Good afternoon everyone!

I hope everyone had a wonderful night! The mornings are becoming cooler, so please make sure your child is dressed for the weather!

Tomorrow is casual day and bake sale! Thursday is picture day. Full winter uniform is required.

Please note that after care invoices have been sent via Freshbooks. After care payments are due Tuesday, October 31. Please also note that we are no longer accepting cheques as a method of payment. Thank you in advance for your cooperation!

I sent home the Polar Expressions Publishing letter and information a few weeks back. I strongly encourage students to enter on their own time. One of my students placed third last year in the short poem category. Please keep in mind the due dates – poetry deadline is November 15 and the short story deadline is November 30. Good luck!

A note from Ms. Bancud - Ordering Website is now active for the month of November. You may start ordering your child's lunches! Please make sure your child is under the correct grade when ordering http://mydigitalmailroom.com/sja. The last day to order for November will be Friday,

October 27th. After this date, our system closes and is unable to open for November ordering. All payments are due on Friday, November 3rd. 

Payment Instructions

• There are two options to pay for lunches. Cash and online via Freshbooks. 
• If you choose to pay through Freshbooks, please choose the cheque option on the ordering site. 
• Cheque payments will not be accepted. 

• Shortly after completing your order, a Freshbooks invoice will be sent to your email. 
• It may take one or two days to process your order to Freshbooks, so please be check your email diligently for the invoice.  

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

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at dbancud@stjudesacademy.com . 

A note from Ms. Dawn – Scholastic forms were sent home today. All orders will be due Friday, October 27. Payments can be made using Cheque or Parent Pay. Cash will not be accepted as a form of payment.

For Parent Pay then can log on to parentpay.scholastic.ca/pay  and enter the following credentials

Province - Ontario

City - Mississauga

School - St Judes Academy

Teacher - Dawn Goulart

Food Drive – As part of their UOI and action plan, Alister and Aashrith from Ms. Ramcharan’s Grade 2 class, are holding a food drive. These donations will be donated to the local food banks. This food drive will run from now until October 26^th. Please bring any non-perishable food items to me and I will hold it until the end of the food drive.

Upcoming Dates & Events

Wednesday, October 25 – Casual Day & Bake Sale

Thursday, October 26 – Picture day – full uniform is required

Friday, October 27 – Last day to order November hot lunch, after school activity forms due, & Scholastic orders due

Tuesday, October 31 – Havest/Halloween Spirit Day – please no scary costumes/masks and no weapons. If you do not celebrate Halloween, please feel free to come dressed in fall colours – orange, brown, black.

Friday, November 3 – November hot lunch payments due

MATH:

Today we began our third unit – Measurement. Today we looked at measuring time in SI Notation. Please see example below.

Homework:

-MMS pg 76-77

LANGUAGE:

Today we read chapter 8 of Anne of Green Gables. In this chapter Anne wants to make a cake for Mrs. Allen, but accidently uses this instead of vanilla. Ask me what it was. We also worked on our Canadian animal reports. Rough copies are due tomorrow and good copies will be due Thursday. Please help out with paraphrasing. Many students are still copying word for word. We will be completing our OWA post-assessment on Friday. Students will be required to write a report on a specific Canadian animal chosen by me. They will be given research and asked to write a introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.

Homework:

-Read for 40 minutes

-Finish rough copy of report

UNIT OF INQUIRY:

Today we officially began our second Unit of Inquiry – Light and Sound. Today we completed a Wonder Wall, where students had to write a question about light and sound. We also created a vocabulary sheet and began our title page.

Homework:

-Finish title page – it must have colour

-Bring in empty toilet paper rolls and small yogurt containers for Thursday

Title page creations!

Sounds are all around us!

I hope you have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar J