Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend. We most certainly did. My brother and sister-in-law and niece came up from North Bay. We had a neighbourhood egg hunt and fish taco night on Friday and the boys were lucky enough to have the Easter Bunny visit on Saturday night.  For those students participating in choir the permission forms are due tomorrow! For our Arts' Night we are asking that each student bring in a picture from their childhood...it can be any stage of life (baby, toddler, young child, etc). We are asking that all pictures are brought in by April 20th. Many thanks in advance!

Our Easter house game...an egg race! Great job, Jasmeet!

Happy Easter!

Hunting for eggs!

Enjoying their Easter gifts!

Thank you again, to all of the students who took part in Oakwood’s ‘Silent Dance.’ They raised over $1400 for sensory items. Great job, SJA and Oakwood!!

Please note that Student-Led Conferences will be taking place next Thursday, April 5. A letter regarding Pick-a-Time has been sent home. Please follow the instructions on the sheet provided to sign up for a spot!

St. Jude’s FC – A new and exciting soccer program has arrived at SJA. St. Jude’s FC is the official soccer academy affiliated with SJA, which is currently taking applicants for its inaugural season. Please see flyer sent home for further information. If you are interested in joining, please fill out the flyer and send into Ms. Dawn. Let’s go St. Jude’s FC!!

Upcoming Dates & Events

Wednesday, April 4 – Summer uniforms begin – no more blazers – except for Friday!!

Thursday, April 5 – Student-Led Conferences – information was sent home

Friday, April 6 – April hot lunch payments due & Grade 4’s are to wear their full winter uniform

Tuesday, April 10 – Transformational Geometry math test

Monday, April 16-Friday, April 20 – Spring Fundraiser

Friday, April 20 – Earth Spirit Day – wear your Earth colours

Wednesday, April 25 – Gregg Le Rock concert & Casual Day

MATH:

Today we did some Easter activities related to our current unit. We located Easter items on a grid and created a colour symmetrical Easter egg.

Key points to remember:

Coordinates can be used to describe locations on a grid or map. There are 2 kinds of coordinate systems. The first is on a map, in which the coordinate refers to a square. The second is on a grid, in which the coordinate refers to a point.

Transformations – rotations (turn), reflections (flip), and translations (slide). For a translation you must also include the description of the movements, such as 4 squares up and 3 squares to the right. Please note that the figure/shape must remain the same size!

Homework:

-Finish egg

-Unit math test on Tuesday, April 10

Working on our symmetrical Easter eggs!

LANGUAGE:

Today we began spelling lesson #27 on irregular plurals, such as words that end in f/fe changes to ves, as in calf, which become calves. We also worked on our Student-Led Conference package and some students also began their Term 3 DRA’s.

Homework:

-Frindle activity #1 due on Tuesday

-Bring Frindle in

-Finish spelling lesson #27

-Raz-Kids for 40 minutes

Rad-Kids and DRA's!

UNIT OF INQUIRY:

Today we learned about the difference between a rock and a mineral and how to identify minerals. We learned that we can classify a mineral by colour, lustre, streak, transparency, and hardness.

Homework:

-Begin collecting pebbles (very teeny tiny rocks) and place in a Ziploc bag with your name on it

Vishva sharing her Action - books she got from her local library!

I hope you have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar J