Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Tomorrow is a Day 4 and gym. Please ensure students are dressed in their gym uniform ready to board the bus with proper gym shoes at 9:00 AM.  Students will change into their school day uniform after gym.

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

October Lunches

Site is now open and will close 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. 

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.

Our Fall Fundraiser is quickly approaching! What used to be our Spring Fundraiser is now our Fall Fundraiser and we need your help. This year, all funds raised will go towards our Art Productions, physical activity equipment and more Chromebooks. There will be a variety of exciting events and amazing prizes for students to win through their participation. These include sitting in the teacher chair for a day and decorating Mr. Oliver’s face with makeup!! The class who brings in the most money will win a pizza and movie party. For students in Grade 3-6 who bring in a minimum of $40 on top of the daily activities will attend a trip to Glow Zone and those students in JK-Grade 2 will attend a trip to Kidsport. Please complete all forms and send in cash only no later than this Wednesday, September 18^th.

Daily Activities – Each activity costs $2.00!!

Monday, September 23^rd is PJ Day.

Tuesday, September 24^th is Popcorn Day.

Wednesday, September 25^th is Ice Cream Sandwich Day.

Thursday, September 26^th is Wacky Thursday.

Friday, September 27^th is Casual Day and Dance Party (JK-Grade 2) and Electronics Day and Casual Day (Grade 3-6).

Tuesday, October 1^st, is our first extracurricular activity of the year. We will be heading to The Old Pro Driving Range. We will be leaving at 9:30 AM and we will return by 12:00 PM to have lunch. Students will be required to wear their SJA gym uniform, outdoor shoes, and must dress according to the weather, as this will be an outdoor activity. Permission forms were sent home today and are due back no later than Wednesday, September 25^th. There is no cost to this activity.

Important dates/items:

Wednesday, September 18 – Fall Fundraiser forms and cash due

Thursday, September 19 - Welcome BBQ (4-5:30 PM)

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

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

Monday, September 30 - Orange Shirt Day

Unit of Inquiry

Today we further explored mass and volume. We had a mystery box and learned how to find the mass and volume of the box. We started with a box with unknown items inside. We used our observation skills and five senses to guess what was in the box. Then we weighed the box and it’s contents and used the formula, L x W x H to find the volume of the box. Next, we emptied the box and found that the contents of the box were a spelling book, glue stick, clipboard, markers and crayons. Again, we found the mass of the empty box and the volume. In the end we realized that the mass of the box will change, but the volume won’t!

Homework

All set for another hands on activity!

Shake, shake that box!

Writing down the mass of the box and finding the volume!

What was in our mystery box!

The mass of the box with its contents....

And the mass of the empty box!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we explored prime and composite numbers. A prime number has only two factors, 1 and itself. For example, 5. A composite number has more than 2 factors. For example, 12. What is a factor you ask? Factors are the number in a multiplication sentence that you multiply together to get the product (the answer). For example the factors in 2 x 3 = 6 are 2 and 3.

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

Multiples can be found by starting at the number and counting on by that number. For example, multiples of 4 are 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, etc. Multiples of 6 are 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, etc.

A common multiple is a number that is a multiple of each of two or more given numbers. For example, common multiples of 4 and 6 are 12, 24, and 36 as those numbers appear in the multiples list (4 and 6). Each common multiple of 4 and 6 is divisible by 4 and 6. 

Homework

MMS pg 20-21

Inquiry into Language

Today we read with our reading buddies and began spelling lesson #2 – words with hard and soft c and g.  

Percy Jackson - Please remember that comprehension questions are to be in full sentences that begin with a capital letter and end with either a period, exclamation point, or question mark. Please use the book to help with spelling and to be sure to answer each question completely, with support from the book. All students know what the expectations are!

Homework

Finish spelling lesson #2

Have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar