Hot Lunch Orders

Hello all,

The system is now open to order Hot Lunch for February. Lunch orders are due Friday, January 26^th, 2018. After this date, our system closes and is unable to open for February ordering.  Please make sure your child is under the correct grade. http://mydigitalmailroom.com/sja  
All payments are due on Friday, February 9^th, 2018.

This month's special is Vegetable Stir Fry with Jasmine Rice that will be available every Friday!

Payment Instructions

• There are two options to pay for lunches. Cash and Freshbooks. 
  • Shortly after completing your order, a Freshbooks invoice will be sent to your email.
  • It may take one or two days to process your order to Freshbooks, so please be check your email diligently for the invoice.  
• We no longer accept cheque as a method of payment.

If you have any questions concerning the Lunch Ordering site or Freshbooks, feel free to email me at dbancud@stjudesacademy.com

Re-Registration

January 10 - 12, 2018

Happy Friday Parents of SJA!

I had such a great first week with the kids! This week was basically an icebreaker week so that they could get comfortable with having me as their new gym teacher!

We did the parachute and the kids ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! It might be one of the rewards they get with the new reward system I’ve created and described below.

We've started our Cooperative Games and Teamwork unit for Grade 1 and 2! In this unit we will be working in teams in stations to reinforce skills such as dribbling, passing and kicking balls, zig zagging through cones with a soccer ball, targets such as bean bag toss, frisbee throwing, etc…

In Cooperative games we will learn to play “Mission Impossible” which some of the kids already know, Human Rock Paper Scissors, Everybody’s It, etc…

SK and JK will be doing a follow instructions and a dance/ movement unit! I started this week with freeze dance to get the kids familiarized with dancing to the music and following my instructions. “When the music stops, You stop!” We then did “Animal Freeze” which I play music and the kids together choose an animal to imitate and they walk around as that animal. This week the kids chose animals like: snake, turtle, monkey, elephant, cheetah, lion, bear, butterfly, and caterpillar!

I've put together STARS which is going to be a reward system for Gym!

Safety
Teamwork
Attitude
Respect
Sportsmanship

The kids have to follow the STARS and get a minimum of 20 STARS each week and if they succeed they get the last 7-10 minutes or get a sticker or whatever we choose as a group on the last day of the week! This will also help with team work and cooperation within their class as well.

I will have a weekly chart posted in the Auditorium for the kids to follow so they know what they need work on! 

I’m really hoping that we can get the kids to follow each of these rules throughout the year and become great team players and companions.

I will post each Friday how each class did in STARS for that week! 

Have a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing the kids on Monday!

Kindest Regards,

Ms. Yustin

Meet the Teacher

Hi SJA Parents!

I'm Alex Yustin and I'm St. Jude's Academys new PYP Physical Education and Health teacher!

I will be teaching Kindergarten to Grade 2 each day!

I went to Brock University for the Concurrent Education program and I have a Bachelor of Arts in Child Psychology, as well as a Bachelor of Education in Primary/Junior.

I taught primary Phys Ed at Pickering College for the 2015-2016 school year and I taught Kindergarten for the 2016-2017 school year!

I'm super excited to be teaching Physical Education again and I can't wait to bring my enthusiasm and positive aura to the SJA Physical Education program!

I look forward to meeting each and every one of you!

If you have any questions feel free to email me at ayustin@stjudesacademy.com

- Alex