That’s a wrap for this week.
A couple of quick reminders:
· Monday is a Day 5. Students should bring their technology for speech work.
· Summative packages were sent home this week for our upcoming summative on the human body. We will begin working on this on Monday. Please read and review the assignment and rubric with your child and let me know if you have any questions.
· Speech forms were sent home last week. Please sign and return them as soon as possible.
· Aftercare invoices were due on January 15th; if you are unsure if you have any owing amount, please email Ms. Chiappetta at echiappetta@stjudesacademy.com
· The grade ones will be holding a Farmer’s market on January 24th& 25th– all proceeds will go to Sick Kids hospital.
· Re-registration packages are due no later than February 11th, 2019 – at this point we will open registration to the public, and your child will not be guaranteed their spot.
· Permission forms were sent home today for our trip to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. They are due no later than Wednesday, March 6th, 2019.
· Scholatic forms were sent home today and are due back by Thursday, January 24thif anyone is ordering.
Inquiry into the Human Body – This morning, we covered the reproductive system. The girls went with Ms. Cass and Mrs. Hocevar, and the boys were with myself and Mr. Orr. We labelled both male and female reproductive organs, and discussed puberty for each gender. The girls focussed more on what their bodies would go through and the boys did the same. Some of the students did have some questions – they are encouraged to ask us anonymously (through question boxes) and we have also told them they are able to ask you as well.
Inquiry into Language – We wrote out lesson 16 spelling test.
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 – During math, we reviewed information learned in grade four on how to conduct a survey.
First, you need to have a question! You need to provide options for people to choose as a part of your survey.
Next, you need to actually survey people and get their votes on each. It is important to read all your options out first and remind people they can only vote once.
After this, you need to represent your information on a graph.
Finally, you make inferences about what you learned from your graph.
Inquiry into Language – Today, we finished working on our speeches by working on our conclusion. In the conclusion, you need to: clearly restate your opinion, clearly restate your reasons, add an interesting fact to keep the audience thinking, and thank the audience for listening.
Students will be finishing their rough copies this weekend. I am asking parents to help remind the students that they need to put their research into their own words. If I can find their information word for word online, I will ask them to rewrite. Also, they need to understand their own work – if they are using words they cannot translate or saying things they do not understand, they need to rewrite.
We visited the grade two’s today to see their sketches of cultural artefacts! Thank you to Ms. Hughes-Smith and her class for inviting us!
For homework:
· MMS Pg. 78 – 79 (due Monday)
· Complete parts of speech that have not been completed yet
· Read Shannen chapters 6 & 7
All homework for the day is placed here, but time may have been given in class to complete this work.
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
