I hope you had a terrific weekend! Tomorrow is day 2. We have Christmas concert practice first thing in the morning thus we will not have gym tomorrow. Please come to school dressed in your school day uniform.
Student-led Conferences are just around the corner. They will happen on Thursday, December 5th. Pick A Time sheets have gone home with all of the required information. The system is now live. Please be sure to correctly follow the login information using the information at the top right hand side of the paper. Please note that all conferences will last 10 minutes and an alarm will be used to keep everyone on track. If you are late for your appointment, only the remaining time will be given. I thank you in advance for your cooperation.
The SJA Parent Guild is once again hosting the St. Jude’s Academy Christmas Skate. It will take place on December 12th. The price is $10 per students and includes skating, hot chocolate and treats. Santa will also be there for selfies. Skate rentals are also available for $16, as are helmets for $8. All order forms are due back by December 2nd. You can send in the payment via cash, cheque or by e-transfer. **Please ensure both sides of the form are filled in!**
Our SJA Student Council is holding a clothing drive from Monday, December 2- Friday, December 6. Please bring in gently used clothing that you no longer need. All donations will go to the Diabetes Association. Thank you in advance for your donations!!
Our SJA Student Council is holding a clothing drive from Monday, December 2- Friday, December 6. Please bring in gently used clothing that you no longer need. All donations will go to the Diabetes Association. Thank you in advance for your donations!!
Our next extra-curricular activity is skiing/snowboarding at Glen Eden Ski Resort. The dates of the trip are January 22, February 19 and March 4. We will be leaving at 7:00 AM and returning by 4:00 PM at the latest. All rentals are included, however students are more than welcome to bring their own. Please do not order hot lunch for these days as we will be eating lunch at the ski hill – students are welcome to bring money to purchase food and drink items. Students must ensure they are dressed in appropriate ski gear; warm socks, long johns with comfy clothes, snow pants, warm mitts, a face protector and a ski jacket. Please note that if students chose skiing, they will ski all three times. If students pick snowboarding, they will snowboard all three times. All students will have to pass each level before they are granted permission to ski on the big hill, no matter what their experience. Permission forms andwaivers are due back no later than Thursday, December 12. Please thoroughly complete all forms before returning.
Our Christmas Concert rehearsals are well underway. We are dancing to Deck the Halls Rap. Please see the link below for our song and the opening song, ‘So Good to Be Bad’
Deck the Halls Rap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsxGxgwWEwc
Good To Be Bad
We are asking our amazing SJA Community to
come show school spirit and support
for our St. Jude’s Academy Senior Basketball Team
on
on
Tuesday, December 3 at 3:30 pm
This will be our first basketball game of the season!
Place: St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School
Place: St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School
2800 Erin Centre Blvd, Mississauga, ON L5M 6R5
Inquiry into Language
Today students wrote spelling lesson #13 words in their agendas and began to work on their spelling lesson. This week we are learning to spell words with prefixes un, in, dis and trans.
Inquiry into Mathematics
Today we learned to divide decimals by 10, 100, 1000 and 10 000. If you are dividing a number by 10, you move the decimal 1 place to the left. If you are dividing a number by 100, you move the decimal 2 places to the left. If you are dividing a number by 1000, you move the decimal 3 places to the left. If you are dividing a number by 10 000, you move the decimal 4 places to the left.
As of right now our test well be Friday, December 13th.
Points to Remember
Most large numbers are written in short form instead of having to write the large number in standard form. For example, 5 ½ million is written in standard form as 5, 500, 000. 42, 400, 000 can be written as the decimal 42.4 million. Keep in mind the rounding rules; 0-4 round to the floor, 5-9 round to the sky.
Exploring thousands and writing them as fractions and decimals. We used a place value chart to help us.
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Ones
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Tenths
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Hundredths
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Thousandths
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We also used base ten blocks to help. Please see picture below. A fraction is written as 314/1000. We say it as three-hundred and fourteen thousandths. The decimal would be 0.314.
Comparing and Ordering Decimals: There is 3 different ways that we can order decimals. The first way we can order decimals is by using base ten blocks, the second way is using a place-value chart, and lastly we can use a timeline.
Rounding Decimals: we can round decimals to the nearest whole number, nearest tenth and the nearest hundredths. To help us round we can use a number line or use our rounding rules. If its 0-4 we round down and if its 5-9 we round up.
When finding the sum we can use 3 different strategies to help us. We can round the decimal to the nearest whole number, round only 1 decimal to the nearest whole, and round the decimals to the nearest tenth or hundredth. When finding the difference we can use 2 different strategies. We can round the decimal being subtracted to the nearest whole, and rounding both decimals to the nearest tenth or hundredth.
Rounding Decimals: we can round decimals to the nearest whole number, nearest tenth and the nearest hundredths. To help us round we can use a number line or use our rounding rules. If its 0-4 we round down and if its 5-9 we round up.
When finding the sum we can use 3 different strategies to help us. We can round the decimal to the nearest whole number, round only 1 decimal to the nearest whole, and round the decimals to the nearest tenth or hundredth. When finding the difference we can use 2 different strategies. We can round the decimal being subtracted to the nearest whole, and rounding both decimals to the nearest tenth or hundredth.
When you multiply a number by 10, you move the decimal 1 place to the right
When you multiply a number by 100, you move the decimal 2 places to the right
When you multiply a number by 1000, you move the decimal 3 places to the right
When you multiply a number by 10 000, you move the decimal 4 places to the right
Unit of Inquiry
Today we began our new unit: Human Body. We watched short clips about each system we will be studying: the skeletal system, the circulatory system, the respiratory system and the digestive system. The first system we will be focusing on is the skeletal system. Students began working on fill in the blank activities and diagrams. For our summative, students will be completing a mini-exhibition project. As of now the due date will be towards the end of January; more info to come!
Homework/ Reminders:
- MMS pg. 58-59 due tomorrow
- Spelling lesson #13 due Wednesday
- Student- Led conferences on Thursday
- Bring in clothes for clothing drive due Friday
- Skiing forms due December 12th
- Skating forms due today
- Spelling lesson #13 due Wednesday
- Student- Led conferences on Thursday
- Bring in clothes for clothing drive due Friday
- Skiing forms due December 12th
- Skating forms due today
Important dates/items:
Friday, December 6 – Polar Expressions Short Stories due & December hot lunch payments due
Thursday, December 5 – Student Led Conferences
Friday, December 6 – Polar Expressions Short Stories due & December hot lunch payments due
Tuesday, December 10 – JK-Grade 2 Christmas Concert
Thursday, December 12 – Ski forms and waivers due
Tuesday, December 17 – Grade 3-8 Christmas Concert
Wednesday, December 18 – Casual Day for those students who have paid the $20 casual day fee
Thursday December 19 – Christmas Spirit Day
Friday, December 20- Tuesday, January 7 – No School – Christmas holidays
Wednesday, January 8 – First Day Back After Christmas Holidays
Have a wonderful night!
Ms. Cass
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