Good afternoon everyone!

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

On Saturday, I enjoyed a day of riding roller coasters with Carter at Canada’s Wonderland and Mark enjoyed riding the midway rides with Kase at the Georgetown Fall Fair.

The following items are due by Friday, September 13^th. Thank you to those who have already returned the forms.

-       Sign up for Bloomz – please use instructions that were sent home

-       Sign the last page of the Family Handbook – it was emailed out yesterday

-       September hot lunch payments are due – please pay on time to avoid interest

-       Welcome Back BBQ forms and money

-       Scholastic order forms

Our Terry Fox Run will also be taking place Friday, September 13^th. Students are encouraged to come to school in their SJA gym uniform. Don’t forget about those pledges!! I will be accepting pledges all week long!!

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.

Homework:

-       Sign and return the last page of the Family Handbook by Friday, September 13^th

-       Register for Bloomz

-       Welcome Back BBQ forms and cash

-       Terry Fox pledges

-       Scholastic orders

Important dates/items:

Friday, September 13 - Terry Fox Run

Thursday, September 19 - Welcome BBQ

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

Wednesday, September 25 - Casual Day

Monday, September 30 - Orange Shirt Day

Unit of Inquiry

Today was our first day exploring matter. We discussed our learning goals and success criteria. We wrote out questions regarding matter and the K and W of our KWL chart (What we know, what we want to know, and what we learned). We also watched a video and took jot notes.

Homework

-      - Find out how many states of matter there are and list them

Filling out our KWL chart and writing down our questions!

Taking jot notes!

Look at those questions!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we wrote our pre-assessment for our whole numbers unit. Tomorrow we will learn about how to read and write numbers up to a greater to 1,000,000.

Points to Remember

Homework

Working on our pre-assessments!

Inquiry into Language

Today we completed our first spelling lesson – words with the sound of k, kw, and n. We wrote the words in our agendas and completed the corresponding activities. Students also completed the their DRAs.

Homework

-      - Finish spelling lesson #1 – due tomorrow

Using the dictionary at the back to help find definitions!

Our first Grade 5 spelling lesson!!

Have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar