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Monday, February 26, 2018

Feb. 26th

Students have brought home their planning package today in regards to their invention. Please complete planning package at home and return to school for Wednesday as we will be using the package Weds-Fri. for constructing our summative assessment. 



March Break Camp registration forms were sent home back in October. We have had many students sign up since then and especially the last few days. If you are interested in registering your chid for our amazing March Break camp, please send in the completed registration form, along with the $20 one-time non-refundable deposit in order to secure your child's spot (this could be paid in cash or through fresh books). This year there are two options to chose from the first being lunch and two snacks provided or the second being send your own packed lunch and a discounted camp rate! We also have daily rates available. Please contact Ms. Smith bsmith@stjudesacademy.com for more details.

This is a friendly reminder that there is just one more week to order for March Lunches. The deadline for March lunches is Friday, February 23rd, 2018.  After this date, our system closes and is unable to open for March ordering.  Please make sure your child is under the correct grade. http://mydigitalmailroom.com/sja 
All payments are due on Friday, March 9th, 2018.

This month's special is Pancakes with Cinnamon Apples with a side of syrup that will be available every Friday!

Payment Instructions
There are two options to pay for lunches. Cash and Freshbooks. 
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.  
We no longer accept cheque as a method of payment.


If you have any questions concerning the Lunch Ordering site or Freshbooks, feel free to email me at dbancud@stjudesacademy.com


  • bake sale tomorrow and weds.
  • Casual day weds. 
  • Spelling sentences and test Friday
Spelling words
1. glad
2. flag
3. play
4. black
5. clock
6. clay
7. fly
8. blue
9. glow
10. place

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

Students completed their math unit test on 3D shapes.

Inquiry into Language

Today students continued with our novel study Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We read chapters 9-10 and answered comprehension questions.
Grandpa Joe Takes a Gamble
  • ·      After school the next day, Grandpa Joe is the only grandparent awake. Good thing, too, because he has a secret he wants to share with Charlie.
  • ·      From under his pillow, he takes a sixpence piece (a coin) he's been saving. He tells Charlie that he wants him to buy one more chocolate bar with it – maybe this will be their lucky day.
  • ·      Charlie is hesitant, but he does what his grandpa says: he runs to the store to buy the chocolate and returns with it.
  • ·      After some hemming and hawing over who would open it, Grandpa Joe finally does and... nothing, once again.
  • ·      They both realize how silly they've been to think they'd find the ticket and they start cracking up, waking up Grandma Josephine and ending their little adventure.
  • ·      At least they have a sense of humor about it.

The Family Begins to Starve
  • Over the next couple of weeks, it gets really cold and snowy; Charlie's family can't think of anything but keeping warm and eating, and they aren't having much luck with either.
  • Really, the family has very little food, let alone the warm, comfort food that most of us are lucky to have in the cold of winter.
  • Charlie's dad has lost his job, and their only income comes from Mr. Bucket's snow-shoveling in the neighborhood.
  • The whole family is worried about Charlie, who keeps standing outside Wonka's Factory, inhaling the chocolate smell, "as though he were trying to eat the smell itself" (10.9).
  • Charlie begins to get thinner and weaker and he does everything he can to prevent exhaustion.
  • One day on his way home from school, he spots something shiny in the snow, only to realize that he's found a fifty-pence piece. (!)
  • He looks around to be sure no one dropped it and then he realizes what this means: he will get a scrumptious, much needed chocolate bar at the store nearby. And then, of course, he'll give whatever money is left over to his mother.

Inquiry into Inventions 

Students got into partners and began to brainstorm inventing a playground of their own. They planned out what things they would like on their playground and then began to construct.

Happy Birthday Adi







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