Nov 30

Today our elf Tink was reading to all of the other stuffies in our classroom. We thought that was very kind. However, Tink made a BIG mess of all of our books. We decided it would be a good idea to teach Tink our classroom rules. Some of us also thought that maybe we could talk to Tink after our snack about how she has been behaving. 

Ask me which rule I decided to write about. 




REMINDERS:

1) ATP form and payment: Please return your form and pay for ATP ASAP. Cash or cheque can be sent to school. Payments are also accepted online. 


2) Stephen's Backpacks: We are still in need of items to donate to Stephen's Backpacks. Royal Oak School has committed to filling 100 backpacks for homeless children this holiday season. If you can donate any new items such as hats, mitts, school supplies etc. it would be much appreciated! You can learn more about Stephen's Backpacks here.

3) No school:Friday due to PD Day.

4) Fun lunch: Tomorrow 

Nov 29

Today we read the story 'One in a Snail, Ten is a Crab'. Students began to brain storm animals with 1,2,4,6,8 and 10 legs for an upcoming Math investigation. We thought it was funny in the story when the author said 100 is 10 crabs or..... 100 SNAILS!

1) Stephen's Backpacks: Royal Oak School is collecting new items for Stephen’s Backpacks. Our goal is to fill 100 backpacks for children this Christmas. Donations of new items such as mittens, hats, socks, small toys, craft things, toothbrushes, books are being accepted. Donations can be sent to school with your child and they will be put under the Christmas tree in the gathering space. Thank you for your support. We will begin collecting items in the gathering space beginning on Monday November 14^th and will be accepting donations until Friday December 9th. 

2) ATP payment/form: If you have not returned the field trip form or paid online for  please do so ASAP. Alternatively a cheque can be submitted to school as well. 

Nov 28

Today Ms. MacDonald taught us a new Math game. It was called 
BRAIN BLAST! Students use "Power of 10 cards" and hold one at a time up to their forehead. The student then asks questions that will lead them to the number on their card. For example. If you're holding up a 5 the student may ask "Is it greater than 1?" etc. 

The ten-frame cards can be found online and printed if you would like to play with your child at home. Your child may also enjoy creating their very own "Power of 10" cards too! 

Click here for ten-frame cards

1) Stephen's Backpacks: Royal Oak School is collecting new items for Stephen’s Backpacks. Our goal is to fill 100 backpacks for children this Christmas. Donations of new items such as mittens, hats, socks, small toys, craft things, toothbrushes, books are being accepted. Donations can be sent to school with your child and they will be put under the Christmas tree in the gathering space. Thank you for your support. We will begin collecting items in the gathering space beginning on Monday November 14^th and will be accepting donations until Friday December 9th. 

2) ATP volunteer choosen: Today we draw a name for our ATP field trip. A blue volunteer form has been sent home to the parent whose name was drawn. 

3) ATP payment: If you have not paid online for the ATP field trip please do so ASAP. Alternatively a cheque can be submitted to school as well. 

Nov 24

Today we had a very special delivery in a locked box. We had to search all over the classroom to find the key. Guess what was inside? Our very own class elf on the shelf. In writing, we wrote about what we should name the elf and decided to name her Tink. Ask me what I thought we should name the elf?

1) Conferences: are tonight and tomorrow morning.

2) No school: on Friday.

Nov 23

Today we had an assembly about resiliency, pride and perseverance. Ask me what resiliency, or being resilient means. This afternoon we had a Circle of Courage meeting for one of our friends in our class. She shared so many cool artifacts with us.

1) Student-led conferences: Thursday and Friday are student-led conferences. Your child is working hard to pick pieces of work and self reflect on their learning. They are also working hard learning how to to share this information with you at conferences. 2 families are booked in a 1/2 hour time slot. One family will meet first with Ms. MacDonald while the other family has their child show them the centers in the hallway. After 15 minutes the second family will be asked to come and conference with Ms. Percival so that the other family can go view the different centers. 

2) ATP Slipper production: Please complete the Consent and Acknowledgement of Risk form that was sent home today, and return it to your teacher by Tuesday November 29, 2016.

3) Holiday Scholastic order: If you would still like to place an order you now have till Thursday Nov 24. If you would like to keep any items in this order as a holiday gift for your child please e-mail me here and I can keep the items set aside for you to pick up at the front office instead of having them sent home with the student. 

4) Stephen's Backpacks: Royal Oak School is collecting new items for Stephen’s Backpacks. Our goal is to fill 100 backpacks for children this Christmas. Donations of new items such as mittens, hats, socks, small toys, craft things, toothbrushes, books are being accepted. Donations can be sent to school with your child and they will be put under the Christmas tree in the gathering space. Thank you for your support. We will begin collecting items in the gathering space beginning on Monday November 14^th and will be accepting donations until Friday December 9th. 

5) Spirt Wear fundraiser:

Dear Parents, we are excited by the response so far to the Spirit Wear fundraiser.  We would like to remind you that we will have samples available for trying during Student Conferences on Thursday, November 24th and Friday, November 25th.  Please allow time to visit us at the ROS Fundraising Society table!  If you need help with sizing and are not able to attend conferences, please email us to make alternate arrangements! Thank you and Happy Weekend! 

Cameo Delisle

Chair

ROSFundraisingSociety@gmail.com

Nov 22

1) ATP Slipper production:

We are excited to offer all students at Royal Oak School the opportunity to visit the Martha Cohen Theatre to watch "Slipper: A Distinctly Calgarian Cinderella Story."  Each grade group will attend the production on different dates, outlined below:

       December 6:   Grade Two and Three

       December 7:   Kindergarten (both morning and afternoon students)

      December 8:   Grade One

Please complete the Consent and Acknowledgement of Risk form that was sent home today, and return it to your teacher by Tuesday November 29, 2016.

We are very much looking forward to sharing this wonderful learning opportunity with your child(ren)!

2) ATP Slipper Production volunteers: If you are able to volunteer during our field trip on Dec 8, 2016 please email me here. Unfortunately, we can only take 1 volunteer from our class. I will draw a name next Monday from all available volunteers. 

3) Holiday Scholastic order: If you would still like to place an order you now have till Thursday Nov 24. If you would like to keep any items in this order as a holiday gift for your child please e-mail me here and I can keep the items set aside for you to pick up at the front office instead of having them sent home with the student. 

4) Stephen's Backpacks: Royal Oak School is supporting Stephen’s Backpacks this holiday season. The backpacks that we are filling are for children who range in age from infant to grade 4. We are looking for donations of new items that can go inside of a backpack (toques, mitts, puzzles, pyjamas, socks, baby items, ect). These items can be sent to school with your child and they will be placed under the tree in the gathering space. We will begin collecting items in the gathering space beginning on Monday November 14^th and will be accepting donations until Friday December 9th. 

5) Spirt Wear fundraiser:

Dear Parents, we are excited by the response so far to the Spirit Wear fundraiser.  We would like to remind you that we will have samples available for trying during Student Conferences on Thursday, November 24th and Friday, November 25th.  Please allow time to visit us at the ROS Fundraising Society table!  If you need help with sizing and are not able to attend conferences, please email us to make alternate arrangements! Thank you and Happy Weekend! 

 

Cameo Delisle

Chair

ROSFundraisingSociety@gmail.com

Nov 21

1) ATP Slipper production:

We are excited to offer all students at Royal Oak School the opportunity to visit the Martha Cohen Theatre to watch "Slipper: A Distinctly Calgarian Cinderella Story."  Each grade group will attend the production on different dates, outlined below:

       December 6:   Grade Two and Three

       December 7:   Kindergarten (both morning and afternoon students)

      December 8:   Grade One

Please complete the Consent and Acknowledgement of Risk form that was sent home today, and return it to your teacher by Tuesday November 29, 2016.

We are very much looking forward to sharing this wonderful learning opportunity with your child(ren)!

2) ATP Slipper Production volunteers: If you are able to volunteer during our field trip on Dec 8, 2016 please email me here. Unfortunately, we can only take 1 volunteer from our class. I will draw a name next Monday from all available volunteers. 

3) Holiday Scholastic order: Last week our November  and December Scholastic orders are being sent home. This will be our last order before the holidays. Please return any orders to Ms. MacDonald by Tue Nov 22. If you would like to keep any items in this order as a holiday gift for your child please e-mail me here and I can keep the items set aside for you to pick up at the front office instead of having them sent home with the student. 

4) Stephen's Backpacks: Royal Oak School is supporting Stephen’s Backpacks this holiday season. The backpacks that we are filling are for children who range in age from infant to grade 4. We are looking for donations of new items that can go inside of a backpack (toques, mitts, puzzles, pyjamas, socks, baby items, ect). These items can be sent to school with your child and they will be placed under the tree in the gathering space. We will begin collecting items in the gathering space beginning on Monday November 14^th and will be accepting donations until Friday December 9th. 

5) Spirt Wear fundraiser:

Dear Parents, we are excited by the response so far to the Spirit Wear fundraiser.  We would like to remind you that we will have samples available for trying during Student Conferences on Thursday, November 24th and Friday, November 25th.  Please allow time to visit us at the ROS Fundraising Society table!  If you need help with sizing and are not able to attend conferences, please email us to make alternate arrangements! Thank you and Happy Weekend! 

 

Cameo Delisle

Chair

ROSFundraisingSociety@gmail.com

Nov 18

Today we got to watch the rest of our friends at ROS perform their dance. We also got to perform our dance for the rest of the school. We're really sad that dance is all finished because we learned so much from Keston! 

1) Holiday Scholastic order: Yesterday our November  and December Scholastic orders are being sent home. This will be our last order before the holidays. Please return any orders to Ms. MacDonald by Tue Nov 22. If you would like to keep any items in this order as a holiday gift for your child please e-mail me here and I can keep the items set aside for you to pick up at the front office instead of having them sent home with the student. 


2) Stephen's Backpacks: Royal Oak School is supporting Stephen’s Backpacks this holiday season. The backpacks that we are filling are for children who range in age from infant to grade 4. We are looking for donations of new items that can go inside of a backpack (toques, mitts, puzzles, pyjamas, socks, baby items, ect). These items can be sent to school with your child and they will be placed under the tree in the gathering space. We will begin collecting items in the gathering space beginning on Monday November 14^th and will be accepting donations until Friday December 9th. 

3) Upcoming Assembly

Royal Oak School parent, Chris Milne, is coming to speak to the students about resiliency on Wednesday, November 23 at 10:30 a.m. Students are invited to wear Royal Blue or their ROS T-shirt on this day to celebrate school spirit.  Also, parents are welcome to attend.

4) Spirt Wear fundraiser:

Dear Parents, we are excited by the response so far to the Spirit Wear fundraiser.  We would like to remind you that we will have samples available for trying during Student Conferences on Thursday, November 24th and Friday, November 25th.  Please allow time to visit us at the ROS Fundraising Society table!  If you need help with sizing and are not able to attend conferences, please email us to make alternate arrangements! Thank you and Happy Weekend! 

 

Cameo Delisle

Chair

ROSFundraisingSociety@gmail.com

                            

Nov 17

Today in writing we continued to work on our how to writing. Ask me about what I am writing about and how I used my writing checklist to make sure I did my best writing.

1) Dance Performance: Tonight is our SoundKreations Dance Performance. All students will perform in the afternoon except for AM Kindergarten. If you do not have a ticket for the evening performance your child will not perform in the evening. Students are required to be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Please only bring your child if you have a ticket for the evening performance.

2) Scholastic Book Order: went home today. This is a great opportunity to order books as christmas gifts for your child. You can let me know if you are ordering books as christmas gifts by email and we can arrange a time for you to pick your order up once if has come so that your child can be surprised. Please make sure to fill out the order form correctly and return back to me. You can make an online payment or send a cheque. Please return your order by Nov 22, 2016. Happy Reading!

Nov 16

1) Dance performance: is tomorrow. Please wear jeans and a brightly coloured shirt.
Here is a link to dropbox were you can access your child's dance song.

2) Royal Oak School parent, Chris Milne, is coming to speak to the students about resiliency on Wednesday, November 23 at 10:30 a.m. Students are invited to wear Royal Blue on this day to celebrate school spirit.  Also, parents are welcome to attend.

3) Stephen's Backpacks: Royal Oak School is supporting Stephen’s Backpacks this holiday season.

The backpacks that we are filling are for children who range in age from infant to grade 4. We are looking for donations of new items that can go inside of a backpack (toques, mitts, puzzles, pyjamas, socks, baby items, ect). These items can be sent to school with your child and they will be placed under the tree in the gathering space. 

We will begin collecting items in the gathering space beginning on Monday November 14^th and will be accepting donations until Friday December 9th. 

4) Socktober - Thank you to all families who participated in our Socktober event at Pumpkinella this year. The Grade 2 students have completed their final count and we have collected 700 pairs of socks to help families in need at Inn from the Cold. Arrangements have been made to get the socks to Inn from the Cold on Friday. Thank you for this great act of generosity!

Nov 15

Today Ms. MacDonald's and Ms. Percival's inquiry group had a paramedic share about his job and how he helps people in the city of Calgary. Ask me about something I learned.

1) Spirit clothing form: please return if you would like spirit clothing.

2) Conferences: please fill out the form and return by the end of the week.

3) Dance performance: Ms. MacDonald's group will be wearing jeans and a brightly coloured shirt for the dance performance.
The 6:00 pm SoundKreations performance is sold out.  Tickets are still available for the 2:00 pm and 6:50 performances.

4) Calgary Reads:

Nov 14

Today we started how to writing. We wrote about how to make a snowman. Ask me about the steps you need to make a snowman. 

In our circle meeting we learned about self-regulation. Sometimes if I am feeling very busy or have a lot of energy I may need to down regulate so that I am ready to do my best learning. Sometimes I may be feeling tired and I need to up regulate so that I can do my best learning. We selected animals to represent how I feel when I need to down or up regulate to my feel good animal were I can do my best learning. Ask me about which animals I chose.

1) Picture Retake day: is tomorrow. Please let me know if you would like your child to have their picture retaken.

2) Spirit clothing form: was sent home today

3) Conferences: please fill out the form that was sent home today and return by the end of the week.

4) Dance performance: is this Thursday

5) Calgary Reads:

Nov 10

Today we had a beautiful remembrance day assembly. Ask me about the part I enjoyed the most.

1) Dance Kreations: Please return form no later then Monday the 14th.

2) No school: Friday Nov 11

Nov 9

Today we posted our movement patterns onto Iris. We also had a circle of courage student of the week who showed us some really interesting artifacts for belonging, independence, mastery and generosity.

This afternoon Ms. Percival and Ms. MacDonald's group had a fire fighter come and talk to the students about fire safety. They learned about tools vs. toys and hot vs. cold. Tools are things that only adults should use, ask me what some tools are. 
                                       


1) Remembrance Day Assembly: Tomorrow is our Remembrance Day Assembly at 10:45am
2) No school Friday 
3) Dance Performance forms: Please send back dance forms if you would like to attend the dance performance next week.

Nov 8

Today we made some beautiful art for our remembrance day assembly on Thursday. Ask me about the different steps we did to create our art.

1) Remembrance Day Assembly:

Royal Oak School’s Remembrance Day Assembly will be on Thursday, November 10^th at 10:45am. All families are welcome to join us. Students involved in Scouts, Girl Guides etc. are welcome to wear their uniforms during our assembly.

All students will be receiving poppies on Thursday. We welcome any donations for the Calgary Poppy Fund to help support local veterans.

2) Looking for Volunteers for the Wee Read Program:

Wee Read is about reading aloud and sharing the joy of reading with kindergarten and Grade 1 students. Reading volunteers would need to commit to 30 minutes per week for 8 weeks. In this 30 minutes, volunteers will have the opportunity to work with two students either in Kindergarten or Grade 1.

If you are interested in volunteering for this program, a valid police clearance through the CBE is required. Interested volunteers are asked to please attend a Wee Reads training session on November 8^th from 10:30am-11:30am or November 10^th from 2:30pm-3:30pm. Both training sessions will be offered at Royal Oak School. If you are interested in attending, please contact Sandi Harrower at slharrower@cbe.ab.ca and RSVP by Monday evening, November 7th.

3) Dance Kreations performance: Please  return attached page as soon as possible if you would like to attend the performance.

Nov 5

Today on IRIS we posted a reading sample. We also made a reading goal. You can watch my video with me and ask me about my reading goal.

1) Looking for Volunteers for the Wee Read Program:

Wee Read is about reading aloud and sharing the joy of reading with kindergarten and Grade 1 students. Reading volunteers would need to commit to 30 minutes per week for 8 weeks. In this 30 minutes, volunteers will have the opportunity to work with two students either in Kindergarten or Grade 1.

If you are interested in volunteering for this program, a valid police clearance through the CBE is required. Interested volunteers are asked to please attend a Wee Reads training session on November 8^th from 10:30am-11:30am or November 10^th from 2:30pm-3:30pm. Both training sessions will be offered at Royal Oak School. If you are interested in attending, please contact Sandi Harrower at slharrower@cbe.ab.ca and RSVP by Monday evening, November 7th.

2)Dance Kreations performance: Please  return attached page as soon as possible if you would like to attend the performance.

Nov 4

Today we made remembrance day wreath with our grade 3 buddies for our assembly next week. Ask me about what we had to do to make our wreath.

1) Dance Kreations performance form: was sent home today. Please read carefully and return attached page as soon as possible.

Literacy Update:

Ms. Plaxin's literacy group: In Ms. Plaxin’s literacy class we learned about the short “e” wound and the short “o’ sounds.  We created words with these sounds in them and practiced saying the words and making the words.  We all have started the RAZ Kids reading software and enjoy logging into it.  

You can log into it at home also.   My teacher name is lmplaxin0 and the students are all in my classroom.   Please know, that the other teachers are different names and also easy to get to. 

Ms. Daniels literacy group: This week we started to look at the role of the "sneaky silent 'e'". The 'e' is sneaky because he reaches over the consonant letter and pinches the vowel to make him say his own name and then he doesn't make as sound. I have sent home our first word list of silent 'e' words. Practice these words this week: date, late, mate, jade, fade, rate.

Nov 3

1) Who keeps us safe inquiry group:

Unfortunately, today Ms. Percival's field trip to the Royal Oak fire station got cancelled. The City of Calgary had made an error on their booking system which allowed us to book a tour of the fire station on Royal Birch Hill. The City of Calgary was contacted today to confirm our trip details for this afternoon and it was expressed that the Royal Birch Hill fire station has permanently moved locations to Royal Vista Way. This meant that we were unable to do our community walk and unfortunately had to cancel our trip. The City of Calgary is now aware of this glitch and are working to fix their booking system. 

This also means that Ms. MacDonald's trip to the fire station on Monday, November 7th has to be cancelled as well.

If families would like to visit the new Royal Vista Way fire station they can do so as tours run most days at 10am, 2pm and 7pm. Parents can contact the City of Calgary's 311 system to book a tour. 

Nov 2

Today in writing we read a story about peace and we did some Rememberance Day writing. We either used the prompt 'peace is', 'I wear a poppy because' or 'Rememberance Day is important because.' Ask me which prompt I chose and what I wrote about. 2 students from our class will be reading their writing on November 10th at the Rememberance Day assembly. 

1) Keeping it safe inquiry group: Ms. Percival's Inquiry group will be walking to the Royal Oak firehall tomorrow. Please see the orange form sent home to parents. There is no cost for the trip and there are also no attached permission forms as it is within close proximity to the school. 

*Ms. MacDonald's inquiry group is still looking for volunteers to the fire hall on Nov 7th.

2) Photo Packages: Lifetouch picture order deadline is tomorrow – Thursday, November 3^rd.  Please order online or send the orders with your child tomorrow! 

Nov 1

This morning we practiced making movement patterns and realized that patterns don't just have to be colours or shapes. 

This afternoon students worked in their various Inquiry groups. Ask me what we worked on today in Inquiry. 

1) Who keep is safe inquiry group field trip: On Thursday, Ms. Percival's "Who keeps us safe" Inquiry group is going to visit the Royal Oak firehall. If your student is in this group they will be bringing home an orange notice about the trip. There is no cost to the trip and there are no field trip permission forms required as it is within close proximity to the school. 
Next Monday Nov 7th, Ms. MacDonald's group will be going to the firehall so an orange note will be sent home today with those students. 

*Ms. MacDonald's inquiry group is still looking for volunteers.

2) Photo packages: Please return by Nov 3rd if you would like to order photos.