Announcements
- Oral Competition to return to school everyday
- Re-registration packages due February 18th, 2020
February Lunches
The lunch site is now open!
It will close Wednesday, January 22nd at 3:00pm sharp.
Special of the month: Chicken Stir Fry which is available every Friday.
All payments are to be made through quickbooks by February 6th.
Re-registration Forms
Just a reminder that the SJA re-registration process is underway. To reserve your child’s 2020-2021 place at St. Jude’s Academy, complete and return your child’s re-registration forms and payment to Reception by Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 4:00 pm.
After this date and time, any available grade-level spaces will be open to new families on waitlists.
In addition, the deadline for our priority enrollment into our JK Program is Friday, January 17, 2020.
If you have any questions regarding the forms or next steps, please contact our Admissions Team.
Music, French & Gym
Check out the blogs below to see what your child has been learning during Music, French and Gym!
French with Mme. Rawan: https://mmerawansja.blogspot.com
Music with Mrs. McMillan: www.mrsmcmillanmusic.blogspot.com
Gym with Ms. Vasconcelos: https://msvphysed.blogspot.com/
Weekend Share!
Students broke out into partners with somebody they don't normally work or chat much with. They had 4 minutes to share what they did this weekend. Afterwards we discussed how to make sure that both partners have an opportunity to share.
Unit of Inquiry
We watched a couple videos today on the process of a debate. We learned about the order of the debate and the roles of each side: the affirmative and the negative side
After watching the videos, we discussed what would be expected of them when they go off to write their own paragraphs to present for the debate. Students then had time to work in their groups and discuss the most important supporting details they found for their argument.
Inquiry into Language
Students continued to work on creating their speeches today. Some of them said they finished and were timed. They were given feedback onto whether they had to make their speech longer, shorter or how they can add more of a personal touch to their speech by maintaining the audiences attention.
At the end of the day, we learned how to identify the author's purpose of a text by using specific clues from the text to justify our answer. We recognized that there was one main purpose of the author, but that there could also be a secondary purpose based on the facts that were also expressed in the text. Tomorrow students will be using the skills we learned today to teach their reading buddies how to interpret the text and identify the author's purpose.
Inquiry into Math
Our learning goal today was to make change by counting on.
First we reviewed how to write out the value of money (ex. $47.92, $82.39, $43.00, $103.29) even for those values that do not have any cents (ex. $30.00). It is important to always write the value of money including the cents, even if those values are zero because it will help prevent inaccurate calculations when adding and subtraction money. In addition to remember to write the values out like this, we talked about the importance of lining up our decimals first when adding and subtraction money amounts.
Then we went on to discussing how we can use the counting on strategy to solve the amount of change one would receive from a purchase: change is how much money you would get back if you gave the cashier more money than what your total came to.
To count on, there are a couple steps to follow:
- You have to make sure all of your values are rounded to the nearest 5 cents before you begin to count on
- You then want to solve how much you need to add to get to the nearest dollar from your total amount so that it becomes easier for you to count on your dollars from there. (refer to examples we did together in the pictures below)
- When you think you're done, make sure you count on from your total by adding on the bills and coins that you drew to make sure it adds up to the amount of money you paid.
At the end of the lesson we discussed how we can check our work by using a strategy we learned early on in the year: checking. You can add the amount you owed + the change amount you solved and this should add up to the amount you gave the cashier. If it doesn't, double check your work.
Today was a big focus on how we use the problem-solving strategy to solve word problems. In their homework, students have to practice using this strategy for each question so that it challenges them to break down the question, along with identify the steps they need to complete to solve the problem. This is important for them to understand how to do for when they're faced with challenging multi-step problems.
Agenda
- Spelling Lesson 18
- Spelling Test Friday - Words only
- Cursive pgs. 40-45
- Math: Making change worksheet with a star
- Read for 25 minutes
- Re-registration packages due February 18th
Students broke out into partners with somebody they don't normally work or chat much with. They had 4 minutes to share what they did this weekend. Afterwards we discussed how to make sure that both partners have an opportunity to share.
Unit of Inquiry
We watched a couple videos today on the process of a debate. We learned about the order of the debate and the roles of each side: the affirmative and the negative side
After watching the videos, we discussed what would be expected of them when they go off to write their own paragraphs to present for the debate. Students then had time to work in their groups and discuss the most important supporting details they found for their argument.
Students continued to work on creating their speeches today. Some of them said they finished and were timed. They were given feedback onto whether they had to make their speech longer, shorter or how they can add more of a personal touch to their speech by maintaining the audiences attention.
Inquiry into Math
Our learning goal today was to make change by counting on.
First we reviewed how to write out the value of money (ex. $47.92, $82.39, $43.00, $103.29) even for those values that do not have any cents (ex. $30.00). It is important to always write the value of money including the cents, even if those values are zero because it will help prevent inaccurate calculations when adding and subtraction money. In addition to remember to write the values out like this, we talked about the importance of lining up our decimals first when adding and subtraction money amounts.
To count on, there are a couple steps to follow:
- You have to make sure all of your values are rounded to the nearest 5 cents before you begin to count on
- You then want to solve how much you need to add to get to the nearest dollar from your total amount so that it becomes easier for you to count on your dollars from there. (refer to examples we did together in the pictures below)
- When you think you're done, make sure you count on from your total by adding on the bills and coins that you drew to make sure it adds up to the amount of money you paid.
On the whiteboard you can see how we regrouped some of our coins to create our change using the least amount of coins possible.
At the end of the lesson we discussed how we can check our work by using a strategy we learned early on in the year: checking. You can add the amount you owed + the change amount you solved and this should add up to the amount you gave the cashier. If it doesn't, double check your work.
Today was a big focus on how we use the problem-solving strategy to solve word problems. In their homework, students have to practice using this strategy for each question so that it challenges them to break down the question, along with identify the steps they need to complete to solve the problem. This is important for them to understand how to do for when they're faced with challenging multi-step problems.
Agenda
- Spelling Lesson 18
- Spelling Test Friday - Words only
- Cursive pgs. 40-45
- Math: Making change worksheet with a star
- Read for 25 minutes
- Re-registration packages due February 18th
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