Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful day. Tuesday 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. After care invoices have been sent out. All after care payments are due October 15^th. Please avoid interest and pay by this date! Casual Day forms have been sent home. If you would like your child to participate, please complete the form and send in the $20 cash to me no later than October 25^th.

Winter uniforms begin on Tuesday, October 15^th, after our Thanksgiving weekend. All students in Grade 4-6 will need to have all pieces of the winter uniform with them everyday. The winter uniform consists of SJA gray pants/skirt, navy blue socks and black dress shoes (which they already have), a white button up long sleeve crested SJA shirt, a navy blue SJA crested sweater/sweater vest, an academic and house colour tie (to be worn every Friday) and an SJA crested blazer. Please be sure to label all pieces! Blazers must be worn during transitions and around the school, but can be taken off while in class and during lunch. A reminder that all SJA uniform pieces must be purchase through Ms. Alpa and Multiform Canada. Ms. Alpa can be reached at alpa@multiformcanada.com.

Please note that the uniform store will be closed from October 15^th to October 24^th. If you need to purchase any uniforms please make sure all orders are placed by October 10th 2019 by email: alpa@multiformcanada.com or online www.multiformcanada.com.

Scholastic flyers have been sent home. All orders are due no later than Tuesday, October 15^th. Please note no cash will be accepted. For those new to SJA, scholastic orders are placed as a school so that we can purchase the resources needed, so everyone benefits. Parents can search:

Postal Code - L5N 2M6

School - St. Jude's Academy

Teacher Name - Dawn Goulart

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 home. 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! The first contest is Wednesday, October 16^th.

** If anyone is having difficulty registering your try this; click 'Online Shop', explore what is on offer, answer the questions and make a purchase. Parents need to know
- the name of school (St. Jude’s Academy)

-the name of the contact person is who arranges the contest at their school and will have access to the students results (Marijana Haag)
- whether the contact already handed out access codes or not and if yes, then what this access code is (so that this existing access code can be used as password to the purchased content. If no access code has been issued yet this school year then one will be generated in the purchase). – we can discuss this part today at our meeting.

For some more detailed instructions, please consult Caribou’s FAQ, on this page (https://cariboutests.com/faq2Copy.php?node=463**

Important dates/items:

Friday, October 11 - SITS permission forms and payments due (cash or Quickbooks only)

Friday, October 11 and Monday, October 14 – No School – Thanksgiving Weekend

Tuesday, October 15 – After care payments due & winter uniforms begin

Thursday, October 17 – International Day (2:30-3:15)

Monday, October 21 – French trip permission forms and payments due

Tuesday, October 22 - SITS Workshop on Matter

Tuesday, October 29 – Picture Day

Wednesday, October 30 – Casual Day

Thursday, October 31 – Halloween/Harvest Spirit Day

Tuesday, November 5 – Guy Fawkes Day

Friday, November 8-Monday, November 11 – No School – Remembrance Day

Wednesday, November 13 – Kindness Day

Friday, November 15 – SJA’s annual Science Fair

Wednesday, November 20 – Picture Retakes

Wednesday, November 27 – Casual Day – please ensure you have paid the $20 cash for casual day

Friday, November 29 – Term 1 Report Cards Go Home

Unit of Inquiry

Today we continued working on our science fair project. Today we focused on our materials and procedure. I continued to review all aspects of the rough copy for most today.

Information regarding the summative was sent home over the weekend. For this summative, students will be completing their science fair project. Students must pick an experiment that has to do with matter. Next week, we will be working our way through the Scientific Method and rough copies of our questions, hypothesis, variables, and research. Over Thanksgiving weekend, students will be required to conduct their experiment three separate times, record all observations, and write down the results. The week of October 15-18^th, students will complete their good copies, create their graph, and begin board set up. The summative will be due Friday, October 18^th, with presentations taking place this day. Our school wide science fair is happening on Friday, November 15^th. Don’t forget to take some pictures of you completing your experiment.

Permission forms for our Scientists in the School workshop on Tuesday, October 22^nd have been sent home – please note new date. All forms and payments (either cash or Quickbooks – no cheques please) are due by Friday, October 11^th – no exceptions. Please note that reimbursements will not be given for students who are absent the day of the workshop. If you would like to volunteer, please note that you must have a vulnerable sector screen on file with the school. If you already have one, please ensure that you sign the annual offence declaration.

Homework

Complete your experiment 3 times this weekend – take pictures

Record all observations

Write your results

Be ready to start good copies and board set up on Tuesday

Summative due Friday, October 18th

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we began our review. We will be taking it up on Tuesday in preparation for our test on Wednesday. Our next unit will be measurement and will deal with time, money, volume, capacity, and surface area.  

Our test for Number Patterns will take place on Wednesday, October 16^th. Please use the review to study.

Points to Remember

Divisibility Rules:

A whole number is divisible by:

2 if the number is even

3 if the sum of the digits is divisible by 3

4 if the number represented by the tens and ones digits is divisible by 4

5 if the ones digits is 0 or 5

6 if the number is divisible by 2 and by 3

8 if the number represented by the hundreds, tens, and ones digits is divisible by 8

9 is the sum of the digits is divisible by 9

10 if the ones digits is a 0

Solving equations by using guess or check or inverse operations. For example 74 + A = 216 -> I can move all of the numbers so they are on the same side -> A = 216 – 74 -> please remember that when you bring a number on the other side of the = sign that you must change the operation (+ changed to -). Therefore A = 142, which makes our equation true -> 74 + 142 = 216.

Numbers such as 25 and -10 are integers. Integers can be represented on a number line, which can be vertical or horizontal. We use integers to represent quantities that have both size and direction. For example, I earned $45 for cutting the grass would be represented as +$45 or $45. I took 5 steps backwards would be represented as -5. Please note that if the integer is written with no sign, the integer is positive. You always need to include the – sign with integers.

Homework

Complete math review for Tuesday

Math test on Wednesday, October 16^th

Inquiry into Language

Today we continued to working on our Portugal project. By the end of this week, students should have completed their research and rough work. Next week will be working on good copies and decorating our board. We also visited our reading buddies and wrote our spelling lesson #5 test.

Please visit this page to reference back to when making citations:

https://sjalibrary.wordpress.com/write-it-cite-it/

  

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.

Our annual International Day is quickly approaching and will take place on Thursday, October 17^th. Parents will be able to view our fantastic projects on October 17^th from 2:30 – 3:15 PM. This year the country we will be learning about is Portugal. Beginning Tuesday, and for the following few weeks, we will be busy researching and putting together a fabulous presentation on our country. Students will need devices and books from a local library to complete their research. Please see the following groups and topics for this project.

Clothing/Art/Dance – Jacob and Anthony

Food – Sachi, Max, and Maya

Holidays/Traditions – Amber and Kareena

Sport/Toys/Games – Jai, Aidan, Joshua

Imports/Exports – Andreas, Zak, Bosco

Laws/Policies – Jordan and Zain

Culture/Language/Landscape – Sanjana, Hayden, Alyssa

French – Mme. Sarah

This week we are continuing solids, liquids, and gases. We have used the ingredients in making a pizza to emphasize the three states of matter. Yesterday we did the ingredients in a pizza and today we did the partitive form, which were placed before the correct foods and liquids. Students began to use j'ai besoin de with foods on their worksheets and will complete for homework.

The Grade 5s will be attending a French theatrical presentation ‘Les Insectes Sur Scene’ on Tuesday, March 31^st from 9:30 to 11:30 AM. The cost of this trip is $19. Tickets need to be ordered in advance, so please ensure the permission form and payments (cash or Quickbooks) are due back by Monday, October 21^st.

Homework

Be ready to begin good copies for I.D.

French trip permission forms and payments due Monday, October 21st

Sign and return spelling test #5 - write out wrong words 5 x

Have a wonderful long weekend! Happy Thanksgiving!

Mrs. Hocevar