Good
afternoon everyone,
I hope you had a wonderful night.
Tomorrow is a Day 5 (gym – be ready to board the bus in your gym uniform with
gym shoes for 9:00 AM). Summer uniforms please!
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!
The Grade 6 Exhibition
is
fast approaching. Ms. Jaskoka and Mrs. Haag’s Grade 6 classes have been
working very hard on their Exhibition projects for the past few weeks. On
Friday, May 3rd, each Exhibition group will have a chance to present
their project and show off all of their hard work. Some of the topics covered
this year are homelessness, deforestation, stress, elder abuse and climate
change. We will have the opportunity to view the projects on May 3rd
from 12:00-2:00 PM. There will also be an evening viewing for all to attend.
The showing will run from 6:00-8:00 PM. This is a great opportunity to see what
most of the Grade 5s will be doing next year, when it is their turn to complete
The Grade 6 Exhibition. Please see flyer below for more information.
Don't forget to return your library books!
Thanks to the climate change Exhibition group for coming to talk to us about global warming and playing their game with us!!
Important dates/items:
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. Students will have tomorrow to finish their podcast…if it is not
complete it will be homework. The podcast is due on Friday, April 26th.
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 26th
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today
we took our time to review some transformation work. We watched a video on
reflections and rotations. You can find the links to the videos below. Thank
you to Ronit and his dad for sharing the video on reflections.
For
rotations we found, what I hope will be, an easier method for rotating shapes.
Thank you to those parents who shared these formulas/rules, if you will, for
rotations. For any transformation, we have our original coordinates (x, y). For a 90 degree counter clockwise rotation,
the formula/rule to follow is (-y, x). For example, if our original coordinates
are (3, 5) then our new prime coordinate for our 90 degree counter clockwise
turn is (-5, 3). For an 180 degree
counter clockwise rotation, the formula/rule to follow is (-x, -y). For
example, if our original coordinates are (3, 5) then our new prime coordinate
for our 180 degree counter clockwise turn is (-3, -5). For a 270 degree counter clockwise rotation, the formula/rule to
follow is (y, -x). For example, if our original coordinates are (3, 5) then our
new prime coordinate for our 270 degree counter clockwise turn is (5, -3). We will continue this tomorrow, when we will learn the rules/formulas for clockwise rotations. We
also rehearsed for our Wizard of Oz performance.
Rotation
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5trp4U4rmLM
Reflection
video
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
-
Applying our counter clockwise rules!
Rehearsing for Arts' Night!
Inquiry into Language
Today
we used our language period for our UOI summative. We will pick up Hatchet
tomorrow.
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 29th
Chapters 4-6 due Friday, April 5th
Chapters 7-9 due Friday, April 12th
Chapters 10-12 due Wednesday, April 17th
Chapters 13-15 due Friday, April 26th
Chapters 16-19 will be a culminating
activity with due date to be announced.
HOMEWORK
-
Have
a wonderful night!
Love
Mrs. Hocevar
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