Friday, October 19th

Good afternoon everyone!

I hope everyone has had a great week. We have definitely had a busy week here in grade five. 

Inquiry into Matter – After 6 weeks of studying matter, we have completed our first unit of inquiry. We did our final presentations on matter today (our science fair projects). Thank you grade fives for all of your hard work and all of your inquiry. We had some excellent presentations and demonstrations today.

Inquiry into Language – After our presentations, we read Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. We finished chapter sixteen and worked diligently on our comprehension work to finish it at school.

In the afternoon, we had French with Mme. Rawan, which you can read about on her blog (link on the left).

Inquiry into Math – Today, we wrote our final assessment for our second math unit, Number Patterns. 

Inquiry into Language - We read Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. We finished chapter seventeen and worked diligently on our comprehension work to finish it at school.

For homework:

You will notice in the homework that I encouraged the students to do something they love this weekend. They've been working very hard, and it is important to remember to take care of ourselves among all of that.

A couple of quick reminders:

• Starting last week, students need to wear their winter uniform, so ALL 7 pieces. We had a few uniform slip-ups last week; this week and ongoing, the expectation is full winter uniform every day.

o  Black leather dress shoes

o  Navy blue socks

o  St. Jude’s grey pants or skirts

o  St. Jude’s button up white shirt (long sleeve)

o  St. Jude’s sweater vest

o  Academic tie (Monday-Thursday) & House Colour Tie (Friday)

o  St. Jude’s Blazer

• Picture Day is next Thursday, October 25^th– forms were sent home yesterday.
• On Monday, a permission form was sent home for our trip to the ROM (for Ancient Greece) on November 8^th. We have to confirm with the ROM regarding our numbers by next Monday, October 22^nd. Therefore, all permission forms must be submitted by next Monday – no exceptions. Late forms cannot, and will not be accepted.

As always, please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns by email, and I will respond as quickly as possible.

Mr. Conte