Good afternoon everyone!
I hope everyone had a
wonderful weekend! The mornings are becoming cooler, so please make sure your
child is dressed for the weather! Please forgive me for not posting pictures.
My computer is saying I have no room to download! I will be having it looked at
this weekend!
House tie day tomorrow!!
Sibling pictures will be done
in February when graduation pictures are taken.
Harvest/Halloween Spirit Day
is just around the corner. Students may come dressed in their costume or in
harvest colours – orange, brown, etc. Please no send students with scary
costumes or masks. Weapons will also not be allowed. If you care to send in a
goodie bag with candy or pencils/erasers, you may do so. Please do not send in
cupcakes! Candy will not be eaten at school, but will be sent home with
students. It will be a fun day of Halloween/Harvest activities and a dance.
Please note that after care
invoices have been sent via Freshbooks. After care payments are due
Tuesday, October 31. Please also note that we are no longer accepting
cheques as a method of payment. Thank you in advance for your cooperation!
I sent home the Polar Expressions Publishing letter and
information a few weeks back. I strongly encourage students to enter on their
own time. One of my students placed third last year in the short poem category.
Please keep in mind the due dates – poetry deadline is November 15 and the
short story deadline is November 30. Good luck!
A note
from Ms. Bancud - Ordering
Website is now active for the month of November. You may start ordering your
child's lunches! Please make
sure your child is under the correct grade when ordering http://mydigitalmailroom.com/sja. The
last day to order for November will be Friday,
October 27th. After this date, our system
closes and is unable to open for November ordering. All payments
are due on Friday, November 3rd.
Payment Instructions
- There are two
options to pay for lunches. Cash and online via Freshbooks.
- If you choose to
pay through Freshbooks, please choose
the cheque option on the ordering site.
- Cheque payments
will not be accepted.
- Shortly after
completing your order, a Freshbooks invoice will be sent to your
email.
- It may take one
or two days to process your order to Freshbooks, so please be check your email diligently for
the invoice.
Another item has been added to our Hot Lunch Program as a
Special. This month's special is Vegetarian Lasagna that will be available
every Friday!
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at
dbancud@stjudesacademy.com .
A note from Ms. Dawn – Scholastic forms were sent home
today. All orders will be due Friday,
October 27. Payments can be made using Cheque or Parent Pay. Cash will not be
accepted as a form of payment.
For
Parent Pay then can log on to parentpay.scholastic.ca/pay and enter the
following credentials
Province
- Ontario
City
- Mississauga
School
- St Judes Academy
Teacher
- Dawn Goulart
Food Drive – As part of their UOI
and action plan, Alister and Aashrith from Ms. Ramcharan’s
Grade 2 class, are holding a food drive. These donations will be donated to the
local food banks. This food drive will run from now until October 26th.
Please bring any non-perishable food items to me and I will hold it until the
end of the food drive.
Upcoming Dates & Events
Friday, October 27 – Last day to order November hot lunch, after school activity forms due,
& Scholastic orders due
Tuesday, October 31 – Harvest/Halloween Spirit Day – please no scary costumes/masks and no
weapons. If you do not celebrate Halloween, please feel free to come dressed in
fall colours – orange, brown, black.
Friday, November 3 – November hot lunch payments due
MATH:
Today we switched gears and looked at money! We estimated and counted
money, made certain amounts of money using different bills and coins, and
solved word problems using money. Remember
when it asks how much all together it means to add!! Please remember to line up
your numbers correctly (using place value).
Homework:
-MMS pg 80-81
LANGUAGE:
Today we read chapter 9 of Anne. In this chapter, Anne played
‘Daring’ with her friends and hurt herself. Ask me how! She also received something for
Christmas she had wanted very badly. Ask me what it was. We also filled in our
self and peer evaluation for our UOI summative assessments.
We will be writing our OWA post assessment tomorrow. Students will
be given a sheet with information on a particular Canadian animal to read and
review tonight. Tomorrow students will have to write a report on that animal
using an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Homework:
-Read for 40 minutes
-Read and highlight
important points for your report (the Beluga whale)
UNIT OF INQUIRY:
Yesterday we learned how we hear.
Sound travels in our outer ear and heads down the earn canal. It vibrates our
eardrum, and those vibrations make their way through the three tiny bones. From there, the
sound vibrations travel through the cochlea and makes the tiny hairs (the
nerve) send a message to our brain! All of this takes three seconds!
Today we got hands on! We completed
some experiments using tuning forks, yogurt containers, sugar, and water. Ask
me what happened with the sugar and the water!
Homework:
I hope you have a wonderful night!
Mrs. Hocevar J
