Good afternoon everyone!

I hope everyone had a great night!

I look forward to seeing you tonight for Parent/Teacher Interviews. A kind reminder that all interviews will be 10 minutes long!

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!

After school activity forms are due by Friday, December 9.

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

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.

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, a plain green shirt (if possible!!), a scarf, and hat. 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!!

LANGUAGE:

Today we began work on how to write a recount. This is in preparation for our term 2 OWA. A recount is the retelling/recounting of an event that has happened in the past or the retelling of a story. It focuses on the five w’s and linking words such as first, second, third, next, then, after, after that, finally, etc. Today our focus was on the retelling of our Science Fair projects. We also practiced for the Christmas concert and created a Christmas art piece (a sting of lights) and coloured in some ornaments!

Homework - Remember to read for 30 minutes each night!

-Practice Grinch

-Finish Science Fair OWA recount – retell me how you completed the Science Fair

-Finishing colouring your ornaments and cut them out

-Spelling test lesson #13 tomorrow

MATH:

Today we focused on reading information from two graphs – the pictograph and bar graph. A pictograph uses pictures/symbols and has a key. A bar graph uses bars and has a scale! Remember that all graphs have a title and labels.  

Homework – MMS pg 76-77

Unit of Inquiry:

Today we began Van Gogh inspired art piece – ‘A Starry Night’. We used dark construction paper and glue to create our picture. Tomorrow we will add colour using pastels!

Homework –

I hope you have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar J

Working on UOI yesterday!

Light bulb and ornament art!

The finished product!

Van Gogh - 'A Starry Night'