Good afternoon everyone!
I hope you had a wonderful night!
Thank you to everyone who wore something orange today.
Every Child Matters!
The Grade 4’s are excited that
Ms. Celeste will be joining us in our classroom on Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday from now until April! Ms. Celeste is the Child and Youth program at Sheraton
College!
A note from Mr. Oliver: RE: Recorder
Program at St. Jude’s Academy
Dear Parents,
This year at St. Jude’s we will be continuing with our
recorder program in addition to other musical units. Every student in grade 2,
3, and 4 requires a recorder. If students have their own recorder at home or
school, they may use that instrument. If students do not have a recorder at
home or school please send $10 with your child by the end of the week, Friday,
September 29th, to cover the cost of the purchase of a new recorder. Looking
forward to another musical year!
A note from Ms. Chin: Hello Parent(s)/Guardians:
We would like to send a friendly reminder
to all parent(s)/guardian(s) to please label your child(ren)'s uniform
pieces to help us retrieve items in a more efficient manner and to reduce
the number of lost uniform pieces. All unidentified uniform
pieces have been place in our lost and found box located outside of the
gymnasium area, and all identified pieces have been returned to
the appropriate students.
We are also kindly asking
all parent(s)/guardian(s) to please check your child's uniform labels
to ensure that your child has not accidentally taken home someone
else's uniform piece. If this is the case, please return the uniform piece to
you child's homeroom teacher. Iron-on name labels are also available
through Multiform Canada.
Thank you for your cooperation.
SJA
and Oakwood Academy are
hosting a Welcome Back BBQ on Monday, October 2, from 4:00-5:30 PM. Order
forms were sent home today and are due back by Wednesday, September 27th. Items to order will be combos
priced from $6 to $8. Each combo will include a bag of chips, drink and either
a hot dog (beef or chicken), a hamburger, or a veggie burger. Please pay via
Freshbooks (you will be invoiced) or cash. Cheques will NOT be accepted!
Upcoming Dates & Events
Monday, October 2 – Welcome Back BBQ from 4:00-5:30
Wednesday, October 4 – UCMAS after school form due
Thursday, October 5 – International Day
Friday, October 6 – October Hot Lunch payments due via Freshbooks – PD Day therefore no
school
Monday, October 9 – Thanksgiving Monday therefore no school
MATH:
Today we continued on working on our subtraction. We did a another mad
minutes, this time only lasting 8 minutes. We watched a video on subtraction
and then continued to work on some subtraction questions. When subtracting with regrouping, please
remember to take away one from the next place value!
Remember your rounding rules – 1-4 round down & 5-9 round up. For
example when rounding to the nearest hundred 12 would round to 10 and 18 would
round to 20. For the nearest 100, 233 would round to 200 and 571 would round to
600. Please remember to look to the number next door to help you decide if you
should round down. Look for the words ‘estimate’ or ‘about how many.’
When adding/subtracting make sure you line up your numbers correctly (in
their place value position)!
Points to remember:
Standard Form is simply
writing the number out in numbers (9361).
Written Form is writing it
out in words (9361 = nine thousand, three hundred and sixty one).
Expanded Form is breaking up
the number by using place value and + signs (9361 = 9000 + 300 + 60 + 1).
Place value chart.
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Million
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Hundred Thousand
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Ten
Thousand
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Thousand
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Hundred
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Tens
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One
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We also looked at ordering numbers and figuring out if
some numbers were greater than, less than, or equal to. Remember the alligator
mouth eats the bigger number (54 > 11, 2599 < 3001).
Homework:
-Check out https://www.youtube.com/user/mathantics –
Math Antics (kid friendly tutorials on math
- very entertaining)
LANGUAGE:
Today we focused on International Day. We will finished
up our rough copies and have begun good copies. We will work on getting our
board next week. If anyone has items from the US, please send them in. We will
also be looking for food donations. Families are welcome to join us in the
auditorium on Thursday from 2:30-3:15. We also had our spelling test #3.
A note on Raz Kids: St. Jude's has implemented the
use of RAZ Kids in our classrooms. Your
child has access to award-winning digital resources through Kids A-Z, Learning
A-Z's website created for students.
Students are required to log-in to this website once a week
to complete online activities related to reading assignments that is aligned
with students' current DRA levels. This once-a-week activity can
substitute the 20 minute reading for that day. Your child can work on
assignments or select other resources for reading and writing practice.
Kids A-Z Login Instructions
Step 1: Go to www.kidsa-z.com
Step 2: Enter the teacher's username, hhocevar
Step 3: Enter your child's first name
Step 4: Your child enters their password
**Username and password has been stapled to the front of your
child's agenda**
Capitalization Hints:
M – months of the year
I – I
N – Name of people, places, things, etc.
T – Titles of books, movies, TV shows
S – Start each sentence with a capital letter
Homework:
-Sign up for Raz-Kids
-Sign and return spelling
test – wrong words to be written out 10 times
Reading buddies!
UNIT
OF INQUIRY:
Today we did a cut and paste activity on man-made and
natural resources.
Homework:
-Send in a real maple leaf for Monday
-Sign and return regions quiz
I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Hocevar J
