March 8th

St. Jude's FC, the official soccer academy affiliated with St. Jude's Academy is taking applicants for its inaugural season. Ou coaches are eager to prove that we have the best program in the area. 

By joining the Club you are becoming part of the team. Club members have the opportunity to play games against the other Ontario Academy teams for the spring/summer outdoor season on the weekend. Club members and SJA students alike enjoy the top notch training from our professional coaches, but Club members get additional coaching. 

SJA students receive a 33% discount benefit (because we already know SJA students are awesome!)

Club members get a complete uniform (you provide cleats and shin guards) 

Please turn in completed forms (WITH SMITH written at the top) to Dawn Goulart or reception by March 31st. 

For more info visit stjudesfc.com

To register download this  form

Spirit Week

Friday - St. Patrick's Day (Green)

Spelling 

1. small

2. last

3. spot

4. slow

5. snow

6. spoon

7. slide

8. star

9. short

10. slip

House Game

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

http://mllehousja.blogspot.ca

Music 

Check out Mr. Oliver's blog: http://mrolivermusicclass.blogspot.ca.

Math

Students continued to learn how to solve subtraction word problems with borrowing using a place value mat.

Inquiry into Language 

Students continued our novel study of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. 

Chapter 18 

Down the Chocolate River

• Next thing they know, a bright pink boat being rowed by laughing Oompa-Loompas comes down the river and they all hop on.
• Right away, everyone starts causing trouble: Mike Teavee is licking the boat, Veruca is demanding a pink boat of her own. Charlie, on the other hand, just marvels at everything.
• Willy Wonka can tell Charlie is enjoying himself and so he dips a mug into the river and gives it to Charlie and Grandpa Joe to drink. Yum. Think really thick hot chocolate.
• Suddenly, the boat enters a pitch-black tunnel and everyone screams. Willy, apparently taking after his Oompa-Loompa, starts singing a rather creepy song himself.
• All of the parents except Grandpa Joe think that Mr. Wonka is nuts. Flat out crazy. And they're pretty vocal about it.
• When the lights are switched back on, they can see the signs on the doors inside the tunnel. They're all pretty punny (that's funny, but with a pun), including things like "STOREROOM NUMBER 77, ALL THE BEANS – CACAO BEANS, COFFEE BEANS, JELLY BEANS, AND HAS BEANS"
• Mr. Wonka doesn't pass up the opportunity to take a low blow at Violet after she talks back to him.

Chapter 19 - The Inventing Room – Everlasting Gobstoppers and Hair Toffee

• Willy Wonka stops the boat in front of a door labeled "INVENTING ROOM-PRIVATE-KEEP OUT"
• He tells them all that this is the most important room of the factory, and that not even the Oompa-Loompas are allowed inside. The other chocolate makers – Fickelgruber, Prodnose, and Slugworth – would kill to be in there. So they must be super careful.
• The room is filled with machines, boiling and bubbling and hissing and sizzling. Even Mr. Wonka is excited about it all, rushing from one machine to the next, thrilled about everything he sees and touches.
• Finally, he stops at a machine that makes Everlasting Gobstoppers: a candy that you can suck forever and it will never get smaller. Whoa. He's still testing them out on the Oompa-Loompas but he's pretty sure they're flawless.
• He also tells them about his new Hair Toffee, which is supposed to make you grow hair when you eat it. The only problem is that it works a little too well and one Oompa-Loompa had to have his beard trimmed by a lawn mower.
• Mike Teavee tries to question Mr. Wonka about why children would need more hair, but Willy pretty much just ignores him. Time to move on to the next invention.

Chapter 20

The Great Gum Machine

• Mr. Wonka leads them over to a fantastic machine, with hundreds of glass tubes, and all sorts of colored liquids running through it, mixing all together. After some major whizzing, out comes a tiny flat strip.
• Unimpressive.
• But wait – it's gum (Violet knows it, too). "It's a stick of the most amazing and fabulous and sensational gum in the world!"

Inquiry into Cultures through Art

Here is our finished pieces from yesterday!

This first picture is the example given

Our master pieces

We then looked at famous artists such as Vincent Von Gough, Leonardo Da Vinci, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso. We learned about where they were born and how long ago. Also about their culture and some famous works of art they created. Tomorrow we will break into groups to further research these artists. 

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