Good Afternoon Everyone!

I hope you had a terrific night! Monday is day 3 (Gym and Music). Please bring your gym clothes and shoes to school. If you brought your instrument home over the weekend please make sure you bring it back to school and return it to Mr. Oliver's room. 

October Lunches

Site opens September, 13th at 7:30am 

Site closes Wednesday, September 25th at 3:00pm 

Special of the month: 3 pancakes with vanilla cream with an option of syrup for $5.00 OR 1 pancake with vanilla cream with an option of syrup for $2.50 on Fridays. 

All payments are to be made through quickbooks. 

** A kind reminder to please order under the correct teacher and grade! For example: Cass, Grade 5

This week in our class we started a new thing! We started our star student of the week. Each Friday I will select a student who has shown the IB Learner Profiles and Attitudes! Congratulations, Daksh! Stay tuned to see who are star student of the week is next week. 

Our Terry Fox Run! Congratulations to KAPPA for winning the total amount of laps challenge!! This year we raised over $3 500!! Great job St. Jude's. Thank you to everyone who donated!

Inquiry into Language

Today in language students wrote their first spelling test. Please sign and return spelling tests on Monday, and please complete any corrections x 5. We also went over the expectations when completing Percy Jackson comprehension question. I am looking for full sentences that begin with a capital letter and end with either a period, exclamation point, or question mark. To use part of the question in the answer, for example: Q: What kind of school is Yancy Academy? Yancy Academy is a School for troubled kids in upstate New York. I reminded them to use the book to help with spelling and to be sure to answer each question completely, with support from the book.

We also had our first day of technology. Students started to practice their typing by learning the home row.

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today in math we explore multiples and common multiples. We started off our class by doing an explore activity to find out how many people received t-shirts, ball-caps, or both from a radio station contest by using multiples of 3 and 7. Then we found the multiples and common multiples for 4 and 6. When finding common multiples, write out all the multiples first and then go and find the multiples that are in common. 

For example

Multiples of 4: 4, 8, 12, 16, 18

Multiples of 6: 6, 12, 18

The common multiples are 12 and 18

A Common Multiple is a number that is a multiple of two or more numbers

Points to Remember

Multiplication and division strategies - For example, for multiplication 100 x 10 = 1,000 (we multiply 1 x 1 to get 1 and then add 3 zeros – 2 in 100 and 1 in 10 = 1,000) and for division 1,000,000/100,000 = 10 (1/1 = 1 and then we took away 5 zeros from 100,000 and 5 zeros from 1,000,000 which left us with 10).

Standard form is 3,961. 
Expanded form would be 3,000 + 900 + 60 + 1 
Number-word form would be 3 thousand, 961. 

We also realized that when using a place value chart, each group of three place values is called a period. With in each period the digits of a number are read as hundred, tens, and ones.

Place value chart:

Millions Period

Thousands Period

Units Period

H M	T M	M	H T	T T	T	H	T	O

H M – hundred million

T M – ten million

M – million

H T – hundred thousand

T T – ten thousand

T – thousand

H – hundreds

T – tens

O – ones

Unit of Inquiry

Today in UOI we learned about mass, volume, weight, and density. We did a fill in the blank activity and found out how much we would weigh if we went to the moon! Ask me the secret equation! 

Homework/ Reminders:
- MMS Math pg. 18-19 due Monday
- Corrections for Chapter 1 and 2 due Monday

- Bring gym clothes

- Sign spelling test

- Spelling corrections x 5

Important dates/items:

Thursday, September 19 - Welcome BBQ

September 20-27 - Fall Fundraiser
September 24 and 25 - Bake Sale 
Wednesday, September 25 - Casual Day
Monday, September 30 - Orange Shirt Day
Friday, October 4^th – Nea Archi Event (for new families), 7 pm – 9 pm

Have a wonderful night!

Ms. Cass