Hello everyone!
I hope
you had a great day. Monday is a Day 2, the beginning of our Spirit Week; PJ
Day, music and our SJA vs TMA Oral Competition. Jump Rope for Heart donation packages have been sent home. We will be collecting donations for this
event from now until Friday, March 6. You can collect money or make a donation
online. On
Saturday,
the senior boys basketball team will be competing in the Hart Classic
Basketball Tournament at Meadowvale Secondary School from 9 AM - 6 PM. There
will be a draw for courtside Raptors 905 tickets for every game
an SJA student attends. Get out there and support you SJA senior boys
basketball team! Please
take some time to check our lost and found, which is over flowing. Anything
that is not collected will be donated over March Break to the Diabetes
Association.
We had so much fun at Jump Rope for Heart today!
A note from you Student Council
The student council is selling Rafiki Bracelets for
$10 each until next Wednesday. These support women in Kenya, as well as 100% of
all profits going to the Red Cross in Australia. Order forms were sent home
today.
Our next ski/snowboard trip
is Wednesday, 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 (if
possible) 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.
March Break Camps
Forms have been sent home
regarding SJA’s awesome Adventure Camp. The wonderful camp will run from Monday
to Friday both weeks of the March Break (March 9-13 & March 16-20) and is
offered to student from JK to Grade 6. Field trips will take place on Thursday
afternoons. Meal plans are also included if you chose to do so. Cash or
QuickBooks payments only please. Don’t delay; register today! Contact Ms.
Hughes at bsmith@stjudesacademy.com for any questions.
Important dates/items:
March 2 - March 6 Spirit Week
Monday – PJ Day
Tuesday – Favourite movie/book character
Wednesday – Ski day – Wacky Wednesday
Thursday – Sports Day
Friday – St. Patrick’s Spirit
March 4 – Ski trip
March 6 March hot lunch payments are due
via Quickbooks
March 9 - March 20 March Break (No School)
March 23 Back to School
March 23 Term 3 Begins (Lower School)
March 25 Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Trip – All Day
March 27 Report card and math graphs sent
home (Term 2)
March 31 French Trip – AM
April 2 Lower School Student-Led
Conferences & Autism Awareness Day – Blue for Two
April 6 JK-Grade 2 Spelling Bee
April 7 Grade 3-8 Spelling Bee
April 9 Easter Spirit Day
April 10-13 No School – Happy Easter
April 18 Open House
April 22 Earth Day & Shakespeare Play
April 24 Dynami Evening (7-9 PM)
April 29 Casual day & Ability
Awareness Silent Dance
May 1 Grade 6 Exhibition
May 12 JK-Grade 2 Arts’ Night
May 15-May 18 May Long Weekend
May 26 Grade 3-8 Arts’ Night
May 27 Casual Day
June 1 JK-Grade 8 Track and Field
June 2 Track and Field rain date
June 11 SJA vs TMA Track and Field
June 12 Rain date
June 15 JK/SK Promotion Ceremony
June 16 Grade 1-5 Promotion Ceremony &
Grade 6 PYP Graduation
June 17 Last day of school, House Cup
assembly & Term 3 report cards and math graphs sent home
Unit of Inquiry
Today
we continued our summative. In groups, students are responsible for creating a
new country, in which groups will create a flag, motto, and of course develop a
system of government. Students should be working on their good copies now. The summative is due on Thursday, March 5th and
presentations will be on Thursday, March 5th. See below the groups for the
government summative.
We will be heading to the Legislative Assembly
of Ontario on Wednesday, March 25. Permission forms have been sent home and are
due back along with payment yesterday, Wednesday, February 26.
Homework
Summative due Thursday, March 5
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today was our math
test! This is the last math unit of Term 2.
Our first unit after
March Break will be Transformational
Geometry. Our last two units will be Fractions
and Probability.
Points to Remember
Homework
Inquiry into Language
Today we wrote our
sentence test for lesson #22 and read through our final literary role!
Our Term 3 novel study
will be Hatchet. Students will once
again be completing a literature circle, but this time it will include all 5
roles; summarizer, word wizard, literary critic, connector and discussion
mediator. We will also continue with our weekly spelling activities and tests.
Please visit this page to reference back
to when making citations:
Typing Club Website
French – Mme. Sarah
This week the Grade 5s focused on the future tense of regular and irregular verbs. They conjugated verbs and also constructed sentences using the future tense. They also identified the infinitive of the verbs and the auxiliary of avoir.
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
Le gouvernement
Le gouverneur
Le règlement
La loi
Les droits
Le pouvoir
Le ministère
La monarchie
La démocratie
Le pays
Homework
Completed
Shannen due Monday
Sign
and return spelling test #22
Have a
wonderful weekend!
Mrs.
Hocevar
