Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful weekend! We spent the weekend at Rocky Crest Resort. We swam, explored, and relaxed in the hot tub. Kase was the only one brave enough to spend some time in the lake! Our niece Peyton, was able to join us, which meant that Mark, my parents and I were able to enjoy a peaceful dinner!! Tomorrow is a Day 2 (music). Congratulations to all of the students who participated in the Inner-School Spelling Bee at The Maples Academy today! Great job SJA on bringing the trophy home! Bake sale is taking place tomorrow and Wednesday and causal day is Wednesday. 

Library books are due back by Friday, May 31 – notices have been sent home).

Our final physical education trip will be taking place on Tuesday, June 11^th. We will be making our way to the YMCA Cedar Glen Outdoor Education Centre in Schomberg. We will be leaving by bus at 8:30 AM and returning around 3:15 PM. Please do not order hot lunch for this day as we will be provided lunch there.

Our SJA Parent Guild is hosting an SJA Year-End Play Day on Wednesday, June 12^th from 10:00-2:00. The cost for the play day is $20 ($15/sibling) and includes bouncy castles, obstacle course, face painting, Henna body art, photo booth, games, and clowns! For an extra $5, the following food choices will be available: 2 slices of cheese pizza, 2 hot dogs or 2 veggies samosas. Each option comes with chips and water. All proceeds raised will go towards our ongoing fundraising efforts.

Important dates/items:

Wednesday, May 29 – Casual Day

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

Tuesday, June 11 – YMCA Cedar Glen Outdoor Education Trip

Wednesday, June 12 – Year-End Play Day

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

Unit of Inquiry

Today we finished our fifth project, this time with a partner. Each pair will be creating a two-player racing game. Each pair will need at least two sprites to race, as well as create a track and be able to change costumes. Students will need to create their own code, as some of the codes will not be readily available on Scratch.

Pair Programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=142&v=vgkahOzFH2Q

Creating Sprites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLvrGx2UE_sKRZszCrRHEs8IzPgrFoxgfz&v=xpaAHaiERIg

Racing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1221&v=J6WnoJSQ3iQ

HOMEWORK

-Send me your racing link by 8:00 PM tonight

Finishing up their racing games!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we learned about patterns in geometry, more specifically Euler’s Formula. We began by allowing the students to try and think of this formula by looking at given chart of prisms that outlined the number of faces, vertices and edges. After while we figured out the formula together, which is the number of faces + the number of vertices – 2 = the number of edges (F + V – 2 = E). For example, a triangular prism has 5 faces and 6 vertices. Therefore, 5 + 6 – 2 = 11 – 2 = 9, so a triangular prism has 9 edges. Some other patterns for prisms are:

1) The number of faces of a prism is 2 more than the number of sides on the base – A hexagon has 6 sides, therefore 6 + 2 = 8, so 8 faces.

2) The number of vertices on a prism is double the number of sides on the base – a triangle has 3 sides, therefore 3 x 2 = 6 vertices.

3) The number of edges of a prism is triple the number of sides on the base – a pentagon has 5 sides, therefore 5 x 3 = 15 edges.

Points to remember:

Representing patterns - we learned three ways to do this: create a table, write a pattern rule (Start at 2. Add 2 each time) or graph it. We see ordered pairs again in this unit – (1, 2) where the first coordinate is the frame number and the second coordinate is the number of tiles in a frame.

Input/Output machines - The coordinates on a graph of a growing pattern represent the Input/Output numbers in the table. Remember that an Input/Output looks like this - Input -> x3 -> -4 Output ->. Therefore, 2 x 3 - 4 = 2, 3 x 3 - 4 = 5, 4 x 3 - 4 = 8, etc. We can use a chart to help.

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg. 152-153

Trying to figure out the formula!

Inquiry into Language

Today we began spelling lesson 33 – plurals of words ending in Y and plurals. We wrote the spelling words in our agenda and completed the corresponding activities.

HOMEWORK

-Finish spelling lesson # 33

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar