Volunteer Update

Hello all!

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Cindy (Zach's mom) and I'll be helping Ms Rutland arrange parent volunteers for the classroom and field trips throughout the year.  I have set up a page on www.signupgenius.com in order to sign up parents for the various volunteer dates throughout the school year.  Ms Rutland has already posted some opportunities for November and will be adding more dates in the future, so be sure to check it out.  In order for you to view/sign up to volunteer, you first must have an up to date criminal record check and you must fill out/sign/return the form Ms Rutland previously sent home allowing me to have your email address (on the form, could you also include your email address pls).  Once we have this, I will add you to the signupgenius page.  You'll have to sign up to use signupgenius and then you're good to go!  Hope this makes sense and if anyone has any questions, please email me at cindy.l.frank@gmail.com.

Cindy

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.

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Volunteers Needed

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.

Sandi

Sandi L. Harrower

Learning Leader/Resource Teacher

Royal Oak School

Calgary Board of Education 

t l 403-777-6279 ext. 2030

f l 403-777-6284

Items Requested

Our class will be undergoing a building project in the near future, so we are requesting the following items from home.  Please do not go out and purchase these, just keep an eye open for them in your recycle bin or on forgotten garage shelves!

• Tin foil
• Cardboard
• Cardboard rolls (toilet paper, gift wrap, paper towel)
• Masking tape
• String
• Clean plastic containers (yogurt)
• Popsicle sticks
• Skewers
• Wire
• Plasticine
• Clay
• Styrofoam cups/packing chips
• Bubble wrap
• Newspaper
• Tin plates
• Wool (no synthetics)
• Anything else you think would make valuable building material!

SoundKreations Ticket Info

The ticket order form went home with students on Friday.  Please look for it in your child's backpack if you haven't seen it yet.  Tickets are organized by first-come, first-served, so please return the ticket request form promptly.  Please note that families can access only 2 tickets, and ALL people (even babies) require a ticket due to fire code regulations.

Picture Order Reminder

PICTURE ORDER REMINDER

DEADLINE – Thursday, November 3rd

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

Thank you.

Royal Oak School

Time to Catch Up!!

We've started writing a persuasive paragraph, which we write when we want to change someone's mind about an opinion.  We used a hamburger picture to plan our paragraph.

We started dance on Monday.  We are doing hip hop (from New York), Bollywood (from India), and Latin dance (from South America).  There are lots of moves with our feet.  There will be an afternoon and evening performance on November 17th.  Watch for ticket information coming home on Friday.
Noah, Taryn, Lyla

In Art, we worked on a creature in the style of Pablo Picasso.  Last week we practiced one-point perspective drawing using a railroad and road.  These drawings began with a horizon line and a vanishing point.  Ask me how to draw this!
Sean, Peter

In math, we had to count all the pumpkin seeds in the jar.  We put the seeds in little cups and with a partner we counted them by 2's, 5's, or 10's.  We are now working on how many there are altogether. A skill we could practice at home is skip counting by 10's starting at any number between 100-999.
Holly, Hudson

The Remembrance Day Assembly is on November 10th at 10:30 if you would like to join us.  The song for us to practice at home is on Ms. Mann's blog.
Noah

Our Geode!