le 27 novembre au 1er décembre 2023

Upcoming Dates

  • Thursday, November 30 – Field Trip to UO Natural History Museum
  • December 18-January 2 – Winter break, NO SCHOOL
  • Wednesday, January 3 – Students return to school

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.

Le français:

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

First, thank you so much for meeting with us for parent/teacher conferences. It was very illuminating. I have been sick since Wednesday afternoon, so I will miss school on Monday to recuperate. 

No French homework this week! We continue reading groups weekly; most groups have finished their first book. We continue to correct two horrible sentences on all full days, and alphabetize on our short day (The alphabetizing includes vocabulary words). We just have uppercase letters G, S, E and Q to learn now, then we’ll work more on our signatures, and on correcting fossilized writing errors. We conjugated the verbs pouvoir (to be able) and vouloir (to want) the week before Thanksgiving break. We’ll spend some time this week reviewing our tools on how to seek help if you don’t understand the French, since we’re full-time French in the upper grades. Otherwise, we’re going to spend some time catching up this week; many students have writing to complete.

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.

Student goal:  I know how to seek understanding if I don’t understand something in French.

For the parents who did conferences via Zoom or did not get any of my messages about taking your child’s magnificent project, they will come home tomorrow or Tuesday. Most students are still completing their “Tubes” art, but I’m hoping we can begin a new art project before winter break.

Buddies!

Last week, students played a game with first graders, making tens and ones out of double digit numbers with tiles. Clearly, I forgot to take photos. 😜 Aetherya’s mom has graciously offered to bring in baby goats this Wednesday so we can visit them with our buddies. Very exciting. If your child does not want to touch a goat, of course, there is no obligation. Many students have not seen farm animals in person before, so this is a wonderful opportunity.

Les sciences:

This past week, we had fun throwing out our soils that had separated into layers, and made a lot of noise shaking two different kinds of rocks, conglomerate (le conglomérat) and granite (le granite) to understand physical weathering (l’usure physique). We defined physical weathering, and we looked at a fizzy water can that had been in the freezer too long and had expanded and deformed. When we get back from break, we will do an experiment of putting glass bottles filled with water into the freezer (don’t worry, I’ll be the one handling the broken glass) to see what happens when water dilates. Soon, we will begin discussing chemical weathering, and the room will smell delightfully of vinegar!

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

Math

This week’s Key Concepts:

  • We can model division of larger numbers with an area model or with partial quotients model.
  • We can reason about division of larger numbers using what we know about multiplication.
  • We can identify fractions of a whole.
  • We can   construct a whole given any fractional part of that whole.

There IS MATH review HOMEWORK this week. It is gray – not yellow.

AND if mentioned in conferences, please help your child become more fluent in their basic multiplication facts if they are not yet fluent.

As we wrap up our multiplication & division strategies unit, students will be solving both division and multiplication problems using strategies such as using an area model or using division with partial quotients model. All of this work goes toward helping students understand the concept of division.  Students are not yet required to be fully fluent in using the division algorithm. You can learn a bit more about partial quotients model here.

We’ll take a break from multiplication and division for a while and work with fractions. Almost HALF of the 4th grade standards in math are around the understanding of the concept of fractions.

 

 

English

We finished the touching, poetic novel, Love that Dog, last week.  We enjoyed a fun week of playing with poetry. Look for a bunch of work coming home this week from that unit. Also if you were on Zoom for conferences, a manila envelope with notes from that meeting will be sent home on Monday.

Now, we’ll start a 3 week Oregon Geography and history unit. This week, student will be learning about regions of Oregon and will begin a geography book to share with you. We’ll dive into new maps and geography booklets that have just arrived in our classroom and will make some ties with the geology unit that they’ve been doing in science.

Woven into our Geography unit, students will be learning about Oregon’s indigenous people and about how they have lived in our area since before recorded history.

Field Trip

This 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 new unit on Oregon geography and history.

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! Your child has begun OBOB practices during lunch/recess time on Wednesdays only, as of  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 sack lunch during K-2 lunch service if needed. Again, 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. 

School Counselor Visit

Mme Rachel came to our classes last week to talk about how to make and keep a friend. Students had a discussion about ideas about how to invite someone to join, how to learn more about friends by asking questions and being curios, how to try to resolve conflict, and how to empathize with friends who are having a hard time. Students make flip books that summarize that conversation to bring home.