More Patterns and Prairies...... Field Trip Next Week

Hello parents, 

Our grade 2's have the opportunity to experience the theater presentation, "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" presented by the Alberta Theatre Projects, located at the Martha Cohen Theatre (Arts Commons 215-8th Avenue) next week on Wednesday, December 4. 

Please ensure your child:

• dresses appropriately for the weather conditions
• brings a nut-free lunch and water bottle
• complies with the school's expectations for students and the student code of conduct

The cost for this trip is $22.88 per student. Thank you to all parents who have already paid. If you have not paid yet, please do so ASAP using your MyCBE/Power school account. Do not send cash or cheques to school. All forms and online payments must be received prior to the field trip. 

If your child will not be attending the field trip, please let your child's teacher know ASAP. 

9:45 Board the Bus

10:00 Buses depart from Royal Oak School

10:45 Buses arrive at the theater and students eat their lunch and use the washroom

11:30 Performance begins (includes a 15 minute intermission)

1:30 Question period with actors

1:45 Students, staff, volunteers board the bus

2:00 Buses depart from Martha Cohen Theater

2:45 Buses arrive at Royal Oak School

If you have any questions, please ask!

Grade 2 teachers

Inquiry

Plains and Prairies

This week we read through and annotated a new article about the plains. Students read the article once, made annotations and asked questions. Then, we read the article as a class and started to share the questions about the plains that we came up with. Here's some of the questions our students asked about the plains. 

Math

Patterns and Robotics

Building off of our understanding of repeating and growing patterns, this week we designed repeating and growing patterns that our robots could understand. First, students used coding blocks to design a repeating and a growing pattern. Next, the students used their designs to program their robots to act out the patterns. Check out some of our work.

Literacy

"The Magic Treehouse: Twister on Tuesday"

We started a new brief novel that connects to our inquiry into the prairies. This week we started the Magic Treehouse novel Twister on Tuesday in which, Jack and Annie are transported to the past and have to find their way to a prairie schoolhouse when a twister touches down in the town. Using the descriptions in the novel to guide us, we sketched our visualizations. 

Winter Has Arrived

It has been cold out. If it's warmer than -19 out, then we will be going outside for recess every day. Please ensure that your child has warm winter clothes (Coat, toque, mittens, snow pants).