I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. Our break before the new year is getting closer and closer.
A message from the parent guild…
And a message from the student council…
And a reminder about our upcoming concert on Tuesday!
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
· Ski trip forms and waivers are due back on Friday.
· The hot lunch site is now open for January. Please do not order lunch on January 14th and 22nd as we have scheduled trips.
Inquiry into Math – We started by writing our pre-assessment for our next math unit.
French – After this, we had French with Mme. Stella, which you can read about on her blog (https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com).
We went to rehearse for the Christmas Concert.
After lunch, we did our Secret Santa draw, and then we went to send some candygrams to spread the Christmas spirit around the school.
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.
Inquiry into Explorers – We spent the remainder of the morning starting our research projects for our Powtoon. Students are researching a group of Canada’s First Peoples before contact with the Europeans. They are researching that group and are going to create a Powtoon to share their research with the class.
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:
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
