Good afternoon everyone! 

I hope you had a wonderful day!

A note on Freshbooks: St. Jude's Academy is excited to announce the launch of Freshbooks, the new online/paperless invoicing method for incidental fees ONLY (i.e. Field Trips, After School Program, After Care, Lunch, Camps etc...).

Freshbooks is a safe and secure form of online payment that allows you to pay for your child(ren)'s school incidental fees, using Visa, MasterCard or Amex with no additional fees.

You will have the ability to:

• Keep track or check account history 
• Print or view receipts 
• Pay for invoices with a click of a button 

How to create your account:

• Once you click "View Your Invoice,” detail of the invoice shown. 
• On the top left corner, just above the invoice number, click the link "Log in to view all invoices" 
• A pop-up window will appear to create your own password. 
• Once you have created your password, click "Save this Invoice" button. 
• Your account is now created. 
• To log back in to your account, go to: https://my.freshbooks.com
   

**Please note that we no longer accept cheque(s) as a method of payment.

A Note From Ms. Bancud regarding lunches: Ordering Website is now Active for the month of October. You may start ordering your child's lunches! Please make your child is under the correct grade, as there were many mistakes made for last month's ordering. http://mydigitalmailroom.com/sja The last day to order for October will be Wednesday, September 26th. After this date, our system closes and is unable to open for October ordering. All payments are due on Friday, October 6th. 

Cheque payments will not be accepted. If you choose the cheque option on the ordering site, it will be assumed that the payment is made through FreshBooks and you will be invoiced. 

Another item has been added to our Hot Lunch Program as a Special. This month's special is Shepherd's Pie that will be available every Friday!

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 27^th. 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

Friday, September 22 – After school activities forms due – please pay through Freshbooks

Monday, September 25 – Gregg LeRock French concert forms and money due. This is a wonderful concert that all of our students enjoyed last year. It is one that should not be missed. Please pay by cash or through Freshbooks.

Tuesday, September 26 – Bake sale – it is our turn to host the bake sale. Please bring in NUT FREE baked goods. Please refrain from ‘MAY CONTAIN’ as well. It is also our Terry Fox Run – please bring in a TOONIE FOR TERRY! Today is the last day to order October Hot Lunch. After today, the site will shut down.

Wednesday, September 27 - Bake sale – it is our turn to host the bake sale. Please bring in NUT FREE baked goods. Please refrain from ‘MAY CONTAIN’ as well. It is also Casual Day. Welcome Back BBQ order forms due as well.

Friday, September 29 – Orange Shirt Day - today we watched a video on why we are wearing an orange shirt on this day - ask me why!! We also coloured a shirt using the slogan 'Every Child Matters.' 

Video watching!

Colouring our shirts!

Thursday, October 5 – International Day

Friday, October 6 – October Hot Lunch payments due via Freshbooks

MATH:

Today we learned about comparing, ordering, and representing numbers.

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).

We also reviewed a place value chart.

Million	Hundred Thousand	Ten Thousand	Thousand	Hundred	Tens	One

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:

MMS. Pg. 10-11 in Math duo tang

Points to help!

Helping with math!

LANGUAGE:

Today we completed our OWA pre-assessment on life without electricity. We also began working on our use of capitalization. We used MINTS to help us!

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:

-Bring in research on your topic for International Day

-Spelling test #2 tomorrow       

MINTS!

UNIT OF INQUIRY:

Today we continued looking at the regions of Canada. Our focus today was the Canadian Shied and St. Lawrence Lowlands.  

Homework:

-Read and fill in Canadian/St. Lawrence chart

I hope you have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar J