Good afternoon!
I hope you all had a
wonderful day! Tomorrow is a Day 1, house colour tie day and music. Please do
not forget your instrument at home! 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 came out to support us for our annual International
Day festivities. The kids work so hard and they get very excited to show off
their work and it means so much to us!
Our final Portugal product! Great job, Grade 5s!
The other countries we saw on our journey around the world!
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. Refunds will not be given for those who order, nor will hot lunch be saved.**
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 & last day to order November hot lunch
Thursday, October
31 – Halloween/Harvest Spirit Day
Tuesday, November
5 – Guy Fawkes Day
Tuesday, 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 began our board set up. Science fair summative presentations begin tomorrow.
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
Summative due tomorrow, Friday, October 18th
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today
we missed math due to our International Day showcase. 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 and setting up for our
International Day showcase!
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
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 tomorrow
PJ
chapters 11-12 due tomorrow
French
trip permission forms and payments due Monday, October 21st
Have a
wonderful night!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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