Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful day. Tomorrow is a Day 6 (music and reading buddies). All Spring Fundraiser forms and money were due today. I will accept any outstanding payments and forms tomorrow. Please note below that we have extended our $40 roller skating trip until next Tuesday, April 2nd.  Rock climbing permission forms and waivers are due tomorrow.

Tuesday, April 2^nd is our Autism Awareness Day. For $2, students will be able to wear a blue t-shirt (only a blue shirt please) and casual pants to show their support. Students who do not want to participate will be required to wear their full school uniform.

Spelling Bee packages and lists were sent home. Please use the list to study for the in-class competition. The Grade 5 Spelling Bee in-class competition will take place on Thursday, April 4^th, first thing in the morning. The top 6 from all Grade 5 classes will move onto the SJA Spelling Bee Competition. The Grade 6 spellers will make their way to the Grade 6 class on Thursday, April 4^th as well, were the top 6 Grade 6 students will move on to the SJA Spelling Bee Competition.

Spring Fundraiser is just around the corner! Spring Fundraiser will take place the week of Monday, April 1^st to Friday, April 5^th. Order forms have been sent home today and are due by this Thursday, March 28^th. There will be a popcorn day, ice cream day, PJ, day, electronic day, and dress up day. Please note we have extended the deadline until Tuesday, April 2^nd to bring in the $40 to attend the Spring Fundraiser trip to roller skate at Scooters on Friday, April 12^th. Students will also receive a ballot to fill out for a chance to pie a teacher of their choice in the face!! How many of you want to pie Mme. Rawan??? Let’s bring in that money and see!! **Students who choose not to participate in the Spring Fundraiser field trip are expected to be at school that day, as Mr. Conte will be sticking back to teach. ** To date we have Chesley, Elina, Himmat, Ronit, Munira, Liliana, Joshua and Aarnav who could have a chance to pie a teacher of their choice. I hear Mr. Foster is the most popular guy to pie!!!

Important dates/items:

Friday, March 29 – Term 2 report cards go home & rock climbing forms and waivers are due

Monday, April 1 – Friday, April 5 – Spring Fundraiser

Monday is Neon/80’s Day

Tuesday is Popcorn Day

Wednesday is Ice Cream Day

Thursday is PJ Day

Friday is Casual Day & Dance Party (JK-Grade 2)/Electronics Day (Grades 3-6)

Thursday, April 4 – Grade 5 and 6 in-class Spelling Bee

Monday, April 8 – JK-Grade 3 Spelling Bee

Tuesday, April 9 – Grade 4-8 Spelling Bee

Friday, April 12 – Spring Fundraiser trip to Scooters (11:30-2:00)

Thursday, April 18 – SITS workshop & Easter Spirit

Friday, April 19-Monday, April 22 – No School – Easter Weekend

Tuesday, April 23 – Rock climbing, bake sale & summer uniforms begin

Wednesday, April 24 – Bake sale & casual day

Tuesday, April 30 – Silent Dance

Unit of Inquiry

Today we learned how to classify, more specifically the 'tree classification' system. We began by classifying shapes. Then moved on to classifying things we may use in our everyday life, such as a cook book and library. Then we did a group activity where we classified different types of transportation. 

Biodiversity is another short unit. We will have roughly 3-3.5 weeks of learning and 1/5-2 weeks for our summative, which will be due sometime during the last full week of April. More information to come in the upcoming weeks.

HOMEWORK

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Classifying shapes!

Classifying everyday items!

Classifying different types of transportation

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we looked at percents. When taking about percents, we want to keep the number 100 in our mind. When changing a fraction to a percent, we use the numerator to help us. For example, 23/100 = 23 percent. If we have a fraction that is over 10, 20 or 25, we need to make it over 100. We will need to multiply 10 by 10, 20 by 5 and 25 by 4. Remember to do the same to the numerator. For example, 6/10 = 60/100 (10 x 10 and 6 x 10) = 60 percent. We also looked at decimals. Remember if it is out of 100, then there will need to be two spots filled in after the decimal point. For example 23/100 = 0.23 and 7/100 = 0.07.

It is looking as though our math test will take place somewhere around Wednesday, April 10^th. I will confirm the date once we get closer.

Points to remember:

Remember what we do to the denominator we must do to the numerator. If we multiply the denominator by 3, then we must multiply the numerator by 3 as well.

Remember to simplify your fractions and convert improper fractions to mixed numbers.

How to add/subtract fractions - if the fractions have the same denominator, we simply add/subtract the numerators. For example, 1/6 + 4/6 = 5/6 & ¾ - ¼ = 2/4 = 1/2. However, if the denominators are different our first step is to find the lowest common denominator. For example, 1/3 + ½ = 2/6 + 3/6 = 5/6 & 5/6 – ½ = 5/6 – 3/6 = 2/6 = 1/3.

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg 120-121

Math helpers!

Inquiry into Language

Today we did our weekly role for our Hatchet novel study.

Hatchet Literature Circle - This time we have added two other roles. There will no be a summariser, connector, literary critic, discussion moderator, and word wizard. Each week students will individually read the assigned chapters and complete their role in class. At the end of the week each group will come together and share with their group.

The groups (for sharing) – all work will be done independently:

Group 1 – Vishva, Aarnav, Div, Aanika, and Joshua

Group 2 – Ronit, Emana, Manny, Liliana, and Himmat

Group 3 – Mitansh, Jasmeet, Munira, Chesley, and Elina

Group 4 – Eva, Rajan and Willem

Due dates:

Chapters 1-3 due Friday, March 29^th

Chapters 4-6 due Friday, April 5^th

Chapters 7-9 due Friday, April 12^th

Chapters 10-12 due Thursday, April 18^th

Chapters 13-15 due Friday, April 26^th

Chapters 16-19 will be a culminating activity with due date to be announced.

HOMEWORK

-Practice Spelling Bee

-Hatchet chapter 1-3 due tomorrow

Have a wonderful night.  

Love Mrs. Hocevar