Good afternoon everyone!
I hope
you all had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed all the snow that came yesterday! Tomorrow
is a Day 5, music, and the next Caribou math test. World Kindness Day is tomorrow,
Wednesday, November 13th. This
year, Oakwood will be making a Rainbow Chain of Kindness to hang throughout the
school. For $2, students will receive three rainbow links, as well as have the
option to dress casual for the day. Forms have been sent home with
information regarding this event. If you would like your child to participate,
please fill out the form and bring in the $2 before the 13th. After care payments are due Friday, November 15th.
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.**
Caribou Math
The next Caribou Contest takes place on
Wednesday, November 13th, 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 12th, (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.
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 12th, (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 21st.
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 8th. 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:
Wednesday,
November 13 – Kindness Day - $2
Thursday, November 14 - SJA Science Fair Judging
Friday, November
15 – SJA’s annual Science Fair
Tuesday, November
19 – Curling Trip
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 wrote an open book quiz. Tomorrow we will begin learning about the
significance behind Greek vases. We will be creating our own vases beginning
tomorrow.
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
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today we learned about the nets of
objects. We used our classroom manipulates to begin creating nets to a few
different figures.
This unit only has 5 lessons and
therefore, as of now, our Geometry math test will be Tuesday, November 19th.
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 40-41
Inquiry into Language
Today
we continued learning how to write a narrative. We are learning this for our
OWA (Ontario Writing Assessment) post-assessment. For this assessment, students
will be expected to write a narrative story about a day in the life of an
inanimate object (something that is not alive).
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
Sharing our narratives!
Have a
wonderful night!
Mrs.
Hocevar
No comments:
Post a Comment