Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful day. Monday is a Day 5 (gym – please be dressed in gym clothes ready to board the bus at 9:00 with gym shoes). We had so much fun at Scooters roller skating…such risk-takers we have!

Such a good time!

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:

Thursday, April 18 – SITS workshop & Easter Spirit Day

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 continued working on our art activity using pastels.

Biodiversity is another short unit. We will be beginning our summative on Monday. Please review and sign the package that was sent home today. It will be due on April 26th. For this summative students will research a species of their choice and create a podcast to inform the rest of us about the species they chose. It may be an audio or video podcast.

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

-Sign and return UOI summative package

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we went roller skating.

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 wrote our spelling test and shared our third role for Hatchet. Please note that next weeks Hatchet role will be due on Wednesday and not Thursday as we had originally planed.

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 Wednesday, April 17^th

Chapters 13-15 due Friday, April 26^th

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

HOMEWORK

-Complete spelling lesson #27 – words in agenda and complete corresponding activities

-Sign and return spelling test #26

Working on our art before roller skating!

Thanks to R for sharing with us the 10 deadliest fungi!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Love Mrs. Hocevar