Homework:

Mme Shelli’s Class: Math is homework this week.  If your child has extra time at home for math, they can login to math games on the “Math” tab above.

Mme Jana’s Class:  New vocabulary words this week, some repeats. Here is the homework: 30 octobre au 3 nov 2017 Vocab Look for the purple sheet! The procedures are the same as last time. First evening is rewriting, Tuesday is writing in cursive (which we will do in class so as not to interfere with Halloween evening), Wednesday is writing the word in a sentence, and Thursday evening is the quiz. Thanks for checking off the homework each  night!

Important Dates:

 Tuesday, Oct. 31             Halloween Parade at 8h30

Tuesday, Nov. 3             Grand Lunch 11:15-2

Wed/Thurs, Nov. 2-9    Book Fair

Wed/Thurs, Nov. 8-9    Parent Teacher Conferences (You will receive student photos then.)

Friday, Nov. 10               No School – Veteran’s Day

Thurs, Nov. 16                Picture retakes (8h00)

Mme Jana’s News 

FLA (French Language Arts): All the Moi! projects are now complete and hanging in the 4th grade stairwell and hallway, so please take a look at your child’s. They’ll go home at parent/teacher conferences.

We are still working away on French reading groups. A few groups will be ready to change to a new book after this week. Spoken French is definitely improving as I see the kids making themselves speak French, and they’re getting reading and writing practice every day as well. We’ve begun conjugating the verb avoir (to have) & we have consequently become aware that  few students understand what a subject pronoun, a possessive pronoun, a subject or a verb are, so we’re backtracking a bit. Mme Shelli is going to support us by going over those terms in English next week. 

There was a large flub with Tap’Touche (not my fault…totally), so I have to re-enter everyone’s name and code, but I do hope to begin typing this coming week.

Sciences: We are still working on series and parallel circuits! There are 3 investigations, so we’ll be on this one next week as well. A few parents have told me that kids are coming home and talking about circuits, so I’m excited they understand it well enough to share!


Mme Shelli’s News

ELA: We have been reading non-fiction about the geography and climate of Oregon.  Students are writing organized paragraphs about their favorite region this week.  They will edit, revise, and publish their paragraphs for you to see in the halls during conferences.  Next, students will be doing some research about people indigenous to Oregon.  This will lead into a writing project where students write 5+ paragraph reports.

Math: We wrap up Learn Zillion Unit 4 this week.  You will receive your child’s assessment and workbook for this Unit at conferences.  Students are working toward being able to generalize place value understanding for multi-digit numbers, add and subtract using column calculation, and to solve problems with numbers into the millions.

Other School News

Our Book Fair goes from  11/2 – 11/9 and the Grand Lunch is 11/3 11:15-2.
 Here is the full schedule: 
Thursday 11/2 2:45 – 4
Friday 11/3 11:15-2
Saturday 11/ 4 10am-1 (CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG)
Monday 11/6 After school Sale 2:45-4
Tuesday 11-7 After School Sale 2:45 – 4
Wednesday 11/8 During Conferences noon – 7:30
Thursday 11/9  During Conferencs 8am – Noon