Good afternoon everyone!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! We had
a busy, but fun one. Mark took the boys to The Hockey Hall of Fame and skating
at Nathan Phillips Square on Saturday and then we all headed to a neighbours
for dinner. Sunday was Mark’s birthday, Charlie our elf came back and we got
our Christmas tree.
Welcome back Charlie!
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree!
Tomorrow is a Day 1 and music. Our SJA Senior Basketball Team is having
their first game of the season tomorrow, Tuesday, December 3 at 3:30 PM (after
school). Please join them at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School and help
cheer them on!
How many JK and SK students does it take to match 5 of our basketball players??
Student-led Conferences are taking place on Thursday,
December 5th. Pick A Time sheets have gone home with all of the
required information. 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.
Our SJA Student Council is holding a clothing drive from Monday,
December 2-Friday, December 6. Please bring in gently used clothing that you no
longer need. All donations will go to the Diabetes Association. Thank you in
advance for your donations!!
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. Bring your own skates or rent them for
$16. Helmets are also available for rent for $8. All order forms were due back today, Monday, December 2. Please send any outstanding forms in tomorrow. 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’. Practice, practice, practice!
Santa Claus is Comin to Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB3TCiA1rgI
Good To Be Bad
Our next extra-curricular
activity is skiing/snowboarding at Glen
Eden Ski Resort. The dates of the trip are January 22, February 19 and March 4. We will be leaving at 7:00 AM
and returning by 4:00 PM at the latest. All rentals are included, however
students are more than welcome to bring their own. Please do not order hot
lunch for these days as we will be eating lunch at the ski hill – students are
welcome to bring money to purchase food and drink items. Students must ensure
they are dressed in appropriate ski gear; warm socks, long johns with comfy
clothes, snow pants, warm mitts, a face protector and a ski jacket. Please note
that if students chose skiing, they will ski all three times. If students pick
snowboarding, they will snowboard all three times. All students will have to
pass each level before they are granted permission to ski on the big hill, no
matter what their experience. Permission
forms and waivers are due back no
later than Thursday, December 12. Please thoroughly complete all forms
before returning.
Important dates/items:
Friday, December 6
– Polar Expressions Short Stories due & December hot lunch payments due
Thursday, December
5 – Student Led Conferences
Friday, December 6
– Polar Expressions Short Stories due & December hot lunch payments due
Tuesday, December
10 – JK-Grade 2 Christmas Concert
Thursday, December
12 – Ski forms and waivers due
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 began our third Unit of Inquiry – The Human Body. We watched an intro video,
which outlines all of the systems and how they are always working together. We also began defining parts of skeleton,
using scientific language and labelling the skeleton. For the next three weeks,
students will be learning about the skeletal system, the respiratory system and
the digestive system. For our summative, students will be completing a
mini-exhibition project. As of now the due date will be towards the end of
January; more info to come!
Video link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEUu-A2wfSE
Homework
Finish
labeling the skeleton
Our wonder wall questions!
Our new unit!
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today we divided decimals by 10, 100 and
1000 – the opposite of multiplying decimals. When we multiply by 10, we move the decimal 1 spot to the left,
as the digits shift 1 spot to the right.
When we multiply by 100, we move the
decimal 2 spots to the right, as the digits shift 2 spot to the right, and when we multiply by 1000, we move the decimal 3 spots to the
right, as the digits shift 3 spot to the right.
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.
Tens
|
Ones
|
.
|
Tenths
|
Hundredths
|
Thousandths
|
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.
When we multiply by 10, we move the decimal 1 spot to the right. When we multiply by 100, we move the decimal 2 spots to the
right and when we multiply by 1000,
we move the decimal 3 spots to the right.
Homework
MMS.
58-59
Inquiry into Language
Today
we began our Term 2 DRAs. We will be continuing tomorrow. Students conferenced
with me about their previous term DRAs and areas of improvement. We also began
spelling lesson #13 – words with prefixes un, in, dis and trans, and words with
the sound of long o.
Typing Club Website
Please visit this page to reference back
to when making citations:
French – Mme. Sarah
Last week we did the four irregular verbs (avoir, etre, faire, aller). Students conjugated the four verbs using varying activities.' Avoir 'expressions was also done. Students were able to identify facial expressions for most avoir expressions.
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
Finish
spelling lesson #13
Have a
wonderful night!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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