Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful day. Big day in our household - first Leaf playoff game! Even Gretz is ready to show his support!!

Go Leafs Go!!

Tomorrow is a Day 4 (music). Tomorrow is our roller skating trip to Scooters. We will be having an early lunch at 11 and then heading out from there. We will return to the school around 2:30. Students who are participating in the field trip are required to wear their SJA gym uniform. Students who are not participating are expected to wear their school day uniform with house tie. Aftercare invoices were sent out at the beginning of the month and are due by the 15th. 

With the NHL and NBA playoffs here, a few teacher are competing in a bracket competition. A few of my kiddos were watching me fill out the NBA bracket with the help of Mark this morning and they asked if they could complete some brackets as well....so that's what we did! House points will be awarded to the winners!

Filling out our brackets!

Wine and Cheese Social Event - SJA will be holding a wine and cheese for all parents to attend on Friday, April 26th from 6-8 PM. This will be a great time to socialize and hear about the direction SJA will be heading.

Important dates/items:

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

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 began an art activity using pastels.

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 coming soon.

Our final unit of the year will be about coding. All students will be required to have a working laptop, not device, for this unit. They will be expected to bring it to school each and every day. Students will also be expected have their own email account. A Gmail account is preferred, as we can easily share our projects. Our coding unit begin on Monday, April 29th.

HOMEWORK

-Finish the drawing of your art - do not colour

Finding pictures to draw!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we wrote our math test. I will mark as soon as I can and send home for you to review.

Our next unit will be transformation geometry, which will begin with a pre-assessment on Monday, April 15^th.

Points to remember:

HOMEWORK

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Inquiry into Language

Today we continued our third role of our Hatchet literature circle and continued to work on our art.

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

-Finish third role for Hatchet

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar