I hope you had a great day! Tomorrow is day 3 (Gym and Music). Please wear your gym clothes to school and bring your gym shoes. Also, please ensure you bring your instrument back to school tomorrow. Aftercare payments are due Friday, November 15th.
Our next field trip will be to the ROM on Thursday, November 21st. 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 have been sent home and are due back, along with payments by Friday, November 8th. The price of this trip is $32 and includes our transportation and admission to the tour. If you are interested in volunteering, please ensure you have a Vulnerable Sector Screen on file with the school prior to the trip. If you have already submitted one, please be sure to sign our annual defence declaration at the front reception.
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.
A quick message about Caribou:
The next Caribou Contest takes place on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019. Participants are to arrive at 7:15 am for a 7:30 am start. Bring a charged device, preferably a laptop, iPad or Tablet. You have one hour to write the test.
This month’s test includes an interactive question. The interactive question will differ by grade: Tangram for Grades 2 to 4, Chomp for Grades 5 to 10, and finally a GeomeTree construction involving triangles for Grades 11/12. You can practice these now on Caribou’s Games page. Let Caribou know if you have any problems with the games.Caribou strongly recommends familiarizing yourselves with these games before the contest. Because certain games pages can be used to solve the questions, these will be blocked from Tuesday morning, November 12th, (start of the contest in the far East) to Thursday evening, November 15th at 8 pm EST.
For Grades 3 to 12, there will be a history question about Emmy Noether. Students in these grades should read the relevant section of Caribou’s History page in your preferred language to prepare.
Science Fair:
Book Fair:
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 continued to work on writing our narratives. Tomorrow and Tuesday we will be practicing writing narrative pieces on inanimate objects to prepare for our OWA (Ontario Writing Assessment) Post-Assessment. Students will choose a word from the bowl to see which object they will be writing about.
We also had some technology time to practice our typing.
We also had some technology time to practice our typing.
Inquiry into Mathematics
Today we learned how to sort and classify figures in different ways. A regular figure has sides that are all equal and all angles are equal. An irregular figure has sides and angles of any length and size. Convex Polygons have angles less than 180 degrees, and concave polygons have at least one reflex angle.
As of now we are aiming to have our unit test for Tuesday, November 19th.
Points to Remember
Acute Angle is less than 90°
Right Angle is 90° exactly
Obtuse Angle is greater than 90° but less than 180°
Straight Angle is 180° exactly
Reflex Angle is greater than 180°
Full Rotation is 360° exactly
Here is a video on how to calculate a reflex angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBOeW6fgYd8
Unit of Inquiry
Today we learned that the Greeks traveled by boat and used a rock and rope as an anchor. Students also read and completed activity worksheets on the clothing of men and women, the daily life in Greece, what life was like in Athens and Sparta, and how it differed for girls and boys. Lastly, we read about Alexander The Great, Archimedes, Hippocrates, Pythagoras, and Aristotle.
Today we learned that the Greeks traveled by boat and used a rock and rope as an anchor. Students also read and completed activity worksheets on the clothing of men and women, the daily life in Greece, what life was like in Athens and Sparta, and how it differed for girls and boys. Lastly, we read about Alexander The Great, Archimedes, Hippocrates, Pythagoras, and Aristotle.
For our Ancient Civilizations summative students will be 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
Using a dictionary to research the word tunic
Homework/ Reminders:
- MMS pg. 36-37 due tomorrow
- Finish narrative good copy due tomorrow
- UOI complete up ways of life for boys and girls
- Spelling test tomorrow
- Finish narrative good copy due tomorrow
- UOI complete up ways of life for boys and girls
- Spelling test tomorrow
- ROM permission form tomorrow
- NO SCHOOL FRIDAY OR MONDAY
- NO SCHOOL FRIDAY OR MONDAY
Important dates/items:
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
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
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