le 25 au 29 avril 2022

Upcoming Dates

Thursday, April 28 – Artist in Residence, week one of three (see below)

Monday-Thursday, May 9-12 – Oregon State Testing- English Language Arts

Monday-Wednesday, May 16-18 – Oregon State Testing- Math (More details will be provided in weeks to come.)

Monday, May 30 – NO SCHOOL, Memorial Day

Artist in Residence:

Artist in Residency Jen Hernandez will be at Charlemagne for three weeks creating a Kindness and Art project which will focus on how kindness feels to experience (both by being kind and receiving kindness) and expression of those feelings through body movement, words, and visual art. Students will focus on how our bodies feel, giving expression to those feelings through movement. Students will create individual art pieces on 6×6 inch watercolor cards, that will be placed together as a “quilt” of artwork for display in the school. Students will also create their own sketchbooks through the art-making process, and they’ll get to have unique stickers printed with their artwork on it, which they can color and take home.

Merci, Dr. Johnson

Thank you to Josie’s dad for sharing about his work as a pediatric cardiologist! Students were enthralled with his hand-drawn heart and loved the model and video of the heart that he brought in to share. What an amazing opportunity to hear from a real heart doctor during our study of the heart. Thank you!

 

 

 

 

Le français:

Mme Jana, French & Science kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu

•We conjugate verbs in our writing and speaking.

•We are learning to use the Internet to locate specific information.

•We are reading passages in French to glean pertinent information.

•We are reading, writing, and speaking  French as we learn about countries where French is an official language. 

We will begin a new “J’observe…” next week and the blue class will choose that photo.

There is French homework this week, so look for that lavender sheet going back and forth every day. We are working on more vocabulary related to our francophone country study. If your child is not demonstrating understanding on his/her/their quizzes, he/she/they need(s) to either study more, practice with the meanings more, or ask for help, because I make it highly possible to be successful. Please remember that understanding the vocabulary is more important than the spelling of the words.

More and more tessellation projects are being completed, and those will come home in the new few weeks. 

Les sciences humaines (Social studies):  

We continue our Francophone country project. This past week, we began a new side of the dodecahedron with the country’s important information, like the continent on which it is found, its capital, its currency, and its population. We also worked on the sides related to languages spoken in the country, and the map of the country and its surrounding countries and/or bodies of water. I finally found a great source from the UN to help describe the socio-economic situations in most of our countries. We’ll work on common foods and a main dish from the country next. To culminate the project, students will present their country to their classmates.

Mme Lacey, our student teacher

Mme Lacey will take the lead on teaching English and math this week. See below for the major concepts being covered in English this week. If you have any questions, please contact Shelli.
 
 
 

Unit 8: Multiplicative Comparison

Key concepts:

•We can solve problems with multiplication and division

•We can solve problems of measurement conversions

•We can solve addition and subtraction problems with fractions and mixed numbers.

We wrap up our unit on multiplicative comparison early this week. Students will continue to solve problems involving both division or multiplication.
 
Next, we begin Fractions: Unit 10: Solving problems with addition of mixed numbers and fractions. Our first big concept is :
We can replace a mixed number with an equivalent fraction to add and subtract fractions with like denominators.
 
PLEASE help your child become FLUENT in multiplication facts up through 12 x12.  Games and daily practice can help. Look here for a list of ideas for practice at home.

Homework:

There is no Math homework this week.

English:

We finish the unit called “The Great Heart” from the curriculum, Wit and Wisdom. You can find out more about the unit here.

This week we will:

  • Learn about the literal heart and circulatory system
  • Closely reread the non-fiction text,The Circulatory Story, to find main idea and details
  • Write a detailed, organized explanatory paragraph about the heart
  • Use our knowledge of capitalization and commas to edit our writing