Tuesday, April 2nd

Good afternoon everyone!

I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!

A couple of quick reminders:

·      Tomorrow is a Day 3.

·      Aftercare invoices are due on April 15^th; 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.

·      Pick-a-time forms were sent home last week for the upcoming student-led conferences on Thursday, April 4^th. The website opened yesterday morning at 10:00 a.m.

Inquiry into Language – Today, we continued our second week of literature circles. Some students worked on reading chapters 5 & 6, while others worked on their role for the week.

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.

We got to practice our dance for the Wizard of Oz today! I can't wait to see the finished product.

Inquiry into Biodiversity – Today, we began discussing the animal kingdom. We started learning about the invertebrates in the animal kingdom, which is those without a backbone. We learned about arthropods as well. We developed our own tree classification system for some of the invertebrates we’ve encountered.

Inquiry into Math – Today during math, we explored how to estimate percentages. Let’s say you want to find 40% of 19. Here’s what you do:

1.    Find a friendly number. (19 à20)

2.    Record the percent as a fraction (40% is 40/100 = 2/5)

3.    Use your fraction to calculate your answer. Divide by your denominator and multiply by your numerator. (20/5 = 4 X 2 = 8)

Therefore, 40% of 19 is about 8.

Let’s say you want to know what percent 11 of 49 is.

1.    Find friendly numbers. (11à10, 49à50)

2.    Turn your fraction into a fraction out of 100. (10/50 = 20/100)

3.    Convert your fraction to a percent. (20/100 = 20%)

Therefore, 11/49 is about 20%.

At the end of the day, we had an assembly where we got to see Ms. Gandy get pied in the face! Can't wait to see who it is tomorrow!

For homework:

·      MMS Pg. 124-125 (due tomorrow)

·      Read chapters 5 & 6 of Hatchet (due tomorrow)

·      Literature circles week 2 (due Friday)

·      Practice for spelling bee

·      Pick-a-time forms now open

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