Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful night!

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 in 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 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 29 – Orange Shirt Day & recorder forms and money 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 switched gears and began working with subtraction. We focused on subtracting 3- and 4- digit numbers from 4-digit numbers. 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.

When adding 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.

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:

-Complete the ‘Subtacting 4-Digit Numbers’ page

Group math problem form yesterday!

Remembering how to find the difference (subtraction)!

LANGUAGE:

Today we focused on International Day. We will finish up our rough copies tomorrow and begin good copies and getting our board next week. If anyone has items from the US, please send them in. We also visited with our Reading Buddies!

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

-Spelling test #3 tomorrow

UNIT OF INQUIRY:

Today we began a discussion on natural resources. We began with a video, created an anchor chart, and then began a colouring and cut and paste activity. Ask me what a natural resource is and the two types!

Homework:

-Send in a real maple leaf – the colour does not matter

Watching a video on natural resources!

Our definitions, types, and examples!

Working on our natural resource activity!

I hope you have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar J