Good afternoon everyone!
I hope you all had a wonderful day! Tomorrow
is a Day 5, house tie day and our Museum of Ancient Civilizations. We look forward to seeing
you tomorrow afternoon from 2:30-3:00 PM. Please enter through the front, sign
in and get a visitors badge. Tomorrow is also the last day for the book fair. The doors will close at 1:00 PM.
Student-led Conferences are just around the corner. They will happen on Thursday,
December 5th. Pick A Time sheets have gone home with all of the
required information. The system will go live on Thursday, November 28th at 10:00 AM. Please be sure to
correctly follow the login information using the information at the top right
hand side of the paper. Please note that all conferences will last 10 minutes
and an alarm will be used to keep everyone on track. If you are late for your
appointment, only the remaining time will be given. I thank you in advance for
your cooperation.
The SJA Parent Guild is
once again hosting the St. Jude’s
Academy Christmas Skate. It will take place on December 12th.
The price is $10 per students and includes skating, hot chocolate and treats.
Santa will also be there for selfies. Skate rentals are also available for $16,
as are helmets for $8. All order forms are due back by December 2nd.
You can send in the payment via cash, cheque or by e-transfer. **Please ensure
both sides of the form are filled in!**
Our Christmas Concert
rehearsals are well underway. We are dancing to Justin Bieber's 'Santa Claus is
Comin to Town’. Please see the link below for our song and the finale song, ‘So
Good to Be Bad’
Santa Claus is Comin to Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB3TCiA1rgI
Good To Be Bad
Important dates/items:
Monday, November
25-Friday, November 29 – Book Fair
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 presented our ancient artifacts. They did such a great job...some very interesting artifacts!
Homework
Sign
and return Greek vase rubric
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today we added and subtracted decimals.
The key point to remember is to correctly line up your numbers in the correct
place value!
As of now our test will be Friday,
December 13th.
Points to Remember
Most
large numbers are written in short form instead of having to write
the large number in standard 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.
Exploring
thousands
and writing them as fractions and decimals. We used a place value chart to help
us.
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Tens
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Ones
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Tenths
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Hundredths
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Thousandths
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We also used base ten blocks to help.
Please see picture below. A fraction is written as 314/1000. We say it as
three-hundred and fourteen thousandths. The decimal would be 0.314.
There are three ways we can order and compare decimals; using base
ten blocks, using a place value chart and using a number line.
When rounding decimals you must remember the rounding rules – 0-4 you
round down and the number doesn’t change and 5-9 you round up and the number
will change. If rounding to the nearest whole
number there will be no decimals. If rounding to the nearest tenth there will be only one number
after the decimal. If you are rounding to the nearest hundredth there will be two numbers after the decimal.
Homework
MMS.
54-55
Inquiry into Language
Today
we practiced for our Christmas concert.
Typing Club Website
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
Have a
wonderful night!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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