The next Caribou contest will be taking place Wednesday, January 15th.Arrive at 7:15 am for a 7:30 am start. Bring your own charged device. The interactive question will be FRUIT SALAD which you can practice now on Caribou’s games page. This is a new game. Students, please test it and let Caribou know of any problems. There is no history question in the January contest.
Dear SJA Families,
Our Junior Kindergarten (JK) Registration season is fast approaching and we wanted to reach out to all of our families and friends to ensure that you are offered priority enrolment in our JK Program for the 2020-2021 academic year. Please let us know if you are interested in enrolling your child in our JK Program by Friday, January 10, 2020 at 4:00 pm. After this date and time, the spots will open up to new families on the waitlists.
If you are interested in enrolling your child in either program, please contact us and we will send you a registration package.
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.
Inquiry into Language
Today we hopped right into speeches. We read an example of a persuasive paragraph and students began to write paragraph #1. Remember to bring a device all week to use as a resource! We will type up the whole speech once we have finished our rough work.
Inquiry into Mathematics
Today in math students wrote the pre-assessment for our Data Management Unit. Tomorrow we will learn how to interpret data. We interpret data by inferring. Inferring is a conclusion we reach by reasoning. We also learned that data can be displayed using a line graph, bar graph and a circle graph.
Data Management is a short unit. Our test for this unit will consist of students creating a survey question, surveying a certain number of students, creating three separate graphs and inferring information from their graphs. This will roughly take 3 days to complete. As of now, it will begin Friday, January 17 and continue till Tuesday, January 21. Please note no review will be completed for this unit. Our next math unit is also a short one, Patterns in Numbers and Geometry, and will take us until the first week of February.
Unit of Inquiry
Today we started a new system: the respiratory system. Today students complete a fill in the blank activity and learned how we breathe, completed a diagram of the respiratory system and completed a word scramble. If it was not completed in class it is for homework due tomorrow. Please study the respiratory system and the circulatory system.
Next week we will begin our summative, which will take us until Thursday, January 30, when presentations will take place. This summative will consist of groups, which I will put together, researching and preparing a presentation about a human body system that we did not cover in class. Students will be using their summative package, which we hope to have by Monday, to assist them in completing the summative. Students will be responsible for including a diagram of the system, what organs are part of that system, how the system works, what that system is responsible for, how that system is connected to others in the body, and how to keep that system healthy.
Homework:
- Write and complete Paragraph #1 due tomorrow
- MMS pg. 68-69 due tomorrow
- Bring in device tomorrow
- Study the respiratory system and the circulatory system for tomorrow
Important dates/items:
January 15 - Personal Project Showcase and After care payments due
January 22 - Ski trip to Glen Eden
January 24 - Town Hall, 7pm - 9 pm (State of the School Discussion)
January 30 - Casual Day
February 6 - Oral Competition: JK - Grade 3
February 7 - Oral Competition: Grade 4 - Grade 8
February 8 - Open House, 10 am – 2 pm
February 10 - Year Ahead Day
February 13 - 100th Day of School
February 13 - Spirit Day: Valentine's Day Dress Up
February 14 - PD Day, IB Training (No School for Students)
February 19 - Second ski to Glen Eden
Have a great night!
Ms. Cass
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