le 5 au 9 décembre 2022

Upcoming Dates

  • 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 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. 

The kids are doing a fantastic job remaining in French. 👍🏼

There is no French vocabulary homework this week, but those students who haven’t yet completed their Moi! project may be bringing home some parts to complete. We did not take our vocabulary quiz because I was absent on Thursday, and I didn’t think they were quite ready, so we’ll do the quiz on Monday or Tuesday. In class, we will continue to work to understand the difference between un accent aigu and un accent grave (`). Our next homework will be words that contain un accent grave (`)

We’ll begin a new winter art project using liquid watercolor, but otherwise, we’ll be completing our fall work so we can begin new units in January. We’re going to work on body parts.

In cursive instruction, we just have capital letters G, S, and E to go. My hope for us 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 in January to create better balance and dynamics. We did not do reading groups last week so that we could complete some projects, and will use the next two weeks to work primarily on writing in French.

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.                 

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. We completed and handed over to Mme Shelli this past week our drawings and vocab for their Oregon project.

We looked at our crystals from the chemical weathering under the microscope. 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. 

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

Math

Unit 4: Decomposing & Composing Fractions for Addition and Subtraction

Here are some key concepts of the this new unit:

  • We can construct (compose) a “whole” if we know a fractional part.
  • We can decompose (breakdown) fractions in more than one way.
  • We can add and subtract fractions with like denominators.

Early this week, students should bring home a mostly complete Unit 3: Multiplication and Division workbook and completed Unit 3 quiz. In this unit, students learned strategies to model multiplication and division of larger numbers. The major work of this unit did not focus on using the standard algorithm, but instead we focused on reasoning. Later in the year, we will return to multiplication and division for more practice of strategies and to solidify the standard algorithm for multiplication of one digit by 4 digit numbers. In 5th grade students will learn multi-digit multiplication and the standard way to do “long division.”

The  new unit we start this week begins with the idea of “reasoning up and down” which reinforces the meaning of fractions and the components of fractions. Students reason from non-unit fractions “down” to unit fractions, and then reason “up” to wholes and then to other fractions with the same denominator. This process prepares students for future reasoning with ratios and insures understanding of the numerator and denominator. Students then use their grasp of addition and subtraction to discover the different ways of composing and decomposing fractions, which they have previously only partitioned into unit fractions.

There is nightly math homework. For 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.

 

English

Look for your child to bring home their Oregon Geography booklet on Monday. This was a big projects, so please take a moment to have them share their learning with you.  Just so I know you received it, part of your child’s homework this week is to share this with you.

Wordstudy:  This week we will analyze words with long /ī/ and long /ē/ spellings. 

Literature & Writing: Students will finish the short novel Love that Dog by Sharon Creech this week. Students will be looking for ways the main character, Jack, grows and changes through out the novel and will find evidence for how the other characters in the text help him in his transformation. As we wrap up this “Great Heart” unit next week, students will be writing a multiple paragraph essay about their learning.

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