le 16 au 20 octobre 2023

Upcoming Dates

  • Tuesday, October 31 Halloween parade 8h45. Parents welcome in courtyard outside of 1st and 2nd grade.

What’s up! Quoi de neuf?

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.

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.

Le français:

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

It’s French homework again! This week, it’s the months of the year, spelling them and knowing their order. Yes, students need to bring the paper to and from school and home Monday through Friday. Please initial each day to show that you saw your child’s completed work. If the homework gets misplaced, here is a copy:  les mois sept Vocab  

Also, this is me reading and spelling all the words. Please play it for your kids once a night if possible. It can help the person giving the Thursday night quiz also:

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

Student goal:  I can name and order the months of the year in French. 

We began reading groups this past week, and the plan is to have reading groups once to twice a 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. We will continue to work on that. We will begin uppercase letters this week with A, C, and O!

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 is an update of the completed projects now hanging in the hallway: 

We have just one French assessments left to do. The students did the fall writing assessment last week. They ran out of time to  conjugate the aller (to go) this past week when I was gone on Wednesday, so we’ll do that this week, then we’ll move on to verbs that end in -er. 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.

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

Buddies! Both red and blue classes began buddies, and I missed our second meeting, but my guest teacher says it went well. They began a haunted house painting together, and we will finish it up this Wednesday.

Les sciences:

We will hopefully begin our first science unit, Soils, Rocks, and Landforms (La terre, les pierres, et les formes du relief) this week. Our first activity is to discover the components of soil. I’m having some problems getting the first kit prepped.

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

Math

This week’s Key Concepts:

  • We can model multiplication in equal groups, comparison models, and with area models.
  • We can list multiples and factors.
  • We can determine if a number is prime or composite.

We wrapped up Unit 1 Addition and Subtraction last week. Most students are adding with regrouping(carrying) successfully. Subtraction continues to be a challenge for many. Please look for your child’s unit quiz and Unit 1 workbook to come home on mid-week. We will continue to review addition and subtraction in our every-other week math homework. There is NO MATH HOMEWORK this week.

Next, we will spend at least a week, reviewing basic multiplication facts of x1 through x12. We’ll model multiplication stories that include

  • Equal groups (Sally has 6 jars each with 4 marbles)
  • Arrays (a room is 6 feet long and 4 feet wide, What is the area?)
  • Multiplicative comparison (Sally is four times older than her 6 year old cousin.)

At home, please practice basic math facts with your child. You can get a flash card app on your phone or iPad, play card games, and practice in the car as you drive around town.

You can play games like the ones on this link at home to practice.

 

 

 

English

We’ll welcome a visitor, Nurse Kristena McAlister, on Monday to talk about working in a hospital and about healthy human hearts.

We will wrap up our study of healthy hearts as students read an article about keeping our hearts healthy and then report what they read to a small group.

Students wrote an organized paragraph about how the author of The Circulatory Story used figurative language  (metaphors and similes) to help readers understand the complex ideas in the text. The final drafts will be shared with classmates and then will be sent home next week.

Next, we’ll start a short novel, Love that Dog, and we’ll analyze some poetry.

Learn more about our Wit and Wisdom Curriculum here: Module 1: A Great Heart.