Good afternoon,

I hope everyone had a great night!

Just a reminder to dress according to the ever-changing weather!

Spring/Summer uniforms are in effect!

IMPORTANT DATES AND INFORMATION:

Reading logs due every Friday!

After care payments are due Tuesday, April 19 & May lunch forms are due Friday, April 22 by 3:30 PM!

SUMMER CAMP! Mrs. Smith (bsmith@stjudesacademy.com) can answer questions about the summer camp and Ms. Chang (vchang@stjudesacademy.com) can answer questions about the writing camp! Forms were sent home today! Be sure return them as soon as possible to reserve your spot for SJA's awesome summer camp!

BRING IN YOUR OLD BATTERIES AND CELL PHONES! As an Earth Day initiative in the school we are asking students to bring in used batteries (this could also include old cell phones!). This is a house contest...the house that brings in the most old batteries wins. Individual house points will be rewarded as well! 

Please check out our Facebook page at:

https://www.facebook.com/St-Judes-Academy-392663204140440/

SJA’s annual Spring Fundraiser is upon us! Our goal for this year is $9000 so let get out there and support SJA! We are raising money for new equipment in the gym and science lab!

Important Dates for the Spring Fundraiser:

April 18th - Pay $2 for a special EXTRA casual day PYP

MYP - $2 to miss a CLASS

April 19th - Pancake Breakfast

April 20th - make your own Sundae day! 

April 22nd - PYP Dance $5 a ticket

April 25th - Popcorn Day - order forms to be sent shortly 

April 27th - make your own Sundae day! - order forms to be sent shortly 

April 29th - Bowling Day - PYP

Soccer trip – MYP

(Students must raise $35 or more on their pledge sheets to attend!)

There will be prizes awarded daily to classes and students who raise the most on their pledge sheets.

These are our big Benchmarks that if we reach them exciting things will happen

$2,000 - Silly String Ms. Bosetti

$4,000 - Shave Mr. Palumbo's head 

$6,000 - Pie a teacher

$9,000 - Water balloon the teachers 

THANK YOU TO ALL OF THOSE WHO HAVE BROUGHT IN EVENT FORMS AND DONATIONS!

PARENT GUILD is putting on a fantastic Summer Fiesta! It will happen on Saturday, May 28 from 12-4 PM at SJA...rain or shine! 

Wristband prices are as follows....

Early Bird Special (April 2-May 27) - $25

At the Door on Saturday, May 28 - $30

A wristband will get you unlimited use of inflatables, games, soccer workshop, and Helium balloons! DO NOT MISS OUT THIS AMAZING EVENT!!! Order forms have been sent home!

Check out our latest blog for pictures:

http://sjaparentguild.blogspot.ca/  

Please remember to check out our website at: http://mainsite.stjudesacademy.onmessagestaging.com/

MATH

Today we looked at multiplying 3-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers and using base ten blocks to help us. For example

 372

x   5

        

1860

We drew our 5 groups of 372 and then solved each place value (ones, tens, and hundreds) and then added up the total!

LANGUAGE

Today we continued with our magazine article! Good copies are due Monday and must be ready to share with our classmates.

UOI

Today we continued to review magazine articles. This is in preparation for our final OWA in which students have to write a magazine article on the perfect classroom. Good copy of magazine article is due Monday. We will be sharing them with the class. We also had our lesson 27 spelling test! I will send them home on Monday!

The storybook summative will be due Monday, May 2. We will begin working on it next week and will have ample time to complete most, if not all of it in class. A rubric will be sent home sometime next week!

Have a great night weekend!

Mrs. Hocevar J

Hard at work during math!