I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. Our break before the new year is getting closer and closer.
We have our JK – Grade 2 Christmas Concert coming up! Please see the flyer below for details.
A message from the parent guild: The SJA Parent Guild is pleased to hold its 2nd Christmas Skate for all students and parents/guardians to celebrate the festive season and enjoy some time together. Any proceeds will go towards ongoing fundraising efforts. This event will take place on Thursday, December 12 from 3:30-5:30 pm at Meadowvale 4-Rinks. Ice time from 4:00-5:00 pm.
Bring your own skates or skate rental option is also available. There will be hot chocolate and treats for students and Santa will be ready for selfies! Forms will be distributed Thursday. Forms and payment are due by Monday, December 2nd to the homeroom teacher. Please return forms and payment as soon as possible! We will be accepting non-perishable food donations for the Food Bank so please feel free to bring items in. See you there! As a reference for sizing parents can use: www.hockeymonkey.com/bauer-skate-sizing-chart.
A few quick reminders:
· Tomorrow is a Day 3.
· Aftercare invoices for the month of November have come out and are due Sunday, December 15th, 2019. Any questions can be directed to Ms. Chiappetta at echiappetta@stjudesacademy.com
Inquiry into Math – We started our day by reviewing yesterday’s homework on division of decimals. A reminder that we have our test next Monday, and over the next two days, students are welcome to come and speak with me about concepts they’d like help with before the test.
After this, we started talking about the order of operations.
B à Brackets (complete any operations inside brackets first)
E à Exponents (complete any exponential calculations)
D à Division (complete any division/multiplication in order from left to right)
M à Multiplication (complete any division/multiplication in order from left to right)
A à Addition (complete any addition/subtraction in order from left to right)
S à Subtraction (complete any addition/subtraction in order from left to right)
We did an example with whole numbers first.
5 X (3 + 6) ÷ (4 – 1)2 à Complete items inside brackets first.
= 5 X 9 ÷ 32 à Complete all exponential calculations.
= 5 X 9 ÷ 9 à Complete multiplication and division in order from left to right
= 45 ÷ 9 à Complete multiplication and division in order from left to right
= 5
After this, we did an example with decimals:
Then, we completed a word problem for order of operations.
After this, we went to the dome to rehearse for the Christmas Concert.
Inquiry into Language – After lunch, we went through our answers for novel study. We again went through what makes a good answer, which is: the answer is correct, uses the question in the answer, and provides detail.
An answer that is an ‘R’ means that the work is incomplete, or the answer shows no understanding. A level one answer has the correct answer but has no detail and does not use the question to provide the answer. A level two is correct and uses part of the question to answer the question (saying ‘They’ instead of ‘Mae Tuck, her husband, Miles, and Jesse’), but has no detail. A level three is correct and uses the question in the answer but does not provide detail. A level four has the correct answer, uses the question in the answer, and provides additional detail.
After this, we rehearsed at the dome and had intermittent work time to work on math and language homework.
Students should be listening to our songs and rehearsing for Christmas Concert nightly. Here are the links for the song for our Christmas Concert song:
And the finale song:
Homework:
- Math - Pg. 155 # 1, 4, 5, 7; Extra Practice (optional) # 2, 3; Challenge - Reflect
- Language - Read chapters 5 & 6 of TE and complete pages 20-27 in novel study package
We do our best to complete work in class. In the event this is not possible, it will go home for homework. For math, students are given math homework, extra practice (optional), and a challenge question (optional).
As always, please feel free to email me with any questions.
Mr. Conte
