Upcoming Dates
Wednesday, April 24 – SCIENCE FAIR (La foire aux sciences)
Monday-Friday, April 22-26 – Artist in Residence
Saturday, April 27 – Charlemagne Auction “Caribbean Getaway” 6-10 p.m. Ford Alumni Center (see below for tickets)
Wednesday, May 22 – Field trip to Dorris Ranch, 9-11:50 a.m. Parent chaperones needed. Email Mme Shelli if you’d like to join. hopper_s@4j.lane.edu
What’s up! Quoi de neuf?
Please send your child to school in proper footwear and a WARM water-repellent jacket with a hood or a hat when the weather is rainy. Please have your child wear warmer layers 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)
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
Le français:
French homework this week is a little different. Students are going to be working with four different rules that we have been working on all year. Since most of our students are not raised in a french-speaking household, they do not learn which words are masculine and which are feminine because they aren’t hearing them spoken day after day, every moment of the day. So, they will be better able to use their French if they learn some rules about which words are feminine and which are masculine, and I added in one rule about spelling. Basically, 1) all words ending in -tion are feminine (la, une, ma, ta, sa, etc.), 2) all words ending in -eau are masculine (le, un, mon, ton, son), except for l’eau (water) and la peau (skin), 3) all words that end in -ère, have an accent grave (è) on the first “e,” and 4) all words that end in -ette, are feminine, except le squelette (skeleton). They will be writing two original sentences daily using a rule each day. Here is a copy of the French homework: vocab règles avril 2024 l Vocab
We continue to correct two horrible sentences on all full days, and alphabetize and/or sort words on our short day. Most students have completed the “J’observe…“ writing project with the bucklings in the sink, and we began our new one, which is Quatre porcelets dans un chapeau melon (Four piglets in a bowler hat!):
We’ve started reading groups back up for the next two to three weeks. Some groups that have finished their second book will work on phonetics. Most kids have finished the current art project, and they are looking amazing in the stairwell: 
Here are some close-ups as well:
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 form and connect all the lowercase and uppercase letters correctly in cursive.
Student goal: I am expanding my vocabulary by incorporating new words into my speaking and writing.
Les sciences humaines (la géographie):
We are working on our francophone project nearly daily. Most students are on at least their fourth side, and students will begin to put their dodecahedrons together in the next couple of weeks, then presentations will begin. Also, a variety of visitors to come in and talk about the francophone country they grew up in. Hopefully, afterward, your students will be very knowledgeable about which 29+ countries have a living link to French. So far, we have Grace’s dad, Ben, from Mauritius who is coming this Friday. Over the next two weeks, we will have a Senegalese visitor and also a visitor from a member of our community who was raised in Burkina Faso. They will be sharing photos & experiences from their childhoods growing up in these francophone countries.
Student goal: I can identify and name the world’s oceans and continents.
Student goal: I can identify the difference between a city, a country, and a continent.
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 copains/Buddies:
This week, both classes worked on a spring buddy project. It is in English, but sometimes that’s necessary for first graders.
Mme Hannah is taking the lead in English and Math Class for the next five weeks. Mme Shelli will still be here to guide and advise.
Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher
Math Key concepts:
•Replacing a mixed number with an equivalent fraction and using the relationship between addition and subtraction can make it easier to add and subtract fractions with like denominators.
•We can use visual models and equations to represent situational problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions with the same whole and like denominators.
There is no MATH REVIEW HOMEWORK this week.
We are working on being flexible with adding and subtracting fractions both with mixed numbers and improper fractions. We’ve focused on using line plots to show data of our own and our classmates’ shoe sizes. Our aim is to take our Unit test this Friday!
English
We started studying Greek myths with Mme Hannah last week, and students are very excited to share what they know with their classmates. This week, we will dive deeper into Greek myths and their presence on our language and architecture, and we will discuss themes and morals in Greek Myths. Later, we’ll compare Greek Myths to myths from other cultures.
Charlemagne Auction:
The 2024 Charlemagne Auction tickets are on sale NOW! This key fundraiser helps support our French Interns who are a vital part of our school. Get your tickets online at: auctria.events/2024CharlemagneAuction
le 15 au 19 avril 2024
With buddies, blue class read about the solar eclipse with their buddies. The red class worked on a science experiment outside with bubbles and wind to show that air exists.
With buddies, red class read a French book to their buddy then did a squiggle art project where one student makes a squiggle, then the next one adds to it, and so on until they create something. The blue class worked on a science experiment that got excessively waterlogged as students experimented with displacing water with air to show that air exists.
Students are beginning to finish our newest art project, where the kids chose among portions of images that were selected from magazines, and they have to complete the rest of the image. It’s a cool Gestalt kind of thing. They will be going up in the stairwell once there are enough of them.
