Good afternoon everyone!
I hope you all had a wonderful day! Monday 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. After care
payments and Scholastic orders were due today, Friday, November 15th.
If you would like to order school pictures, all orders and payments are due Tuesday,
November 19th. December lunch orders are due on Wednesday, November
20th. Picture re-take day is November 20th as well. We
have quite a few events happening next week; please see the next few
paragraphs!
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.
Our
next extra-curricular activity is curling
at the Acton Curling Club on Tuesday,
November 19th from 1-2 PM. We will be leaving shortly after 12
and will arrive back sometime around 3. 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. We will be
leaving a little before 10 AM and arriving back sometime around 3 PM, traffic
dependent of course. 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.
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.
Important dates/items:
Monday, November
18 – Operation Christmas Child items due
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 (9:30 AM – 3 PM)
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
Monday, December 2
– Term 2 Begins
Thursday, December
5 – Student Led Conferences
Tuesday, December
10 – JK-Grade 2 Christmas Concert
Tuesday, December
17 – Grade 3-8 Christmas Concert
Wednesday,
December 18 – Casual Day for those students who have paid the $20 casual day
fee
Thursday December
19 – Christmas Spirit Day
Friday, December
20- Tuesday, January 7 – No School – Christmas holidays
Wednesday, January
8 – First Day Back After Christmas Holidays
Unit of Inquiry
Today
we continued working on our vases. They did not turn out the way we hoped, so
we had to start over. We coloured our vases orange, brown, or yellow and then
used a black marker to draws our Greek lines and pictures.
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
Finish
Vase
One of our finished vases!
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today we began our Geometry math review.
On Monday, we will take it up and write the test on Tuesday, November 19th.
Our next unit, Fractions, will take us
right up until just before Christmas break. As of now our test will be Friday,
December 13th.
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
Finish
review
Inquiry into Language
Today
we wrote our spelling test and did some typing on Typing Club.
Typing Club Website
Please visit this page to reference back
to when making citations:
French – Mme. Sarah
This week we placed lots of emphasis on irregular verbs. The four main verbs we focused on were aller, faire, avoir, and etre. Students conjugated these verbs and identified the meaning for each verb. A song was also used to reinforce the conjugation of these. Students were placed into groups to reproduce the conjugation of these verbs using actions (dance). Students also formulated sentences with avoir and etre.
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
Sign
and return spelling test #11 – wrong words to be written out 2x
Have a
wonderful weekend!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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