Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful night. I will not be at school tomorrow as I am heading to a round table conference out in the KW area, to learn about ways to incorporate Indigenous studies into our class, which relates to our next novel study, 'Shannen and A Dream For A School.' I will update my blog at some point tomorrow and the homework has already been assigned for the weekend. Therefore, agendas do not need to come to school tomorrow. Please do not complete any work assigned for tomorrow, as we will be beginning that work in class tomorrow. Any work not completed in class will then be finished at home. 

French presentations!

Tomorrow is a Day 6 (music and reading buddies).

The hot lunch site is open for November ordering. The site will close tomorrow Friday, October 26^th. It will close at 3:00 PM. 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:

Friday, October 26 – November hot lunch orders 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 continued looking at the Romans. We discussed Roman structures and Roman numerals. Thanks to our action stars presentation yesterday, we already know what certain Roman numerals. For example, I = 1, V = 5, X = 10. We had fun writing our ages in Roman numerals. 

HOMEWORK

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Just a few of the coin designs from yesterdays lesson!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we investigated how to find the surface area of a rectangular prism. To find the surface area of a rectangular prism, multiply each face - length x width (l x w), then add the total area. For rectangular prisms that are congruent (all sides are equal), find the area of all three sides, add them together and then multiply by 2. For example, a rectangular prism with the sides 7 cm height, 15 cm length, and 10 cm width – find the area of front face, 15 x 7 = 105, then find the area of the side face, 10 x 7 = 70, then find the area of the top face, 15 x 10 = 150. Then add up those totals – 105 + 70 + 150 = 325 x 2 = 650 cm squared. When finding surface area, we use unit squared (cm squared, m squared, etc.).

Points to remember:

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.

Rounding rules – 0 – 4 round down

-       5 – 9 round up

Friendly numbers  (a way to round or estimate) - $423.99 would round to $400.00 and $789. 11 would round to $800.00.

Standard amount (eight hundred twenty-two dollars = $822)

Written form ($745.50 = seven hundred forty-five dollars and 50 cents). We also counted money. Remember what each coin and bill are worth!

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg 86-87

How to find the surface area of a rectangular prism.

Inquiry into Language

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

I was originally going to have students write their OWA post-assessment tomorrow, but in my absent I have decided to post-pone it until Monday, when I can be here. Tomorrow we will be doing our next weeks spelling lesson (#8) instead.

HOMEWORK

-Finish your narrative story

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar