Good afternoon everyone!
I hope you all had a
wonderful day! Tomorrow is a Day 5 and music. Please do not forget your
instrument at home! 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.
A note from Ms. Hayward - October 17 marked the first day of Secret Path Week, ccommemorating the legacies of Gord Downie
(died Oct. 17, 2017) and Chanie Wenjack (died Oct. 23, 1966 ), who died after
running away from residential school and attempting to walk home. We are 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.
November Lunches
The lunch site is now open. It
will close Wednesday, October
30th at 3:00 PM.
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.**
Our next extra-curricular
activity is curling at the Acton
Curling Club. The dates and times of our trips are Monday, November 4th from 10-11 AM and Tuesday, November 19th
from 1-2 PM. Permission forms and waivers have been sent home and are due
back by Thursday, October 31st.
There is no cost associated with this trip. We are also planning a trip to the ROM on Thursday, November 21st.
It will be an all day trip so please do not order hot lunch for this day, as
reimbursements will not be given, nor will hot lunches be saved.
Important dates/items:
Tuesday, October
29 – Picture Day
Wednesday, October
30 – Casual Day
Thursday, October
31 – Halloween/Harvest Spirit Day, Curling Forms and Waivers due, & Last
Day to Order November Hot Lunch – Do not order hot lunch for November 21st
please
Monday, November 4
– Curling Trip
Tuesday, November
5 – Guy Fawkes Day
Wednesday,
November 6 – November Hot Lunch Payments Due
Friday, November
8-Monday, November 11 – No School – Remembrance Day & ROM forms and
payments due
Wednesday,
November 13 – Kindness Day
Friday, November
15 – SJA’s annual Science Fair
Tuesday, November
19 – Curling Trip
Wednesday,
November 20 – Picture Retakes
Thursday, November
21 – ROM Trip – please do not order hot lunch for this day
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 learned about what life was like for boys and girls and the diet of
Egyptians.
The summative for this unit will have students recreating an ancient
artifact from one of the civilizations we studied. More information to come
closer to the end of the unit! As of now, we will be beginning the summative
the week of November 18th with a due date of Friday, November 30th.
Homework
Finish
Spotlight on Geography sheet - use research to help you
Working together to compare how life was similar and different for boys and girls...ask me how!
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today
we learned how to find the surface area
of a rectangular prism (units square – cm2). Remember that to
find the area of a rectangle, we multiply the length by the width (l x w). In
order to find the surface area of a rectangular prism, we need to find the area
of the top and bottom faces, front and back faces, and right and left side
faces. Then we add those numbers together and multiply by 2 because a rectangle
is congruent – same shape and size. There are a few different ways to do this so I have told the students to use which ever strategy works best for them.
Video
link for surface area -
As of now our math test for this unit will be Monday, November 4th.
Points to Remember
The
small hand tells the hour, the large hand tells the minutes, and the skinny
hand tells the seconds.
Every
small mark on a clock represents the minutes. The total number of minutes
between each number on a clock is 5.
A
quarter after is 15 minutes after, half-past is 30 minutes after, and a quarter
to is 15 minutes to the next hour.
AM – 12:00 midnight to
11:59 AM
PM – 12:00 noon to 11:59
PM
12:00
= 00:00
1:00
= 13:00
2:00
= 14:00
3:00
= 15:00
4:00
= 16:00
5:00
= 17:00
6:00
= 18:00
7:00
= 19:00
8:00
= 20:00
9:00
= 21:00
10:00
= 22:00
11:00
= 23:00
12:00
= 24:00
24-hour notation is used at airports,
in the military, and at train stations. When we use 24-hour notation, there
will be 4 digits. We created our own
clock to help us.
4:45
= 16:45
00:05
= 12:05
7:00
= 18:00
23:15
= 11:15
Money up to $10,000 - we can use
estimation, rounding to the nearest $50 or $100, to help us with this. Don’t
forget those rounding rules – 0-4 round down to the floor and 5-9 round up to
the sky. Remember to line up the numbers in the proper place value column,
include the $ sign, and the decimal.
Homework
MMS
pg. 86-87
My helpers today!
Inquiry into Language
Today
we read chapter 16 together as a class and began the comprehension questions
for chapters 15 and 16.
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.
French – Mme. Sarah
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.
Spelling Words for
French
1. La
famille
2. Les
amis
3. Les
voisins
4. L'ecole
5. La
table
6. La
maison
7. La
bibliotheque
8. La
nourriture
9. Le
repas
10.
Le tableau
Homework
Percy
Jackson – finish chapter 15 and 16 questions
Spelling
test – lesson #7 and French - on Friday
Have a
wonderful night!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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