Day 45

We had a fantastic presentation today from the MYP students about Remembrance Day. 

Dear SJA Families,

Kindness Day is celebrated nationwide annually, on the 13th of November.  It is a day to celebrate and promote kindness in all its forms. World Kindness Day falls on the same day and unites people in kindness globally.

On November 13th, St. Jude's Academy is celebrating World Kindness Day by encouraging all students to share  kind words to each other and unite as a whole school with their neighbours at Oakwood.  By bringing in $2, students can participate in a special World Kindness Day event by writing a kind message or quote on a leaf and then post it on our World Kindness Tree for all to see.   In addition to sharing their kind words, they will be supporting their neighbours at Oakwood and also be allowed to dress casually.

As part of a united world school, IB learners strive to be kind everyday. This year, we are looking forward to emphasizing and celebrating acts of kindness on Monday, November 13th and we hope everyone is able to participate in our World Kindness Day events!

We started by writing our agenda note

• Raz Kids 15 minutes - new passwords were sent in the agendas due to an issue
• No school tomorrow
• Math and language homework
• Spelling sentences - one sentence for every word - due Friday, Spelling test Friday

hit 

big

win 

fill

this 

did 

nickel 

dime 

quarter

loonie 

• Wear a poppy tomorrow 
• Kindness day on Monday

Next we had French with Mlle. Jessica, you can check out her blog at

http://mllehousja.blogspot.ca

Novel Study
Today students listened to Chapter 6 and answered comprehension questions.
Chapter 6. Dinosaur Valley 

Jack was about to show Annie what he discovered but she was too busy picking magnolia flowers at the top of the hill. She then peered over the other side of the hill and her eyes opened in amazement. She then started running over the other side of the hill and disappeared. Jack started wondering what Annie saw but was interrupted when he heard Annie scream. He rushed over the other side of the hill and couldn't believe his eyes. In the valley below there were tons of dinosaur nests and inside them were dinosaur babies. In between the dinosaur nests was Annie crouched over and a humungous duck-billed mother dinosaur was towering over her making tuba noises. She was about to run to Jack but Jack made her crawl slowly instead and pretend to eat grass until she reached him. Annie then gave the dinosaur the magnolia flowers and it wandered off to the top of the hill to find more. Jack then looked in the dinosaur book and found out that the dinosaurs were called Anatosauruses and that they live in colonies. Suddenly Jack heard the Anatosaurus make it's tuba noise again but this time a scared tuba noise. He then saw the Anatosaurus run down the hill to the baby dinosaurs. He and Annie peered over the hilltop and saw a frightening sight. Running towards them was a humungous, ugly dinosaur. A Tyrannosauraus Rex.

Math: 

We  have begun our new unit on time, temperature and money. We began by reviewing what a minute is.
Students reviewed when the minute hand (big hand) is pointing to the 12 that means O'clock or ___:00.
Students then reviewed that when the minute hand (big hand) is pointing to the 6 that means half past or ___:30. Today we learned what it means when the minute hand(big hand) points to the 3 quarter past or __:15 and when it points to the 9 quarter to or __:45.

Students have brought home math homework on telling digital and analog time. I teach the students to look at the big hand first as a way to figure out their answer. It is the tricky part and the small hand is the the easy peasy one. See below:

We ended our day by having gym class with Ms. Jans, you can check out her blog at https://janspe1.blogspot.ca/