Good afternoon everyone!
I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving weekend.
A reminder about International Day, which is this coming Thursday:
A few quick reminders:
· Tomorrow is a Day 5.
· For anyone who ordered Hot Lunch, payments were due Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019.
· Aftercare invoices for the month of September have come out and are due TODAY Tuesday, October 15th, 2019. Any questions can be directed to Ms. Chiappetta at echiappetta@stjudesacademy.com
· Casual day forms were sent home and should be sent back signed with $20 for anyone participating.
Inquiry into Math – We started the day by taking up the homework from Thursday. Then, we went into our final lesson for this math unit.
Lesson 2.5 – Rates
A rate is a comparison of two quantities that use different units (it is a special type of ratio). For example, when a car is travelling, we measure the speed of the car in kilometres per hour. This is a rate. Let’s say that a person travels a distance of 140 kilometres in 2 hours. We would write that they travelled 140 km/2h. The ‘/’ symbol means ‘per’.
A unit rate is a special type of rate where the comparison is made with a denominator of 1. The word unit indicates that we are interested in a “quantity per one of” comparison.
For example, let’s say that a person’s heart is beating 20 beats every 15 seconds, and we need to express this as a unit rate. The rate is 20 beats/15s.
15 seconds x 4 = 60 seconds, which is 1 minute.
20 x 4 = 80
Therefore, the unit rate would be 80 beats/minute. The most common unit rate we hear on a daily basis is kilometres per hour, since this is the average speed at which cars travel! We did a few examples as a class – have look!
Tomorrow, we will be working on the final unit review in preparation for our test on Friday.
French – Right after this, we had French with Mme. Stella, which you can read about on her blog (https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com).
Gym – After recess and lunch, the students had gym with Mr. Orr, which you can read about on his blog (http://tysonorr.blogspot.com).
Science Fair – Students continued to work on their cars today after gym. We will be continuing this process throughout the week.
Today, students learned that the force of friction is extremely powerful and can make movement difficult.
Inquiry into Energy – Today, we started looking at our major art project for our Energy unit. We are going to be creating pinwheels using zentangle designs. Linked below are examples of how we do this as well as examples of these designs. For tomorrow, students will need to choose 4 designs for the front side of their pinwheel, which will fit in each triangle (these designs should be geometric, straight-line figures) and a final design for the back (this design should be curvy and free-flowing). We will be working on this throughout the week and finishing by Friday for the end of our energy UOI.
Here are the two videos we watched today:
International Day – At the end of the day, students compiled their research for International Day and started working on their poster boards and putting everything together. We are excited to have everyone coming on Thursday! We will continue working on this tomorrow in preparation for International Day on Thursday.
As a reminder, here are the International Day groups:
· Joshua & Marcus – Music, Dance, & Art
· Adn & Karina – Food
· Jashina & Sophia – Imports & Exports
· Ahil & Karthik – Laws & Government
· Dhairya & Gokul – Sports & Games
· Rajan & Krina – Customs, Festivals, & Traditions
· Hassan & Daniel – Architecture, Attractions, & Famous Places
· Clothing – Jaya & Caitlyn
Homework:
We do our best to complete work in class. In the event this is not possible, it will go home for homework.
As always, please feel free to email me with any questions.
Mr. Conte
