le 30 octobre au 3 novembre 2023

Upcoming Dates

  • Tuesday, October 31 –  Halloween parade 8h45.  Parents welcome in courtyard outside of 1st and 2nd grade. Find rules about optional costumes in the principal’s letter
  • Friday, November 3 – Photo Retakes & health screening.
  • Thursday & Friday, November 9 & 10 – No school for students. (Grading day & Veterans’ Day)
  • Monday & Tuesday, November 20 & 21 – Parent/Teacher conferences (info coming soon) No school for students
  • Wednesday through Friday, November 22-24 – Thanksgiving break, No school
  • November 30th – Field Trip to UO Natural History Museum

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.

A gentle post-Halloween nutrition reminder:  Please resist sending candy as a snack. Sending one or two pieces of Halloween candy as an after-lunch treat is fine, but candy is a poor source for body and brain energy. Merci!

Le français:

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

This week’s French vocabulary homework this week is words we’re using in grammar. Help keep that sheet coming back and forth every day. Here is a copy of the homework in case it gets misplaced: sentence correction words oct 2023 Vocab

  (Students are responsible for homework even if they miss school; their homework is due the next week.) Here is me saying and spelling this week’s vocabulary words:

Le chien aux yeux exorbités

The students began their first “independent” “J’observe…” writing activity, entitled Le chien aux yeux exorbités (The bug-eyed dog). They are doing an admirable job creating interesting sentences.

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. We also 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 H, K, T, and F.

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

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

Students are really making progress on their “Moi!” projects. To the left is an image of the 31 completed projects now hanging in the hallway. Ask your child if his/hers/theirs is up in the hallway, and if not, where in the process his/her/their project currently is.

The students have just the French speaking assessment left to do. We began working on it last week, but will probably need a couple of weeks to complete it. We did not conjugate a verb this past week, but this coming week we will create a conjugation format for verbs ending in -er. As I have state in prior posts, about 90% of verbs are -er verbs, so it cuts a wide swath. 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 played a game with their buddies where they rolled dice and added up the two numbers whose product corresponded to a body part for an insect. There were some alarming multi-legged, multi-headed, multi-stingered creatures built that day. Much giggling occurred.

Les sciences:

We began our science unit, Soils, Rocks, and Landforms (La terre, les pierres, et les formes du relief) with our first experiment (une expérience) where they described different kinds of soil, and this week, we will decide where we think the soils may have come from, either a mountain (une montagne), a desert (un désert), a forest (une forêt), or a river delta (un delta) by their composition. We also added water to the soils, which are now actively separating, so we can discuss, draw, and label those layers. Next, we’ll move into different kinds of weathering (l’usure), the first of which is physical.

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 NO MATH HOMEWORK this week.

This week, students will take a basic multiplication fact assessment of x1 to x10 mixed facts on Friday. Please practice these at home if needed. They will repeat the same assessment later in the year to track growth. Ideas for additional math practice is listed on the Math link above.

We’ll continue solving problems with multiplication of two and three digit numbers by one digit. We are using the partial product method (see below) of multiplication to make sense of the traditional algorithm.

2 x 885  which equals

2 x 800

2 x 80

and 2 x 5.

Here’s a video to demonstrate how we can visualize multiplication of larger number this with an area model like this.

 

 

 

English

We continue our short novel, Love that Dog, this week. Students will analyze various poems, will practice reading aloud poetry for fluency practice, and will read the novel and look at how the main character, Jack, grows and changes throughout the text.

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

 

Field Trip

Thursday, November 30th, each class will go to the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural history. We’ll be doing their program called, “Archaeology Detectives.” See this site for more information.   This program will tie into our upcoming unit on Oregon geography.

Red Class will go from 9:00-11:20.

Blue Class will go from 12:20-2:30.

If you are interested in chaperoning, please email Shelli at hopper_s@4j.lane.edu. Students will get permission slips to sign and return this week.

Calling on Host Families! 

Bonjour Charlemagne families,

Our Amity interns are a huge part of our school. Thanks to them, teachers in grades 2-5 can differentiate their instruction and students can experience more French speaking. We could not do this program without host families who agree to host them for about 3 months. There is always a need for more families.

The requirements are:

–       Transporting the intern to and from school,

–       Offering her own room,

–       Offering 3 meals a day

The host families don’t have to be part of our Charlemagne community. So tell friends, neighbors, family members.

If you have an interest in hosting, please reach out to our host family coordinator, Rachel Buciarski (Charlemagne parent) at rachel@buciarski.com.

Merci beaucoup!

Aurelie Sion (she/her)
2ème année

OBOB:

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