Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful day! Tomorrow is a Day 5 and our field trip to the ROM is on Thursday, November 21^st. Students will be required to wear their full winter uniform, including blazers – no house hoodies please. Be sure to pack a disposable lunch. We will be leaving a little before 10 AM and arriving back sometime around 3 PM, traffic dependent of course. Thank you to Mr. Farooq for volunteering. 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.

Our Christmas Concert rehearsals are well underway. We are dancing to Justin Bieber's 'Santa Claus is Comin to Town'. A kind reminder to send in the cash for the concert costumes. Please see the link below for our song and the finale song.

Santa Claus is Comin to Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB3TCiA1rgI

Finale Song

Good to Be Bad by Pentatonix

A sneak peak of what is to come!

Important dates/items:

Thursday, November 21 – ROM Trip  (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 worked on our summative!

The summative for this unit will have students recreating an ancient artifact from one of the civilizations we studied. I hope to send home the summative package tomorrow. As of now, we will be beginning the summative the week of November 18^th with a due date of Thursday, November 28^th.

Homework

Bring devices

Bring in items for artifact

Working on our summative!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we learned about numbers in the media. We often see and read large number in newspapers and magazines and we often hear about them on the radio. Most large numbers are written in short form instead of having to write the large number in stardard form. For example, 5 ^½ million is written in standard form as 5, 500, 000. 42, 400, 000 can be written as the decimal 42.4 million. Keep in mind the rounding rules; 0-4 round to the floor, 5-9 round to the sky.

As of now our test will be Friday, December 13^th.

Points to Remember

Homework

MMS pg 44-45

Inquiry into Language

Today we worked on our summative!

Typing Club Website

https://st-judes.typingclub.com

Please visit this page to reference back to when making citations:

https://sjalibrary.wordpress.com/write-it-cite-it/

  

French – Mme. Sarah

The Grade 5s will be attending a French theatrical presentation ‘Les Insectes Sur Scene’ on Tuesday, March 31^st from 9:30 to 11:30 AM.

Spelling Words for French

Homework

Spelling test on Friday

Have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar