Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful night.

Tomorrow is a Day 4 (music and library). Picture Day is taking place this Thursday, October 25 – please ensure that all students are wearing all pieces of the uniform - no house hoodies please.

The hot lunch site is open for November ordering. The site will close Friday, October 26^th. November hot lunch payments will be due by Friday, November 9^th. Please ensure that you are ordering lunch for your child under the correct grade and teacher. **Do not order lunch for Thursday, November 8, as we are on our ROM trip.**

**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.

Important dates/items:

Thursday, October 25 – Picture Day

Friday, October 26 – November hot lunch payments due

Tuesday, October 30 – Bake sale & casual day

Wednesday, October 31 – Bake sale & Halloween/Harvest Spirit Day

Tuesday, November 6 – Guy Fawkes Day

Thursday, November 8 – ROM trip

Friday, November 9 – No school – PD Day

Monday, November 12 – Kindness Day & curling trip – 9:00-12:00

Friday, November 16 – Science Fair

Thursday, November 22 – Picture re-takes

Tuesday, November 27 – Bake sale

Wednesday, November 28 – Bake sale and casual day

Thursday, November 29 – Curling trip – 12:00-3:00

Friday, November 30 – Term One report cards go home

Unit of Inquiry

Today we began looking into the Romans. We read some information on the Roman Republic, the Roman Forum and Empire, as well as the Roman Government. We put important dates on a timeline, found modern names for certain Roman Empire countries and wrote a definition for a republic, a forum, and an empire.

 

HOMEWORK

-Finish definition and timeline page

Researching facts on Rome!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we focused on the 24-hour clock. Telling time can be told in either a 12-hour notation, which we generally use, or a 24-hour notation, which medical staff and the military use. When writing the 24-hour notation, four digits are used – 18:20. When using a 24-hour notation, 12:00 AM (midnight) to 12:00 PM (noon) stays the same, but after 12:00 PM it goes to 13:00 for 1:00, 14:00 for 2:00, etc.

1:00 PM – 13:00

2:00 PM – 14:00

3:00 PM – 15:00

4:00 PM  - 16:00

5:00 PM = 17:00

6:00 PM = 18:00

7:00 PM – 19:00

8:00 PM – 20:00

9:00 PM – 21:00

10:00 PM – 22:00

11:00 PM – 23:00

12:00 PM – 00:00

Then we start back at 1:00 AM.

12:00- 11:59 AM is from midnight to noon and 12:00 – 11:59 (12:00-24:00) PM is from noon to midnight.

Points to remember:

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg 82-83

Inquiry into Language

Today we began practicing for our OWA post-assessment (Ontario Writing Assessment), which will take place on Friday. For this OWA will be writing a narrative story about becoming an inanimate object. We will be taking a break from Percy Jackson for this week and we will resume it next week.

HOMEWORK

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Key points from our narrative YouTube video!

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar