Monday, October 1, 2018

Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! We had a wonderful weekend, celebrating Carter’s 7th birthday. We had a joined party with one of our neighbours at Air Riderz. We jumped, ate pizza and cake, and Carter tackled the slide and climb – he made it to the second last pillar!





Tomorrow is our golf trip. Please send students in their gym clothes and have them dress warmly. We will be attending rain or shine, as the area we hit from is covered.

Tomorrow is a Day 2 (music and tech). Scientists in the School Matter workshop permission forms and money due no later than Tuesday, October 9th. Busing to the new Athletic Centre begin on Wednesday. Please ensure that all students are at school on time and dressed in their gym clothes ready to load the bus at 9:00 AM. Thank you again to everyone who brought in donations for Terry Fox. As a school, we raised over $4600 and as a class, we raised over $300. Congratulations to Ms. Chiappetta’s Grade 3 class who brought in the most money and won a class ice cream party! Well done SJA!

Winter uniforms begin Tuesday, October 9th. Please ensure that all students have all of the pieces and that all 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. **The uniform store will be closed from Tuesday, October 2nd to Wednesday, October 17th – please place all uniform orders by Sunday, September 30th to Alpa via email alpa@multiformcanada.com or website multiformcanada.com.**

Soccer Practice Times
Elementary Girls and Boys – Tuesday and Thursday 4-5PM
U12 Coed and U12 Development Program – Monday and Wednesday 4-5PM

**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!**

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 – the math club has begun. There is a $15 annual fee that must be paid online at registration and the test times begin at 7:15 AM. Committed students will write the tests on:

Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
Wednesday, January 16th, 2019
Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
Wednesday, May 1st, 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 16th, 2018 and the short story deadline is November 23rd, 2018.

Important dates/items:

Tuesday, October 2 – Golf range 10-11:30 AM
Thursday, October 4 – International Day
Friday, October 5 – No school – PD Day
Monday, October 8 – No school – Thanksgiving Monday
Monday, October 15 – Scientists in the School – more info to come
Thursday, October 25 – Picture Day
Tuesday, October 30 – Bake sale & casual day
Wednesday, October 31 – Bake sale & Halloween/Harvest Spirit Day

Unit of Inquiry

Today we did not get to UOI, as our math test took longer than expected.

Our What’s the Matter summative is fast approaching. This summative will be their science fair project and it must relate to matter.  An outline with due dates and a rubric will be sent home sometime over the next few weeks – the Grade 5 team are still finalizing the details. The due date for this summative will be Thursday, October 18th with in-class presentations happening then and on Friday, October 19th. Please note that students will be required to show their display again during our SJA Science Fair, which takes place on Friday, November 16th.

HOMEWORK

-UOI summative due Thursday, October 18th
-Presentations taking place on Thursday, October 18th and Friday, October 19th

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today was our math test. I will mark as soon as I can and send home for you to review.

Points to remember:

HOMEWORK

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Working hard on math tests!
Inquiry into Language

Today we continued working on our France International Day project. We also began spelling lesson #4 – words with kn, gn, wr, rr and words with the sound s, z, and zh.

Please see below the groups and topics. Parents and families are welcome to join us on Thursday, October 4th from 2:30-3:15. Any French food donations would be greatly appreciated!! Please dress in blue, red and white, or wear something French!**This is an in-class project, where work is to be done in class only.**

Music and Dress – Joshua, Vishva 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

HOMEWORK

-Finish spelling lesson #4





International Day is coming together!

Have a wonderful night!


Love Mrs. Hocevar

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