I hope you’ve all had a wonderful and restful long weekend.
A reminder about the upcoming science fair!
And we also have our annual book fair at the end of this month!
A few quick reminders:
· Tomorrow is a Day 5.
· Aftercare invoices for the month of October have come out and are due Friday, November 15th, 2019. Any questions can be directed to Ms. Chiappetta at echiappetta@stjudesacademy.com
· Curling permission forms and waiver forms were sent home last week and must be returned before our curling trip next Wednesday. This trip has no cost as it was already paid for in the athletic fees during registration. If anyone has any unreturned forms, they will not be able to attend the curling trip if these are not brought in.
Inquiry into Language – Today, we continued looking at our OWA topic for term one which is fables and legends. Students were again put into pairs and given samples of fable/legend writing. Their goal was to read these, list the things done well and the areas of improvement, and to try and piece together what makes a good fable/legend. We are going to be putting all our ideas together over the next few days and continuing this inquiry. We are preparing for our OWA assessment next Monday.
After this, we went for our Christmas concert rehearsal – first one of the season. We will be rehearsing the song and dance over the next few weeks up to the concert on Tuesday, December 17th.
Inquiry into Flight – Today, we reviewed the four forces of flight (lift, gravity, thrust, and drag) as well as the quantitative relationship between them needed to fly.
For flight to be achieved, lift must be greater than gravity. With regards to horizontal motion…
· If thrust and drag are equal, speed is constant.
· If thrust is greater than drag, the plane will speed up.
· If drag is greater than thrust, the plane will slow down.
We will continue tomorrow looking at the parts of a plane.
Science Fair – At the end of the day, we worked on our cars for Science Fair. Students are encouraged to come earlier to school to work on their cars (I will be here for 7:30 each day). Students are also encouraged to use their recess times to complete their cars.
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
