Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful day. Tomorrow is a Day 2 and our Terry Fox Run, therefore our actually gym class is cancelled since we will be running later in the day. Don’t forget about those pledges!! We are encouraging all students to bring in a ‘Toonie for Terry’ and are asking that students come to school dressed in their SJA gym pants/shorts along with their house coloured gym shirt. If students do not own a house t-shirt, they may wear their regular gym shirt. 

Watching a video of Terry Fox!

Singing Terry Fox in French!

Your Welcome Back BBQ order forms and money are due tomorrow, as well as Scholastic Orders, Bloomz deadline, and the last page of the Family Handbook. September hot lunch payments are also due tomorrow.

Thursday, September 19^th is our SJA and Oakwood Welcome Back BBQ, which will take place from 4:00-5:30 PM out in our back recess area. Order forms have been sent home. Please return, along with cash, no later than Friday, September 13^th.

A note from Ms. Gandy regarding October lunches. Please ensure you order for your child under the correct grade and teacher.

October Lunches

Site opens tomorrow, September 13th at 7:30 AM 

Site closes Wednesday, September 25th at 3:00 PM 

Special of the month: 3 pancakes with vanilla cream with an option of syrup for $5.00 OR 1 pancake with vanilla cream with an option of syrup for $2.50 on Fridays. 

**All payments are to be made through quickbooks.**

 

Homework:

-       Sign and return the last page of the Family Handbook

-       Register for Bloomz

-       Welcome Back BBQ forms and cash

-       Terry Fox pledges

-       Scholastic orders

Important dates/items:

Friday, September 13 - October hot lunch sites opens at 7:30 AM & Terry Fox Run – wear gym pants/shorts, proper running shoes, and your house colour gym shirt – if you do not have a house coloured gym shirt, please wear your regular SJA gym shirt and bring a ‘Toonie for Terry’

Thursday, September 19 - Welcome BBQ

Friday, September 20-Friday, September 27 - Fall Fundraiser

Wednesday, September 25 - Casual Day & October hot lunch site closes at 3:00 PM

Monday, September 30 - Orange Shirt Day

Unit of Inquiry

Today we joined Ms. Cass’s Grade 5 class for our UOI period, where we conducted two experiments - one with vinegar, baking soda, and a balloon and another with a jar and whipping cream. Ask me what happened!! Then we came back to class and completed a fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

All set!

Ask me what happened when the baking soda went into the vinegar.

Experiment #2 - we made butter!! Ask me how!

Writing down our experiment, hypothesis, and observations!

Homework

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we compared and ordered numbers. Place value charts are a great tool to help us solve these problems.  We began with a quick lesson/review and then worked in partners to order a given set of numbers.

Points to Remember

Multiplication and division strategies - For example, for multiplication 100 x 10 = 1,000 (we multiply 1 x 1 to get 1 and then add 3 zeros – 2 in 100 and 1 in 10 = 1,000) and for division 1,000,000/100,000 = 10 (1/1 = 1 and then we took away 5 zeros from 100,000 and 5 zeros from 1,000,000 which left us with 10).

Standard form is 3,961. Expanded form would be 3,000 + 900 + 60 + 1 and number-word form would be 3 thousand, 961. We also realized that when using a place value chart, each group of three place values is called a period. With in each period the digits of a number are read as hundred, tens, and ones.

Place value chart:

Millions Period

Thousands Period

Units Period

H M	T M	M	H T	T T	T	H	T	O

H M – hundred million

T M – ten million

M – million

H T – hundred thousand

T T – ten thousand

T – thousand

H – hundreds

T – tens

O – ones

Homework

MMS pg 16-17

Working with our partner to arrange large numbers from greatest to least and putting them into a place value chart!

Inquiry into Language

Today we discussed our chapter 1 comprehension questions and began our chapter 2 questions. We also went over the expectations when completing these questions. I am looking for full sentences that begin with a capital letter and end with either a period, exclamation point, or question mark. I reminded them to use the book to help with spelling and to be sure to answer each question completely, with support from the book.

Homework

Complete PJ chapter 2 questions

Spelling test #1 tomorrow

Have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar