Heat and Temperature!

Reminders:

• Pink Shirt Design Contest:
• create your own design, unique to Royal Oak School, that promotes kindness and anti-bullying. There will be a prize for each grade level. Finalists will then be sent out in a survey form, were kids and parents can vote for the top designs - the winner will win the grand prize.

• On Wednesday, February 12, we have left some time in our day for students to exchange Valentine's cards. This activity is optional. Please ensure that if your child participates, they have a card for every student in the class. Also, kindly refrain from bringing in candy, chocolates, or food/treats of any kind due to food allergies/intolerances. Please also dress in RED/PINK/Royal Oak Blue that day. 

• Class list:

Aaron, Ada, Adam, Avan, Chuyan, Daniel, Eric, Ethan, Jaden, Lauren, Logan, Lukas, Makena, Mandie, Masson, Naomi, Percy, Rohnish, Sam, Samika, Shayanne, Tatiana, Tea, Zach, Zohar, Zoya

• Feb. 13, 14 – Teachers' Convention – No school  
• Feb. 17 – Family Day – No school 
• Feb. 25 – Evergreen Theatre Presentation – Wicked Witch of the Wetlands 
• Feb. 26 - National Pink Shirt Day 

Learning Highlights:

• This week we learned about heat and temperature! First the class shared what they thought they knew about heat and then brainstormed questions about what they wondered. We learned that heat is actually energy, and the faster the particles move the hotter something will feel. Whereas, "cold" is just the absence of heat - heat will always move into places that are less hot (where there is less movement of particles or energy) and that is why we feel cold when we step outside on a cold day.

We also learned that we can measure the amount of heat in something, or "temperature," by using a thermometer. In Canada, we use the Celsius scale to measure the temperature! We went on a temperature hunt in our school to measure the temperature of various things, such as snow, a cup of cold tap water, our body (armpit), inside our shoes, the air outside, and the air inside the school in various locations. We learned that some things are "hotter than" other things, and some things are "warmer than" other things.

This was a bit tricky because we had to count by 2s when reading the temperature on the thermometer and we had to make sure we were reading the Celsius side, not the Fahrenheit side.  

• We also got to meet up with our Kindergarten buddies and again and helped the to finish creating their buddy bookmarks with patterns on it:

• This week in math, we continued with our practice of double-digit addition with re-grouping. We worked on our stacking procedure, we tackled some word problems that require double-digit addition, and we finished the week with a post assessment to map our progress and set our next goals. While, our students are rocking the addition stacking procedure, practice is always helpful. 
• Here are some word problems and practice sheets.