Friday Blog!

Terry Fox Run

Congratulations Royal Oak students and staff! Together we ran over 1180 km and raised $674 to be donated to the Terry Fox Foundation!!!!! We are awesome!!!!

I would also like to send out a HUGE THANK YOU to our amazing parent volunteers! We appreciate everything that you do to help us run school events like this one. THANK YOU!!

Another HUGE THANK YOU to Royal Oak Sobeys for donating Oranges so that every student could enjoy a healthy snack after their run.

Math
Students continued to pull apart, read and order numbers in the thousands. They used expanded notation to show the place value. For example:
2,345 = 2,000 + 300 + 40 + 5
With a better understanding of place value, they put the thousands, hundreds, tens and ones together to find the sum of several numbers. Lessons have also included quick fact exercises such as number bonds, odds & evens and skip counting forwards and backwards and from any given number. Students have been reviewing the traditional stacking method for addition, both with and without regrouping.

Literacy
Students have been organized into reading groups this week. These groups are led by myself, Ms.Bennett and Ms. Hennick. We have done some reading and spelling assessments throughout the week as we begin to work in these groups.

Students have continued to write short stories using prompts. They have enjoyed sharing these very creative endings. Using the editing checklist, they have been fixing capital letters, punctuation and spelling both for themselves and for a peer. Students had fun creating sentences using personification and some implemented their work into their stories.

Inquiry
Students have been working on a variety of projects throughout the week that show their understanding of the rock cycle. Some of these projects include: Google Slides, Notes for presentations, Green Screen videos and poems and books.