Monday, September 16, 2019

Good Afternoon Everyone!

I hope you had a wicked weekend! Tomorrow is day 4 (Library).


Thursday, September 19th is our SJA and Oakwood Welcome Back BBQ, which will take place from 4:00-5:30 PM out in our back recess area. 


Our Fall Fundraiser is quickly approaching! What used to be our Spring Fundraiser is now our Fall Fundraiser and we need your help. This year, all funds raised will go towards our Art Productions, physical activity equipment and more Chromebooks. There will be a variety of exciting events and amazing prizes for students to win through their participation. These include sitting in the teacher chair for a day and decorating Mr. Oliver’s face with makeup!! The class who brings in the most money will win a pizza and movie party. For students in Grade 3-6 who bring in a minimum of $40 on top of the daily activities will attend a trip to Glow Zone and those students in JK-Grade 2 will attend a trip to Kidsport. Please complete all forms and send in cash only no later than this Wednesday, September 18th.

Daily Activities – Each activity costs $2.00!!
Monday, September 23rd is PJ Day.
Tuesday, September 24th is Popcorn Day. 
Wednesday, September 25th is Ice Cream Sandwich Day.
Thursday, September 26th is Wacky Thursday.
Friday, September 27th is Casual Day and Dance Party (JK-Grade 2) and Electronics Day and Casual Day (Grade 3-6).

Tuesday, October 1st, is our first extracurricular activity of the year. We will be heading to The Old Pro Driving Range. We will be leaving at 9:30 AM and we will return by 12:00 PM to have lunch. Students will be required to wear their SJA gym uniform, outdoor shoes, and must dress according to the weather, as this will be an outdoor activity. Permission forms were sent home today and are due back no later than Wednesday, September 25th. There is no cost to this activity.
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


Unit of Inquiry

Today in UOI we explored mass and volume further. We had a mystery box and learned how to find the mass and volume of the box. We started off with a box and unknown items in the box. We used our observation skills and used our five senses to guess what was in the box without looking in it. Then we weighed the box and the unknown items. Then we used our formula for volume (lxwxh) to find the total about of volume the box holds. Next, we discovered all of the items that were in the box (a spelling book, scissors, a glue stick, a clipboard, markers, and crayons). Finally, we weighed the box when it had no items it in and found the volume of the box again. We discovered that even when you take everything out of the box the volume doesn't change, but the weight does!
Using our five sense to help with make our observations



















Writing observations

Items in our box


How much the box weighs with objects in it

How much the box itself weighs


Inquiry into Mathematics
Today we explored prime and composite numbers. A prime number has only two factors, 1 and itself. For example, 5. A composite numberhas more than 2 factors. For example, 12. What is a factor you ask? Factors are the number in a multiplication sentence that you multiply together to get the product (the answer). For example the factors in 2 x 3 = 6 are 2 and 3.



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 and 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

Multiples can be found by starting at the number and counting on by that number. For example, multiples of 4 are 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, etc. Multiples of 6 are 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, etc. 

A common multiple is a number that is a multiple of each of two or more given numbers. For example, common multiples of 4 and 6 are 12, 24, and 36 as those numbers appear in the multiples list (4 and 6). Each common multiple of 4 and 6 is divisible by 4 and 6.  

Inquiry into Language

 Today in language we began on spelling lesson #2: words with the hard and soft c and g sounds. Spelling lesson #2 is due on Wednesday and we will have our spelling test on Friday. Please read chapter 3 for homework tonight. 







Homework/ Reminders:
- MMS Math pg. 20-21 due tomorrow
- Read Chapter 3
- Spelling due Wednesday
- Golf permission form due Sept 25


Important dates/items:
Thursday, September 19 - Welcome BBQ from 4-5:30pm
September 20-27 - Fall Fundraiser
September 24 and 25 - Bake Sale 
Wednesday, September 25 - Casual Day and golf permission forms due
Monday, September 30 - Orange Shirt Day
Friday, October 4th – Nea Archi Event (for new families), 7 pm – 9 pm


Have a wonderful night!


Ms. Cass

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