Absences:

Several families have let us know they will be out of town the week before Winter Break. If you fall into this category, let both of us and Bernadette know about your plans so it’s officially in the system.  Please do this any time your child won’t be in class. It helps us tremendously with planning. Merci! Here is a link to a form you should submit to the office for extended absences of greater than 2 days.

Homework:

Mme Shelli’s Class: Your child has a fun home project to complete over the next few weeks in lieu of regular homework; they should bring the project to school anytime before Dec. 3rd. Here is a link to the description of the assignment, Native American Visual Project. (HomeprojectNA) If you have questions, email Shelli.

Mme Jana’s Class:  No homework in French this week. We’ll start back up next week!

Important Dates: 

Thursday & Friday, Nov 22 & 23     NO SCHOOL, Thanksgiving Break

December 22- January 7 NO SCHOOL, Winter Break

Mme Jana’s News (kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu)

FLA (French Language Arts):  We are working hard on how to conjugate verbs within sentences, not as easy as it may seem. We’ll do another exercise this week, and basically keep working on it all year ’til it’s hopefully second nature. We worked on a worksheet I designed which helps students practice finding the right subject and conjugating the verb correctly. 

Most students have completed their first reading group book and set of comprehension questions. You should see those packets coming home soon, and we’ll begin new books next week.

Av handful of students have completed their Problèmes de logique 1 packet and are ready to move on to the second one…once they arrive from the printer. This packet is worked on when all other work has been completed.

Most students are completing their last cursive packet or are on the corrections stage. We also wrote our names again on a practice sheet so we can compare the beginning of the year with the end. Big change already for everyone.

Thanksgiving: To help properly celebrate giving thanks, we will be working on an art project that involves sewing a fall leaf garland, but begins with listing those things for which we are grateful (reconnaissant).


Mme Shelli’s News (hopper_s@4j.lane.edu)

English Language Arts:  Integrating English language arts and Oregon history, students are researching a Native people group from Oregon. This week in class, students will complete their research and begin to prepare an outline for a multi-paragraph report about their research.  At home, students should be creating a visual (diorama, poster, painting, illustrated book) to accompany their report.  This visual is due December 3rd.  That week, students will present their findings in a “museum” day.  Parents are welcome to attend.  More information will be coming after Thanksgiving about the special event.

Math: We will wrap our unit is Multiplication and Division Strategies with larger numbers next week.  Then, for the remainder of the short week, students will be exploring area, perimeter, polygons, and angles with geoboards.

Dreambox math is an optional home activity for individualized, leveled math practice and is paid for by the school district. Students can login with their school passwords using “login with active directory.” Studies show that students who use Dreambox 60+ minutes per week in addition to regular classroom instruction make great gains in their math understanding.

Thank you parents for attending parent-teacher conferences!  We very much enjoyed talking with you.  In future, you are welcome before or after school anytime to come look through student journals. (If you come in the morning, please be aware that we are prepping for the day & won’t be able to stop and talk, and that we do expect students to be ready to begin their day promptly at 8h30.) Also, please take time to look at Seesaw updates as they come to you to see/hear how your child is progressing in class. If you have further questions about your child’s growth in 4th grade, remember that we are available by email or to meet by appointment.