Good afternoon everyone!

I hope everyone had a great night!

The wind whips through our playground, so please ensure your child is dressed properly! There are still some students who are coming withouy hats and mitts!

It is our turn to host the bake sale this month. I am hoping that the grade 4 families are able to bring in a NUT FREE baked good to sell at the bake sale next week. All items can be dropped off at the classroom next Tuesday morning. Thank you in advance for your time and effort! It is greatly appreciated.

Important information and reminders:

It is hard to believe, but the time is here already – re-registration is upon us! Re-registrations forms were sent home today. The deadline to re-register is February 9. After that we open up spaces to the public. Do not delay – reserve your spot today for grade 5!

January lunch forms are due no later than Friday, December 16.

MYP is selling Candy Grams!! Order forms have been sent home. All order forms and money are due by Friday, December 16.

November after care invoices have been sent home. All after care payments are due no later than Monday, December 19.

Christmas break PD day information was sent home via email. Camps are happening on Friday, December 23, Monday, January 9, and Tuesday, January 10. The PD day runs from 7:30-5 and costs $20, however does not include lunch. Students must bring in their own lunch and snack. Registration is limited to the first 36 children. All forms are due back by Wednesday, December 14.

The Annual Christmas Food and Toy Drive is now underway at St. Jude's Academy and will run until December 21! We would like to welcome families to send in new (unopened) toys and non-perishable food items to be donated to local families in need. Food items will be donated to the Eden Food Bank, and all toys collected will be donated to the CTV Salvation Army Toy Drive Fund. We are also encouraging families to bring a non-perishable food item to the Christmas Concert as your 'ticket' to the show. Thank you in advance for your support.

The Christmas concert will be taking place on Wednesday, December 21. There will be an afternoon show and an evening show. The afternoon show begins at 12:00 noon and the evening show begins at 7:00 PM. All students should attend. The theme this year is ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’ We have begun practicing with Mr. Oliver and the other grade 4 class. We are singing ‘You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch’ and playing ‘Jingle Bells’ on the recorder. Just a reminder that our costumes will be the grey school uniform pants/skirts, a plain green shirt (if possible!!), a scarf, and a winter hat (Christmas themed or not). SJA Parent Guild will also be auctioning off the baskets that each classroom put together and there will be light refreshments. It is bound to be a wonderful night!!

The grade 4 baby basket ready to be auctioned off!

LANGUAGE:

Today we continued to practice writing a recount in preparation for our OWA. Our OWA post-assessment will take place on Thursday. Today we continued our guided-writing recount. This is exactly how the OWA should be written. We are using a story, ‘Holidays Around the World’ to help us write our OWA and it also ties in with our religion UOI unit. We also practiced our Christmas concert song!

Homework - Remember to read for 30 minutes each night!

-Practice Grinch

MATH:

Today we spent some time prepping to begin our math test tomorrow. We conducted practice surveys and used the results to graph. We also began conducting our survey for math test!

Our unit math test will begin on Thursday, December 15 and continue on Friday. For this end of unit test, students will be required to create a survey, survey 50-60 students, and use that information to create a bar graph and pictograph. ** All graphs must be coloured, labeled correctly, and have a title.**

Homework – MMS pg 86-87

Unit of Inquiry:

Today we began to look at Buddhism. We did a reading, and studied some of the symbols, and created an anchor chart with information we already knew and learned from the reading.

Homework – Complete 4 of the 6 symbol charts

-Bring in device tomorrow to assist with meditation assessment

I hope you have a wonderful night! Stay warm!

Mrs. Hocevar J

The final 'A Starry Night'

 

Our recounts!

Our names in the Hebrew alphabet!