Insect Research..

REMINDER: THERE IS NO SCHOOL TOMORROW FRIDAY MAY 31ST! HAVE A GREAT LONG WEEKEND!

Royal Oak School Parents and Guardians,

Our annual Bike to School Day is fast approaching. On Tuesday June 4th Royal Oak School Families and Staff are encouraged to participate in the Bike to School Day come Rain or Shine. 

Bike tags and further information (including a map) will be sent home with Kindergarten students on Thursday May 30th, and with Grade 1-3 students on Monday June 3rd. Bike tags must be brought to the school on your student's handlebars for ease of organization and storage in the School Gym. Students are welcome to drop off their bikes from 8:40am - 9:10am. PM KG students can drop their bikes off to the Gym before class, between 12:50pm and 1:03pm.

A snack of Orange slices will be available between 8:40am and 9:10am. Don't forget to bring your water bottles!

***NOTE: Different Locations for KINDERGARTEN PICKUP***

All Kindergarten Bike to School participants (AM & PM) will be dismissed through the Gym door closest to the houses at the back of the school and Non-Participants will have a regular dismissal at the KG doors.

Grade 1 & 2 students can pick up their bikes on the compound at the back of the school following the afternoon dismissal. 

Grade 3 students will be dismissed through the Gym, and will pick up their bikes on their way out to the compound.

If you would like to volunteer at this event please use the Sign Up Genius Link Below.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0A4FA9AE2CA5F94-bike

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Helen Hennick

Physical Education Specialist, Royal Oak School

Scholastic Book Order Reminder: The last book order of the year went home last week.  If you are interested in placing an order please do so by Friday June 7th to ensure adequate time for the order to arrive before the last day of school! 

3D Nets, and Building

We have continued exploring 3D shapes and their properties:

We have been looking at different 3D shapes nets as a way to help visualize their edges, vertices and faces:

After observing many different types of 3D shapes and becoming more familiar with their properties we had a chance to build paper 3D models, using a variety of nets! 

We also compared prisms and pyramids and looked at examples, definitions and ways to tell them apart:

Prisms

https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/prisms.html

https://www.mathsisfun.com/definitions/pyramid.html

This is a great website for manipulating some 3D shapes in order to see them built from net to shape and pause on important properties:

https://www.learner.org/interactives/geometry/pyramids/

Small, Crawling, and Flying Creatures Research

This week we have been discussing and sharing things that we know about insects and bugs and things that we want to know. We decided upon a small, crawling, or flying creature to research. 

During Literacy we will be reading nonfiction articles and nonfiction texts and making think notes to add to our Research Graphic Organizers:

Today we learned about Life Cycle and some important scientific vocabulary words that explain the parts of a life cycle :

We talked about some life cycles including different stages that some include such as Butterflies, frogs, dragonflies and more...


In the afternoons we have been then using computers to research websites and use some videos and diagrams to help us add to our research.

Today we looked at observing, drawing and labeling like a scientist

We will be creating a Google Slides presentation and a flip book with all that we learn. Ask me about my insect/bug/amphibian that I am researching and becoming an expert on!!

Persuasive Writing, 3D Shapes, Venn Diagram Comparisons and Reflections...

Reminder: Tomorrow is Jump Rope for Heart day. Please send in any donations you have received or finish your online donations so that we can calculate a total raised by Royal Oak School!  Wear Jumping clothing as we will be outside for this and jumping the whole time!!

Persuasive Writing

Today we finished our Persuasive writing. We have been practicing using OREO graphic organizers to plan out our ideas and follow a persuasive writing format:

Once we planned out ideas we then wrote our rough copy in or writing books focusing on adding in important transition words to make our sentences flow and our writing more convincing:

Ask me what my persuasive writing is trying to persuade you to do?!

3D Shapes

This week we are working on 3-Dimensional shapes. Identifying them and their important attributes and features. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-QwWFkz5hw

We are learning some new math vocabulary:

Faces, Edges, Vertex (Vertices or Corners)

We had to try and figure out how many faces, vertices, and edges each of the shapes observed had as well as any features or special attributes. We drew it and explored the net of the 3D shape:

Tomorrow we will continue exploring 3D shapes and be challenged to build some using their nets:

Comparing 3 Communities/Places in Canada

We have finally finished our quilt of Nova Scotia. Our quilt is made up of 12 categories we studied and learned about when exploring Nova Scotia.


Our Quilts are beautiful and tell a story about what we remember most and have learned about Nova Scotia

We have also been completing a Venn Diagram of the 3 communities in order to compare and contrast these areas of Canada. This is the first time we have used a triple Venn in order to look at similarities and differences between the three communities:

Finally we have been answering some reflective questions about Canada and the specific areas and cultures that we have investigated this year:

Guest Speaker

Yesterday we have a guest speaker in to talk to us about Healthy wetlands and what specific small, crawling, and flying creatures we should be able to see and count when we do our next field study at our local wetlands:

Marissa is an Environmental Planner and taught us lots about the importance of biodiversity in our wetlands:

Author's Purpose, Stampede Breakfast Reminder, Shape Challenge, and Wetlands Water Testing!

Stampede Breakfast Reminder: Hope to see you tomorrow! 

Royal Oak School Stampede Pancake Breakfast!

We are excited to announce that the Calgary Stampede Downtown Attractions Breakfast Committee will be hosting a free Stampede Pancake Breakfast for our entire school community and their families on Friday, May 24, 2019. This event will begin at 7:00 a.m. rain or shine and will run until approximately 9:00 a.m. Families are encouraged to come early to enjoy this free yummy event.

This year we are excited to partner with William D. Pratt Middle School and will be bringing the communities together on the basketball courts and the Pratt soccer fields. Families are invited to bring a blanket or camping chair to sit on as they enjoy a breakfast picnic on the basketball courts and the adjacent Pratt fields. In the event of rain families will be invited inside the gym at W.D. Pratt School.

There will be no teacher supervision provided at the Stampede Pancake Breakfast, so families are responsible for the supervision of their children for the entirety of the event. Our teachers will resume their regular supervision on the school grounds at 8:55am and our regular school bell will ring for student entry at 9:10 am.

All families are encouraged to wear their best western attire to show their Stampede spirit!

Author's Purpose

This weeks reading homework and literacy groups has all been based on: Determining the Author's Purpose.

After reading about small, crawling and flying animals we had to determine the author's purpose and how and why we thought so:

Please do this activity at home with your child using their Home Reading or Just Right Library Books and send back next week.

Reminder: This is the last week of Home Reading being sent home from the school and of Literacy Homework activities. Please ensure that you have returned all Home Reading and school Library Books.

Math Shapes Challenge:

Today we started a challenge question about Shapes:

Ask me what my solutions were?


Wetlands Water Testing Field Trip

Today we got to walk to our wetlands and do some water testing with experts!

Next week we will look at all of our results and compare between the 6 Grade 2 classes (since we went on 3 different days). We will also be re-testing a in another few weeks to see if the results of our wetlands remain healthy.

Ask me what part of the testing I helped with?

Literacy and Home Reading Update, Circles and Field Trip Reminder!

Reminders: This Thursday May 23rd is our Field trip to the Wetlands with special guest water testing experts. We require 2 parent volunteers from each class and so far I have not had anyone volunteer. It is in the afternoon from 1pm-2:15pm. If you are able and have a valid security clearance please email me at imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca

JUMP ROPE FOR HEART

Our annual Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser is now underway. Royal Oak School held our kick off assembly last Thursday and students have brought home their fundraising envelopes. Your envelope explains everything that you need to know about the fundraiser. You can also register and fundraise online at JumpRopeForHeart.ca. It’s an easy way to raise money and earn great bonus prizes! Our fundraiser will run until May 29^th. On Wednesday, May 29^th we will collect fundraising envelopes and have our JUMP DAY. All classes will participate in fun skipping activities and we will have bubbles, sidewalk chalk, music and a healthy snack provided by parent council.

**Please note that PM kindergarten students will have their jump day on Thursday, May 30^th**

Did you know that when you jump rope for others, you are also jumping for yourself? Get the exercise your heart needs while raising money to help all kids grow up healthy!

Literacy
This week in Literacy we are focusing on the comprehension strategies of using text features and the author's purpose:

This week we are focusing mostly on nonfiction articles about insects and bugs to kick start our new Science Inquiry about Small, Crawling and Flying Animals.

We will also be looking closely at Text Features such as photographs, heading, titles, diagrams and text boxes that can help us find important information about what we are reading.

Home Reading Update!

Math

We are learning about circles. Today we learned some rules of circles and some new math 2-D shapes vocabulary such as Radius, Diameter, Centre, and Circumference. 
https://www.splashmath.com/math-vocabulary/geometry/circle

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

Today we found circles in our room. We traced them and used a ruler to figure out the diameter and radius.

We then got to measure the circumference of our heads using string and then a ruler. Ask me how many centimeters my head circumference is?