Monday, May 6th

Good afternoon everyone!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

Our JK – Grade 2 arts night performance is tomorrow…

And don’t forget about the Shakespeare play…

A couple of quick reminders:

·      Tomorrow is a Day 1.

·      Aftercare invoices are due Wednesday, May 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.

·      We are now wearing full summer uniforms. A reminder:

o  Black dress shoes

o  Navy blue socks

o  Grey St. Jude’s pants

o  Short sleeve button up white polo shirt (tucked in)

Gym – The students started the day doing gym with Mr. Orr, which you can read about on his blog (http://tysonorr.blogspot.com).

Inquiry into Language – To recap what we have learned so far:

·      Catchy titles

·      Relevant pictures

·      Relevant quotations

·      Questions being answered:

o  What?àWhat happened?

o  Where?àWhere did this take place?

o  When?àWhen did this take place?

o  How?àHow did this come about?

o  Why?àWhy did this happen?

o  Who?àWho was involved?

We looked at the organizational structure of newspaper articles. It goes as follows: introduction, who, when, where, what, why, how, and conclusion. On Friday, we wrote a very basic article. We discussed how we could improve this newspaper article and how we would make it better. Today, we started examining how to turn it from a lower level to a level 4+!

We started with everyone looking at the article individually and making edits that they believe would be better. We then got into small focus groups and started rewriting the article. We will be bringing combinations of everyone’s work together to make a very strong article before we start our final project for Hatchet.

Inquiry into Math – Today, we started doing an art project for rotational symmetry. Students were asked to design one eighth of a circle, and then started to rotate the design to create symmetry. We will be continuing this activity tomorrow.

Inquiry into Coding – Students started to learn about animating sprites in Scratch today. They are staring mini-project #2, which is to animate their own names. This project is due tomorrow and we will extend our learning as well.

For homework:

·      Coding mini-project #2 (due tomorrow)

·      Practice for Wizard of Oz

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

Friday, May 3rd

Good afternoon everyone!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful week. 

The final presentation of the grade six exhibition projects is tonight if anyone was planning on attending…

And don’t forget about the JK – Grade 2 Arts Night performance on Tuesday…

And the Shakespeare play…

A couple of quick reminders:

·      Monday is a Day 6.

·      Aftercare invoices are due Wednesday, May 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.

·      We are now wearing full summer uniforms. A reminder:

o  Black dress shoes

o  Navy blue socks

o  Grey St. Jude’s pants

o  Short sleeve button up white polo shirt (tucked in)

French – In the morning, we had French with Mme. Rawan, which you can read about on her blog (https://mmerawansja.blogspot.com).

Inquiry into Math – Today, we started looking at rotational symmetry. Lines of symmetry are associated with reflections, but rotational symmetry is associated with rotations. A figure that coincides with itself more than once when rotated a full turn or less has rotational symmetry. So, for example, a square has a rotational symmetry of order 4, because when it is rotated, it will coincide with itself 4 times. A figure that only coincides with itself with one full turn is considered to have no rotational symmetry.

Inquiry into Coding – Today, we continued building our houses and refining the coding to ensure all the criteria were met. We also started exploring animations for our next upcoming mini-project, which we will be starting on Monday.

In the afternoon, we went to see a few of the grade 6 exhibition presentations. What a fantastic job by the grade sixes! 

Inquiry into Language – To recap what we have learned so far:

·      Catchy titles

·      Relevant pictures

·      Relevant quotations

·      Questions being answered:

o  What?àWhat happened?

o  Where?àWhere did this take place?

o  When?àWhen did this take place?

o  How?àHow did this come about?

o  Why?àWhy did this happen?

o  Who?àWho was involved?

Yesterday, we looked at the organizational structure of newspaper articles. It goes as follows: introduction, who, when, where, what, why, how, and conclusion. We will start practicing writing an article for tomorrow.

Today, we wrote a very basic article. We discussed how we could improve this newspaper article and how we would make it better. On Monday, we are going to turn it from a lower level to a level 4+!

For homework:

·      MMS Pg. 106-107 (due tomorrow)

·      Practice scratch cards 9 & 10 (animations and moving animations)

·      Practice for Wizard of Oz

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