Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Tomorrow is a Day 3. 

This week there are many activities taking place at SJA. The bake sale is tomorrow and Wednesday, casual day is on Wednesday, the Terry Fox run is on Thursday (please bring in your donations and wear your gym clothes) and Friday is orange shirt day, where we take the time to remember those who were forced to attend residential schools - Every Child Matters.

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!

The first Grade 5 extra curricular activity is upon us. The Grade 5s will be attending the golf range on Wednesday, October 2.

Winter uniforms begin Tuesday, October 9. Please ensure that all students have all of the pieces are worn on a daily basis (grey skirt/pants, navy blue socks, black dress shoes, long sleeve button up white dress shirt, navy blue sweater/sweater vest, tie [academic Monday-Thursday and house colour tie on Friday], and a blazer). Students will be required to wear all the pieces during morning announcements, field trips, and during transitions if going from one classroom to another. Please see Ms. Alpa for any uniform requests or inquirers.

**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 Times

Elementary Girls and Boys – Tuesday and Thursday 4-5PM

U12 Coed and U12 Development Program – Monday and Wednesday 4-5PM

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. 

Caribou Math Contest is an online mathematics contest that is held 6 times per year. Last year we did a trial run with a few students from Grade 6 and above. This year we are going to offer it to students in Grades 3 and up. This is something that will be done on a student’s own time. This will not be a focus of our math program. That being said, Dr. Kaur and Mr. Lee-Guide have offered to run a math club on Wednesday morning beginning at 8:00 AM for those who are interested. There is a $15 annual fee that must be paid and the test times begin at 7:15 AM. Committed students will write the tests on:

Wednesday, October 17^th, 2018

Wednesday, November 14^th, 2018

Wednesday, January 16^th, 2019

Wednesday, February 13^th, 2019

Wednesday, April 3^rd, 2019

Wednesday, May 1^st, 2019

Permission forms were sent home. Please follow the instructions at the bottom of the page to register your child and pay the fee and return the permission form to me.

Don't forget about Polar Expressions Publishing! The poetry deadline is November 16^th, 2018 and the short story deadline is November 23^rd, 2018.

After school activities forms and payments are due Wednesday, September 26.

Important dates/items:

Monday, September 24 – Golf permission forms due

Tuesday, September 25 – Bake Sale

Wednesday, September 26 – Bake Sale, Casual Day, Terry Fox pledges due, after school activities forms and payments due & October hot lunch orders due

Thursday, September 27 – Terry Fox run – please wear gym uniform

Friday, September 28 – Orange Shirt Day to remember those who were sent to residential schools

Monday, October 1 – Unit 2 math test

Tuesday, October 2 – Golf range 10-11:30 AM

Thursday, October 4 – International Day

Unit of Inquiry

Today we watched a Bill Nye video on Phases of Matter. Students were required to fill in a worksheet while watching the video.

HOMEWORK

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Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we learned about adding and subtracting whole numbers. We added 4 3-digit numbers together and subtracted a 4 or 5 digit numbers from 4 digit numbers. When adding remember to begin with the numbers in the ones column of the place value chart and to regroup in the tens column if necessary. Then we move to the tens column and hundreds column. If adding all 4 numbers together is too much, add the first two numbers, then the last two numbers, and then add the total from each together. When subtracting, remember to begin at the ones column in the place value and to regroup/take from the next place value column when necessary. To double-check your answer, add the answer you got to the second set of numbers (inverse operation). It should equal the first set of numbers in your subtraction sentence.

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).

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).

Compatible numbers are numbers that are easy to compute. For example, 60 + 35 + 40. If you switch around the 35 and 40 to make the question read 60 + 40 + 35, it makes it easy to mentally add - 60 + 40 = 100 + 35 = 135. We can also use compatible numbers when multiplying. For example, 4 x 19 x 25. If you switch around the 19 and 25 it makes it easier to multiply – 4 x 25 x 19 = 100 x 19 = 1900 (remember to use another strategy to multiply 19 x 100 – 19 x 1 = 19 then add the 2 zeros to get 1900).

When doing a subtraction question, if there is no need to regroup we can subtract from the left. For example 687 – 464 = 223 (6-4=2, 8-6=2 and 7-4=3).

PEMDAS - Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.

P – first solve anything that is in a parenthesis (*).

E – next solve anything that has an exponent – we will not be working with exponents!

M and D – do all multiplication and division in order form left to right

A and S- do all addition and subtraction in order from left to right

Please see examples: 16 – 14/2 = 16 – 7 = 9 (I solved the division part 14/2 first, then the subtracted that number, 7, from 16.

7 x (4 + 8) = 7 x 12 = 84 (I solved the parenthesis first (4 x 8), then multiplied that number by 7.

9 +3 x 6 – 4 = 9 + 18 – 4= 27 – 4 = 23 (I solved the multiplication first (3 x 6 = 18), then added 9 to 18 = 27, and finally subtracted 4.

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg 26-27

-Unit 2 math test will be on Monday, October 1

Inquiry into Language

For the next few weeks, Percy Jackson will be put on hold as today we began our International Day France project. This project will take us up to October 4. We broke off into our groups (please see groups below) and began going through our research and writing our rough copies. Parents and families are welcome to join us on Thursday, October 4^th from 2:30-3:15. Any French food donations would be greatly appreciated!! **This is an in-class project, where work is to be done in class only.**

Music and Dress – Joshua, Vishav and Mitansh

Artwork and Dance – Aanika and Emana

Cuisine – Eva and Liliana

Toys, Games and Sport – Willem, Chesley, Manny, and Ronit

Products and Imports/Exports – Munira and Elina

Laws and Policies – Jasmeet and Himmat

Rules and Customs – Aarnav, Rajan and Divyansh

We also had our technology period were we worked on our typing skills. If you would like to do so, please create an account for your child at typingclub.com so they can individually keep track of how they do.

HOMEWORK

-Finish spelling lesson #3

-Research for France (Internet or books from the library)

We are loving the technology period!

Let the International Day craziness begin!

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar