Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful snow day. We definitely did!! We spent a lot of time outside shovelling, making forts and shovelling!!

These two were happy to find out it was a snow day!

Right in the line of fire for the snow blower!!

Making forts!

Tomorrow is a Day 1  (gym). We are hosting this months bake sale tomorrow, Thursday, January 31^st.  Please bring in nut free items and please avoid items that ‘may contain’ nuts. Casual day is taking place tomorrow. Pancake Tuesday has been moved from Tuesday, February 5^th to Tuesday, March 5^th.

**Please do not order lunch on the following days – February 20^th (second ski trip), March 7^th (third ski day) and March 27^th (Legislative Assembly field trip).**

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 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! **If we are the first class to have all registration forms returned we will have a pizza party and movie afternoon the Friday before March Break. Drinks and chips/treats will be included!!**

A note regarding speeches – Due to our growing population at SJA, this year poems/stories/speeches will be split into two days. On Thursday, February 7^th, JK-Grade 3 will recite their poems and stories and on Friday, February 8^th, Grade 4-8 will recite their speeches. The tentative schedule is as follows: On Thursday, JK and SK poems will run from 9:00-10:30 and Grades 1-3 stories will run from 11:00-1:00. On Friday, Grade 4-5 will recite their speeches from 9:00-10:30 and Grades 6-8 will recite their speeches from 11:00-1:00. Division winners (Grades 1-3, 4-6, and 7-8) from this round will compete against students from the Maples Academy on Wednesday, February 13^th. This year the inter-school competition will take place at the Maples Academy campus in Orangeville. Finalists will be bussed to the competition at the Maples Academy.

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 – JK to Grade 3 will have a dance party and Grades 4-6 will have device time. Let’s see what we can do SJA!

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.

SJA Parent Guild is hosting a cookie decorating party for Valentine’s Day. For $5, students can decorate 4 cookies. Forms have been sent home and are due back, along with money, by Friday, February 1^st. Payments options are cash, e-transfer or cheque, which can be made out to SJA Parent Guild. Do not miss out on the fun event!!

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

Important dates/items:

Thursday, January 31 - Casual day & Bake sale – we are hosting – please bring in nut free items, and please avoid bringing in may contain items

Thursday, February 7 – JK-Grade 3 Oral Competition

Friday, February 8 – Grade 4-8 Oral Competition

Monday, February 11 – Re-registration packages due – be sure to reserve your spot

Wednesday, February 13 – SJA vs. TMA Oral Competition and 100^th Day of School

Thursday, February 14 – Valentine’s Day Spirit and SJA Parent Guild cookie decoration

Friday, February 15 – No School – PD Day

Monday, February 18 – No School – Family Day

Tuesday, February 26 – Bake sale

Wednesday, February 27 – Casual day and bake sale

Thursday, February 28 – Anti-Bullying Day

Monday, March 4 – Friday, March 8 – Spirit Week

Tuesday, March 5 – Pancake Tuesday

Monday, March 11 – Friday, March 22 – No School – March Break

Monday, March 25 – First day back after March Break and Term 3 begins

Wednesday, March 27 – Casual Day

Friday, March 29 – Term 2 report cards go home

Unit of Inquiry

Today we continued our summatives. Summatives are now due Friday, with presentations on Friday. Our next unit is government.

Summative groups:

Group 1 – Joshua, Chesley, Elina, Munira, Jasmeet - Endocrine System

Group 2 – Eva, Emana, Ronit, Aarnav, Rajan - Muscular System

Group 3 – Himmat, Willem, Liliana, Vishva - Urinary System

Group 4 – Mitansh, Manny, Aanika, Divyansh - Immune System

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

HOMEWORK

-UOI summative due Friday, February 1^st

-Presentations are Friday, February 1^st

UOI summative work!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we continued our math test. We will be spending the few days completing this. Our next unit is Area, Perimeter and Volume.

**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, and 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.

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.

Probability tells us the likelihood of an event. There are experimental probabilities, which are based on the results of an experiment. To find the experimental probability, you take the number of times an outcome occurs and divide by the number the times the experiment is conducted. There are also theoretical probabilities, which are done without conducting experiments. To find the theoretical probability, you take the number of favourable outcomes and divide by number of possible outcomes.

If the probability of choosing a can of chicken dog food is 2/20, then to get the percent we need to make it out of 100. To do that we need to find out what times 20 will give us 100 and that is 5 (5 x 20 = 100). We have to remember that what we do to the bottom, we need to do to the top! If we multiplied 20 x 5 to get 100 then I must multiply 2 x 5 = 10. Therefore my new fraction is 10/100, which equals 10 percent and 0.1.

Tree diagrams can be used to list and count the total number of outcomes when an experiment consists of 2 or more events.

HOMEWORK

-Data Management and Probability test due Friday

Inquiry into Language

Today we began reading the speeches in front of the class. and visited with our reading buddies, with whom we helped make patterns using items from nature. **Top 6 will be chosen on Monday, February 4^th.**

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

-Memorize your speech

-Top 6 Grade 5 students will be chosen on Monday, February 4^th

Making patterns with our reading buddies!

Just a few of the Grade 5s who presented their speech today! Let's work on the memorization!!

Have a wonderful night! Stay warm!

Love Mrs. Hocevar