le 16 au 20 octobre 2023

Upcoming Dates

  • Tuesday, October 31 – Halloween parade 8h45. Parents welcome in courtyard outside of 1st and 2nd grade. Please look at the principal’s letter to help your student follow our Halloween costume rules.
  • Friday, November 3 – Photo Retakes & health screening

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. It’s getting cold, too, so please have your child wear warmer layers. Thank you!

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.

OBOB:

If your child signed up for OBOB, this announcement is for you! We have a large population of students excited to participate and teams have been set. Your child will start OBOB practices during their lunch/recess time on Wednesdays only, beginning on November 1. To save time, it’s best to have a home lunch that day. However, we honor the hot lunch choice and will have the participants get a hot lunch during K-2 hot lunch service. A big thank you goes out to parent Nick Caum for taking the lead and all the other volunteers who have chosen to support this worthwhile opportunity. Let the reading fun begin!

Le français:

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

No French homework this week. The homework went much better this time, so bravo! Heads up that I will be absent on Thursday and Friday for my partner to get some injections. I will be at home taking care of him, and my lovely sub is Elisha Hocking. She has a lot of experience with our school, has some French, and all three of her children are in French Immersion.

I am experiencing this fourth-grade group as not-very-personally-motivated learners, so I’m working on ways to turn passive learners into more active learners. I blew up at the blue class on Thursday because so many students were off-task, and I don’t want that to happen again. We had a long talk on Friday about what I’m specifically expecting to happen during work time. I hope it helped. So, please be our partners in motivating your children to learn and to become more inquisitive individuals.

We continued reading groups last week, and the plan is to have reading groups once to twice a week. Many groups have almost finished their first book. 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, so we will continue to work on that. We continue uppercase letters this week with U, P, and B.

Student goal:  I can correct 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.

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 image of the completed projects now hanging in the hallway.

The students have just one French assessments left to do, and it is the speaking assessment. It is the most complicated logistically to manage. We will begin working on it this week, but will probably need a couple of weeks to complete. The students did the fall writing assessment last week. We conjugated the verb aller (to go) this past week. 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 am learning to quickly and efficiently use a translating dictionary.

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 worked on painting a haunted house with their buddies. They turned out great!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Les sciences:

We began our first science unit, Soils, Rocks, and Landforms (La terre, les pierres, et les formes du relief) with an overview this week, talking about what they think soil is made of and looking at various landforms at home and abroad. Our first activity to discover the components of soil will be on Tuesday, so they get to get their fingers a little bit dirty.

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

Math

This week’s Key Concepts:

  • We can model multiplication of larger numbers with an area model.
  • We can become fluent with multiplication facts through x 12.

There IS nightly MATH HOMEWORK this week.

Last week, we reviewed basic multiplication facts of x1 to x12. Each day this week, we’ll practice basic facts in class for about 10 minutes per day. At home, please practice basic multiplication facts with your child. You can play games like the ones on this link at home to practice.

We’ll be learning more about multiplication of two and three digit numbers by one digit. Our math talks early in the week will feature math patterns such as:

5 x 10, 5 x 100, 5 x 20, 5 x 200, 5 x 1000, 5 x 2000.

This will lead us into using the distributive property and an area model of multiplication to multiply numbers such as

2 x 885  which equals

2 x 800

2 x 80

and 2 x 5.

We will visualize multiplication of larger number this with an area model like this.

 

 

 

English

We started a short novel, Love that Dog, last week. As the main character, Jack, learns about poetry, our class will analyze several poems, too. In the novel, the character reads The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams and a few poems by Robert Frost. Students will begin analyze poetry for lines, stanza, rhyme scheme, rhythm, and more. During poetry exploration time, students can read from a variety of diverse poetry in class. Students will also have several opportunities to write their own poetry.

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