Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and were able to enjoy some of the gorgeous weather we had! We spent a lot of time outside and the boys started ball hockey!  

As part of their action component for Exhibition, Jerry and Akash have sent home a small checklist for students to complete. Please return the survey by Friday, April 28. Many thanks!

Leah, Eghosa, and Arya from Mrs. Haag’s Grade 6 class are also taking action for their Exhibition. They are looking for any used and unwanted sport equipment. If you have any items you would like to donate, please send them in! This used equipment drive will run this week!

Important information and reminders:

Summer uniforms are now in effect. Summer uniform consists of grey pants/shorts/skirt, the white polo t-shirt, and navy blue socks/stockings.

Aftercare payments are due Friday, April 28.

The ordering system for May lunch is up and be open until Friday, April 28 at 4:00 PM. All lunch payments are due Monday, May 1.

Clothing iron-on name labels are now available through Alpa. Please see flyer below!

It’s here! It’s here! Our annual SJA Spring Fundraiser is finally here. It begins on Monday and runs until Friday. This year, we are raising money for technology and our goal is $9000. If we raise $3000 as a school we get to wrap a teacher in toilet paper! If we raise $6000 as a school we get to silly string a teacher! If we reach our goal of $9000, students will get to water balloon the teachers! There will be a number of events happening throughout the week and amazing prizes for students who participate, as well as a grand prize, which includes a movie and pizza party!! Some of the daily prizes include a gum day, silly string a teacher, an extra casual day, sit on your teachers chair for the day, and pie Mr. Sawatsky in the face! 

Monday, April 24 – Costume Day – bring in $3 and the form and be able to wear a costume instead of the uniform!

Tuesday, April 25 – Popcorn Day - bring in $2.50 and the form and enjoy a bag of popcorn!

Wednesday, April 26 – Pancake Day - bring in $2 to $6 and the form and enjoy some yummy pancakes in your classroom!

Thursday, April 27 – Ice Cream Day - bring in $5 and the form and some ice cream! You may also purchase an apple or a banana for $1 a piece!

Friday, April 28 – Casual Day and Dance Party - bring in $5 and the form and be able to wear casual clothing and boogie-woogie away!

For a pledge of $35 or more, your child will be able to attend a class trip to Kidsports Indoor Playground on Thursday, May 11. Thank you so much in advance for your participation. We greatly appreciate it!

All daily activity forms and money are due yesterday and the pledge form and money is due by Friday, April 28.

Fun at today's Spring Fundraiser assembly!

****CONGRATULATIONS to Julian who brought in the most money today for the Spring Fundraiser. He brought in $126 and because of that he got to chew gum in class. As a class we have raised $266. Lets see if we can be the top class and win that pizza and movie party!! Lets keep up the great work Grade 4’s!****

Language

Today we began spelling lesson #31. We read the story, the tip, wrote the words in our agendas, and then began the corresponding activities. Our lesson focused on adding suffixes/endings to words ending in e and using prefixes pre, re, im, non, and con.

Homework – Read for at least 30 minutes

-Read chapter 4 & 5 of Frindle. We will read chapter 6 in class tomorrow and begin our second activity

-Finish spelling lesson #31

-Frindle activity #2 due Monday, May 1

Our guided-writing persuasive letter!

Math

Today we began our math test. It consisted of us using our first initial and then showing a translation, reflection, and rotation! We will continue this tomorrow. Wednesday we begin Fractions and Decimals!

Homework – We will finish our math test tomorrow

UOI

Today we continued to work on our summative assessment for Rocks and Minerals. Today we began our persuasive letter on weather or not we should build a quarry. We began with a guided-writing activity and then we began our own letters.

Homework – UOI summative due date is Friday, April 28.

-Finish outline/brainstorming page for persuasive letter

Pictures of our finished Earth Day activities!

Have a great night!

Mrs. Hocevar J