Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful night!

Please remember to sign your child’s agenda every night.

Please take the time to label all of your child’s/children’s uniform pieces. We are already having students lose pieces. We are having a competition to see which class has the most pieces of uniform labeled. The winner will receive a pizza party!! Let’s go grade 4!!

One form of classroom management I use is Class DoJo. It is an online way of tracking your child’s behavior at school. I have sent home a login for each child. Please login and if you have any trouble please let me know! Thank you to those family members who have already done so!

Important information and reminders:

After school activity forms were sent home today. All forms and money are due by Friday, September 23.

Scholastic forms have been sent home today and will be due back no later than Monday, September 19. There are two ways to order books from scholastic.

1)  Fill out the form and along with a cheque send back to school. No cash will be excepted

2)  Order online via Parent Pay. The website is https://parentpay.scholastic.ca/pay. All you have to do is fill in the four fields. (province, city, school name – St Judes Academy – no period or apostrophe, and teacher name – Dawn Goulart). Once you have completed your order online, please fill out the form and send it back to me.

      Thank you for your cooperation!

Welcome Back BBQ will take place tomorrow, Thursday, September 15 from 4-6 PM. This is a great chance for staff, students, and parents to interact and get to know one another. Forms were sent home on Friday and were due back today.

Our first Unit of Inquiry is called O'Canada. We will be filling our UOI board with post cards from different provinces and territories in Canada. Students are encouraged to ask friends and/or family that live in another province or territory to send them a post card to add to our UOI board. We have already received some, but would love to add more to our board!

LANGUAGE:

Today we began our first novel study, ‘Anne of Green Gables.’ We read chapter 1 and completed some comprehension questions. We also took a trip to the library and had our first reading buddies group with Mrs. Padovan’s JK class. Our first spelling test will be on Friday, September 16.

UOI:

Today we watched a video on the differences between territories and provinces. Be sure to ask your child/children tonight! Then we labeled our map with the capital cities of each province and territory. We will be having a map of Canada quiz on Wednesday, September 21!

MATH:

Today we had some fun using calculators. We worked with our table groups and found patterns using the calculators. Any support at home during homework would be greatly appreciated. Unit 1 math test will take place on Thursday, September 22!

Have a great night!

Mrs. Hocevar J

Working away with calculators

Reading buddies!