I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! We
were low key this weekend…hockey, regular weekend things, and pumpkin carving!
Tomorrow 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. Picture Day is taking place tomorrow. Students
must be in full winter uniform, including blazers. No house hoodies please! We are hosting the bake sale this month,
which is taking place tomorrow, Tuesday, October 29th and Wednesday,
October 30th. I am asking for donations of baked goods. Please
ensure they are completely nut free and please avoid items that may contain.
Items that contain or may contain nuts will be sent back home. Please check out our lost and found items, which is NOW
located in the gym in the far right corner. On Friday, November 8th at 4pm all
left over items will be donated to the local Salvation Army.
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. If you are
interested in volunteering, please ensure you have a Vulnerable Sector Screen
on file with the school prior to the trip. If you have already submitted one,
please be sure to sign our annual defence declaration at the front reception.
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 began learning about ancient Rome. We studied the map of Italy, learned about the daily life of boys and girls, and studied why Italy could easily defend invaders. Ask me how!
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 2 Ancient Romans research sheets
Ms. Cass's brother just returned from a trip to Egypt and sent us these fantastic pictures!
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today we discussed capacity and volume.
Capacity if measures in mL and L (pool, can of soup). Volume is measured in cm3
and m3 (brick, hot air balloon). When converting, remember these
hints!
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.
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.
Video
link for surface area -
For
example, using the rectangular prism above, the surface area would be;
Step 1 –find the area
of the front face, side face, and top face.
Area
of front
A
= L x W
A
= 3 cm x 9 cm
A
= 27 cm2
Area
of side
A
= L x W
A
= 5 cm x 3 cm
A
= 15 cm2
Area
of top
A
= L x W
A
= 9 cm x 5 cm
A
= 45 cm2
Step 2 – add the
answers from Step 1.
45
cm2 + 15 cm2 +
27 cm 2 = 87 cm2
Step 3 – multiply the
answer from Step 2 by 2 because each face has a congruent side.
87
cm2 x 2 =174 cm2
Volume (the amount of space
an object takes up) of a rectangular
prism (units cubed/cm3). To find the volume of the rectangular
prism, we multiply the length by the width by the height – V = L x W x H.
With
the rectangular prism above, the volume would be;
V
= L x W x H
V
= 4 cm x 4 cm x 6 cm
V
= 16 cm 2 x 6 cm
V
= 96 cm3
The
volume of the rectangular prism is 96 cm3.
Cubic
Meters - distance is measured in linear unit – cm, m, km. Area is measured in square units – cm 2, m2. Volume is measured
in cubic units – cm3, m3.
Linear units would be the perimeter of an object or the length of a pen. Square
units would be the area of a desk or the area of a postage stamp. Cubic units
would be the space in an elevator or the space in a closet.
1 m = 100 cm
1 m2 = 10,000 cm2
1 m3 = 1,000,000 cm3
Homework
MMS
pg. 92-93
Inquiry into Language
Today
we began spelling lesson #8 – words with gn, wr, and tch, and vowel pairs ee,
ea and vowel digraph ea. We wrote the words in our agendas and began the
corresponding activities.
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
Finish
spelling lesson #8
Have a
wonderful night!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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