Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a night!

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 tomorrow. 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:

Aftercare payments are due tomorrow, Friday, April 28. After school activity forms are also due on tomorrow!

The ordering system for May lunch is up and be open until tomorrow 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 began 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 or Mr. Oliver in the face! 

Friday, April 28 – Casual Day and Dance Party - bring in $5 and the form and are able to wear casual clothing and boogie-woogie away! Feel free to send students with some change as we will be having a candy bar and extra glow in the dark wrist bands available.

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! Pledge forms and money is due by tomorrow, Friday, April 28.

Enjoying our ice cream!

CONGRATULATIONS to Eric in Mrs. Blair's JK class who brought in the most money today for the Spring Fundraiser and because of that he gets to sit in Mrs. Blair's chair! With the help of Aydan from Mrs. Smith's Grade 1 class, he got to pie Mr. Sawatsky in the face! As a class we have raised $576.50. 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!****

Always such a good sport!!

***WE HAVE RAISED OVER TO $6000 SO FAR….WOOOHOOO!! OUR NEXT STEP IS $6000 AND THEN WE GET TO SILLY STRING A TEACHER.***

A note from your Grade 6 class : Dear SJA Families,

The Grade 6 class invites you to attend the Exhibition on Friday, May 5, 2017, from 9 am to 11 am, or from 6 pm to 8 pm in the auditorium.

The Exhibition is the culminating task of the IB Primary Years Programme. It is where students work collaboratively to explore a local issue that interests them.  This year’s Grade 6s have chosen the following topics to explore:

Terrorism

Elder Abuse/Neglect

Physician-Assisted Dying

Developmental Disabilities

Animal Abuse/Neglect

Immigration

Garbage Pollution

Climate Change

Crime

Some great reasons why you should attend if your child is NOT in Grade 6 include:

·         Supporting and celebrating with the Grade 6s

·         Learning about these issues

·         Being aware of what will be expected of your child when they are in Grade 6

We hope to see you then.

Sincerely,

The Grade 6 Class

We will be viewing the presentations next Friday. This is a 6 week long project that the Grade 6’s work very hard on. So please feel free to come and support the Grade 6’s!

Language

Today we continued work on our magazine article. This is in preparation for our OWA post-assessment, which hopefully will happen next week! We decided to forgo the library and head outside!

Homework – Read for at least 30 minutes

-Frindle activity #2 due Monday, May 1

Math

Today we reviewed our lesson from yesterday. We now know that a fraction is an equal part of a whole. The top number of the fraction is the numerator (the part) and the bottom number of a fraction is the denominator (the whole). Our lesson today focused on fraction benchmarks. For example, 2/10 is close to 0, 5/8 is close to one half and 9/10 is close to 1.

Homework – MMS pg 118-119

-Sign and return math test

UOI

Today we continued to work on our summative assessment for Rocks and Minerals. Today we continued our rough copy and good copies of our persuasive letter on whether or not we should build a quarry. Those who were finished created envelopes for their letters.

Homework – Good copy of letter is due tomorrow.

Have a great night!

Mrs. Hocevar J