November 6-8, 2023

le 6 au 8 novembre 2023

Upcoming Dates

Thursday & Friday, November 9 & 10 – No school for students. (Grading day & Veterans’ Day)
Monday & Tuesday, November 20 & 21 – Parent/Teacher conferences. (Sign-up info below) 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.

Parent/Teacher conferences

Parent-teacher conferences will be on November 20th and 21st. Conferences will be in person or on Zoom. Please sign up at a link below. Please remember to sign up with your child’s name.

Blue Class Link

Red Class Link

Field Trip

Thursday, November 30th, we will go to the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural history for the program, “Archaeology Detectives.” See this site for more information. This program ties into our upcoming unit on Oregon geography. Please sign permission slips this week and return them.

Red Class will go from 9:00-11:20. (We need 2 more red class parents!)

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.

Classe bleue

Classe rouge

Thank you parents for sending your kids in fun Halloween costumes!

See the bottom of the post for more Halloween photos!

Le français:

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

No French homework this week! Quizzes from Friday are coming home on Monday. I’ve reverted to a past strategy of offering a quiz with the vocabulary words at the bottom of the page. Most children were allowed to choose if they wanted the no vocab version or the with vocab version. If your child did not do particularly well, especially on getting the correct vocabulary word in the correct sentence, even with the words at the bottom, then we will be talking about it at parent/teacher conferences. All of the sentences I used were either on the homework or were one of the morning sentences. I did everything I could think of to help students be successful.

We continued reading groups last week. Many groups have almost finished their first book. We continue to correct two horrible sentences on all full days, and alphabetize on our short day. Some students are having a hard time learning a new way of forming and attaching letters, so we’ll keep working on it all year. We began uppercase letters T and F and will complete them and the letters I & J this week. We will only have six capital letters to learn after this week, then we’ll work more on our signatures.

Student goal: I am applying myself to my school work. I am actively seeking learning.

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 44 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 completed all of the French assessments for this fall. Yay! This week, we created 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, and will soon conjugate the verbs pouvoir (to be able) and vouloir (to want).

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! The kids decorated Dia de los Muertos sugar skeletons with their buddies on Wednesday.

Les sciences:

This week, we planned to discuss, draw, and label our soils that had separated into layers, but fortune conspired against us, so we’ll do that this week. We will also discuss the components of soil, and 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. Next week, 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 reason about division of larger numbers using what we know about multiplication.

There IS MATH HOMEWORK this week. Students will practice multiplication facts of x 1 through x 12. Please help your child practice each evening. There will be a quiz on the basic facts on Wednesday. (We did not do it last week to allow for more practice.)

We’ll continue solving problems with multiplication of multi-digit numbers. This week, we will add 2 digit x 2 digit number models. We are using the partial product method (see below) of multiplication to make sense of the traditional algorithm.

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

English

We will wrap up the short poetic novel, Love that Dog, this week. As we discuss how the character develops throughout the text, students will begin to identify a major theme from the text. In addition to experimenting with writing poetry, students will write a short informative essay about the novel’s themes. They will organize their writing with a focus statement, supporting points with evidence from the text, and a conclusion.

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

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!