Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Phone calls/emails will continue this week. We had so much fun during our workshop on matter! We blew up balloons, played with iodine and tested temperatures!

Matter workshop ready!

Such fun!

Tomorrow is a Day 4 (library and music).

**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:

Wednesday, October 17 – Math test & Caribou math contest (7:15 AM)

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 continued our good copies. This will continue tomorrow as well. Board set up will begin Tuesday and continue on Wednesday. Presentations will begin on Thrusday and continue on Friday.

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 conducted at least three different times**

HOMEWORK

-UOI summative due Thursday, October 18^th

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

Working on our good copies!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we wrote our review for the math test. We will take up the review together tomorrow. The math test will take place on Wednesday. Students will need to know the divisibility rules and what a reclusive pattern is.

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.

Divisibility Rules:

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

Algebra: solving problems where numbers are missing. We can use a guess and check method or inverse operation. In an addition question, you can use subtraction: A + 7 = 12, then 12 – 7 + 5, then A = 5. In a subtraction question, you can subtract: 20 – A = 12, then 20 – 12 = 8, then A = 8. In a multiplication question, you can divide: A x 6 = 36, then 36/6 = 6, then A = 6. In a division question, you can either divide or multiply: A/4 = 5, then 5 x 4 = 20, then A = 20 OR 354/A = 6, then 354/6 = 59, then A = 59.

We also solved questions that looked like this: A – 3 = 10 – 4. The first step is to solve the equation we can, 10 – 4 = 6, so we now know that we need to find a number, that when we take away 3 will = 6. We are thinkers and knowledgeable so we know that 9 – 3 = 6 so A = 9.

Integers are numbers that can be created from subtraction patterns. They can be negative or positive. A number above 0 is positive and a number below 0 is negative. For example, a temperature greater than 0 degrees is positive. We write 24 degrees Celsius and say twenty-four degrees Celsius. A temperature that is less than 0 degrees is negative. We write -18 degrees and say minus eighteen degrees Celsius.

HOMEWORK

-Finish math review

-Number Patterns math test Wednesday, October 17

Inquiry into Language

Today some students began spelling lesson #6 – a review of lessons 1-5. Please note there will be no spelling test this week because of the review.

HOMEWORK

-Spelling lesson #6 due on Thursday, October 18

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar