Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! We have another day switch this week. Tomorrow is a Day 4 (music and library) and Wednesday will be a Day 3 (gym). Thursday we will be back to our regular schedule of a Day 5. Please note we will have back-to-back gym days on Wednesday and Thursday. Chip and candy sale is tomorrow and Wednesday. Casual day is Wednesday. Student-Led Conference (Pick-A-Time) information sheets have been sent home. The website will go live on Thursday morning.

Oakwood Academy is holding a Poinsettia fundraiser for the holiday season, to raise money for some new sensory items. The Poinsettias are red, pink or white and make a wonderful holiday gift, and are a nice way to spread holiday cheer. Order forms were sent home today. The class that sells the most Poinsettias will win a $50 gift card!! Order between November 1^st and November 30^th by cash only.

Hot lunch program: The website is up and running for December hot lunch. The site will close on Friday, November 30 at 3:00 and will not be able to re-open. **Please remember to correctly order under the right grade and teacher. **

Ms. Hayward is holding her ‘Pinkalicious’ Ornament Contest again this year. Please see the flyer below for more information.

Important dates/items:

Tuesday, November 26 – Chip and candy sale

Wednesday, November 28 – Chip and candy sale & casual day

Friday, November 30 – Term One report cards go home

Unit of Inquiry

Today we continued working on our summative. For our ancient civilization summative, students will be required to re-create an ancient artefact from one of the three civilization we learned about. An information package and rubric was sent home. We will begin our in-class summative on Monday, November 19^th and the due date will be Thursday, November 29^th. A kind reminder that all work is to be completed during class time only, unless other wise stated.

HOMEWORK

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A sneak peak of a few artefacts!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we began our fractions unit. We looked a numbers in the media and how to say them and write them in different ways. For example, 2.25 million is written in standard form as

2, 250, 000. As a decimal we write it as 2.25 million (2 whole million + 0.25 million) and as a fraction it is ¼ of a million (25 is ¼ of 100).

Points to remember:

4.9 = 4 and 9/10 (tenths)

4.99 = 4 and 99/100 (hundredths)

4.999 = 4 and 99/1000 (thousandths)

¼ = 0.25

½ = 0.50

¾ = 0.75

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg 44-45

Inquiry into Language

Today we began lesson #12 – a review of lessons 7-11. There will be no spelling test this week.

HOMEWORK

-Finish spelling lesson #12

Working hard on our spelling review!

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar