Good Afternoon Everyone!

I hope you had a great day! Tomorrow is day 4 (Library and Halloween).  Tomorrow is our Halloween/ Harvest spirit day. Students are welcome to come to school in their Halloween costumes or in harvest colours (brown, orange, black, red, yellow, etc.). No masks, weapons, or scary face paint please. 

Lost and Found: 
Our lost and found items are now located in the gym. If items are not claimed by November 8th at 4pm, all items in the lost and found will be donated to our local Salvation Army. 

Our next extra-curricular activity is curling at the Acton Curling Club. The dates and times of our trips are Monday, November 4^th from 1-2 PM and Monday, November 18^th from 10-11 AM. Permission forms and waivers have been sent home. There is no cost associated with this trip. We are also planning a trip to the ROM on Thursday, November 21^st. It will be an all day trip so please do not order hot lunch for this day, as reimbursements will not be given, nor will hot lunches be saved. Permission forms will be going home early November.

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

Today we celebrated our friends who had birthdays in the month of October. They got to choose a gift from the treasure chest. 

Inquiry into Language

Today students independently read chapter 21. Once completed students began to complete chapter 21 comprehension questions. 

Percy Jackson - Please remember that comprehension questions are to be in full sentences that begin with a capital letter and ending with either a period, exclamation point, or question mark. Please use the book to help with spelling and to be sure to answer each question completely, with support from the book.

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today students first did some review questions on units of length, mass, and capacity before beginning our whole unit review. Some students began on their math review for unit #6. We will take up the review on Friday! Our next unit is Geometry. During this unit we will be investigating angles, classifying figures, constructing figures, and creating nets. This is also a short unit. As of now we are aiming to have our unit test for Tuesday, November 19th. 

As of now our math test for this unit will be Monday, November 4^th.

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. 

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 

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

Estimating using friendly numbers  ( $499.50 + $228.85  e.g. 500 + 200 or 250 = 700 or 750). 

Rounding rules. If a number is 4 and below - let it go (round down) 23 = 20.  3. If the number is 5 and above give it a shove (round up) 26=30.

Friendly numbers  (a way to round or estimate) - $423.99 would round to $400.00 and $789. 11 would round to $800.00. 

Standard amount (eight hundred twenty-two dollars = $822) 

Written form ($745.50 = seven hundred forty-five dollars and 50 cents). We also counted money. Remember what each coin and bill are worth!

To find the surface area of a rectangular prism, multiply each face - length x width (l x w), then add the total area. For rectangular prisms that are congruent (all sides are equal), find the area of all three sides, add them together and then multiply by 2. For example, a rectangular prism with the sides 7 cm height, 15 cm length, and 10 cm width – find the area of front face, 15 x 7 = 105, then find the area of the side face, 10 x 7 = 70, then find the area of the top face, 15 x 10 = 150. Then add up those totals – 105 + 70 + 150 = 325 x 2 = 650 cm squared. When finding the surface area we use units squared (cm squared, m squared, etc.). 

For example: using the picture below.

Area of the front face: 11 cm x 6 cm  = 66 cm squared

Area of the side face: 6 cm x 5 cm = 30 cm squared 

Area of the top face: 11cm x 5 cm = 55 cm squared

( 66 + 30 + 55 ) x 2 = 151 cm squared x 2  = 302 cm squared

Therefore, the surface area of the prism is 302 cm squared

Volume of a rectangular prism: Volume = number of cubes in each layer x number of layers. The number of cubes is length x width and the number of layers is the height, so our formula to find the volume is l x w x h. When finding the volume we use units cubed (cm cubed, m cubed, etc.). 

Cubic Meters  - distance is measured in linear unit – cm, m, km. Area is measured in square units – cm ², m². Volume is measured in cubic units – cm³, m³. Linear units would be the perimeter of an object or the length of a pen. Square units would be the area of a desk or the area of a postage stamp. Cubic units would be the space in an elevator or the space in a closet. 

1 m = 100 cm

1 m² = 10,000 cm²

1 m³ = 1,000,000 cm³

Volume measures the space an object occupies (mL or L), while capacity measures the amount of liquid or gas an object holds (cubic cm or cubic m). Students worked on textbook questions and MMS lesson # 8. If students did not complete lesson #8 it is for homework. 

A few conversions to remember:

1L = 1000 mL

1 cubic cm = 1 mL

1 cubic m = 1000 L

1000 cubic cm = 1 L

Mass is the amount of matter of an object (how much an object weighs). The basic unit of mass is grams. When we add milli to gram (milligram), the milli means thousandths. So, one milligram is one-thousandth of a gram (1 mg = 0.001 g & 1000 mg = 1 g). When we add kilo to gram (kilogram), the kilo means thousands. So, one kilogram is one thousand grams (1 kg = 1000 g & 1 g = 0.001 kg). One tonne is one thousand kilograms (1 t = 1000 kg & 1 kg = 0.001 t). Please see the chart below to help.

	/1000		/1000		/1000	Move the decimal 3 spots to the left
mg	--->	g	--->	kg	--->	t
	X 1000		X 1000		X 1000	Move the decimal 3 spots to right
t	--->	kg	--->	g	--->	mg

Unit of Inquiry

Today we learned about the foods the Romans ate, completed a timeline of Rome, and met Julius Caesar.

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 18^th with a due date of Friday, November 29^th.

Homework/ Reminders:

- Math Package due tomorrow
- Math Review due Friday
- Spelling test on Friday
- Practice Guy Fawkes Poem for tomorrow 
- Return Science fair package tomorrow

- Curling form and waiver due tomorrow 
- Halloween/ Harvest Spirit day tomorrow 
- Math test on Monday

Important dates/items:

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
Thursday, November 21- Trip to the ROM please do not order hot lunch for this day

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 great night!

Ms. Cass