Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful night. Tomorrow is a Day 1 (gym). This week is a shortened week due to Easter Weekend – no school on Friday, April 18^th and Monday, April 22^nd. This Thursday is our SITS workshop and Easter Spirit Day – students may wear Easter colours or Easter clothing. For those not participating, please wear your full school day uniform. Please note the activities that are taking place next week (summer uniform begins on Tuesday). Tuesday is Earth Day Spirit Day and bake sale – we will be rock climbing that day, so please send students to school in their gym uniform. Wednesday is bake sale and casual day – for students not participating, please wear full school day summer uniform.

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. Please note this is a parents only event!

Oakwood is holding their second Silent Dance on Wednesday, April 30^th. 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 have been sent home and are due back by Tuesday, April 23^rd. 

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

Friday, May 3 – Grade 6 Exhibition

Tuesday, May 7 – JK-Grade 2 Arts’ Night

Thursday, May 9 – MYP Shakespeare Play

Tuesday, May 14 – Grade 3-8 Arts’ Night

Friday, May 17-Monday, May 20 – No School – Victoria Day Weekend

Thursday, May 23 – SJA Track and Field Meet

Monday, May 27 – Inner-School Spelling Bee at Sunnybrook

Wednesday, May 29 – Casual Day

Friday, May 31 –SJA vs TMA Track and Field Competition

Friday, June 14 – Last Day of School and Promotion Ceremony

Unit of Inquiry

Today we continued working on 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.

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

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we began learning about our first of three transformations – translations (slide). After a translation, a figure and its image are congruent (same shape and same size) and they face the same way. We say 'A prime' and write A’ when referring to the points on the new image.

Points to remember:

HOMEWORK

-Sign and return math test

-Math sheets – circled questions only

My helpers today!

Inquiry into Language

Today we began our fourth Hatchet role for chapters 10, 11 and 12. Please note that next weeks Hatchet role will be due tomorrow and not Thursday as we had originally planed. We also visited our reading buddies, who shared with us their summative projects - different modes of transportation.

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 Hatchet role

Great job JKs!

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar