Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful day. Tomorrow is a Day 1 and music. Please do not forget your instrument at home! Looking forward to seeing some of you this evening at our Welcome Back BBQ from 4:00-5:30 PM.

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. 

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. Any outstanding daily activity funds will be accepted tomorrow. Permission forms for Glow Zone will be sent home tomorrow. For those families who have already paid the $40, all I will need is your signature!

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 a 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. Good luck everyone!

Caribou Math Contest is back at SJA. SJA students have a choice to participate in the Caribou Cup, which consists of 6 mathematical contests that are held throughout the year. Each contest is offered to students in Grades ½, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10, and 11/12. For students in Grade 1 and 2 the cost if free. For students in Grade 3 and 4 the cost is $9 and students in Grade 5 and up are $15. Students must commit to be at school by 7:15 AM with a personal laptop that is charged for each contest date. The contests will run one hour each time, from 7:30 AM to 8:30 PM. There will be a math club taking place on Wednesday mornings beginning at 8:00 AM in Room 39 for those wishing to practice. More information has been sent home. Please use the instructions at the bottom of the sheet to register your child. Good luck to those who participate!

Important dates/items:

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 created density columns! First, we had to find the density of all of our materials: corn syrup, rubbing alcohol, dawn dish soap, and water. To find the density we used our formula: d = m/v.  We found the materials at the bottom were the most dense and the materials at the top were less dense. In order from most to least dense is the corn syrup, dawn dish soap, water, then rubbing alcohol. See below our density columns!

Homework

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we added and subtracted large numbers, a rather straightforward lesson. Thanks to the Grade 5 class for teaching me a thing or two today! The big thing to remember is to ensure you are lining the numbers up correctly in the place value chart and that you are reading the questions correctly (add when is says + and subtract when it says -). Don’t forget to carry (addition) or re-group (subtraction)!

It is looking like the date of our first test will be Monday, September 30^th.

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.

PEDMAS (Order of Operations).

Parenthesis

Exponents

Division

Multiplication

Addition

Subtraction

When doing division and multiplication, and addition and subtraction, we always work form left to right so it does not matter what we do first!

Homework

MMS pg 26-27

Inquiry into Language

Today we went over the chapter 5 questions and wrote a summary of the important events and details that took place in chapters 1-5.  We also had some time on Typing Club!

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. All students have been made aware of my expectations. 

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

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

Homework

French and English spelling test tomorrow

Finish chapter 1-5 summary

Have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar