Good Afternoon Everyone!

I hope you had a great day! Tomorrow is day 1.  Please bring your devices to school for the rest of the week as we are working on our biodiversity summative. This Thursday is our Easter spirit day. Students are welcome to wear their favourite Easter shirt, dress, or any Easter colours to school. 

Summer uniforms will begin on Thursday, April 25th, as we have Earth colours dress up and casual day right after the Easter long weekend. If you are not participating in these days then please wear your summer uniform when we return from easter weekend!

Wine and Cheese Event: SJA will be holding a wine and cheese for all parents to attend on Friday, April 26th from 6-8 PM. This will be a great time to socialize and hear about the direction SJA will be heading. Please RSVP to Ms. Hughes-Smith at bsmith@stjudesacademy.com!

A message from one of the Grade 6 Exhibition groups:

Donate to people who are homeless

Hi!!, Our names are Mona, Joana, and Shivam. 

We are doing a project called Exhibition where we choose a topic we are interested in and want to research more about in order to make a positive difference in our world. We chose the topic of homelessness because we do not want anyone to be without their basic needs. Every person has the right to have a home and food to eat and clothing to wear.

 We are collecting donations so that we can donate them to Angela’s Place, a homeless shelter right here in Mississauga.

You can donate:

• Non perishable food
• Clothing (for all ages such as Pants, shirts, hats ,shoes and more)
• Toiletries (mouthwash, feminine products, toothpaste, toothbrush, and deodorant)  
• Seasonal clothing
• Baby formula
• Diapers
• Baby products

Reason why we are doing this= Our plan is to help people who are homeless who need food and clothing and any other useful materials. After collecting these materials, we are going to donate all these items to a shelter called “Angela's Place” (45 Glenn Hawthorne Blvd, Mississauga, ON L5R 4J9).

Thank you so much for making the world a better place!

Please bring items to Ms. Jaskolka's class (Room 30) by Tuesday, April 23rd!

Silent dance forms have been sent home. If you would like to attend, please fill out the permission form and bring in $20 (Cash only please). Forms and money are due Tuesday, April 23rd. 

Inquiry into Language

Today in language we worked on our literature circle roles for this week. A kind reminder that literature circles are due on Thursday. This is the second last week of our literature circles meetings before our culminating activity. We will also have our spelling test on Thursday.

Hatchet

Due dates for Hatchet:

Chapters 1-3 due Friday, March 29^th

Chapters 4-6 due Friday, April 5^th
Chapters 7-9 due Friday, April 12^th

Chapters 10-12 due Thursday, April 18^th

Chapters 13-15 due Friday, April 26^th

Chapters 16-19 will be a culminating activity with due date to be announced.

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today in math we began our new unit: transformation geometry. Today we focused on translations. A translation is when a figure slides from one place to another. For example, if you have the point A (5,3) and you translate it four squares right and one square down, the new point will be A' (9,2). We say 'A prime' and write A’ when referring to the points on the new image. Remember when a figure is translated, all of the points are translated by the same value. 

In class we worked on a sheet about translations (lesson 1). If that sheet was not completed, please complete it for homework tonight. Also, please complete the translation of shapes sheet (front and back) for homework, due tomorrow. 

In-class practice work

Answers

The Human Grid

More practice..

Unit of Inquiry

Today we continued working on our UOI summative. For this summative students will research a species of their choice and create a podcast to inform the rest of us about the species they chose. It may be an audio or video podcast. The podcast is due on Friday, April 26^th.

Our final unit of the year will be about coding. All students will be required to have a working laptop, not device, for this unit. They will be expected to bring it to school each and every day. Students will also be expected have their own email account. A Gmail account is preferred, as we can easily share our projects. Our coding unit begin on Monday, April 29th.

Homework/ Reminders:

- Math translation sheet (front and back)

- Sign and return math test

- Easter spirit day Thursday 

- NO school Friday/ Monday

- Silent dance April 23

Important Dates/Items:

Thursday, April 18 – SITS workshop & Easter Spirit Day

Friday, April 19-Monday, April 22 – No School – Easter Weekend

Wednesday, April 24 – Bake sale & casual day
Thursday, April 25 - Summer uniforms begin
Friday, April 26 – Rock climbing & bake sale & wine and cheese night
Tuesday, April 30 – Silent Dance

Friday, May 3 - Grade 6 Exhibition

Tuesday, May 7 - JK-Grade 2 Arts' Night

Thursday, May 9 - Shakespeare Play

Tuesday, May 14 - Grade 3-8 Arts' Night

Friday, May 17 - Monday, May 20 - No School - Victoria Day Weekend

Have a wonderful night!

Love,
Ms. Cass