I hope you all had a wonderful day! Last night the boys wanted to write their letters to Santa, and so we did. One item they both asked for was a new hockey bag on wheels!!
Tomorrow
is a Day 1 and music. Please do not forget your instrument at home! Don’t
forget to join us tomorrow from 2:30-3:15 for our annual SJA Science Fair. We
will have our science fair projects set up in our classroom. Be sure to enter
through front reception, sign in, and grab a visitor’s badge. Upon leaving,
please sign out at the front reception and leave through the front door.
Students will be packed up ready to go. After care payments and Scholastic orders are due Friday,
November 15th. If you would like to order school pictures, all
orders and payments are due November 19th. December lunch orders are
due on November 20th. Picture re-take day is November 20th
as well.
December Lunches
The lunch site is now open. It
will close Wednesday,
November 20th at 3:00 PM.
Special of the month: Spaghetti and
Meatballs, which is available every Friday.
All payments are to be made through Quickbooks
by December 6th.
Our
next extra-curricular activity is curling
at the Acton Curling Club on Tuesday,
November 19th from 1-2 PM. Students are required to wear the SJA
gym clothes, indoor gym shoes, and warm clothes (coat, mitts, warm socks) as it
is cold on the ice. **A kind reminder that all students are required
to bring and wear a helmet, as per the permission form. Acceptable helmets are
ski helmets, hockey helmets, and bike helmets - no pointy edges please! Acton
Curling Club does not provide helmets.**
Our next field trip will
be to the ROM on Thursday, November 21st.
Students will be required to wear their full winter uniform, including blazers –
no house hoodies please. Be sure to back a disposable lunch. 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.
Operation Christmas Child – This year some classes from SJA are participating in
Operation Christmas Child. We are one of those class and I am hoping for your
help. We will be filling two boxes – one for a boy aged 2-4 and one for a girl
aged 2-4. All donations must be brought in by Monday, November 18th in order to be able to send them
off for shipping. A letter has been sent home with more information and a list
of 100 shoebox items. I will be covering the costs for shipping. I thank you in
advance.
Important dates/items:
Friday, November
15 – SJA’s annual Science Fair (2:30-3:15)
Tuesday, November
19 – Curling Trip (12-3)
Wednesday,
November 20 – Picture Retakes & last day to order December hot lunch
Thursday, November
21 – ROM Trip – please do not order hot lunch for this day
Monday, November
25-Friday, November 29 – Book Fair
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 & December hot lunch payments due
Unit of Inquiry
Today
we continued working on our vases; we cut them out and painted them black.
Tomorrow we scratch and draw the pictures that about our lives.
I
was so proud of all of my kiddos today. The presented their science fair
experiments to our judge with such ease. Well done, Grade 5s. Keep on working
hard!!
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 29th.
Homework
Greek vases!
Presenting their wonderful experiments!
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today we presented our science fair
projects. Tomorrow we will begin our review. We will take it up on Monday and we
will write our test on Tuesday.
This unit only has 5 lessons and
therefore, as of now, our Geometry math test will be Tuesday, November 19th.
Our next unit, Fractions, will take us right up until just before Christmas
break.
Points to Remember
Angles
- acute
angle is less than 900, and right
angle is 900, and an obtuse
angle is grater than 900 but less than 1800. We also
came to realized that some angles are greater than or equal to 1800.
A straight angle is 1800
and a reflex angles measure between
1800 and 360o. One complete turn is 3600. A
protractor will become our best friend during this unit. Drawing a reflex angle
can be tricky. Please see this video for tips!
A regular figure has equal sides and
equal figures. An irregular figure
does not have all side equal and does not have all angles equal. A convex polygon has all angles less than
1800 and a concave polygon
has at least one reflex angle. We can classify and sort figures different ways
– we can sort triangles by the number of equal sides and by angle measure and
we can sort quadrilaterals in a Venn diagram.
When an angle is identified by 3
letters, the middle letter indicates the vertex of the angle. For example,
angle A is also angle CAB.
Homework
MMS
pg
Inquiry into Language
Today
we wrote our OWA post-assessment on a inanimate object.
Please visit this page to reference back
to when making citations:
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
Homework
Spelling
test tomorrow
Have a
wonderful night!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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