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: