Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful night. Monday is a Day 5 (gym – be ready to board the bus at 9:00 AM dressed in gym clothes). Scholastic orders are due on Thursday.

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. 

A note regarding speeches – Due to our growing population at SJA, this year speeches will be split into two days. On Thursday, February 7^th, JK-Grade 2 will recite their poems and stories and on Friday, February 8^th, Grade 4-8 will recite their speeches.

Jump Rope for Heart – It is that time again! We will be participating in Jump Rope for Heart on Thursday, February 14^th. Donation packages have been sent home. You can pledge using cash or you can donate on the website. House points will be rewarded to each student who brings in donations. If we meet our school goal of $2500, students will be rewarded with a fun activity. Let’s see what we can do SJA!

A note from Ms. Melissa regarding re-registration packages - Just a friendly reminder that re-registration packages are due no later than Monday, February 11.  After this time, spots will be opened up to the public and your child will not be guaranteed a space for next year.  We look forward to seeing you back for next year!

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.

Book Fair – Ms. Hayward and her book fair crew have already begun discussing our book fair. Our book fair will be taking place during the week of February 4^th to 8^th.

Don't miss out on your chance to reserve your spot for our March Break Camp!!

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 split up the boys and girls to talk about the reproductive system, organs and puberty. They all handled themselves with such maturity.

We will be beginning our summative on Monday, January 21^st. This will be a group project, where groups (groups will be told on Monday) 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

-UOI summative due Thursday, January 31^st

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

Our don't smoke posters!

The ladies watching a video on the menstrual cycle this morning!

This lady is sharing with us her book on CPR!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we learned how to conduct a survey. When conducting a survey, you first to need create a question – What is your favourite TV show? Next you need give options – Flash, Arrow, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, and Young Sheldon. Thirdly, comes the tally chart. You will use this to keep track of the answers of the people you survey. Next, you will put the data into a graph. Finally, you will infer information from your graph.

**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.

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

The bottom axis is horizontal (the x axis) and the other axis is the vertical axis (the y axis). The first number in the ordered pair goes on the horizontal axis and the second number in the ordered pair goes on the vertical axis.

HOMEWORK

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

How to conduct a survey

Asking our peers our survey question

Inquiry into Language

Today we continued wrote the conclusion for our speeches, wrote our spelling tests and visited Ms. Hughes-Smith Grade 2 class who were showing off their drawings of their artefacts. 

We have finished the first copy of our speeches. On Monday, we will re-write our entire speech by hand or using our computer. Please remember that students must paraphrase their research. If students cannot explain the meaning of words in their speech they should no be using them. A bibliography is required!!

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 first rough copy of your speech

-Finish reading Shannen chapter 6 and 7 & write a summary

-Spelling lesson #17 due Tuesday – words in agenda and activities

-Sign and return spelling test - wrong words written out 5 X

Getting a jump start on our Shannen homework

Visiting the Grade 2s!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Love Mrs. Hocevar