Religion
On Friday we celebrated All Souls Day. It is a day we remember all those who have died and pray that their souls reach heaven.

In Art we talked about Sadako and read a bit of the story "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes". It is a touching true story of a young girl who was stricken with leukemia after the atomic bombs were dropped on two cities in Japan at the end of World War II, Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Why did Sadako want to fold 1000 paper cranes?

Link to the book online:
https://archive.org/details/SadakoAndTheThousandPaperCranes-English/page/n15

Here is the link to the instructions to fold the crane and the step by step instructions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfnyopxdJXQ

A bit of history about World War II and use of atomic bombs:
https://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/ww2_atomic_bomb.php


If you can show me that you can fold a crane ON YOUR OWN you may have origami paper to fold one that is coloured.
This was truly and exercise that you needed to use GRIT to be successful!

Family Life
The focus of our lesson can be read in the words of Isaiah:

The first theme Created and Loved by God, is like the foundation of a house. Everything else in the program is built on this. We believe we are made in God's image and God loves and knows each one of us. We are a very special creation.

In this first lesson we talked about how babies didn't come with instructions, but if they did, the most important one would be love me forever. God gave us people in our lives to love us and teach us how to love. We also met the students of Mr. Talbot's grade five class. We will be journeying with them throughout the year.

Math

We had a very short lesson on decomposing fractions into whole numbers and fractions. This form is called a MIXED NUMBER. Keep practicing counting by unit fractions and recognizing when you hit whole numbers.

Complete Mathletics assignments and the electronic games from the past week.

Social Studies

On Wednesday we have our last Social Studies test for the term. You must know the following for this test:

Knowledge / Communication

• Winners for the Municipal Election (Mayor, Councillor, Trustee all for Ward 9)
• Information on a ballot
• Different voting systems (first past the post vs ranked)
• Different forms of government: dictatorship, democracy, monarchy, consensus
• Decision making processes discussed in class (autocratic, democratic, consensus)
• Divisions of London for the elections (wards)
• Polling station
• Eligibility to vote
• How local governments communicate with their citizens

Local Issue (Thinking and Application)

• one that affects the entire city or just your neighbourhood
• can be an issue about safety, environment, financial (money), social justice or services 
• write a  factual, opinion and critical question about the issue and be prepared to answer your questions (opinion and critical are APE style questions)

Reminders:

• A small clear ruler, may help you construct angles and shapes in geometry.