Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful night. Tomorrow is a Day 3 (we will be having a Jump Rope for Heart assembly so we will miss gym). Today is Kase's 5th birthday - needless to say we had a very excited boy this morning! Please register for Bloomz - my new communication app that I will be using. Information on how to sign up was sent home yesterday.

Such a goof!

It seems as though the cold weather is here to stay. Please ensure that students are sent to school with proper outdoor gear - winter coats, hats, mitts, winter boots, scarves, etc. Students will not be allowed to stay in at recess if they are not dressed accordingly. I thank you for your support. 

Re-registrations packages have been sent home. All completed forms are due back no later than February 11^th, 2019, in order to save your spots. **Please see new re-registration packages**

A note from Mr. Foster, Ms. Gandy, and Ms. Brasil:

As part of our summative assessment, the Grade One classes have decided to open a market to complement our organization unit. The market will include fruits, vegetables, drinks, and other healthy snacks. It will be held in rooms 25, 28 and 29. The market will take place all day Thursday, January. 24^th and Friday, January. 25^th. All profits made will be donated to the Sick Kid’s Hospital.

Important dates/items:

Wednesday, January 23 – First ski trip

Thursday, January 24 & Friday, January 25 – Grade 1 grocery store

Tuesday, January 29 – Bake sale – we are hosting – please bring in nut free items, and please avoid bringing in may contain items

Wednesday, January 30 – Bake sale and casual day

Unit of Inquiry

Today we continued to learn about the digestive system.

As per the notice sent home, the students in Grade 5 will spend a period learning about the reproductive systems on Friday, January 18th. Mr. Conte and Mr. Orr will take the boys, while myself and Ms. Cass will take the girls. We will focus on images, proper terminology and puberty. Please let me know if any concerns arise. 

We will be beginning our summative on Monday, January 21^st. This will be a group project, where groups will explore a system we did not cover in class. Information was sent home today. Presentations will begin Thursday, January 31^st and will continue on Friday, February 1^st.  

HOMEWORK

-Study digestive notes

-UOI summative due Thursday, January 31^st

-Presentations are Thursday, January 31^st and Friday, February 1^st

Working on UOI!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we continued to learn how to construct and interpret bar graphs, pictographs, circle graphs, line graphs. We also studied how to construct scatter plots.

Be sure to remember your titles, labels, appropriate scales when constructing your graphs.

Pictograph - uses pictures and key to show data

Circle graph - shows parts of a whole

Bar graph - compares choices by how much or how many

Line graph - shows a variable over time

Scatter plot - shows how two sets of data are related - it is a graph of ordered pairs on a coordinate grid

**NB** We have altered the dates of our math test. As we did with our pre-assessment, we are going to combine the math tests. Instead of writing the Data Management test on January 21^st, we are going to jump right into Probability. This unit will take us one week from Monday, January 21^st to Friday, January 25^th. We will do a small review on Monday, January 28^th and then will spend the rest of the week writing the math test. Students will be expected to come up with a survey question, six options, and will be required to survey 50 people. Students will use tally marks and then will transfer their data to a pictograph and bar graph. Next, they will be asked to infer at least five different things from their graphs. Students will also be given data to create a line graph and scatter plot. Finally, students will be asked questions about probability. This most likely will take us three to four days.

Points to remember:

To find the mean you add up the total number and then divide by the total number of data. For example if the numbers in our data are 8, 10, 6, 4 you add them up to get 28 then divide it by 4 to get 7. Therefore your mean is 7.

The mode is the number that appears the most in a given set of data. For example if the numbers in our data were 3, 6, 4, 8 4. 2, 9, 4 our mode would be 4.

To find the median you first need to order your data from least to greatest. Then whichever number falls in the middle is your median. For example if our data numbers are 1, 3, 2, 9, 5, 7, 8 I arrange them in order 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and the middle numbers is 5 so that is my median. If there happens to be two middle numbers you add those numbers together and divide by 2. For example 1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 7, 8, 9 I would take 5 + 5 = 10/2 = 5.

HOMEWORK

-Finish text book page 180 # 1a (line graph), 4a (bar graph), 4b (pictograph) and on page 192 #3a (scatter plot)

-Data Management and Probability test begins Tuesday, January 29^th

Graph examples

Inquiry into Language

Today we continued speeches. This week will be spent doing a guided writing activity where we will spend each day writing a certain part of our speech. Today we focused on the second body paragraph.

Shannen has been put on hold in class for the next little while. Students will be reading a couple chapters each weekend. Once speeches are over in February, we will begin our literary circles.

Persuasive speeches - we will be beginning our persuasive speech writing next week. We will have roughly four weeks to write and memorize our speeches. The first week will be spent completing a guided writing persuasive speech. The weeks to follow will consist of editing, revising and memorizing. Students should have any research needed for Monday.

HOMEWORK

-Finish your second body paragraph

-Spelling test #16 and French spelling test on Friday

-Music homework

Playing Kahoot during technology - respiratory and digestive system questions.

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar