Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend. We made the trek up to North Bay. It rained the whole way up until Saturday afternoon and then the sun came out and it was gorgeous.

Family bowling on a rainy Good Friday!

My heart!

A little friendly mother-in-law vs son-in-law croquette game!

Lucky boys!

Great job this morning by the deforestation Exhibition group for their presentation and house game!

Look at our new water fountain...this was purchased with our Spring Fundraising funds!

Tomorrow is a Day 4 (music and library). Tomorrow is also bake sale and casual day – for students not participating, please wear full school day summer uniform. We had an excellent trip to boulder some walls today! My kiddos took each climb on as if they had done it before. It was amazing to watch.

Safety tips first!

Climbing over the wall!

Look at them go!

If you complete a bouldering route, you get to name it....and we did...Grade 5 Rock Stars SJA!!

Such a great morning! 

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!

Don't forget to return your library books!

Important dates/items:

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. Students should be ready to begin recording their podcast on Tuesday. Rough copy and script ready for Tuesday as well.

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 were rock climbing. We will pick up rotations tomorrow.

Points to remember:

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.

Reflections- flip. After reflections, a figure and its image are congruent and can face opposite ways. Remember any point and its reflection image are the same distance form the mirror line. Remember to label each new image and use prime (') on the new points.

Rotations - turns. After a rotation, a figure and its image are congruent and may face different ways. If a figure turns 360 degrees (a full turn), we will not use the prime (‘) symbol as with the full turn it is back to the original figure.

HOMEWORK

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Inquiry into Language

Today we read chapters 13, 14 and 15 of Hatchet and began our spelling lesson #28 on suffixes hood, ship, ment, able, ful, and ible.

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 Hatchet chapters 

-Finish spelling lesson #28

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar