Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Tomorrow is a Day 6 (music and reading buddies). Bake sale is taking place on tomorrow and is being hosted by Oakwood. All proceeds raised will go towards new sensory equipment. Casual day is taking place tomorrow. Anti-bullying day is taking place on Thursday – please wear a pink shirt!

Thanks to V who shared with us a video about residential schools.

In gym today, the students began creating their summative for Mr. Orr. They are creating brochures that outline ways to keep them healthy. 

Tomorrow we will have the opportunity to visit the Grade 10 Personal Project Exhibition...something for the Grade 5s to look forward to!!

There is apparently another big snow storm heading our way for tomorrow. Will it be snow day? Only time will tell. I will send out a message via Bloomz, email and I will update my blog in the event of snow day. I have given homework out just in case...this work is only to be completed if we are not at school tomorrow. If we are at school tomorrow, we will be completing the work in class. Please see below and in agendas the snow day homework:

-Finish Shannen literary circle - make sure it is perfect and everything is complete including the self-assessment

-Complete math review - we will take up on Thursday

-Anti-Bullying Day is Thursday - please wear a pink shirt

-Scholastic orders due March 7th

-Math test Friday

-Spelling test #22 Friday

Scholastic forms have been sent home and all forms are due back by Thursday, March 7^th. Payments can be made online. Please use the following information -

Postal Code - L5N 2M6

School - St. Jude's Academy

Teacher Name - Dawn Goulart

Spirit Week is taking place next week, Monday, March 4^th to Friday, March 8^th.

Monday, March 4^th – PJ Day

Tuesday, March 5^th – Superhero/Princess/Tie-Dye Day

Wednesday, March 6^th - Whacky Wednesday

Thursday, March 7^th - Sports Day

Friday, March 8^th - St. Patrick’s Day

**Please do not order lunch on the following days – March 7^th (third ski day),  March 27^th (Legislative Assembly field trip) and Friday, April 26th (Ripley's Aquarium).**

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

Important dates/items:

Wednesday, February 27 – Casual day and bake sale

Thursday, February 28 – Anti-Bullying Day

Friday, March 1 - 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

Thursday, March 7 – Ski trip & Scholastic orders due

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 government summative. In groups, students are responsible for creating a new country. They will need to include a flag, a motto and of course they type of government they are. Our summatives are due on Tuesday, March 5^th – more information to come. Presentations will begin Tuesday, March 5^th and continue on Wednesday, March 6^th. See below the groups for the government summative.

Group One – Rajan, Liliana and Aarnav

Group Two – Manny, Vishva and Willem

Group Three – Chesley, Aanika and Joshua

Group Four – Jasmeet, Emana and Mitansh

Group Five – Elina, Eva and Munira

Group Six – Divyansh, Ronit and Himmat

HOMEWORK

-UOI summative due Tuesday, March 5^th

-UOI summative presentations Tuesday, March 5^th and Wednesday, March 6^th

The summative work continues!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we continued our first review –show what you know. Tomorrow we will begin our final review. We will take it up on Thursday. Our math test will take place on Friday, March 1^st.

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.**

Surface area of a triangular prism - 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.

HOMEWORK

-Math test is on Friday, March 1^st

Inquiry into Language

Today we started our final week of Shannen. Students began by reading the last few chapters and then began their assigned activities.  

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 14^th

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

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

HW - Read chapter 20 - due Monday, February 25^th and summary

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

HOMEWORK

-Spelling test #22 Friday

Have a great night.

Love Mrs. Hocevar