Good afternoon!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  There are many fun activities coming up so please pay attention to the dates!

A big thank you to Mr. Eghosa for being teacher for the day. You did a wonderful job!!

We will be leaving the school at 10:30 and be back by 1:30. Our bowling time will be between 11-1.

A few important reminders/important dates

Just a reminder that students are now able to wear their summer uniform!

Please be sure to send your child with baseball hats or sun hats and sunscreen! Also please be sure to send in water bottles…with all the running around they do they get very hot and thirsty!

We are once again out of Kleenex, water, and Lysol Wipes. If you could please bring some in that would be great!

Monday April 13-Thursday April 24 – Spring Fundraiser!!!! Get out there and raise as much money as you can and help support St. Jude’s Academy!! All proceeds will go towards a new playground and science equipment!! There will be prizes for the class who raises the most money as well as for individuals who raise the most. For each student who raises $35, they will be invited to go bowling free of charge!!!

Monday April 13-Friday April 24 – Second Cup coffee bean sale

Monday April 20 to Friday April 24 – Morning coffee sale. Enjoy a cup Second Cup coffee when you drop your children off. $2.00 for a cup or $1.50 if you bring your own thermos!

Friday April 24 – Bowling trip for those students who raise $35 or more and May lunch forms are due

Wednesday April 29 – Casual Day

Thursday May 14 – Summer camp forms due. Get them in early to get a deal!

MATH

Most of the students are having a tough time with fractions. Any assistance from you with homework would be greatly appreciated. I do try my best to use as much class time as I can to go over work with my students but there never seems to be enough time in a day! Today we spent almost 2 hours on our topic for today as we didn’t have French. I took that extra time to correct, as a class, the questions from the lesson and explain more thoroughly how to come up with the answers. The grade 4’s looked at different names for fractions (what fractions are equivalent to other fractions). For example, ½ = 4/8 and 6/12 or 1/3 = 3/9 or 4/12. The grade 3’s looked at using pictures to describe fractions. For example if a flag has 3 equal part, 2 are green and 1 is white then the fractions are 1/3 is white and 2/3 are green.

LANGUAGE

Today we read chapter 7 of Mr. Popper’s Penguins. We completed our summaries, vocabulary words, and comprehension questions.

U.O.I.

Today we finished our brainstorming for our igneous rock story. Then students began working on their rough copies. Good copies will be due Monday April 27. I am looking for a length of ¾ of a page to a page single-spaced. If double-spaced I would like 1 and ½ pages to 2 pages. Please assist your child with spelling, capitals, and grammar.

Eghosa winning his award "Teacher for the Day!"

Mr. Sawatsky getting ready to be pied!

Eghosa got first dibbs at Mr. Sawatsky!

Great job St. Judes in raising over $5000!

Eghosa helping teach math!

Sitting at teachers desk!

Teaching language...Mr. Popper's Penguins!

Have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar J