Canadian Children's Literature Week - May 6 - 10

Dear Royal Oak School,

We are excited to announce the approach of Canadian Children’s Literature Week at ROS during the week of May 6, 2019 - May 10, 2019. We have planned a variety of exciting activities to encourage and engage students in a love of literature. Each day of the week will have a special theme, as well as daily DEARs (Drop Everything And Read). The week will go as follows:

Monday, May 6th: Wear Royal Oak Blue Spirit Day - Let's spread community spirit! On the first day of Literacy Week, we encourage everyone to wear their Royal Oak Blue! Ms. Bradbury and Ms. Sparks will be joining various classes to read!

Tuesday, May 7th: Spring Into Reading Day - Spring is here, let’s welcome it! On the second day of Literacy Week, we want to see spring colours. Wear your Spring Colours and Spring outfits. Ms. Bradbury and Ms. Sparks will be joining various classes to read!

Wednesday, May 8th: Grow a Royal Reader Day - We are exalted to announce Grow a Royal Reader Day. On the third day of Literacy week, we encourage you to dress like royalty. Students will continue to celebrate reading and Spring with a royal planting session. Don’t forget to dig out your favourite royal outfit and dress like a Knight, Princess, Prince, King, Queen or Jester!

Thursday, May 9th: Cosy Up To A Book Day - Nothing beats cozying up to a good book in your pajamas! On the fourth day of Literacy week, we ask you to wear you favourite pajamas to school. As well, students will be visited by a guest author, Pamela McDowell.

Friday, May 10th: Dress Like Your Favourite Character Day - We want to find out who your favourite character is. On the fifth day of Literacy week, we ask that you please dress up like your favourite character. Please come to school already dressed up and bring your matching book to spread the love of our favourite books. Classes will get together with their buddy classes and teachers will share their all-time favourite books.

April 8 - 12

Volunteer needed:  We will be attending a performance on April 26 at Storybook Theatre.  I am in need of one volunteer to join us on this date to assist with supervision to and from the theatre and during the performance. If you are able to help out and have current volunteer clearance please use the following link to sign up.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508044CAFAB28A2FA7-storybook

This week in Room 72 we continued to work on and practice our oral renditions of our Arctic stories.  Please help your student practice retelling their story, concentrating on voice, facial expression, volume and eye contact.  

In inquiry, we designed, built and tested our initial boat designs.  Students will be exploring concepts related to buoyancy, stability, density and waterproofing as well as learning more about the Acadians and how they used boats before refining their boat designs and builds.  

Upcoming dates:

Apr 5, 12, 26, 3, 10 and 24 - Circle of Courage clubs 

Apr 8th - Grade 2 team presenting at parent council

Apr 11th - Group class picture day

Apr 18th - Grade 2 Dental Health presentation

Apr 19th - No school due to Good Friday 

Apr 22 -  No school due to professional development

April 23 - FUN LUNCH CANCELLED

Apr 26 - Story book Theatre field trip.  

April 26 - FUN SNACK CANCELLED

April 1 - 5

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a restful and enjoyable Spring Break.  This week in room 72 we tested, revised our designs and then retested our thermos'.  We learned that the best thermos designs had layers of insulation on all sides including the top and bottom.  The most successful thermos kept the ice cube from melting for over three hours!
 
We continued to work on solving word problems.  This week we used video word problems to help us focus in on what questions could be asked.

We then determined what information we would need in order to solve the problem.

Students then wrote out the word problem, solved it using a variety of strategies then checked to see if their thinking and work was correct. 

Students are also busy creating storyboards, puppets and background scenery for their Arctic stories as we explore how to orally share our stories effectively.




Today we also had our first day of Circle Friday Clubs.  Everyone was very excited to take part. 


Volunteer needed:  We will be attending a performance on April 26 at Storybook Theatre.  I am in need of one volunteer to join us on this date to assist with supervision to and from the theatre and during the performance. If you are able to help out and have current volunteer clearance please use the following link to sign up. 
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508044CAFAB28A2FA7-storybook

Upcoming dates:

Apr 5, 12, 26, 3, 10 and 24 - Circle of Courage clubs 

Apr 8th - Grade 2 team presenting at parent council

Apr 11th - Group class picture day

Apr 18th - Grade 2 Dental Health presentation

Apr 19th - No school due to Good Friday 

Apr 22 -  No school due to professional development

April 23 - FUN LUNCH CANCELLED

Apr 26 - Story book Theatre field trip.  

April 26 - FUN SNACK CANCELLED

Green Shirt Day - April 8 at ROS

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

Spring Break!

Mar 21

Thank you to all the parent who came to conferences and shared in their child's learning. 

School resumes on Monday, April 1.  Enjoy the break!

Math Problem Solving and Subtraction

This week we have been using CUBES as a strategy to help us remember all of the steps we need to take in order to solve a word problem. 

We have also been reading our problems carefully looking for the math vocabulary words that tell us what we need to do in order to solve the problem. 

Or Addition? 

 Circle of Courage Clubs: will be starting the first Friday back after spring break and will be running until May 24th.

 “No-Waste Wednesday:"The Green Team is working hard to promote reducing our Carbon Footprint by Reducing, Reusing and Recycling. We will be having our first “No-Waste Wednesday” (aka Litter-less lunch) on Wednesday, March 20^th. We encourage kids to bring no prepackaged food to school and to be creative in using only reusable or recyclable containers to pack their snacks and lunch. After this Wednesday, these “No-Waste Wednesdays” will occur once per week for the remainder of the year. We will be weighing the impact of this initiative in Green Team Club by looking at the amount of landfill garbage we are able to reduce for the months of March, April, May and June.

Check out this quick video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq4FHuEqa5s

Just a quick friendly reminder that we are still collecting plastic milk jug, water bottle and juice bottle/carton lids to use for our Green Team Club recycled art project. Please continue to send in with your child, in order to ensure that we have enough combined to make a wonderful art piece for our school! We will continue to collect these plastic lids until the week after Spring Break April 5^th,2019.

The Green Team Club

Upcoming dates:

Mar 23-31 - Spring Break
Apr 1st - First day back after the break

Apr 5, 12, 26, May 3, 10 and 24 - Circle of Courage clubs 

Apr 8th - Grade 2 team presenting at parent council

Apr 11th - Group class picture day

Apr 18th - Grade 2 dentist presentation

Apr 19th - No school due to Good Friday 

Apr 22 -  No school due to professional development

Apr 26th - Story book Theatre 

Week of March 11 - 15

This week in writing students wrote an original story based in the Arctic.  We will use this story as a base line as they explore story elements such as developing strong characters, creating an interesting beginning, describing the setting, setting a problem and having a solution within an Arctic story.    This week we focussed on describing a character using powerful words.   

In Inquiry students continued to work on their animal research and began putting the information they gathered into a google slide presentation. We also began to work through the design thinking process  to design a thermos that will keep an ice cube from melting. Ask your child about their hypothesis and the type of insulation they are going to use to keep the ice cube from melting.

In math students began a tee shirt investigation which is challenging them to think about place value while applying our double digit addition and subtraction skills.  Please continue to work on basic addition and subtraction facts to twenty at home.  

 Conferences: This week the conference book system opened. If you haven't had a chance yet please take some time to sign up for your child's student led conference.

From The Green Team
 “No-Waste Wednesday:"The Green Team is working hard to promote reducing our Carbon Footprint by Reducing, Reusing and Recycling. We will be having our first “No-Waste Wednesday” (aka Litter-less lunch) on Wednesday, March 20^th. We encourage kids to bring no prepackaged food to school and to be creative in using only reusable or recyclable containers to pack their snacks and lunch. After this Wednesday, these “No-Waste Wednesdays” will occur once per week for the remainder of the year. We will be weighing the impact of this initiative in Green Team Club by looking at the amount of landfill garbage we are able to reduce for the months of March, April, May and June.

Check out this quick video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq4FHuEqa5s

Just a quick friendly reminder that we are still collecting plastic milk jug, water bottle and juice bottle/carton lids to use for our Green Team Club recycled art project. Please continue to send in with your child, in order to ensure that we have enough combined to make a wonderful art piece for our school! We will continue to collect these plastic lids until the week after Spring Break April 5^th,2019.

The Green Team Club

Upcoming dates:

Mar 21 and 22 - Conferences

Mar 23-31 - Spring Break

Apr 8th - Grade 2 team presenting at parent council

Apr 11th - Group class picture day

Apr 18th - Grade 2 dentist presentation

Apr 19th - No school due to Good Friday 

Apr 22 -  No school due to professional development

March 8

March 8

This week in art we examined the artwork of Canadian artist, Ted Harrison.  We noticed that he used bright colours, shapes and lines to separate each colour.  We then used his artistic style to create a background for the arctic animals we are researching.  Lastly we added the silhouette of their animal.  

 

This week in writing, we continued learning about arctic stories and began to independently identify the characters,  setting, problem, solution, lesson learned, powerful words and if there was an element of magic. 

In Inquiry, we worked in groups to begin creating Arctic food chains and learned about the animals that are important to the Arctic ecosystem and what might happen if an animal became extinct. Then we selected an animal to research and began to gather information about our animal. Soon we will be using the information to create a google slide presentation.

In Math, we used CUBES as a tool to help us solve double digit word problems. Here are a couple of problems you can try at home with your child.

Gwen has 57 marbles. 43 are big and the rest are small. How many marbles are small?

There were 46 nickels in the jar. 11 of them were taken out. How many nickels are left in the jar?

Mike has 90 ribbons and Hope has 24 ribbons. How many more ribbons does Mike have than Hope?

1) Conferences: This week the booking system for conferences opened. If you haven't had a chance yet please take some time to sign up for your child's conference.  Question forms will be coming home next week.  

Upcoming dates:

Mar 21 and 22 - Conferences

Mar 23-31 - Spring Break

Apr 8th -Grade 2 team presenting at parent council

Apr 11th - Group class picture day

Apr 19th - No school due to Good Friday 

Apr 22 -  No school due to professional development