Good afternoon!

I hope you all had a wonderful night!

We can now officially share the good news. SJA has found a new home, which is much better suited for our growing SJA family! Such an exciting time! It is bigger, with more parking, washrooms, and classrooms. We will have a better play area and a cafeteria for the students to eat in!! If you have any questions about the move, please let me know and I will do my best to answer them! Because of this, we will be out of the portables as of tomorrow. Each student will be bringing home everything between today and tomorrow. We will no longer need gym clothes and indoor shoes. We are keeping things simple, as we have no room to store anything!! I thank you in advance for your cooperation and appreciate your patience!!

Our first day out of the portable was wonderful. They worked very hard and I am very impressed at how smooth the transition has gone. I have no doubt the next two weeks will continue to run as smoothly as today did! I have all the necessary items they will need and we will continue to complete our daily activities from here on out!!

If you are looking to order specific uniform items well now is the time. Some of the money raised from uniform sales will go towards efforts to help the victims of the Nepal earthquake. Students were given an order form. Please see photo below!

Due to the gym lockers being used for storage, we have decided that the students will be allowed to wear their gym uniforms on Mondays and Wednesdays only.

The Spelling Bee lists have been sent home. Please ensure your child begins practicing and that the list stays in their agendas. There is one set of words for the grade 3’s and one set for the grade 4’s. Our in class contest will take place on Monday June 1 (new date), with Ms. Soroka’s class. We will be choosing our top 5 from each grade (both grade 3 classes combined) the last week of May. The top 5 from each grade will participate in the St. Jude’s Academy annual Spelling Bee on Friday June 5, beginning at 9:00 am. Please note that there will be different words on June 5. The list sent home is just to help them practice.

A few important reminders/important dates

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 and Lysol Wipes. If you could please bring some in that would be great!

Monday June 1 – Pizza party, in-class Spelling Bee competition, and math unit test

Tuesday June 2 – UOI summative due (poetry book and artwork)

Wednesday June 3 – Art’s Night – Student must be at the school no later than 6:30 pm

Friday June 5 – St. Jude’s Academy Spelling Bee beginning at 9:00 am (top 5 from each grade only)

Monday June 8 – top 3 students from each grade to the Maples for Spelling Bee competition

Wednesday June 10 – Grade 3-8 graduation beginning with the Grade 8s at 5:00 pm. It is also casual day

Friday June 12 – last day of school. It is a half-day, which ends at 11:30 am. The Summer Fair begins at 12:00 and runs until 2:00 pm.

Math

Today both grades completed Show what you know…a review of the unit. Our unit test and final math test of the year will be on Monday June 1.

Language

Today we practiced for the spelling bee and worked on our poetry books.

U.O.I.

Today we continued working on our poetry books, dance, and skit! The summative assessment is due Tuesday June 2!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Hocevar J