Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful night. Phone calls/emails have begun and will continue this week and next.

Tomorrow is a Day 1 (gym – please be dressed in your gym uniform ready to board the bus at 9 AM).

Winter uniforms have begun. A kind reminder to ensure students are wearing all pieces each and every day. Please see Ms. Alpa for any uniform requests or inquirers. She can be reached via email - alpa@multiformcanada.com or via website - multiformcanada.com **The uniform store will be closed from Tuesday, October 2^nd to Wednesday, October 17^th.

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!**

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.

Scholastic Book orders have been sent home. All orders are due no later than Thursday, October 18, 2018. Payments can be made using Cheque or Parent Pay. Cash will not be accepted as a form of payment. For Parent Pay please log on to parentpay.scholastic.ca/pay and enter the following credentials

Province - Ontario

City - Mississauga

School - St Jude’s Academy

Teacher - Dawn Goulart

Important dates/items:

Monday, October 15 – Scientists in the School workshop

Wednesday, October 17 – Math test

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 continued our first UOI summative – our science fair project. We worked on our hypothesis and variables. An independent variable is what you are changing and a dependent variable is the result and the item that does not change. We also watched a short video explaining the difference between the two, as well as some examples. 

A reminder that this is an in-class project only. Please do not do any work at home unless it has been stated. We will be working on rough copies the week of October 9th. The experiment will be completed at home during the weekend of October 13th and 14th. Good copies will be completed on October 15th and 16th, with board set up taking place on October 17th. The due date for this summative will be Thursday, October 18^th with in-class presentations happening then and on Friday, October 19^th. Please note that students will be required to show their display again during our SJA Science Fair, which takes place on Friday, November 16^th. A great website to check out is sciencebuddies.org. **Your experiment must be measurable and conduct at least three different times**

A link to a video we watched on variables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0jTMDtX4WY

HOMEWORK

-Conduct your experiment three separate time on the weekend of October 13 and 14

-Have your rough copy conclusion finished

-UOI summative due Thursday, October 18^th

-Presentations taking place on Thursday, October 18^th and Friday, October 19^th

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we learned about using numbers to explore divisibility rules. A whole number is divisible by:

2 if the number is even

3 if the sum of the digits is divisible by 3

4 if the number represented by the tens and ones digit is divisible by 4

5 if the ones digits is 0 or 5

6 if the number is divisible by 2 and by 3

8 if the number represented by the hundreds, tens and ones digits is divisible by 8

9 if the sum of the digits is divisible by 9

10 if the ones digit is 0

Points to remember:

Input/Output charts:

Input	+ 5 -2	Output
10		13
11		14
12		15
13		16
14		17

You are taking each input number, adding 5, then subtracting 2 each time to get your output number (10 + 5 -2 = 13, 11 + 5- 2 = 14).

A pattern rule is a rule we follow to get a set number of terms. For example, the pattern rule is ‘Start at 7. Multiply by 2, then add 1 each time.’ So, 7 x 2 + 1 = 15, 15 x 2 + 1 = 31, 31 x 2 + 1 = 63. We are also looking at a recursive pattern.

A recursive pattern is when each term can be found by applying the pattern rule to the previous term. For example, start at 5, then multiply by 2 and add 1 (11, 23, 47, 95, etc). We are using the pattern rule on the 11, 23, 47, 95, etc.

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg 6-7

-Number Patterns math test Wednesday, October 17

Inquiry into Language

Today we began reading chapter 11 of Percy Jackson. Those who are fast readers also began the comprehension questions. We also visited our reading buddies today!

HOMEWORK

-Finish chapter 11 of PJ – reading and questions

Enjoying some time with our reading buddies.

Enjoying PJ outside on this beautiful day!

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar