Good afternoon everyone!
I hope
you all had a wonderful day! The boys were thrilled with the snow this morning.
Tuesday is a Day 4 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. No school on Friday and Monday. It is my
hope that students can attend a Remembrance Day ceremony on Monday and have a
moment of silence at 11:11 AM. World Kindness Day is Wednesday, November 12 th. 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.
Look at these gals go during our house game this morning!
This group did a fabulous job during our Remembrance Day ceremony! Thank you so much!
Please check out our lost and found items, which is NOW
located in the gym in the far right corner. Tomorrow, Friday, November 8th at 4 PM all
left over items will be donated to the local Salvation Army.
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.
Our Christmas Concert is fast approaching! We will be dancing to Justin Bieber's 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.' Today was our first rehearsal! Here is the link to our song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB3TCiA1rgI
Thank you to Ms. Lauren for helping to choreograph our dance!
Important dates/items:
Friday, November
8-Monday, November 11 – No School – Remembrance Day & ROM forms and
payments due
Wednesday,
November 13 – Kindness Day - $2
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
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
Unit of Inquiry
Today
we continued learning about Greece. Students continued to work their way
through the readings and worksheets.
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 learned how to construct figures
using given line segments and given angles. Key points to remember are to
ensure your label your vertices, angles, and side lengths. 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.
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.
Homework
MMS
pg 38-39
Helping label my parallelogram!
Inquiry into Language
Today
we wrote our spelling test.
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
Write a
narrative story about an inanimate object - use graphic organizer then write a good copy
Have a
wonderful weekend!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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