le 28 novembre au 1er décembre 2022

Upcoming Dates

  • Friday, December 2:  NO SCHOOL (teacher work 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 optional club is starting soon. You can find out more about the OBOB club and sign your child up at this link.

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 write in complete sentences and can identify many parts of speech.

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

I hope everyone had a warm Thanksgiving break and got to spend some quality time with family, friends, and self.

Un grand merci to Daphne’s parents for donating a new French globe to the classroom. Un grand merci also to Miya’s parents who quickly responded to my request for slides last week and sent Miya to school with a whole box of them! 

This week’s French vocabulary homework includes words that include un accent aigu (´). This accent goes from lower left to upper right and only goes over the letter E. We had the vocabulary word(s), un accent aigu, on last week’s vocabulary, and the quiz showed me that many students still don’t understand the difference between un accent aigu and un accent grave (`), which is important but also challenging since we don’t use accents in English. Since there is no school on Friday, we will do one day of the homework at school on Monday, and kids will have homework Monday through Wednesday nights. Here is the homework:  vocab é nov 2022 l Vocab

Our cursive instruction is nearly complete. We just have capital letters I, G, S, J, E, and L to go. Our goal is to complete cursive instruction in December, then we’ll be using it daily to continue to master challenging letters and links. We continue doing Tap’Touche French typing program once or twice a week. 

Most students are coming to the end of their first book for French reading groups. Some students may shift to a different group at this time to create better balance and dynamics.

Most students have completed the “Moi!” project, and they will come home during Winter Break. Students who work more slowly or have gotten a bit behind for one reason or another may bring the project home in the coming weeks to catch up, but will complete the project at school.                 

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

 

Les sciences: 

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. Those will be completed and handed over to Mme Shelli this week.

Thanks to Miya’s parents, we’ll be able to look at our crystals next week. Also, we’ll begin our first experiment on 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.

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:

  • We can solve problems with multiplication and division that involve area.
  • We can find the perimeter of rectangular and irregular shapes.
  • We can use a letter to represent an unknown in equations.

We spent a few days last week measuring objects in both inches and centimeters. Students calculated the perimeter and area the rectangular objects. Many students found this to be a challenging hands on activity. They had opportunities to go back and remeasure and revise their work. You may see this “Scoot” activity in their home folder.

This week, students will use reasoning to solve problems to find the area and perimeter of irregular shaped objects. We will wrap up Unit 3 by the end of the week with a short quiz and then move into fractions.

EXTRA Math Practice: There are a number of games and activities that you and your child might enjoy for extra math practice on this page.

If you are interested in learning how to use Dreambox (our district’s computer adaptive math program) at home go to this site.  If you want your child’s Clever badge or sign in information, contact Mme. Shelli. We usually do about 20-30 minutes of Dreambox per week in class, but students are able to do more at home as well.

There is no math HOMEWORK this week.

 

English & Social Studies

Wordstudy:  This week we will analyze words with long /ī/ spellings.  We also will discuss the Greek root “nym.”

Literature & Writing: We will continue Love that Dog by Sharon Creech and will read the poems, “The Pasture” by Robert Frost, “The Tiger” by William Blake, and “Dog” by Valerie Worth.  Not only will students discuss the meaning and themes in these poems, but they also will analyze poems’ structure of lines, stanzas, rhythm, repetition, and meter.

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