Friday, October 18, 2019

Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful day! Monday is a Day 2 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. The French play permission forms and payments are due Monday, October 21st. Casual Day forms are due by Friday, October 25. Please submit the form indicating if your child(ren) will or will not be participating.  Please note that Casual Day was not included in registration this year, so if you would like your child(ren) to participate, please submit the form and $20 cash payment.


Monday is the soccer tournament for many Grade 5 students. They have been assigned homework (spelling lesson #7 and MMS pg 82-83), which is due Tuesday. Students are to come dressed in their SJA school day uniform and bring with them their shin pads, indoor soccer shoes, water, a disposable lunch and money (if you feel like sending it). Students must arrive to the school for 7:15 AM, with hopes of being back at the school before 5:00 PM.

A note from Ms. Hayward - Yesterday (October 17) marked the first day of Secret Path Week.
Commemorating the legacies of Gord Downie (died Oct. 17, 2017)and Chanie Wenjack (died Oct. 23, 1966 - died after running away from residential school and attempting to walk home). Calling on Canadians to answer Downie’s call to action to “DO SOMETHING” to learn about Residential Schools, their impact on Canadian Indigenous people and communities and Canada as a whole, and to learn about and celebrate Indigenous Culture as an  important part of Canadian culture.


As you may notice, the Library Bulletin Board this week is all about ReconciliACTION.  It features challenges, mostly from the Indian Horse Next150 Challenges site.  Each challenge aims to promote learning about indigenous culture and indigenous rights.  I hope we can try different challenges on our own or as classes (photos, lists, etc. can be added to the bulletin board).

I'd like to challenge you to do a challenge with your class at some point in the year (and share with me so we can add it to the library boards/blogs).  Or share something else you've done to learn about indigenous culture.

This week I've completed the "Whose Land Challenge".  I want to challenge you/your class to do the same and have students present a proper acknowledgement at morning announcements.

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.

November Lunches

The lunch site is now open. It will close Wednesday, October 30th at 3:00pm. 

Special of the month: Chicken Stir Fry, which is available every Friday. All payments are to be made through Quickbooks by November 6th. **Please do not order lunch for Thursday, November 21st, as we will be on a trip – more info to come later.**

Important dates/items:

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 & Last Day to Order November Hot Lunch – Do not order hot lunch for November 21st please
Tuesday, November 5 – Guy Fawkes Day
Wednesday, November 6 – November Hot Lunch Payments Due
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 presented our science fair summatives. Our next unit is A Voyage Back in Time, where we will study ancient Rome, ancient Greece, and ancient Egypt.

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







Peer reviewing!

















Look at these boards!! WOW!!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we missed math due to our science fair summative presentations. Our next unit will be measurement and will deal with time, money, surface area, volume, and capacity. As of now our math test for this unit will be Monday, November 4th.

Points to Remember

Homework
Soccer tournament people - MMS pg 82-83 due Tuesday

Inquiry into Language

Today we continued our presentations and began chapter 13 and 14 of Percy Jackson.   

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.

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
PJ chapters 13 and 14 due Monday
French trip permission forms and payments due Monday, October 21st
Soccer tournament people - Spelling lesson #7 due Tuesday

Have a wonderful weekend!


Mrs. Hocevar
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