Good afternoon everyone!
I hope you had a great day! Tomorrow 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. House tie day is tomorrow as well! After care invoices have been sent out and all payments are due Wednesday, January 15. Scholastic orders are due Friday, 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
T: (905) 814-0277
Important dates/items:
January 15 Caribou Math Contest
January 17 Scholastic Orders Due
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 respiratory diseases and how the lungs work.
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 4 and 5 if not completed in class
Study the diagram of the heart and respiratory system for tomorrow
Inquiry into Mathematics
Today we learned about interpreting data. To do this we read information off of graphs. For example, from the graph below I can infer that most students preferred soccer as their favourite sport, other was the least chosen option, basketball was picked by 6 students and that softball was chosen by one more student than other.
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 three 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 and continue until Tuesday, January 21. Please note no review will be completed for this unit. 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
MMS pg 68-69
Inferring information from our graph!
Inquiry into Language
Today we continued writing our speeches. We reviewed our topic and arguments from yesterday, along with our first paragraph. We wrote our second paragraph, which explained our second reason against school uniforms; they cost too much money. Monday we will write paragraph three. We also visited our reading buddies!
Video Link on Persuasive Speeches
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)!
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Due Date
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Item
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Over the Christmas Break
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Read over speech package, brainstorm topic, choose topic, research, complete evidence in a persuasive speech page, read the rubric
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Wednesday, January 8
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Watch video samples, read a written sample, tell teacher topic, Paragraph #1 and revision
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Thursday, January 9
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Paragraph #2 and revision of previous paragraph
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Monday, January 13
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Paragraph #3 and revision of previous paragraphs
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Tuesday, January 14
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Begin introduction, revision of introduction
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Wednesday, January 15
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Conclusion and revision of previous paragraphs
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Thursday, January 16 – Friday, January 24
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Work on rough copies of entire speech and continue to revise
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Monday, January 27 and Tuesday, January 28
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Write good copy of speech and start to memorize
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Wednesday, January 29 – Friday, January 31
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In-class speech recital
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Monday, February 3
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In-class speech competition (top 3 from each Grade 5 class)
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Friday, February 7
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SJA Oral Competition
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Thursday, February 27
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SJA vs TMA Oral Competition
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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 second paragraph (second reason)
How we have missed our reading buddies!
Speech writing!
Have a wonderful night!
Mrs. Hocevar
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