Good afternoon everyone,
I hope you all had a
wonderful long weekend. We made the trek up to North Bay to see our families.
The leaves were in full colour change and it was absolutely gorgeous!
His birthday continues...
One final train and carousel ride for the year!
Thanksgiving dinner fun!
Tomorrow is a Day 5 and music.
Please do not forget your instrument at home! After care
payments and Scholastic orders were due today. The French play permission forms and payments are due Monday, October
21st. 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 25th.
Thank
you to those families who have offered to donate some food for our
International Day Festivities. So far, we have Portuguese tarts, and other
items from a Portuguese bakery. Once again, please send me a quick
email/message if you can donate any nut free food related items or drinks.
Winter uniforms are officially in affect. 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 15th
to October 24th. 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.
Caribou Math Contest - The first Caribou
contest will be written tomorrow, Wednesday, October 16th at
7:30 am in Room 39. Students must arrive 15 minutes prior to the start of
the test. They will need their own laptops. They are allowed 60 minutes to
complete the test. No calculators are allowed.
Important dates/items:
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 and Polar Expressions Poems due
Friday, December 6
– Polar Expressions Short Stories due
Unit of Inquiry
Today
we began putting together our good copies of our 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 15-18th,
students will complete their good copies, create their graph, and begin board
set up. The summative will be due Friday, October 18th, with
presentations taking place this day. Our school wide science fair is happening
on Friday, November 15th. Don’t forget to take some pictures of you
completing your experiment.
Our Scientists in the School
workshop is on Tuesday, October 22nd.
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
Be ready to start good copies and board set up
Summative due Friday, October 18th
Working on good copies for our science fair summative!
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today
we took up the review. Please use this to study for the test tomorrow. Our next
unit will be measurement and will deal with time, money,
surface area, volume, and capacity.
Points to Remember
Homework
Math
test tomorrow
Inquiry into Language
Today
we continued working on our Portugal project.
Please visit this page to reference back
to when making citations:
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.
Our
annual International Day is quickly
approaching and will take place on Thursday, October 17th. Parents
will be able to view our fantastic projects on October 17th 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
31st 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 21st.
Homework
Spelling lesson #6 due Friday
PJ chapters 11-12 due Friday
French
trip permission forms and payments due Monday, October 21st
International Day work!
Have a
wonderful night!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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