Good afternoon everyone!
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful
Christmas break! We most certainly did! We headed up north for a couple of days
to do Christmas with Mark’s family. It was absolutely gorgeous up there…we made
a rink on Lake Nosbonsing to play hockey on, had a bonfire and went snow sledding! My parents and
sister joined us for Christmas in Georgetown. On Christmas Eve we played
hockey, tracked Santa on the Santa Tracker, played Christmas Charades and went
carolling. Christmas day saw many gifts open, road hockey, Christmas movies and
music. For New Years, we got together with some friends and celebrated the New
Year!
Charlie's last day with us...oh the tears from this one!
Reading Home Alone 2 together!
We must have been good this year!
He came...he came!!
Meet Kyle!
Tomorrow is a Day 3 and music. House tie day on Friday! After care invoices have been sent out and all
payments are due Wednesday, January 15. Scholastic orders are due January 17. Please note I
will be out of the classroom next Tuesday to Thursday, as I am doing a health
and safety course.
Caribou Math Contest
The
next Caribou contest will be taking place Wednesday, January 15. Arrive at 7:15
am for a 7:30 am start. Bring your own charged device. The interactive question will be FRUIT
SALAD, which you can practice now on Caribou’s games page. This is a new
game. Students, please test it and let Caribou know of any problems. There is
no history question in the January contest.
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. Please do not order lunch for
these days; it will not be saved nor will a reimbursement be given. 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.
A note regarding re-registration
Dear SJA Families,
We hope everyone will have a wonderful holiday break! Our Junior
Kindergarten (JK) Registration season is fast approaching and we wanted to
reach out to all of our families and friends to ensure that you are offered
priority enrolment in our JK Program for the 2020-2021 academic
year. Please let us know if you are interested in enrolling your child in
our JK Program by Friday, January 10, 2020 at 4:00
pm. After this date and time, the spots will open up to new families
on the wait lists.
If you are interested in enrolling your child in either program,
please contact us and we will send you a registration package.
The SJA Admissions Team
Ann Harvey, Neil Persaud and Melissa Filion
admissions@stjudesacademy.com
T: (905) 814-0277
Important dates/items:
January 15 Caribou Math Contest
January
22 Ski Trip
January 24 Town Hall, 7 PM - 9 PM (State
of the School Discussion)
January 30 Casual Day
January 30 Study Hall (Upper School)
January 31 Semester Turnaround: No School
(Upper School)
February 6 Oral Competition: JK - Grade 3
February 7 Oral Competition: Grade 4 -
Grade 8
February 7 Report Cards Sent Home (Upper
School)
February 8 Open House, 10 am – 2 pm
February 10 Year Ahead Day
February 13 100th Day of School (Lower
School)
February 13 Spirit Day: Valentine's Day
Dress Up
February 14 PD Day, IB Training (No School
for Students)
February 17 Family Day (No School)
February 21 Picture Day - Siblings &
Graduation (Grade 6, 10 & 12)
February 25 Pancake Tuesday
February 25 Casual Day
February 26 Pink Shirt Day
February 27 Oral Competition: SJA vs
Maples Academy
March 2 - March 6 Spirit Week
March 9 - March 20 March Break (No School)
March 23 Back to School
March 23 Term 3 Begins (Lower School)
Unit of Inquiry
Today
we began learning about the respiratory system. We labelled a diagram of the
respiratory system, used a word box to complete a fill-in-the-blanks sheet
about how the respiratory system works and completed a respiratory word
scramble.
Next
week we will begin our summative, which will take us until Thursday, January
30, when presentations will take place. This summative will consist of groups,
which I will put together, researching and preparing a presentation about a
human body system that we did not cover in class. Students will be using their
summative package, which we hope to have by Monday, to assist them in
completing the summative. Students will be responsible for including a diagram of the system, what organs are
part of that system, how the system works, what that system is responsible for,
how that system is connected to others in the body, and how to keep that system
healthy.
Homework
Finish
activity 1-3 if not completed in class
Study
the diagram of the heart and respiratory system for Friday
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today we wrote our
pre-assessment for our Data Management unit. Tomorrow we will be learning about interpreting data.
Data Management is a
short unit. Our test for this unit will consist of students creating a survey
question, surveying a certain number of students, creating 3 separate graphs
and inferring information from their graphs. This will roughly take 3 days to
complete. As of now, it will begin Friday, January 17. Our next math unit is
also a short one, Patterns in Numbers and Geometry, and will take us until the
first week of February.
Points to Remember
Homework
Inquiry into Language
Today
we began writing our speeches. We began by watching a video on a persuasive
speech (see link below) and then together as a class we picked a topic, school
uniforms, created our argument, against, and chose three reasons why we are
against school uniforms, they take too long to put on, they cost too much money
and students can’t express themselves through the uniforms. Next, we wrote our
first paragraph, which explained our first reason; it takes too long to put on. Students the began writing their own first paragraph. Tomorrow we will focus on paragraph two. All topics have been approved.
Video
Link
Introduction
Paragraph 1/Reason 1
Paragraph 2/Reason 2
Paragraph 3/Reason 3
A note on speeches
Speeches
are a 4-5 week process. A package was sent home, as students needed to complete
some work at home over the holidays. Grade 5 students will be expected to write
and memorize a 3-5 minute persuasive speech on a topic of their choice;
research will be needed, along with proper citation. When we are back from the
break we will begin by writing our three body paragraphs; one a day using
teacher guided writing. We will then write our introduction and conclusion.
Time will be given edit, re-write and memorize in class. Please see below an
outline of dates that we must stick to (as found in the speech package)!
|
Due Date |
Item |
|
Over the Christmas Break |
Read over speech package, brainstorm topic, choose topic,
research, complete evidence in a persuasive speech page, read the rubric |
|
Wednesday, January 8 |
Watch video samples, read a written sample, tell teacher topic,
Paragraph #1 and revision |
|
Thursday, January 9 |
Paragraph #2 and revision of previous paragraph |
|
Monday, January 13 |
Paragraph #3 and revision of previous paragraphs |
|
Tuesday, January 14 |
Begin introduction, revision of introduction
|
|
Wednesday, January 15 |
Conclusion and revision of previous paragraphs |
|
Thursday, January 16 – Friday, January 24 |
Work on rough copies of entire speech and continue to revise |
|
Monday, January 27 and Tuesday, January 28 |
Write good copy of speech and start to memorize |
|
Wednesday, January 29 – Friday, January 31 |
In-class speech recital |
|
Monday, February 3 |
In-class speech competition (top 3 from each Grade 5 class) |
|
Friday, February 7 |
SJA Oral Competition |
|
Thursday, February 27 |
SJA vs TMA Oral Competition |
Please visit this page to reference back
to when making citations:
Typing Club Website
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
Finish
your first paragraph (first reason)
It was
lovely to see everyone again and hear all of the exciting things that took
place over their holiday break. I hope you all have a great night!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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