I hope you all had a fantastic weekend despite this frigid weather.
A couple of quick reminders:
· Tomorrow is Day 6.
· Summative packages were sent home last week for our summative on the human body. We began working on the summative today. Please read and review the assignment and rubric with your child and let me know if you have any questions (if you have not already).
· 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 Friday for our trip to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. They are due no later than Wednesday, March 6th, 2019.
· Scholastic forms were sent home Friday and are due back by Thursday, January 24thif anyone is ordering.
Inquiry into Language – We started the day by writing our spelling words into our agenda, and starting to work on spelling lesson 17.
Inquiry into the Human Body – Students began working on their summative for our current unit of inquiry (the human body).
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 learning about probabilities. We learned about the different types of probabilities: theoreticaland experimental. A theoreticalprobability is the number of favourable outcomes divided by the number of possible outcomes. For example, if I roll a single die and are hoping to roll a 1, there is a 1/6 chance to roll a 1. This is because my favourable outcome is a 1, and there are six possible outcomes. This is 1/6. An experimental probability is the number of times an outcome occurs divided by the number of times the experiment is conducted. For example, if I roll a die ten times and roll 5 1s, there is a 5/10 chance of rolling a 1. This is because I rolled 5 1s (outcome) divided by the number of times the experiment was performed (10). We will continue with probability tomorrow.
Inquiry into Language – We worked on reading our speeches with each other and practicing timing our speeches. We will be continuing to revise and edit our speeches for time and length all week. We will start the memorizing process once we have our good copies.
For homework:
· Spelling Lesson 17 (due tomorrow)
· MMS Pg. 156 – 157 (due tomorrow)
· Practice speech
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
