How We Organize Ourselves

We worked on speeches for the first section of our time together today. Four students volunteered to say their speeches to the whole class. Students chose to stay and be part of the audience and give feedback to those presenting or to go outside and practice their speech to a buddy or on their own. The four who presented today received excellent feedback from their peers and from me. They are coming home with a written transcript of the feedback to help them improve their speech. Everyone should be practicing and memorizing their speech. The in-class contest takes place on Tuesday, February 4^th. All students must wear blazers – no hoodies – for the oral competition.

Next, we said goodbye to our explorers unit. Students have received all their work, i.e. timelines, unit test, and RSA Animation rubrics. They took time to reflect on what they did well and what they need to improve on. They used their weaknesses to formulate learning goals for themselves and success criteria that describe how they will achieve their learning goal. They also reflected on their favourite part of the unit. They then selected 4 samples of work to add to their IB portfolios. This will be done later. Parents, please sign their test, timeline rubric, and RSA Animation rubric. Return the explorer duo-tangs to school tomorrow.

Later we began work on our fourth inquiry unit. Our goal was for students to understand the new unit. They should be able to

• identify the unit’s central idea
• understand the unit’s lines of inquiry
• understand the unit’s key concepts
• describe the summative tasks for this unit

Students will be creating a video to attract newcomers to a place in Canada as one of the summative tasks. We viewed samples of these projects from last year to help students understand what is required of them.

Our next goal was for students describe the connections that they as individuals have to the rest of the world and what it means to be a global citizen. They played a fun GLOBINGO game to help them achieve this. From this game, five country connections were pinned to our class world map: Portugal, Croatia, England/UK, India, and the Philippines. Each day will pin more countries that we have connections to. Students need to keep track of these countries and know where they are located on a world map. The unit test will have a large map work question where students many be asked to identify any pinned country.

For homework, students are to further explore our global connections by completing the Global Connections Treasure Hunt. This is due tomorrow. They are to also complete the map work activity page that is in their duo-tangs. This is also due tomorrow.

Students attended French class with Mme. Stella, gym class with Mr. Orr, and math class with Ms. Joseph. In math students …For homework, students are to complete and incomplete work form yesterday: Q. 5 on P. 237 and Q. 1 – 5 on the worksheet. The unit test will be written on Monday, 3^rd.

Do not order a hot lunch for the following dates:

-          March 4, 2020 – Ski & snowboard trip

Tomorrow is Casual Day!

DON’T DELAY - THE DEADLINE FOR RE-REGISTRATION IS FEBRUARY 18 AT 4 PM

To reserve your child’s 2020-2021 place at St. Jude’s Academy, complete and return your child’s re-registration forms and payment by FEB 18 AT 4 pm.

Homework and Reminders

Speech:

·         Catch up if you are behind on your speech work – cue cards were due today

·         Memorize your speech

·         Practice presenting your speech

Unit of Inquiry:

·         Get your parent to sign your timeline, explorers test, and RSA Animation – return these duo-tangs tomorrow

·         Complete the Global Connections Treasure Hunt

·         Complete the Map Work Activity

·         Know how to label Portugal, Croatia, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and India on a world map

Math:

Complete Q. 5 on P. 237 and Q. 1 – 5 from the worksheet

Upcoming Dates

• Thursday, January 30^th – Casual Day
• Monday, February 3^rd – Math unit test
• Tuesday, February 4^th – In-Class Speech competition. Wear blazers
• Thursday, February 6^th:
• JK - Grade 3 Oral Competition
• Deadline for February hot lunch payments
• Friday, February 7^th
• Grade 4 – 8 Oral Competition