Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful day! Tomorrow is a Day 3 (gym – casual day it tomorrow so no gym clothes needed). Bake sale is continuing tomorrow.

Well-done Grade 6 spellers!

Congrats to this guy for placing third at the Inner-School Spelling Bee Competition!

Way to go SJA. We are so proud you brought the Spelling Bee Cup home to SJA!

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 began another project – creating a maze! Students will have tomorrow to work on their mazes as well!

The coding UOI summative packages have been sent home. This is our final summative of the year. Students have been hired by a successful video game corporation to create a game using Scratch. Students can either create a new game, or make a remake of a classic video game – students must state if they are doing this and give credit to the original creator. Students will need to begin by brainstorming ideas by sketching and describing sprites, setting a background, have a game purpose and create an original title if necessary. Students will also be required to hand write a minimum of a one page (front and back, double spaced) report on their game. They will need to address the objective of their game, the characters, the instructions on how to play their game, debugging (explaining what code provided the most challenge and why), document the progress and process, and lastly reflect on the game (did people enjoy it, how do they feel about it, etc.). Students will also need to create an advertisement. Students should refer to the outline and rubric throughout to ensure they are meeting all of the requirements. The summative is due Monday, June 10^th. All work must be completed in class!

HOMEWORK

-Sign and return coding summative package

-Summative due Monday, June 10^th

Some of the timelines from our coding assignment!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we learned about relating distance, average speed and time. We will continue learning about this tomorrow. Students worked in pairs to record how fast they could walk a certain distance (5 M, 10 M, 15 M and 20M) in seconds. Then each student created a graph to relate distance to speed.

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.

Euler’s Formula and other patterns for prisms - 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.

HOMEWORK

-Final math test is on Monday, June 3^rd

Lets get walking!

Inquiry into Language

Today we wrote our OWA post-assessment. We wrote a newspaper article about an upcoming talent show at SJA. Results will be sent home with reports card on the last day of school!

HOMEWORK

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Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar