Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful day! Tomorrow is a Day 6 and we will not be having gym as we have our science fair summative and International Day to work on. 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.

Important dates/items:

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 continued working on 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
Finish good copies tonight and be ready for board set up tomorrow
Summative due Friday, October 18th












Hard at work writing out their good copies!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we wrote our Number Patterns math test. 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

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
Complete spelling lesson #6 due Friday
PJ chapters 11-12 due Friday
French trip permission forms and payments due Monday, October 21st







Our Portugal project is coming together so nicely!!

Have a wonderful night!


Mrs. Hocevar

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