Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful day! Tomorrow is a Day 1 and music. Please do not forget your instrument at home! Tomorrow is our Guy Fawkes Day, where we recite the Guy Fawkes poem. Guy Fawkes planned the failed Gunpowder Plot in 1605. We recite the poems on November 5th, as that is when he was found guarding the explosives. 

Please check out our lost and found items, which is NOW located in the gym in the far right corner. On Friday, November 8^th at 4 PM all left over items will be donated to the local Salvation Army. After care payments are due Friday, November 15th. 

Our next extra-curricular activity is curling at the Acton Curling Club on Tuesday, November 19^th 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.**

We had so much fun today at the Acton Curling Club. I was very impressed with how well everyone did. Looking forward to the next curling trip!

Stretching before we hit the ice!

Learning how to sweep!

Some of us were even able to let the rock go!

Caribou Math

The next Caribou Contest takes place on Wednesday, November 13^th, 2019. Participants are to arrive at 7:15 am for a 7:30 am start. Bring a charged device, preferably a laptop, iPad or Tablet. You have one hour to write the test.

This month’s test includes an interactive question. The interactive question will differ by grade: Tangram for Grades 2 to 4, Chomp for Grades 5 to 10, and finally a GeomeTree construction involving triangles for Grades 11/12.  You can practice these now on Caribou’s Games page. Let Caribou know if you have any problems with the games.

Caribou strongly recommends familiarizing yourselves with these games before the contest.  Because certain games pages can be used to solve the questions, these will be blocked from Tuesday morning, November 12^th, (start of the contest in the far East) to Thursday evening, November 15th at 8 pm EST.

For Grades 3 to 12, there will be a history question about Emmy Noether. Students in these grades should read the relevant section of Caribou’s History page in your preferred language to prepare.

Our next field trip will be to the ROM on Thursday, November 21^st. 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. Permission forms were sent home today and are due back, along with payments by Friday, November 8^th. The price of this trip is $32 and includes our transportation and admission to the tour. 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.

Important dates/items:

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 wrote our math test and went curling.

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 18^th with a due date of Thursday, November 28^th.

Homework

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we wrote our math test. Our next unit will be Geometry – measuring and constructing angles. This unit only has 5 lessons, so as of now our Geometry math test will be on Tuesday, November 19th. 

Points to Remember

Homework

Inquiry into Language

Today we wrote our math test and went curling.   

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

Complete spelling lesson #9

Memorize Guy Fawkes for tomorrow

Have a wonderful night!

Mrs. Hocevar