Upcoming Dates
Monday – Friday, June 3-6 – Festival du livre – Come to the library before or after school June 3rd-6th to buy French books for the summer! We have games, crafts, activity books, decodable readers, chapter books and more. This is the perfect way to get resources for continued French practice over the summer. It’s worth coming twice, as we will restock throughout the fair. Proceeds will go to purchase new books for our school library. Credit cards only. Free books in French and English will be available outside the library in the hallway.
Friday, June 7 – NO SCHOOL. Teachers prepare report cards.
Friday, June 14 – Field Day, last day for students, 11:45 release. Sign up below if you can help.
If your child is going to be leaving school before the final day of the year, please email both teachers. Early departures will affect how we make plans for our English class plays and other events.
Virtual Field Trip & Dorris Ranch Photos
We had an excellent Virtual field trip to the state capitol last week. Here’s the recording, if you’d like to see it. Here, again are photos of our trip to Dorris Ranch.
Field Day Volunteers Needed
Field Day is coming up, the last day of school, June 14! Mme ErinMarie is requesting volunteers to help with set up, to run games at stations, and to clean up. If you have time to lend a helping hand please sign up here.
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. Please have your child wear layers as needed and weather-appropriate shoes. Thank you!
If your child is ill or has had a fever or vomited within the previous 24 hours, please keep your child home. If your child will be absent, please email both teachers 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.
(kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu and hopper_s@4j.lane.edu)
Le français:
Mme Jana kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu Français, Sciences
This week, we completed our French evaluations. We did Oral Reading Fluency on Tuesday and comprehension on Wednesday. Thank you so much to the parents who made sure to let me know your child would be absent. Merci!
I have been so impressed, particularly with the students’ speaking evaluations. They have made amazing strides.
Student goal: I am applying myself to my school work. I am actively seeking learning.
Student goal: I can identify grammatical and punctuation errors in sentences in French.
Student goal: I can apply learned French grammar rules during daily speaking and writing.
Les sciences humaines (la géographie):
Presentations continue! Thus far, 37 students have presented, and another dozen or so dodecahedrons are ready to be presented, with most students having finished up. When a student has completed his/her/their presentation, I hang the completed dodecahedron in the classroom (See below).
Students who have not yet completed their projects had it sent home with them this weekend. Please give your child the time and space to work on it. It has only come home because they are having a hard time completing work at school. We are out of classroom time to work on this project. They have been given eight weeks to complete it, and that is more than enough time, so now we’re going to move on to other work during that time.
This gave us the time to do a quick study of the days of the week in French and how they got their names, predominantly, from Roman gods. We also had time to redo the alphabetizing activity we did in September. All student did better, and most students got 100% this time around. Both of those quiz papers came home, stapled together, on Thursday or Friday.
Student goal: I begin to see my role in this world as a global citizen and to understand that my reality is not the same as other children’s in the world.
Student goal: I can identify many French-speaking (francophone) countries of the world.
Les sciences:
Because we spent less time on the francophone creating project, we began our Énergie unit! We did our first experiment this week was students figuring out how to light a small bulb (une ampoule) with a battery (une pile) and one or two electrical wires (un fil électrique). We talked about points of contact and that a circuit is a circle. We also discussed and labeled a cutaway model of an incandescent bulb and talked about a definition of energy and about signs of energy transfer. Next, we will do experiments and discuss circuits, open and closed, and insulators (un isolant) and conductors (un conducteur) of electricity.
Les copains/Buddies:
No buddies this past week because first grade had a field trip on our buddy day. Our last buddy day will be June 5.
Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher
Math
There is no more MATH HOMEWORK this year.
English & Social Studies
We wrap up our study of Oregon history this Monday. Students will play their Oregon History board games in class. Then, on Monday the final homework assignment will be to share their Oregon History game with you. I hope you’ll find 15 minutes one evening this week to play the board game and to write some comments on their homework sheet. You may keep the game, but please return the homework sheet so I know you saw their hard work.
Next in English, students will be rehearsing readers’ theater plays of Native American stories. This week, students will rehearse a short play, practicing reading with clarity, volume and expression. Next Wednesday, students will perform their plays for their 1st grade buddies and the other 4th grade class.
Host Families needed for next year’s interns!
Calling on Host Families for 2024-2025!
Bonjour Charlemagne families,
We are getting ready to host more interns next year…
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 2-3 months.
The requirements to host are:
– Transport the intern to and from school,
– Offer her/his own room,
– Offer 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 (Maya’s mom) at rachel@buciarski.com.
Merci beaucoup! Aurelie Sion (she/her), 2ème année
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