Good afternoon everyone!

What an amazing first day we had! It is going to be a great year! 

Important information and reminders:

Pizza lunch will be served at $2/slice during the first week of school. The hot lunch program will begin Monday, September 12 with forms and payments due Friday, September 9 (no exceptions). 

Welcome Back BBQ will take place on Thursday, September 15 from 4-7 PM. This is a great chance for staff, students, and parents to interact and get to know one another. Forms and payments are due by Friday, September 9 (no exceptions).

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. 

A little bit about grade 4:

Homework will be given on a daily basis and students are expected to read at least 30 minutes per day. Students are also expected to write in cursive. As per the email sent out on Thursday, one of the biggest changes is the uniform. Alpa, our uniform specialist, will be more that happy to help with you anything related to uniform. She can be reached via email at alpa@multiformcanada.com.  The first few days will be spent getting to know one another, completing DRA’s, creating our IB learner profile traits pictures, and reviewing the policies/procedures of SJA. This year we are running on a 10-day cycle so our schedule will be changing on a daily basis. We have gym and French every day, with music taking place every second day. Spelling activities will be done every Monday, or Tuesday if there is a holiday, with a spelling test taking place every Friday, or Thursday if there is a holiday. After every math unit there will be a unit test. I will send home a review for students. After every UOI unit, students will have to complete a summative assessment. This will be done during class time. I will do my best to send home monthly email reminders of important dates and information. My blog will be updated on a daily basis, as will student agendas. Please take the time each night to sign your child’s agenda.

Today the grade 4’s began with music and then headed right to French. Upon arrival to the class we began to get to know one another. We played a name game for house points and filled out a ‘Guess Who I Am’ sheet. After recess and lunch we began to discuss our IB learner profile traits, the disciplinary skills we use and the IB attitudes. We will be using this discussion to create posters for our classroom. After our second recess and lunch we headed for gym and then played a house game to end the day!

Have a great night!

Mrs. Hocevar :)

Some pictures: