The week is officially more than half over!
A very quick note: On Monday, the Grade 5 team sent home a notice regarding Fridays lesson for our current unit of inquiry into the human body. On Friday, January 18th, all students will spend the period learning about both reproductive systems. We will focus on images, proper terminology and puberty. Mrs. Hocevar and Ms. Cass will be teaching the girls, and myself and Mr. Orr will be teaching the boys. Please have a read and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
A couple of quick reminders:
· Tomorrow is a Day 3.
· Summative packages were sent home yesterday 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.
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 reviewed what an adjective is today during language. An adjectiveis a word that is used to describe a noun. We did some examples to review our knowledge of adjective.
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 continued our inquiry into data management by reviewing how to plot a point on a grid. An ordered pairis a pair of numbers that tell us where a point is found on a grid. The originis where the horizontal and vertical axes meet. This point is (0, 0). The horizontalaxis is the axis that goes from side to side. The verticalaxis is the axis that goes up and down.
In an ordered pair, there are two numbers. The first number is the horizontal point, and the second number is the vertical point. We will continue this learning tomorrow.
Inquiry into the Human Body – Today, we finished learning about the digestive system, and will be finalizing all of the knowledge tomorrow and will write our quiz.
For homework:
· MMS Pg. 74-75 (due tomorrow)
· Speech introduction and body paragraph (due tomorrow)
· Spelling lesson 16 (due Friday)
· Study digestive diagram
· Bring devices tomorrow
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
