Good afternoon everyone!
I hope you all had a wonderful day! Tomorrow
is a Day 2 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.
Our SJA Senior Basketball Team is having
their first game of the season today, Tuesday, December 3 at 3:30 PM (after
school). Please join them at St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School and help
cheer them on!
Student-led Conferences are just around the corner. They will happen on Thursday,
December 5th. Pick A Time sheets have gone home with all of the
required information. Please be sure to correctly follow the login information
using the information at the top right hand side of the paper. Please note that
all conferences will last 10 minutes and an alarm will be used to keep everyone
on track. If you are late for your appointment, only the remaining time will be
given. I thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Our SJA Student Council is holding a clothing drive from Monday,
December 2-Friday, December 6. Please bring in gently used clothing that you no
longer need. All donations will go to the Diabetes Association. Thank you in
advance for your donations!!
The SJA Parent Guild is
pleased to hold its 2nd Christmas Skate for all students and parents/guardians to
celebrate the festive season and enjoy some time together. Any proceeds
will go towards ongoing fundraising efforts. This event will take
place on Thursday, December 12 from 3:30-5:30 pm at Meadowvale
4-Rinks. Ice time from 4:00-5:00 pm.
Bring your own skates or skate rental option is also
available. There will be hot chocolate and treats for students and Santa
will be ready for selfies! Forms will be distributed Thursday. Forms and payment are due by
Monday, December 2nd to the homeroom teacher. Please return forms and payment
as soon as possible! We will be
accepting non-perishable food donations for the Food Bank so please feel free
to bring items in. See you there! As a reference for sizing parents can use: www.hockeymonkey.com/bauer-skate-sizing-chart.
Our Christmas Concert
rehearsals are well underway. We are dancing to Justin Bieber's 'Santa Claus is
Comin to Town’. Please see the link below for our song and the finale song, ‘So
Good to Be Bad’. Please practice the dance and the finale song!
Santa Claus is Comin to Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB3TCiA1rgI
Good To Be Bad
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. 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. Permission
forms and waivers are due back no
later than Thursday, December 12. Please thoroughly complete all forms
before returning.
Important dates/items:
Thursday, December
5 – Student Led Conferences
Friday, December 6
– Polar Expressions Short Stories due & December hot lunch payments due
Tuesday, December
10 – JK-Grade 2 Christmas Concert
Thursday, December
12 – Ski forms and waivers due
Tuesday, December
17 – Grade 3-8 Christmas Concert
Wednesday,
December 18 – Casual Day for those students who have paid the $20 casual day
fee
Thursday December
19 – Christmas Spirit Day
Friday, December
20- Tuesday, January 7 – No School – Christmas holidays
Wednesday, January
8 – First Day Back After Christmas Holidays
Unit of Inquiry
Today
our UOI period was cut short due to rehearsals. We shaded in some names of
bones to find a picture of a hand. We also began a worksheet on some body
sayings, such as ‘She has a green thumb.’
For
the next three weeks, students will be learning about the skeletal system, the
respiratory system and the digestive system. For our summative, students will
be completing a mini-exhibition project. As of now the due date will be towards
the end of January
Homework
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today we multiply decimals by 0.1, 0.01
and 0.001. We are following the same rules as yesterdays lesson. When we
multiply by 0.1 we move the decimal 1 spot to the left, as the digits shift 1 spot
to the right. When we multiply by 0.01, we move the decimal 2 spots to the left,
as the digits shift 2 spot to the right,
and when we multiply by 0.001, we
move the decimal 3 spots to the left, as the digits shift 3 spot to the
right.
As of now our test will be Friday, December
13.
Points to Remember
Most
large numbers are written in short form instead of having to write
the large number in standard form. For example, 5 ½ million is
written in standard form as 5, 500, 000. 42, 400, 000 can be written as the
decimal 42.4 million. Keep in mind the rounding rules; 0-4 round to the floor,
5-9 round to the sky.
Exploring
thousands
and writing them as fractions and decimals. We used a place value chart to help
us.
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We also used base ten blocks to help.
Please see picture below. A fraction is written as 314/1000. We say it as
three-hundred and fourteen thousandths. The decimal would be 0.314.
There are three ways we can order and compare decimals; using base
ten blocks, using a place value chart and using a number line.
When rounding decimals you must remember the rounding rules – 0-4 you
round down and the number doesn’t change and 5-9 you round up and the number
will change. If rounding to the nearest whole
number there will be no decimals. If rounding to the nearest tenth there will be only one number
after the decimal. If you are rounding to the nearest hundredth there will be two numbers after the decimal.
When we multiply by 10, we move the decimal 1 spot to the right. When we multiply by 100, we move the decimal 2 spots to the
right and when we multiply by 1000,
we move the decimal 3 spots to the right.
When we divide by 10, we move the decimal 1 spot to the left, as the digits shift 1
spot to the right. When we divide by
100, we move the decimal 2 spots to the left,
as the digits shift 2 spot to the right,
and when we divide by 1000, we move
the decimal 3 spots to the left, as the digits shift 3 spot to the right.
Homework
MMS.
60-61 if not completed in class
Inquiry into Language
Today
we continued our Term 2 DRAs. We will be continuing tomorrow. Students
conferenced with me about their previous term DRAs and areas of improvement. We
also continued to work on our student-led conference packages.
Typing Club Website
Please visit this page to reference back
to when making citations:
French – Mme. Sarah
Last week we did the four irregular verbs (avoir, etre, faire, aller).
Students conjugated the four verbs using varying activities.' Avoir
'expressions was also done. Students were able to identify facial expressions
for most avoir expressions.
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
For the
spelling test on Friday, students will be asked to use some words in a sentence
Have a
wonderful night!
Mrs.
Hocevar
