Charlemagne 4th Grade

Upcoming Dates

• Wednesday, May 24 – Virtual field trip to our state Capitol
• Wednesday, May 24 – 3, 4, 5 Spring Music Concert 6 pm – 7 pm (see below)
• May 22- June 12- Family history home project. (see notes below in English)
• Monday, May 29 – NO SCHOOL, Memorial Day
• Friday, June 2 – Le Tour du Monde (Jog-a-thon)
• Friday, June 9 – NO SCHOOL, Grading Day for teachers
• Thursday, June 15 – Field Day! Half day of school. Students released at 11:45.

Spring Music Concert for 3rd through 5th!

The Spring Concert is happening Wednesday, May 24th. Doors open at 5:40pm and the concert will begin at 6pm. If you are able to volunteer at all during this process, please sign up for an available slot using the following link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c084da9a723a1fdce9-spring#/ . Thank you! Mme. Doyle

 

Field Trip Photo Album

Thank you to the parents who came to our Field trip to Dorris Ranch. You can see field Trip photos here.

What’s up! Quoi de neuf?

Please give your child his/her/their allergy meds before they come to school in the morning. If you want to leave meds at school, you need to fill out a medical form. If so, please see Eliza in the office. Please send your child to school in proper footwear and a water-repellent jacket when the weather is rainy. Students will go out to recess unless 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 please call in and leave a message on the school line (541) 790-7080 or email Eliza at drummond_e@4j.lane.edu.

Le français:

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

•We speak exclusively in French during French class.

•We are learning and applying grammar and spelling rules in French.

•We are learning about francophone countries around the world.

Lisa, our wonderful intern, was able to complete the oral reading fluency French evaluations this week. Most students have also completed the French comprehension evaluation, but with what little time we have outside of the francophone studies completion and reports, and a number of absences, we didn’t get them completed. We will finish up those and students will do a writing evaluation as well next week.

There is French homework this week, another four rules, and this will be the last week of French homework for the school year. Here it is:  vocab règles mai 2023 l Vocab

As students are completing their Francophone country project presentations, they are either helping other students finish their dodecahedrons or practice their presentations or they will soon return to our most recent art project which is tessellations (le dallage). As students complete their presentations, I hang their dodecahedrons in the classroom. Here are some up-close and some macro views of the dodecahedrons hanging in the classroom. I tried to get a good selection of different students and styles: 

Sciences humaines et lecture :

Your kids have been working so hard on this Francophone country project. We have heard quite a few presentations already, and they’re pretty fascinating. We began with statistics about the U.S. and now we’re able to compare our Francophone countries. We’ve learned about and discussed, among other things:  what literacy rates are in other countries, sports (soccer being #1), what percentage of the country is forested, climates, languages spoken, neighboring countries and bodies of water, national animals, governmental systems, required paid maternity leave (which nearly every country we’ve studied provides), monuments, life expectancy, foods and dishes, and also why these countries speak French, so we spoke a bit about colonization. And they’ve done all this in French! (Okay, probably 80% in French, but still!)

I wanted the dodecahedrons to have been completed by this Thursday, so if your child missed that deadline, rats. We still have a lot of presentation time to spend in class. When most presentations are complete, I will send home the research papers with their graded score sheets attached. It is the 1-4 scale, with 3 being a “meets.” 

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

Math

Multiplication of whole numbers and fractions

Goals:

1. We can model multiplication of fractions and whole numbers with number lines and area models.
   
2. We can solve real-world problems and communicate clearly our thinking about our thinking process.

Students are learning to model multiplication of whole numbers and fractions using both number lines and area models likes these. This helps to build the concept behind the standard multiplication algorithm. This concept, especially the area model will be revisited in future grades including algebra.

 

We wrap up Oregon history as we learn about Oregon’s government this week. We will take a virtual tour of the state capitol on Wednesday.

As we have been reading and discussing Oreogn’s history and geograph, students have been making game boards and maps to bring home and to share with you. They should come home Tuesday or Wednesday. Please take some time to play the game with your child sometime this week.ed the early growth and changes in Oregon.

Homework Project: Making history personal

As part of our study of Oregon history in 4^th grade, we have read about people who emigrated to Oregon during the 1800s. In a final home project, students are encouraged to learn a bit more about their family’s history or about the history of someone important to Oregon’s history (doesn’t have to be in your family.)

With parents’ help, students are encouraged to choose one of the following. They may bring their project/story anytime in the next few weeks to share with the class.  This does not need to be museum quality! It can simply be a written story or hand-drawn drawing, a photo, or object that goes with a brief story.

The last day to share is June 12th.  We will be sharing these as they come in to class. Materials will be returned to you.

• Family Tree
• Family Story
• Photo or object to share and describe
• Family immigration/ emigration story
• Short research project about anyone important to you or to Oregon’s history (see Mme Shelli if you need ideas)