Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful night and enjoyed the snow day. We shoveled, shoveled and shoveled. Kase also insisted on playing baseball...in the pouring rain/freezing rain!

Batter up!!!

Tomorrow is a Day 5 and our Valentine’s Day Spirit - we will be having a little party! Students are welcome to dress in Valentine’s Day clothing and colours. It is also our Jump Rope for Heart, so please bring in your donations and pledges. Students will be required to wear their gym shoes for Jump Rope. SJA Parent Guild will also be hosting their cookie decorating on Thursday.

Pancake Tuesday has been moved to Tuesday, March 5^th.  January lunch payments are due. Please pay as soon as possible. **Aftercare invoices have been sent out. Please pay your invoice by Friday, February 15^th to avoid interest charges**

**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 and snowy 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. 

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!

**We have raised $1500 thus far. Let’s keep it up, SJA!!**

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

Important dates/items:

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

Friday, February 15 – No School – PD Day

Monday, February 18 – No School – Family Day

Tuesday, February 19 – SJA vs. TMA Oral Competition

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 took up our work from Monday and yesterday. We went over the people in politics and how a bill becomes a law. Students wrote on our white board information regarding each of the political parties. Thank you to Munira for putting together such a fantastic slide show about 5 political parties.

HOMEWORK

-Finish all UOI sheets in duotang and make corrections if needed - Due Tuesday

Our political parties!

Munira's presentation!

Getting caught up!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we focused on finding the area of a triangle and explored triangles and parallelogram. To find the area of a triangle we use the following formula – A = (b x h) / 2. The area of a triangle is one-half the area of a rectangle with the same base and height. For example, A = (2 x 6)/2 = 12/2 = 6 units squared. Please note that any side of a triangle can be its base.

Points to remember:

The perimeter is the outside of a figure. For any polygon, you can find the perimeter by adding the side lengths. When finding the perimeter of an parallelogram, we can use a formula of P = (l + w) x 2! **To change mm to cm you will need to divide by 10 – move the decimal one spot to the left. For example, 108 mm would become 10.8 cm.**

To find the perimeter of a rectangle, we use the following formula – P = (l + w) x 2. To find the area of a rectangle, we use the formula – A = l x w. Don’t forget that when you convert a measure of area from square metres to square centimetres, each dimension is multiplied by 100, so the area is multiplied by 100 x 100, or 10, 000.

Parallelograms: Any side of a parallelogram is a base. The height of the parallelogram is the length of a line segment that joins parallel sides and is perpendicular to the base. In order to find the area of a parallelogram, we use the following formula: A = b x h. For example, 13 cm x 15 cm = 195 cm squared. When we are given an area and asked to find the height or base, we do the opposite. We take the area and divide by either the height or base. For example, A = 60 m squared and base is 12 m, then 60/12 = 5 m, therefore the height is 5 m.

**Remember when calculating area to use units squared.**

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg 138-141 (4 pages)

Cheat sheet!

How to find the height or base of a triangle when you know the total area - it's similar to algebra - remember that the operations change once the cross over the = sign.

Inquiry into Language

We also continued our literary circles for Shannen. All students have been placed into literary groups. Each week, students will be assigned a different role in the literary circle; summariser, literary critic and word wizard. 

If you are a summariser, you will be writing a summary of the assigned chapters. If you are a literary critic, you will choose a passage that is of importance in that chapter, read it to your group and write an explanation of why the passage is important or relevant to the story. If you are a word wizard, you will find words that are new, different, funny, etc. and find the definition to each. 

The literary groups are as follows:

Group 1 - Emana, Joshua, Munira, Chesley, Himmat, Jasmeet

Group 2 - Ronit, Aanika, Elina, Vishva, Aarnav, Willem

Group 3 - Manny, Divyansh, Liliana, Eva, Rajan, Mitansh

Here is the outline of how the next few weeks will go with regards to Shannen:

Week 1 - Chapters 13 and 14 - due Thursday, February 14th

HW - Read chapters 15-17 - due Tuesday, February 19th

Week 2 - Chapters 18 and 19 - due Friday, February 22nd

HW - Read chapter 20 - due Monday, February 25th

Week 3 - Chapters 21-23 - due Thursday, February 28th

HOMEWORK

-Read Shannen chapters 15-17 - due Tuesday

Working on Shannen literary circles!

Have a wonderful night! Stay safe!

Love Mrs. Hocevar