Wednesday, March 21

Welcome to Spring!  This week we have been working on using dialogue to write our own Elephant and Piggie story in the style of Mo Willems.  This builds on our first attempt to use dialogue in story telling using Toontastic.  Using dialogue requires students to "show" not "tell" and requires them to think deeply about how information is communicated through the character's voices, expressions and movement.  In math we have continued working on doubles and near doubles to help us build a deep understanding and eventual automaticity of number operations to 20.  Students have been working with number lines, identifying patterns on the hundreds boards and finding as many double equations as they can using real life examples.  In inquiry we have continued to look at the concept of community and what a community needs to be sustainable.  Students finished off their blueprints and written proposals, received feedback and have made some revisions.  Next we will start to build a representation of their community using their blueprints as a guide. 

Student led conferences are this Thursday evening and Friday morning.  There are still a few spots left on Friday morning if you have not yet booked a time.  For this round of conferences, there will be two families in the classroom looking at student work with their child.  I will be in the room and will be circulating between the two families to help guide the conversation and assist your child in sharing their learning and growth with you.  Students will have several work samples to share with you along with individual goals that they have set for themselves and an interactive math activity to demonstrate their growth developing understanding of number operations.  

Important dates:

March 24 - April 2 - Spring Break

April 3 - Classes resume

March 12

Skating - Unfortunately the ice is melting due to the amazing weather, we will be cancelling our skating trip this week.  

Needed

Each student will need a cereal box for an upcoming building project.  Please send in ASAP.

Conferences- Sign up  

Thursday March 8 you may register online for your student led conferences on March 22 and 23. These conferences are student centred and student led. Each time slot will be 1/2 hr long, where you will have a chance to interact with your child as they show case their work. Teachers will be available for conversations with students and their parents, however there will be more than 1 family in the room at a time.  

https://webapps.cbe.ab.ca/MyAccount/Account/LogOn

****Home Reading****

Please send back clear home reading book bags every Tuesday and Thursday to get your new books! The volunteers exchange the books in the morning so it is important that students hand them in first thing when they arrive.

Important dates: 

Monday Feb 26- Thursday Mar. 15 – Artist in Residence in Grade 1, Sharon Fortowsky.  

Monday Mar 12- School Council Meeting 7pm

Wednesday Mar 14- Skating CANCELLED DUE TO MELTING ICE 

Thursday Mar 15- Skating - CANCELLED DUE TO MELTING ICE

Friday Mar 16- Skating -CANCELLED DUE TO MELTING ICE

Thursday Mar 22- Student Centred Conferences 4:30pm-8:30pm

Friday Mar 23- Student Centred Conferences 8am-12pm

Monday Mar26-Monday Apr.2- Spring Break 

Tuesday Apr.3 - Class resumes

March 8

Math

Today we started to create lego number lines and worked to solve doubles and near doubles addition sentences. Ask me about the lego number line I created and how I used it to help me solve addition problems.

Skating
Hello Royal Oak School Parents and Guardians! Your son and/or daughter will be bringing home a letter today telling you about our Skating Activity that will take place March 14, 15 and 16th. We are looking for several volunteers to help with tying skates, assisting on the ice, walking with classes from the school to the outdoor rink and helping with the skate shack. We are very fortunate to have booked the KidSport skate shack and we will need a few volunteers organizing and managing the skates and helmets. If you are available to help out during this activity please email Keri Blakeney at rosvolunteers@gmail.com for more information.

Thank you for supporting our Physical Education program!!  

Needed

We are asking students to bring in cereal boxes. We are starting a building project and will need a cereal box each for each student. Thank you in advance:) 

Conferences

Thursday March 8 you may register online for your student led conferences on March 22 and 23. These conferences are student centred and student led. Each time slot will be 1/2 hr long, where you will have a chance to interact with your child as they show case their work. Teachers will be available for conversations with students and their parents, however there will be more than 1 family in the room at a time.  

https://webapps.cbe.ab.ca/MyAccount/Account/LogOn

Skating!!

Hello Royal Oak School Parents and Guardians! Your son and/or daughter will be bringing home a letter soon telling you about our Skating Activity that will take place March 14, 15 and 16^th. We are looking for several volunteers to help with tying skates, assisting on the ice, walking with classes from the school to the outdoor rink and helping with the skate shack. We are very fortunate to have booked the KidSport skate shack and we will need a few volunteers organizing and managing the skates and helmets. If you are available to help out during this activity please email Keri Blakeney at rosvolunteers@gmail.com for more information.

Thank you for supporting our Physical Education program!!

Helen Hennick

Physical Education Specialist, Royal Oak School

Calgary Board of Education

t 403-777-6279 ext 7237

hdhennick@cbe.ab.ca

"Physical Education is the only subject which, by the very nature of its content, has the potential to affect how a person will feel every moment of every day for the rest of his or her life."

March 1

Today we had our second session our artist in residence, Sharon Fortowsky. Students first explored and practised using different tools to create different textures and strokes with paint.  After exploring these tools students then moved on to using foam brushes to paint the backgrounds of our collaborative art pieces using colours to differentiate sky, mountains, foothills and grasslands.  

We also had a chance this afternoon to play a math game with our grade 3 buddies.  Students practised how to make 10 in a variety of ways playing the game Snap with snap cubes.  This games reinforces basic number skills and addition facts to 10.  

Ms. Hennick hopes to start bouldering on Monday during gym class.  Please send in the blue permission forms if you have not already done so.