le 14 au 18 novembre 2022

Upcoming Dates

  • Thursday and Friday, November 24-25:  NO SCHOOL (Thanksgiving)
  • Friday, December 2:  NO SCHOOL (teacher training day
  • December 19-January 3:  Winter break
  • Wednesday, January 4:  Back to school for students

OBOB:

Charlemagne’s Oregon Battle of the Books club is starting soon. You can find out more about our OBOB club and sign your child up at this link.

OBOB is a statewide voluntary reading motivation and comprehension program sponsored by the Oregon Association of School Libraries for students in 3rd-12th grade. Students are encouraged to read from a list of quality literature representing a variety of literary styles and viewpoints.

OBOB’s mission is to encourage and recognize students who enjoy reading, to broaden reading interests, to increase reading comprehension, to promote academic excellence, and to promote cooperative learning and teamwork among students.

What’s up! Quoi de neuf?

Please make sure to send your child to school in proper footwear and a water-repellent jacket when the weather is threatening. Students will go out to recess unless the principal decides that the weather prevents it. If your child is ill, or has had a fever or vomited within the previous 24 hours, please keep your child home. Please continue to follow current Covid rules as well. If your child will be absent, please email both teachers (kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu and hopper_s@4j.lane.edu) and Bernadette (conover_b@4j.lane.edu) or please call in and leave a message on the school line (541) 790-7080.

Also, please remember to send a snack! It is recommended to students that they put a snack in their backpack with their homework folder every evening, then put the backpack next to the door from which they leave.

Le français:

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

•We do our best to express ourselves in French.

•We have a positive attitude and growth mindset.

•We look for patterns in language.

Thank you so much for meeting to discuss your children. Conferences went well from our perspective. We have begun French-only and most students are doing just fine with it. The kids start French-only, no excuses, so dommages can be given, on Friday, November 18. 

French homework this week is on punctuation and accents, plus a couple of words that are commonly misspelled. Here is a copy of the assignment:  Nov 14 les mots variés 2022 Vocab 

We played a fun game where a student was given a card in French with a classroom item on the card, and they had to go and put the card on the item. They enjoyed it, and now we have a lot of things labeled in the classroom. 

Students had a bit of time to work on the “Moi!” project which is all about them… in French. Many students have completed their art, and many more are in the midst of writing their paragraphs in cursive. Students are at a number of different points in the project. Quite a few students have completed the project already, and they are hanging in the stairwell that leads down to our level. I hope you were able to take a look at them if you came for parent/teacher conferences. A couple of students have completed their “Tubes” art project, which we’ve begun to hang in our classroom.

Les sciences: 

We examined our vinegared stones for differences and saw what did or did not happen to the stones as the vinegar evaporated.

We learned about acid rain and how it’s caused and who causes it (pollution caused by us). We talked about the crystals that formed and that they come from a chemical reaction between the vinegar and calcite that is present in some stones. I’m going to get out a microscope and let the kids look at the crystals under a microscope! Our next experiment moves on to how landforms are created, so we’ll be using trays, large amounts of soil, pouring water, and observing erosion and deposition. It will be delightfully messy.

This week, we’ll be linking to a social studies project on Oregon in English class and learning French vocabulary words for landforms. 

Mme Shelli, English & Math
hopper_s@4j.lane.edu

Unit 3: Multiplication and Division Strategies with larger numbers.

Here are some key concepts of the this unit:

1. Place value understanding allows us to multiply and divide multi-digit numbers in different ways.

2. We can model multiplication and division using a visual, area model.

This week we work on building the concept of division, the inverse of multiplication. This can be a new way of looking at division for many adults, but this week’s work uses the area model of multiplication to relate to division. See this video for a detailed look at this concept building strategy. Know, that students will focus on the standard algorithm for division and multiplication in 5th grade. In fourth grade, we are building some number sense around division to prepare them for a deeper understanding of the procedures in long division.

What can you do at home? Make sure your child is practicing multiplication facts of up through x 10. Most students could use practice in the x 4, x 6, x7, x8, x9. There are lots of games you can play at home and resources on the Math tab on this website..

Here’s an idea: Place sticky notes stuck around the house, your child’s room and bathroom. Put a math fact on one side and the answer on the back. As kids pass them in the hall, they check the answer as they walk by. Here’s another idea students can make that might work well for the a car trip.

There no  math HOMEWORK this week. 

 

English & Social Studies:

This week, students will wrap up  their learning in English class as they some write about what they learned about a group of Oregon’s indigenous people and how they historically lived in Oregon’s regions. In French class, students will continue learning Oregon geography with a study of landforms.

This Wednesday, we will venture back into our English Curriculum with part two of the Wit and Wisdom Unit, A Great Heart. Students will read a short novel called Love that Dog by Sharon Creech as well as various types of poetry. We will be asking what makes a poem a poem? How do poets show “great heart” in their writing? Students will also try writing some of their own poetry.

Information about the Wit and Wisdom curriculum for 4th grade can be found here.

From last week’s news: FREE National Parks Pass for every 4th grader:

 Your child should have brought home to you a free National Parks Pass. This valuable pass is good through August 31st, 2023 for FREE admission to National Park and many federal lands. Find out more at Every Kid Outdoors. If you lose the pass, you can apply for a replacement pass on the website.

There are many places right here in Oregon that you can use the pass for day use: National Forests, Cape Perpetua, Ft. Clatsop, Crater Lake, Oregon Caves, BLM lands and more.