le 21 au 23 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:  First day 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 speak exclusively in French during French class.

•We have a positive attitude and growth mindset.

•We use kind words and actions when interacting with others.

We have begun French-only and most students are doing just fine with it. The hard start French-only, no excuses, so dommages can be given, began last Friday, November 18. 

No French homework this week.

Our cursive is coming along. We just have capital letters H, K, I, G, S, J, E, L, and I to go! Yes, they are the hardest ones. We are also still doing Tap’Touche once or twice a week. Blue class had buddies this week, where they made up their own secret handshakes after playing a math game.

We spent a little time making cards for our classmate George Forsythe, whose father passed away this past week. Our thoughts and wishes go out to George and his family. We are talking to the students about how to treat George when he gets back into the classroom, not to crowd him, etc. Please take some time to talk to your children at home about this tragic event. Many students may need to talk it through. Mme Rachel, our school counselor, is also an excellent source if kids need to talk during school.

Many more students have completed the “Moi!” project. See below. More students have also completed the “Tubes” art project, which we are hanging in our classroom.                                                                                                                                                                                 

 

 

 

 

We began our new “J’observe…” writing project entitled “Une tornade de poissons” (a tornado of fish).

Les sciences: 

I got out a microscope so the kids could look at the crystals under a microscope, but it turns out I can’t find any of my slides or slide covers. If anyone has access and could send in one or two clean slides to school with your child, we would put them to good use. 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, but we’ll begin it the first week after Thanksgiving.

This past week and this week, we linked our science to a social studies project on Oregon in English class and learned French vocabulary words for landforms, which we have defined and colored and will become part of the students’ Oregon project. 

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 week:

1. We can solve problems with multiplication and division that involve area.

2. We can find the perimeter of rectangular and irregular shapes.

3. We can use a letter to represent an unknown in equations.

We continue to review multiplication and division this week as we solve problems involving area and perimeter. Students will have opportunities to measure objects and find their perimeters and surface area. In addition, we’ll discuss how we can use a variable to create equations to solve for unknown sides of rectangles and how multiplication or division might be used to solve for the variable.

There are 2 nights of math review HOMEWORK this week. One night focuses on multiplication facts & strategies while the next night focuses on division.

 

English & Social Studies

Wordstudy: Though there is a wide range of spelling ability in 4th grade, all students can benefit from analyzing sound and spelling patterns and root words. We started “Wordstudy” last week, looking at spellings for the sound of long /a/. This week we will look at long /i/ spellings.  In the future, we’ll look at Greek and Latin roots in English words.

Literature & Writing: Students began a short novel called Love that Dog by Sharon Creech and read a few poems, Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams and Stopping by a Snowy Woods by Robert Frost.  They looked at elements of poetry such as line, stanza, and rhyme. This week, students will look more closely at rhyme scheme and descriptive adjectives. They will continue to read the novel a few pages each day. Information about the Wit and Wisdom curriculum for 4th grade can be found here.