Hello Parents!

Just a quick blog for today. As you all know, today we went on our trip to Mountsberg Conservation Area, to learn about Biodiversity! We were outside for most of the day, and got to experience and learn about trees and animals in that area. Ask your children more about it, as I’m sure they have many stories to tell you! It was a lot of fun, from seeing (and touching!) real snakes, to hiking snowy trails to find animal tracks! Below you’ll see many pictures from our trip. I enjoyed it, and I hope everyone enjoyed it too! Also, thank you to Nora, for volunteering and helping out while we were on our outdoor adventure!

Just a few important notes before I go:

Students must complete the worksheet for today's trip. 

1.       TOMORROW (Thursday, February 16^th) we will be celebrating “100 Days of School.”  If you would like to bring in anything that fits the theme of “100,” please let me know!

2.       Parent Guild Movie and Dance Night forms and payment is due TOMORROW (February 16th).

3.       Spelling test must be signed. (Spelling test will be next Friday, instead of this week).

4.       Novel Study: read Chapter 9, and answer the corresponding questions.

5.       SJA’s Annual Poems and Speeches Competition:  Students must begin memorizing their speeches! They officially have a week unit we begin the classroom competition, where we will be picking the top 3 speeches in the Grade 5 class (and they will go on to the school competition on Friday, February 24^th). The winners from that will go on to face the winners from The Maples on March 1^st. Please go over your child’s speech with them at home, and try to come up with strategies for memorization.  

6.       There is no school this Friday (February 17^th) and Monday (February 20^th).

7.       The MYP will be hosting a “Mock Trial” on Friday, February 24^th. To support them, the whole school is welcomed to participate in a casual day, where $2 will be collected, and students can dress up as judges, criminals, lawyers, etc. This is an optional event, but it will be fun to support the older grades during this exciting experience!

8.       The Grade 5’s and up will be going on a Ski trip on Thursday, March 2^nd, and Thursday, March 9^th.

That pretty much sums it up for today. I hope everyone has a wonderful night!

Ms. Ramnarine

Grade 5

St. Jude’s Academy