Good Afternoon Everyone!

I hope you had a terrific night! It was great to see most of you at the BBQ! Monday is day 2 (Library). Please make sure you have your library books with you. Also, Monday is PJ day for those who paid!

Our Fall Fundraiser is HERE! 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. Permission forms for Glow Zone were sent home today. For those families who have already paid the $40, all I will need is your signature! It is not too late to be able to attend Glow Zone. Just bring in your $40 and permission form and you are all set!

Daily Activities – Each activity costs $2.00!!

Monday, September 23rd is PJ Day. A lucky student will also have a chance to sit in a teachers chair!

Tuesday, September 24th is Popcorn Day. A lucky student will also have a chance to silly string a teacher!

Wednesday, September 25th is Ice Cream Sandwich Day. A lucky student will also have a chance to decorate Mr. Oliver’s face with makeup!

Thursday, September 26th is Wacky Thursday. A lucky student will also have a chance to style a teacher’s hair!

Friday, September 27th is Casual Day and Dance Party (JK-Grade 2) and Electronics Day and Casual Day (Grade 3-6). A lucky student will also have a chance to pie a teacher in the face with a pie!

Tuesday, October 1^st, 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 25^th. There is no cost to this activity.

October Lunches

Site is now open. 

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

Polar Expressions is back again this year and they are looking for students to have the chance to publish poems and short stories in an upcoming book. Information sheets have been sent. Students who are interested in this competition can do so on their own time, as class time will not be given. The deadline for poems is November 29^th and the deadline for short stories is December 6^th.

Congratulations to our star student of the week, Alexander. M! 

Inquiry into Language

Today we wrote spelling test #2. Please sign and return spelling books on Monday, along with any corrections x 5. We had some time to reach chapter 6 and 7 in class. If it was not completed in class please read both chapters over the weekend. Please do not do the questions, as we will work on these on Tuesday in class. Once we finished our spelling test, we started to work on our orange shirt day badges. Orange Shirt Day (September 30th) is a day when we honour the Indigenous children who were sent away to residential schools in Canada and learn more about the history of those schools.

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today in math we explored multiplying whole numbers. Please see the step by step example of how to multiply 2 whole numbers by 2 whole numbers. We also started on our math homework and played the game in our MMS books. 

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.  

A prime number has only two factors, 1 and itself. For example, 5 ( 1 x 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.

We can use mental math to add by rearranging and using compatible numbers. For example:  60 + 35 + 40
 60 + 35 + 40 = (60+40)+35
= 100+35
=135

Remember changing the order of the numbers being added or multiples does not change the sum of the product!

We can use mental math to multiply by rearranging and using compatible numbers. For example: 4 x 19 x 25.
4 x 19 x 25=  19 x (4 x 25)
= 19 x 100
= 1900

We can also break one fo the numbers apart to make numbers that are simple to work with. For example: 6 x 27.
6 x 27 = 6 (20 x 7)
= (6x20) + (6 x7)
= 120 + 42
= 162

Remember when you are adding and subtracting that your ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, and ten thousands column should always line up! 

    1234

+ 1234

----------

   2345

- 1234

---------Remember when checking your work (using the inverse operation) for subtraction you take your larger number and subtract it from your answer. Or you can add your answer and the bottom number together to get your top number. 

Unit of Inquiry

Today in UOI we learned about mixtures vs. solutions. A mixture is made when you combine two substances and neither substance dissolves, and a solution is made when you mix two substances and one of them dissolves. Ask me which ones were solutions or mixtures

We used the following materials with water: food colouring, salt, sand, and oil.

 Our materials 

Mixture - oil

Solution and mixture - salt

Solution - sand

Mixture - food colouring

Homework/ Reminders:
- MMS Math pg. 28-29 due Monday

- Read chapters 6/7 for Monday

- Finish orange shirt day badge
- Spelling test signed and corrections x 5 due Monday

- Golf permission form due Sept 25

- Fall fundraiser pledges due Sept 27th

Important dates/items:

September 20-27 - Fall Fundraiser
September 24 and 25 - Bake Sale 
Wednesday, September 25 - Casual Day and golf permission forms due

Friday, September 27 - Fall fundraiser pledges and forms due
Monday, September 30 - Orange Shirt Day
Friday, October 4^th – Nea Archi Event (for new families), 7 pm – 9 pm

Have a fabulous weekend!

Ms. Cass

Ms. Cass