Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Today is my grandmother's, the boy's G.G, 100th birthday. Although we were not there to celebrate with her today, we did spend some quality time together over the summer!

The first Grade 5 extra curricular activity is upon us. They will be going to a golf range on Wednesday, October 3. Permission forms have been sent home and are due back on Monday, September 24th. There is no cost, as it has been included in the tuition. Our Terry Fox event is just around the corner. This is an annual event here at SJA. As we have done every year, we are asking donations. Pledge sheets have been sent home, and will be due by Wednesday, September 26^th. The class with the highest amount of money collected will win an ice cream party! Thank you in advance for your donations!

**Please note that students doing any after school activity, soccer, karate, yoga, etc. will be charged until 4:00 PM in aftercare, when they will be dismissed to their program with their coach!**

Soccer Practice Schedule

October hot lunch can now be ordered. The site will close on September 26th at 3:00 PM, so please get your orders in before then, as the site cannot be re-opened. October hot lunch payments are due by October 10th. Please ensure you are ordering under the correct grade and teacher. 

Important dates/items:

Thursday, September 20 – Welcome Back BBQ from 4-5:30 PM

Monday, September 24 – Golf permission forms due

Tuesday, September 25 – Bake Sale

Wednesday, September 26 – Bake Sale, Casual Day, Terry Fox pledges due & October hot lunch orders due

Thursday, September 27 – Terry Fox run

Friday, September 28 – Orange Shirt Day

Unit of Inquiry

Today we did a quick lesson on particle theory. We watched a video that demonstrated this. We found out that in solids, particles are very close to each other. In gas, particles are far from each other and in liquids, particles are close to each other. We also began to create a poster using the three states of matter and particle theory.

HOMEWORK

- States of matter poster due tomorrow

Watching our new TV!

Solids!

Liquids!

Gas!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we learned about prime and composite numbers. In a multiplication question, the numbers that form the product (answer) are known as factors. In the example, 2 x 3 = 6, 2 and 3 are the factors. A prime number has exactly two factors, 1 and itself. For example, 3 and 7 are prime numbers (1 x 3 = 3 and 1 x 7 = 7). There are no other numbers that you can multiply to get 3 or 7. A composite number has more than two factors. For example, 4 and 8 (1x4 and 2x2 = 4 and 1x8 and 2x4 = 8). We will continue working on this tomorrow!

Points to remember:

Standard form - simply put it is the number – 3, 258, 111.

Number written form is writing the number using both numbers and words (3 million, 2 hundred 58 thousand, 111).

Expanded form is when we take the number and break it down (3, 258, 111 = 3,000,000 + 200,000 + 50,000 + 8,000 + 100 + 10 + 1) – we take each digit and then add zeros!

When using < and > signs, the alligator mouth eats the bigger number.

Multiples of 2 are: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20.

Multiples of 3 are: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21.

Common multiples are numbers that are the same in two or more different multiples. For example, the common multiples from the list above are 6, 12, 18. Those 3 numbers appear in both lists of multiples (2 and 3).

HOMEWORK

- MMS 

Prime and composite numbers!

Inquiry into Language

Today we began reading chapter 3 of Percy Jackson. We also worked on our spelling lesson for the week – hard and soft c and g.

HOMEWORK

-Finish spelling lesson #2

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar