Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. We had a great weekend. The boys began another season of ball hockey and we went to our first Blue Jays game!! Tomorrow is a Day 6 (music and reading buddies). 

Go Avalanche Go!

Go Red Wings Go!

Pardon the pouting faces on my boys!

Let's go Blue Jays!

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. Please RSVP to Ms. Hughes-Smith at bsmith@stjudesacademy.com!

Oakwood is holding their second Silent Dance on Wednesday, April 30th. A silent dance is a dance in which students are given individual headphones where they can listen to various types of music while controlling the volume. It is an excellent way to foster inclusion. It provides a sensory friendly environment for all students. The cost to attend the silent dance is $20 and includes a slice of pizza. All money raised will go towards new resources for our friends at Oakwood to support their developmental, social and emotional growth. Forms were sent home today and are due back by Tuesday, April 23rd. 

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 and began our UOI summative. 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. The podcast is due on Friday, April 26^th. **Please be sure to send devices to school each day for this summative.**

Some links to podcast examples:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/but-why-a-podcast-for-curious-kids/id1103320303?mt=2

http://www.bookclubforkids.org

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

-UOI summative due Friday, April 26^th

Finishing up our art!

EEEKKK!! They turned out so good!

Thank you to Munira who wrote this poem!

You keep on saluting for no more polluting, though cows keep on tooting and you are still shooting. Those poor birds are dying and icebergs are frying and I’m really not lying when I 

say you're not even trying. So I am not buying your act of defying, cause lives are at stake. 

Just give me a brake, for all of our sakes ! Oh look at that lake (or what used to be a lake).

But global warming took place, and now we have to face that dry empty space. It’s nothing but land, nothing but sand, so hot and so tanned. It needs to be fanned, so let’s stand hand in hand with our feet in the sand and safe guard this land. For all that it’s worth please help save this earth!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we wrote the pre-assessment for our transformational geometry unit. This unit will take us into May with the unit test taking place sometime around May 8^th.

I am still marking the math tests so bare with me for a few more days!

Points to remember:

HOMEWORK

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Working hard on our pre-assessment!

Inquiry into Language

Today we read Hatchet chapters 10, 11 and 12. 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

-Finish reading chapters 10, 11 and 12

Some independent reading!

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar