I hope you all had a fantastic weekend. 9 more school days until March break!
A couple of quick reminders:
· Tomorrow is a Day 5.
· Aftercare invoices were due on February 15th; if you are unsure if you have any owing amount, please email Ms. Chiappetta at echiappetta@stjudesacademy.com
· Re-registration is now open to the public; if you have not submitted your package – please do so as soon as possible and reach out with any questions.
· Permission forms were sent home for our trip to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. They are due no later than Wednesday, March 6th, 2019.
· The website for hot lunches in March is now open. Please remember we are skiing on March 7thand on a trip on March 27th, so hot lunches should not be ordered for those days.
· Tomorrow is a bake sale.
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 – Students wrote their spelling words into their agendas for this week.
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 did a comprehensive review of surface area and volume. To recap, surface area is the total area of all sides around a 3D shape. Volume is the space inside. To calculate:
We went through a few examples as a class, and the marking scheme for surface area and volume.
Surface Area marks:
· Calculate the area of the triangle (1 mark)
· Multiply triangle area by 2 (1 mark)
· Area of 1strectangle (1 mark)
· Area of 2ndrectangle (1 mark)
· Area of 3rdrectangle (1 mark)
· Add all area together (1 mark)
· Correct answer (1 mark)
· Correct units (1 mark)
Volume:
· Calculate the area of the triangle (1 mark)
· Multiply triangle area by height of prism (1 mark)
· Correct answer (1 mark)
· Correct units (1 mark)
Both:
· Final therefore sentence (1 mark)
Inquiry into Government – We began working on our government summative tasks today. I heard a lot of creative country names.
For homework:
· Surface Area and Volume review (due tomorrow)
· Shannen read chapters 21 – 23
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
