Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful night. Tomorrow is a Day 2 (music and tech). Silent Dance is taking place tomorrow for those students who are participating…they may wear casual clothes. We will be spending quite a bit of time over the next few weeks perfecting our Wizard of Oz Arts’ Night performance, so our alignment with the other Grade 5 classes may be off. We are trying our hardest to ensure our students are not missing important lessons!

The Grade 6 Exhibition is fast approaching. Ms. Jaskoka’s and Mrs. Haag’s Grade 6 classes have been working very hard on their Exhibition projects for the past few weeks. On Friday, May 3^rd, 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 3^rd 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.

A note from one of Mrs. Haag’s Exhibition groups - Dear St. Jude's families 

We are two grade six students doing an assignment in which we have to take action to make the world a happier and better place to live in. We ask you to please sign the online petition to support us in banning violent video games for children under the age of 18-years-old. Thank you for your time.

Ban Violent Video Games Petition

From: Ethan & Amron 

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 presented our UOI summatives, our podcasts. Due to the length of some of the podcasts and rehearsals, we will be continuing them tomorrow.  

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. We will do our best to begin the coding unit tomorrow.

HOMEWORK

-Those who have not presented, will present tomorrow

-If you can, please email me your video and script

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we learned about congruent and similar figures. Congruent figures are the same shape and size. They have the same angles and the same side lengths. Please see picture below for how we say and write it. Similar figures have corresponding angels equal and the side lengths of one figure multiplied by the same number are equal to the corresponding side lengths of the other figure. Please see picture below for how we say it and how we write it.

Points to remember:

Transformations

Don’t forget to include brackets around your coordinates (3, 5), the comma between the x and y coordinates (3, 4), and the apostrophe for the prime coordinates A’. Be sure to correctly plot your coordinates and lastly, ensure the image is the correct number of spaces away from the axis as the figure is when doing certain transformations.

Axis – the horizontal axis is represented by X and is the first number in the coordinates (3, 5) and the vertical axis is represented by the Y and is the second number in the coordinates (3, 5).

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.

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).

For any transformation, we have our original coordinates (x, y). For a 90 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 clockwise turn is (5, -3). For an 180 degree clockwise rotation, the formula/rule to follow is (-x, -y) – the same as an 180 degree counter clockwise turn. For example, if our original coordinates are (3, 5) then our new prime coordinate for our 180 degree clockwise turn is (-3, -5). For a 270 degree 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 clockwise turn is (-5, 3).

90 degrees is a ¼ turn, 180 degrees is a ½ turn and 270 degrees is a ¾ turn. Clockwise follows a clock (12, 1, 2, 3, etc.) and counter clockwise goes backwards (12, 11, 10, 9, etc.).

HOMEWORK

-Finish MMS pages 100-103

Inquiry into Language

Today we completed spelling lesson #29 and shared our final Hatchet role. We also began to read the remaining chapters of Hatchet. More information to come in the upcoming days regarding the culminating project.

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 Monday, April 29^th

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

HOMEWORK

-Finish reading Hatchet

-Sign and return spelling test #28 – wrong words written out 5 X

-Finish spelling lesson #29

Sharing our final Hatchet role!

"If I only had a heart..."

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar