Good afternoon!
I hope you all had a
wonderful day! Tomorrow is a Day 4 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. 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 will be coming home soon. 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 & 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 attended our matter SITS workshop and showed Scientist Marsha all that we
leaned during our What's the Matter Unit. We completed some hands-on experiments and had a ton of fun! We also
continued learning about ancient civilizations. This week we will focus on
Egypt. Today we learned about the geography aspect of ancient Egypt and how the Egyptians used water. We found out they use water almost the same ways we do. Ask me the ways they used water!
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 geography worksheets from today
Thanks Scientist Marsha for a fun morning!
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today
we examined 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.
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
Homework
MMS
pg. 84-85
My helpers showing off their rounding skills!
Inquiry into Language
Today
we attended our matter SITS workshop.
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 – read chapter 15
Spelling
test – lesson #7 and French - on Friday
Have a
wonderful night!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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