le 9 au 13 janvier 2023

 

Upcoming Dates

  • Monday, January 16:  NO SCHOOL. Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  • Wednesday, January 18:  Choir club starts after school. See Mme Doyle’s note below.
  • Friday, February 3:  NO SCHOOL. Teachers prepare report cards

What’s up! Quoi de neuf?

Please 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.

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 are memorizing the parts of the body.

This week’s French vocabulary is body parts. We have been working on them since December, and they’re starting to stick, so I hope the vocab this week will be fairly easy for them. Here is a copy:  jan 2023 parties du corps vocab

Many students have finished the most recent “J’observe…” writing project, “Une tornade de poissons.”  I showed the students the next “J’observe…”  photo, and they’re pretty excited to work on it. It’s called “Quatre porcelets dans un chapeau melon,” and it will be a good opportunity for them to use words other than “cute.” I gave them a list of alternative words to use, especially for words like big (grand/grande), small (petit/petite), and cute (mignon/mignonne), and it is taped into their journals.

We’ll begin a new geography study next week. On Friday, we began a new art project where they chose half of a magazine image and draw in the rest of the image. They will likely come home at the end of February.

Les sciences: 

We’re still working to finish up our knowledge about Soils, Rocks, and Landforms, and we’ll be having an open-journal quiz next week. We’ll begin our new science unit, Energy (l’Énergie) in February.

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

Math

We will wrap our unit on modeling addition and subtraction of fractions on Monday. Tuesday there will be a quiz on the unit and we will do our mid-year EasyCBM assessments in math.

Wednesday we will begin Unit 5: Understanding fraction equivalence and comparison

Key components of this unit are:

  • We can compare fractions with visual models. However, hand-drawn visual models are not always accurate.
  • We can compare fractions to a common benchmark. (For example, I know 1/3 is less than 1/2 and 5/8 is more than 1/2 so 1/3 < 5/8.)
  • We can compare fractions by examining their numerators and denominators.
  • We can generate equivalent fractions.
  • We can find common denominators to compare fractions.

There is NO math homework this week.

English

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

Literature & Writing: Unit 2 Extreme Settings

Last week, we read “All Summer in A Day” by Ray Bradbury. Students compared the setting in science fiction text to a non-fiction informational video. They examined the plot to determine the central conflict in the story was. This week, we look more closely at the text to look at the author’s use of descriptive and figurative language to paint a clear picture of the setting, characters, and plot. They will then write some short descriptive paragraphs with sensory details.

Information about our new ELA unit can be found here.

From Music Teacher

Is your student interested in singing? This month, we will be starting up our 2nd annual Spring Choir dedicated solely to our 4th and 5th grade students. The choir will meet once a week after school on Wednesdays from approx. 3:05 – 3:50. Rehearsals will meet each Wednesday all through the spring, starting on January 18th, with the last rehearsal on May 17th, and the concert will happen on May 24th. Talk with your student to gauge their interest in joining the choir and be on the lookout for more information and a signup form from Mme Doyle (doyle_k@4j.lane.edu) soon.