Hello everyone!
I hope
you had a great day! Monday, March 23 is a Day 1 and music. 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. Hot lunch payments
are due this Friday, March 6. After
care payments are due by Sunday, March
15. 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. Please check at home for house points and return to me if
any are found! Spelling Bee rules
and lists have been sent home. ** 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!**
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.
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 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 watched a documentary on Shannen.
We will be heading to the Legislative Assembly
of Ontario on Wednesday, March 25.
Homework
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today we watched a
documentary on Shannen, filled in the last page of the report card, and
continued working on our Student-Led Conference packages.
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 watched a
documentary on Shannen, filled in the last page of the report card, and
continued working on our Student-Led Conference packages. A DRA reading has
been sent home for students to complete over March Break. This is due Monday,
March 23.
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.
Spelling Bee word lists have been sent home. Please begin to practice!
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 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
(Les mots pour le teste d'orthographe)
Le gouvernement
Le gouverneur
Le règlement
La loi
Les droits
Le pouvoir
Le ministère
La monarchie
La démocratie
Le pays
Homework
DRA
package – Robinson Crusoe
Have a
wonderful and restful March Break!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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