Good afternoon,

I hope everyone enjoyed their night!

Just a reminder that winter uniforms are now in effect. Thank you to everyone for having their blazers. Just a reminder that they need the long sleeve button up shirt, sweater/sweater vest, tie (house colour tie on Friday’s), blazer, pant/skirt, navy blue socks/tights and black shoes.

The grade 4's were very chatty today. I really do hope that this does not continue! I had to create a lunch time seating plan as there has been and continue to be some problems at lunch. Needless to say some of the students were not overly happy with me. I have 'ruined their lives!'

HOUSE TIE IS TO BE WORN TOMORROW!

IMPORTANT DATES AND INFORMATION:

November lunch forms due – Friday, October 23 with no exceptions

Unit 2 Math Test – Wednesday, October 21 (review will be sent home this weekend)

UOI Manners Unit Summative (brochure) due Monday, October 26 (more information to come and there will be plenty of class time to work on the brochure)

SJA Parent Guild will be hosting a movie night on Friday, October 23 from 6:30-8:30 PM. Free child care will happen between 6:00-6:30 PM. The cost is $10 and includes water, popcorn, and a chocolate treat. Pizza will be sold at $2.00/slice. Feel free to bring a pillow and a blanket to get cozy!! There will be two movie choices, Shaun the Sheep and Tomorrow Land, both of which are rated PG. Forms will be sent home tomorrow and are due back with money by Friday, October 16.

Please check out the Parent Guilds blog at sjaparentguild.blogspot.ca 

After care money is due no later than Friday, October 16.

Math

Today we looked at using mental math to do subtraction questions. We learned about two ways to help us. One is the ‘friendly number’ when we add 1 or 2 to each number to make it easier to subtract. For example 517 -299 becomes 518 – 300 = 218. We also did ‘counting up’ where we count up from the smaller number. For example 432-220, we take 220 and add 100 then 100 again which gets us to 420. Then we added 10 to get us to 430 and then we added 2 to get us to 432. Then we added 100 + 100 + 10 + 2 = 212. If you manually subtract 432 -220 you also get 212!  

Language

Today we had our library day. This allows the students to have access to a bigger selection of books and enjoy some reading time. We also continued work on using direct quotations.   

U.O.I. (Unit of Inquiry)

Today we learned about fire safety. We talked about how to stay fire safe and drew an escape plan from our bedroom!  

I hope everyone has a wonderful night!!

Mrs. Hocevar J