Charlemagne 4th Grade

Upcoming Dates

• Friday, October 13 – NO SCHOOL, Professional Development

What’s up! Quoi de neuf?

We are into our inclement fall weather, so please send your child to school in proper footwear and a water-repellent jacket with a hood or a hat 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. You can view updated illness & Covid rules here. 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 attendance line (541) 790-7080 or email Eliza at drummond_e@4j.lane.edu.

Please ensure that you email BOTH TEACHERS when you communicate with us.

We had an amazing group of dancers and musicians from Ghana. Go through the photos below with your kids and they can tell you about all the amazing things these performers did. The kids loved it!       

Le français:

Mme Jana kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu French & science teacher

So, we began homework last week, and most students did well, but a number of students forgot their homework. Not having your completed homework to show me every day causes students to lose homework points. So, I tell students to always put their homework in their home folder after it’s completed and initialed, to put the home folder in their backpack with their snack, and to put the backpack next to the door from which you leave. If you can help your students get into this habit, it will be to their highest good. This week, it’s English homework, but you’ll see the lavender French homework again next week. We’re really trying to establish routine and responsibility.

Student goal:  I can name and order the days of the week in French. (We’re not quite there yet.)

I hope to begin reading groups this week. We continue to correct two horrible sentences on all full days, and alphabetize on our short day. I have instructed all of the lowercase letters, but many students still need practice attaching the letters properly. They can do an “a” but not when it has a “p” after it, so we’re working on that. I think we will be able to begin uppercase letters this week!

Student goal:  I can find grammatical and punctuation errors in sentences in French.

Student goal:  I can form and connect all the lowercase letters correctly in cursive.

Student goal:  I can alphabetize words up to and beyond the fifth letter.

Student goal:  I am learning to quickly and efficiently use a translating dictionary.

We are continuing with our first art project, and we are making progress on the “Moi!” project which is all about them. Here are the first completed projects hanging in the hallway:

We have just two French assessments left to do. We’ll do speaking and writing this week. We conjugated the verb faire (to make or do) last week and will conjugate aller (to go) this week, then we’ll move on to verbs that end in -er, which is 90% of the verbs in French. Many students have begun typing with accents in our French typing program, “Tap’Touche.”  We continue to spend time learning about translating dictionary use. 

Student goal:  I can type words and letters using French accents.

Buddies! Both red and blue classes began buddies, and our first meetings went very well. Both classes will do buddies once a week with first graders on Wednesdays. Here is a brief look:

Les sciences:

We will begin our first science unit, Soils, Rocks, and Landforms (La terre, les pierres, et les formes du relief) the third week of October. Our first activity is to discover the components of soil. Sorry for the delay, but some routines are taking a bit longer to solidify. Two parents have volunteered to help prep sciences, and I could use one more….please?

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

Math