Monday, October 21, 2019

Good Afternoon Everyone!

I hope you had a fabulous weekend! Tomorrow is day 3 (Gym and Music). Please wear your gym clothes and bring your gym shoes to school. Tomorrow is also our Scientist in the School Workshop. We will participating in the afternoon session. Students will remain at school and will wear their school day uniform . Casual Day forms have been sent home. If you would like your child to participate, please complete the form and send in the $20 cash to me no later than October 25th. 
A note from Ms. Hayward - October 17 marked the first day of Secret Path Week.
Commemorating the legacies of Gord Downie (died Oct. 17, 2017)and Chanie Wenjack (died Oct. 23, 1966 - died after running away from residential school and attempting to walk home). Calling on Canadians to answer Downie’s call to action to “DO SOMETHING” to learn about Residential Schools, their impact on Canadian Indigenous people and communities and Canada as a whole, and to learn about and celebrate Indigenous Culture as an  important part of Canadian culture.


As you may notice, the Library Bulletin Board this week is all about ReconciliACTION.  It features challenges, mostly from the Indian Horse Next150 Challenges site.  Each challenge aims to promote learning about indigenous culture and indigenous rights.  I hope we can try different challenges on our own or as classes (photos, lists, etc. can be added to the bulletin board).

I'd like to challenge you to do a challenge with your class at some point in the year (and share with me so we can add it to the library boards/blogs).  Or share something else you've done to learn about indigenous culture.

This week I've completed the "Whose Land Challenge".  I want to challenge you/your class to do the same and have students present a proper acknowledgement at morning announcements.


November Lunches
The lunch site is now open
It will close Wednesday, October 30th at 3:00pm 

Special of the month: Chicken Stir Fry which is available every Friday

All payments are to be made through quickbooks by November 6th.

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 29th and the deadline for short stories is December 6th

 Inquiry into Language
Today we wrote our spelling words in our agendas and worked on spelling lesson #7. This week we are focusing on words with vowel pairs ai, ay,oa, and ow spell the long a and long o sounds. Some students began on Percy Jackson corrections from the weekend. We also had some time to practice our typing on typingclub.com












Inquiry into Mathematics
Today we explored 12h and 24h clocks and learned about elapsed time. We created our own 24h clocks to help use covert between 12h and 24h clocks. Students also began on tonights homework. 
** Before 10:00am, you write a 0 in front of the hour. After noon, you ad 12 to the hour. For example: 2 o'clock in the afternoon would be 12:00 + 2:00 = 14:00 24- hour notation 


Points to Remember

The small hand tells the hour, the large hand tells the minutes, and the skinny hand tells the seconds.

Every small mark on a clock represents the minutes. The total number of minutes between each number on a clock is 5.

A quarter after is 15 minutes after, half-past is 30 minutes after, and a quarter to is 15 minutes to the next hour. 

AM – 12:00 midnight to 11:59 AM
PM – 12:00 noon to 11:59 PM

12:00 = 00:00
1:00 = 13:00
2:00 = 14:00
3:00 = 15:00
4:00 = 16:00
5:00 = 17:00
6:00 = 18:00
7:00 = 19:00
8:00 = 20:00
9:00 = 21:00
10:00 = 22:00
11:00 = 23:00
12:00 = 24:00

 Unit of Inquiry
Today we began our new unit of inquiry: Ancient Civilizations. In this unit we will cover ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Today we began our unit by going over our central idea, key concepts, lines on inquiry, and related concepts. We also watched three short clips about each civilization and started our " I wonder" wall.
The summative for this unit will have students recreating an ancient artifact from one of the civilizations we studied. More information to come closer to the end of the unit! As of now, we will be beginning the summative the week of November 18th with a due date of Friday, November 29th.


Our Scientists in the School workshop is tomorrow Tuesday, October 22nd. We will be completing the workshop during te morning. Please note that reimbursements will not be given for students who are absent the day of the workshop. All students are required to be in their full school day winter uniform.





Homework/ Reminders:
- MMS pg 82-83 due tomorrow
- SITS tomorrow
- Gym tomorrow
- Spelling lesson #7 due Wednesday
- Percy Jackson corrections due tomorrow 
- Casual day form and money due October 25

Important dates/items:
Tuesday, October 22 - SITS Workshop on Matter
Tuesday, October 29 – Picture Day
Wednesday, October 30 – Casual Day 
Thursday, October 31 – Halloween/Harvest Spirit Day
Tuesday, November 5 – Guy Fawkes Day
Friday, November 8-Monday, November 11 – No School – Remembrance Day
Wednesday, November 13 – Kindness Day
Friday, November 15 – SJA’s annual Science Fair
Wednesday, November 20 – Picture Retakes
Wednesday, November 27 – Casual Day – please ensure you have paid the $20 cash for casual day
Friday, November 29 – Term 1 Report Cards Go Home

Have a wonderful night!

Ms. Cass
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