Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful day. Tomorrow is a Day 5 and music. Please do not forget your instrument at home!

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 – permission forms to come soon! Please complete all forms and send in cash only no later by tomorrow, Wednesday, September 18^th. So far our class has raised $134!! Let's keep this going Grade 5!!

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 and are due back no later than Wednesday, September 25^th. There is no cost to this activity.

Polar Expressions is back again this year and they are looking for students to have the chance to publish poems and short stories in an upcoming book. Information sheets have been sent. Students who are interested in this competition can do so on their own time, as class time will not be given. The deadline for poems is November 29^th and the deadline for short stories is December 6^th.

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 learned how to find the volume of irregular objects and how to find density. Since irregular objects do not have all equal sides and angles, we cannot use our volume equation (l x w x h). So, we need to use the water displacement test. The water displacement test is when you measure the water, then add your object and measure the water again. For example: adding a toy car to a beaker of water; without car=100mL of water, water with car =225mL. Then we subtract the volume with the irregular object from the water without the irregular object. For example, 225-100=125mL. We also learned how to convert 125 cubic mL to cubic cm = 0.125 cubic cm. To find density we divide mass by volume (d = m/v). We then began a matter cheat sheet.

Homework

Finish matter cheat sheet

Finding the volume using our given formula L x W x H!

100 mL of water is what we started with!

Thank you to my lovely volunteers!

Working together on their cheat sheets!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we studied different strategies for using mental math. We reviewed strategies for addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Please see strategies in picture below.

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. 

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.

Homework

MMS pg 22-23

Inquiry into Language

Today we reviewed what happened in PJ chapter 4. Then students began working on the chapter 4 questions.   

Percy Jackson - Please remember that comprehension questions are to be in full sentences that begin with a capital letter and ending 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. I have conferenced with each student as to my expectations moving forward.

French Spelling Words – Test on Friday, September 20^th

dix, quatorze, onze, cinquante, vingt et un, huit, neuf, trente, quarante, cinquante

Homework

Finish chapter 4 questions

Have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar