Good afternoon everyone!
I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend.
Gym – The students started the day doing gym with Mr. Orr, which you can read about on his blog (http://tysonorr.blogspot.com)
Inquiry into Language – We started our week with our seventh lesson of spelling for the year. Today, we focussed on the long ‘a’ and long ‘o’ sounds. The vowel pairsai(as in drain) and ay (decay) make the long ‘a’ sound, and the vowel pairs oa(cocoa) and ow (borrow) make the long ‘o’ sound. We have our spelling test this week on Thursday to give us more time for our Ontario Writing Assessment on Friday.
Music – Then, we had music with Mr. Oliver, which you can read about on his blog (https://mrolivermusicclass.blogspot.com).
French - In the afternoon, we had French with Mme. Rawan, which you can read about on her blog (https://mmerawansja.blogspot.com).
Inquiry into Math – Today, we started our new unit of math, which is measurement. We started by discussing the different time zones in Canada, and how to calculate the times across the country. We also had a very lively discussion on how the time zones were actually formed and how we get our times and seasons (why days are shorter during the winter and longer during the summer).
A time zone tells us what time it is in different places in the world. We can have standard time, or daylight time. This is why sometimes you will see Eastern Standard time, or Eastern Daylight time. Standard time is for the winter and spring, and daylight time (when there is more daylight) is during the summer and fall. There are six main time zones in Canada: Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern, Atlantic, and Newfoundland. We are in the Eastern time zone. Related to us, the time zones follow this pattern:
- · Pacific – 3 hours behind
- · Mountain – 2 hours behind
- · Central – 1 hour behind
- · Eastern – on time
- · Atlantic – 1 hour ahead
- · Newfoundland – 1.5 hours ahead
We worked as a class on a few examples, and had some time in the class to complete the assigned homework.
Inquiry into Matter – We finished our matter unit today. We completed our KWL charts by filling in 5 things we had learned about matter throughout our unit. After this, we completed our reflection of our favourite part of the unit, and how we were inquirers and reflective during the unit.
Inquiry into Ancient Civilizations – We started our new Unit of Inquiry, which is Ancient Civilizations. We did a KWL chart, filling in what we know already, and what we want to know. We are excited to kick off our new UOI.
For homework:
All homework for the day is placed here, but time may have been given in class to complete this work.
A couple of quick reminders:
- · 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 this Thursday, October 25th– forms were sent home yesterday.
o Students must come dressed in their full school uniform.
- · We have our monthly bake sale next Tuesday and Wednesday (October 30th& 31st).
- · We have a casual day next Tuesday, October 30th.
- · We have a Halloween Spirit Day next Wednesday, October 31st.
o Students can come dressed up and show their Halloween Spirit. Costumes should not include any masks, face paint, or anything too scary.
- Lunch orders for November are due by October 26th (please remember we are on our trip to the ROM on November 8th).
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
