Hello everyone!

I hope you had a great day yesterday! I hope that you were able to enjoy some of the March Break. We, like most, we supposed to go away, but thankfully chose to stay at home instead. We took advantage of the nicer weather, to play outside most days. Until a few days ago that was easy as our street is filled with kids. However, as this situation is constantly changing, we are constantly changing our 'social distancing' and have limited our kids now to their own property. Needless to say it was a very sad day in the Hocevar household. One positive thing is the amount of time we get to spend together...in this very busy world we live in, we are always so go, go, go and it is nice that we have no where to go! Let's see if I feel the same way after this week!!!

This guy is absolutely loving that we are all home!

Celebrating St. Patrick's Day!

Family workouts!

Writing some positive messages on the bike path by our house!

As of now, the school is now closed until Monday, April 6 and all trips and upcoming school events have been postponed – I will update you if anything changes. My blog will be updated on a daily basis for 9:00 AM. Our daily schedule will be changing as our expectations have changed over the weekend. I will be using Discord to assist with the learning. I will also be available via email and Bloomz, so please do not hesitate to reach out. Report cards and graphs are to be sent home on Friday, April 10. Spelling Bee rules and lists have been sent home – a new date for the Top 6 and SJA Spelling Bee to be announced soon. Caribou Math Contest will continue as scheduled.** For our coding unit, which begins in May, students will need to have a working laptop and email address, as they will be required to send their work to me via email. Gmail accounts were most popular last year!**

Please note this schedule will be changing slightly! The schedule and Daily Work breakdown can also be found on the right hand side of my blog.

Daily Schedule – To begin Tuesday, March 24

Daily Work – to be completed for the next day - do not go ahead and complete the next days work!

Tuesday, March 24 

Math lesson 1 pg 110-111

Language - Spelling lesson #24 (review page 97-100)

UOI - pages 9-13

Wednesday, March 25
Math lesson 2 pg 112-113

Language - Read Chapter 1 and 2 of Hatchet

UOI pages - 15-21

Thursday, March 26
Math lesson 3 pg 114-115

Language - Read Chapter 3 of Hatchet

UOI pages - 24-27

Friday, March 27

Math lesson 4 pg 116-171

Language - Complete role #1 of Hatchet

UOI pages - 28-32

Monday, March 30

Math lesson 5 pg 118-119

Language - Spelling lesson #25 

UOI pages - 35-37

Tuesday, March 31
Math lesson 6 pg 120-121

Language - Read Chapter 4 of Hatchet

UOI - pages 40-41 & 48

Wednesday, April 1
Math lesson 7 pg 122-123

Language - Read Chapter 5 of Hatchet

UOI pages - 52 and 56

Thursday, April 2
Math lesson 8 pg 124-125

Language - Read Chapter 6 of Hatchet

UOI pages - 57-58 and 76

Friday, April 3

Math lesson 9 pg 126-127

Language - Complete role #2 of Hatchet

UOI pages - 80-83

SJA 2019/2020 Yearbooks

An order form has been sent home with your child. All hardcover yearbooks are $20 and all orders are due no later than May 8. You can pay via cheque (please make payable to SJA), cash or Quickbooks (you will be invoiced). Don’t wait too long as there are only 200 copies!

Important dates/items:

March 9-April 3 – School closed

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 was our test run of Discord!

Homework

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today was our test run of Discord!

Points to Remember

Homework

Inquiry into Language

Today was our test run of Discord!

A DRA reading has been sent home for students to complete over March Break. This will be due when we return to school.

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.

Hatchet Literary Circle Groups

Group 1

Member Number 1 – Alyssa

Member Number 2 – Amber

Member Number 3 – Zak

Member Number 4 – Aidan

Member Number 5 – Hayden

Member Number 6 – Joshua

Group 2

Member Number 1 – Kareena

Member Number 2 – Maya

Member Number 3 – Jai

Member Number 4 – Jacob

Member Number 5 – Bosco

Member Number 6 - Jordan

Group 3

Member Number 1 – Sachi

Member Number 2 – Sanjana

Member Number 3 – Max

Member Number 4 – Zain

Member Number 5 – Andreas

Member Number 6 - Anthony

Spelling Bee word lists have been sent home. Please begin to practice!

Please visit this page to reference back to when making citations:

https://sjalibrary.wordpress.com/write-it-cite-it/

Typing Club Website

https://st-judes.typingclub.com

Homework

French – Mme. Sarah

Today we will be talking about students future plans to get them ready for tomorrow's class, which is the revision of the future simple. Today will be an oral class. Students questions will be answered via Discord. Text channels and voice channels will be used.

Spelling Words for French

Gym – Mr. Orr

Good morning and welcome to online learning! Hopefully you have all had a restful March break! The way Phys. Ed. will run for the coming weeks is a little different than regular school hours. We will have a “live” time online on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 1:30-2 in my Phys. Ed. Discord channel. Here I will share expectations and requirements for the week and answer any questions students may have. There are two requirements for the students to complete throughout the week. These requirements include some physical activity and a health activity.

For the physical portion, each morning on Discord and on the classroom blog I will post a physical activity challenge. It will be something simple and I will do my best to show the students exactly what I want them to do. Students will need to record themselves completing the challenge and send it to me either on Discord or by email (if they have a YouTube channel they can upload it to YouTube and send me the link). To go along with this challenge I have also attached a tracker for students to keep track of their physical activity. Students are expected to be active for at least 30 minutes a day. This can be done at separate times throughout the day or all at once. The activity challenge I post can be a part of it but it will not be long enough to cover the full 30 minutes, so students will need to choose their own activity to fill the rest of their time. Once they record their activity on the calendar it will need to be signed by a parent or guardian. At the end of the week students will take a picture or scan a copy of their completed weekly calendar with signatures, and send it to me by email to prove they have been active every day! So go out and be active, but remember to continue practicing your social distancing and healthy habits!

Todays Physical Activity Challenge: 5 Minute Set Challenge

-     Your challenge for today is to do as many sets as you can in 5 minutes. A set includes 5 push-ups, 5 sit-ups, and 5 squats. Set a timer for 5 minutes and then start! Do 5 push-ups, 5 sit-ups, 5 squats (that’s 1 set) and start over with 5 push-ups. Continue until your timer is up. Don’t forget to record it and send it to me with your total number of sets done! Check out our Phys. Ed. Discord channel for my video and see how your classmates did!

For the Health portion, students will be given a task on Monday that needs to be worked on throughout the week and submitted on Friday. I will explain the task, work through questions and give examples during my live online time in my Discord classroom on Mondays from 1:30-2. I will also be available anytime from 9-3:45 on both Discord or by email to answer any questions students have or to give support. I will give reminders about these tasks daily on the classroom morning blog and on Discord, and I will be sharing my experiences through this time as well. Our first weekly health task is outlined below. I will give further details on Monday during our “class time”.

Todays learning goal: Students will demonstrate an understanding of what healthy eating looks like outside the school environment.

-     Our goal this week is to try to prepare and eat healthy foods. It is important that we continue to eat healthy and stay active to maintain our overall health. Your job this week is to come up with 3 healthy snacks and 1 healthy meal that you can eat at your house. Snacks can be as simple as a bowl of fruit, or something you actually have to make. Throughout the week you will need to send me pictures of your healthy snacks that you are making and eating. You will also need to work with your parents to help make a healthy meal. This could be breakfast, lunch or dinner, but it has to be healthy and it has to be homemade. Once you have made your meal, send me a picture with a description of what it is and how it is healthy. Keep in mind that when cooking you should always have a parent around to help out and make sure everything is safe!

Mr. Orr's fitness tracker...a template can be found on his Discord channel!

Music – Mr. Oliver

See tomorrow’s blog!

Have a wonderful day!

Mrs. Hocevar