Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful day. Tomorrow is a Day 3 (gym), house tie day and sibling picture day.

We had a very exciting language period - we received our first two letters back from the Great Canadian Mail Race. Congratulations to M and E for winning the Great Canadian Mail Race!! We can't wait to receive more letters!!!

Thanks to J for sharing with us, who the voting process works. He created a video with Lego to explain it and even made ballots for us to vote!! Excellent work!

Our vote - who will win?? Stayed tuned until tomorrow!

**Please do not order lunch on the following days – 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. 

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

Important dates/items:

Monday, February 25 – UOI summative begins

Tuesday, February 26 – Bake sale

Wednesday, February 27 – Casual day and bake sale

Thursday, February 28 – Anti-Bullying Day & math test

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

Tuesday, March 5 – Pancake Tuesday & UOI summative due

Tuesday, March 5-Wednesday, March 6 – UOI summative presentations

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 studied a timeline of important events with regards to First Nations people. On that timeline, we found when the first residential school was opened, when it closed and when former Prime Minister Stephen Harper officially apologized to the First Nations. We also had a small discussion regarding how difficult it is for First Nations people to live in Canada. Tomorrow we will be doing some First Nations artwork.

This is a five-week unit in which we will be finishing the learning aspect this Friday. We will begin our summative on Monday, February 25^th with a due date of Tuesday, March 5^th – more information will be sent home tomorrow. Presentations will begin Tuesday, March 5^th and continue on Wednesday, March 6^th.

HOMEWORK

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Doing our research and putting it together. 

The finished timeline!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we studied how to find the surface area of a triangular prism. There are 3 steps involved in this. Before we begin, you have to lay flat the triangular prism. Step 1 is to find the area of each of the 2 triangular faces- (b x h)/2 . Step 2 is to find the area of the 3 rectangles – l x w. Step 3 is to add both step 1 and step 2 together. Please see examples below. **This was a difficult lesson, as they had a very hard time visualizing the shape flat and aligning the measurements.**

We are nearing the end of the lessons for this unit. We will finish the lessons this week and begin our review next week. Our math test will take place on Thursday, February 28^th.

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 a 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.

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. **The area of a triangle if one-half the area of a rectangle or parallelogram with the same base and height.**

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

To find the volume of a triangular prism, we must first find the area of a triangular face, which is A = (b x h)/2. Once we have the area, we can find the volume of the triangular prism, which is A = base area x height. For example, if a triangular prism has a base of 6 cm and a height of 4 cm, with a base height of 10 cm then step one is A = (b x h)/2 = (6 x 4)/2 = 24/2 = 12 cm squared. Therefore the base area is 12 cm squared. Now we can find the volume = base area x height = 12 x 10 = 120 cm cubed.

**Remember that when talking volume we use units cubes.**

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg 144-145

Inquiry into Language

Today we were continued Shannen. We are nearing the end of our second week of literature circles. We also had some typing practice and played some math games online.

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

-Spelling test tomorrow

-Shannen chapters 18 and 19 due Friday

Tech time!

Have a great night.

Love Mrs. Hocevar