I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend. A reminder that tomorrow is casual day for all participating students. Any students not participating are expected to come in their full summer uniform. Summer uniforms start this week.
First and foremost – messages for parents.
And a quick note regarding the exhibition projects in grade six…
A couple of quick reminders:
· Tomorrow is a Day 4 – it is casual day for all participating students.
· Aftercare invoices were due Monday, April 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.
· Forms were sent home for the Silent Dance taking place on April 30th– the cost is $20. These forms are due back on Thursday, April 25that the latest.
· Forms were sent home regarding our upcoming Wizard of Ozproduction. It will cost $15 per student (not in a main role) for costumes. These forms are overdue.
· Last week was the final week of our winter uniforms – this week we start our summer uniforms. A reminder:
o Black dress shoes
o Navy blue socks
o Grey St. Jude’s pants
o Short sleeve button up white polo shirt (tucked in)
· Our class is hosting the bake sale tomorrow.
We had a super fun Earth day house game this morning! Great job to Kappa for taking the win!
Inquiry into Language - Today, students were given time to work on week 5 of their literature circles. We will be having our group discussions on Wednesday.
1. Summariser – Summarise the three chapters for the week.
2. Connector – Connect what is happening in the text to your own life, current world events, and other books, movies, or television shows.
3. Literary Critic – Choose a short passage from the book and analyse why it is important to the story.
4. Discussion Moderator – Come up with questions to fuel a group discussion.
5. Word Wizard – Define and explain new or interesting words.
After this, we had reading buddies!
Inquiry into Math – Today for math, we started learning combined transformations. It is exactly what it sounds like! Last week, we did a comprehensive review of translations, reflections, and rotations. We started with an original figure and applied different transformations, but always went back to the original figure. The difference with a combined transformation is that you don’t always go back to the original figure. You start your next transformation on the answer from the last one.
To do this, you need to remember to use double prime (’’) and higher symbols. You cannot use a single prime mark to represent two different points! We will be continuing with combined transformations tomorrow.
We also looked at how to work backwards and figure out what transformations were made to get from one shape to another. You have to ask yourself: how many prime symbols are there, are the shapes facing the same way, is there a mirror line?
Inquiry into Biodiversity – Students continued working on their summative tasks for biodiversity. The final due date is this Friday, April 26th.
For homework:
- MMS Pg. 98-99 (due tomorrow)
- Literature circles week 5 (due Friday)
- Practice for Wizard of Oz
- Silent Dance and Wizard of Oz forms
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
