Thursday, June 13 – End of the year Game day party 2:00- 3:00 Students are invited to bring a non-tech game from home to share with friends. We’ll have board games and cards in class to play, too.
Friday, June 14 – Field Day, last day for students, 11:45 release. Sign up below if you can help. Take-away lunches are available for students to order.
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.
Field Day Volunteers Needed
Field Day is Friday, the last day of school, June 14! 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 sunscreen especially for field day. Please have your child wear layers as mornings will be cool. 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 Janakincaid_j@4j.lane.edu Français, Sciences
What an amazing year. Your students have come a long way in French, from being hesitant and concerned whether they could do it, to speaking naturally and regularly in class. Students still speak French with me in the hallways and at carpool.
Over the summer, please remember to check the blog categories, specifically Français, sciences, géographie, Tap’Touche and use some of the resources to upkeep French. Keeping French up over the summer is important for all students, but particularly those students whose French could use a boost. If your child needs to work on his/her/their French, I have definitely already communicated with you and/or reinforced it in the report cards.
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 are complete! The completed dodecahedrons are displayed in the classroom (See below), but they will be coming home with graded presentations on Monday! Please allow your child to take you through the faces of the project; the shape represents a whole lot of work and learning.
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:
Student groups received a packet of objects (including plastic, paper, rubber, plastic, aluminum, copper, brass, and steel), and proceeded to make a circuit with a switch, then used the circuit to test whether a wide range of objects were insulators (un isolant) or conductors (un conducteur) of electricity. We talked about metal, open circuits, closed circuits, and the kids had a few surprises. This week, we’ll test those same objects to see which are magnetic (magnétique) and which are not!
Les copains/Buddies:
Our last buddy day was June 5. Both fourth and first grade students loved doing buddies this year and formed good relationships with their buddies. Here are a few shots of them playing (soft) Frisbee in the north field.
Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher
Math
Look for your child’s final math assessments to come home on Monday. At this point, students should have correctly solved the addition, subtraction and multiplication questions on the assessment. Many students are still needing more practice in division. Students who need more practice in math calculations will have received a “2” in that area. There are ideas for summer math practice and enrichment on this blog site under the “Math” Tab above.
This week, we will be doing some geometry games and activities.
English & Social Studies
In English, students will rehearse and perform readers’ theater plays of Native American stories. As they run through a few more times, students will practice reading with clarity, volume and expression. On Monday we’ll make some small props and rehearse with those. Then, 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.
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.
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 Janakincaid_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.
This week, we wrap up a unit “Solving problems with the Four Operations.” Their unit test will be on Monday. For the rest of the week, will be doing a combination of review and assessment as well as some fun geometry games and activities.
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.
Monday – Friday, June 3-6 – Festival du livre – Our French book fair will be open from 8-9 and 2-4 (1-3 on Wednesday) in the library. Come stock up on French books for the summer and purchase some from your teacher’s wish list! Proceeds will go to the library.
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.
Field Trip
We had an excellent field trip to Dorris Ranch. Many thanks to Rachel’s dad, Gregg, Lillian’s mom, Claire, Emelia’s mom, Andrea, and Tanner’s mom, Chelsea, for chaperoning. We couldn’t do it without you. Please click here to see photos of the fun & learning.
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 Janakincaid_j@4j.lane.edu Français, Sciences
This past week we worked on our final French evaluations; we did listening on Monday, writing on Tuesday and we did speaking on Thursday. This week, we will be doing Oral Reading Fluency on Tuesday and comprehension on Thursday. If you know that your child will be missing any of these days, please try to let me know ahead of time. Thank you so much to the parents who have already done so. Merci!
This past week’s quiz, our last French vocabulary quiz, the kids crushed it. The average score was 100%.
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 can apply learned French grammar rules during daily speaking and writing.
Les sciences humaines (la géographie):
Presentations continue! Thus far, 25 students have presented, and xx other dodecahedrons are ready to be presented, with most students finishing 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. They need to either finish the research and/or pencil in their sides, but they may NOT COLOR or Sharpie-in their written words. We are nearly out of classroom work time. Thank you to the parents who made sure the students who needed to catch up did so.
A member of our community who was raised in Burkina Faso visited this past Tuesday, and she shared a bit about her country.
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:
Well, this is a bit of a slow-working group, so we’re not getting to sciences. So many kids are still finishing up their francophone country project. As soon as we can, we will still get at least through electric circuits.
Les copains/Buddies:
No buddies this past week or this coming week because we had a field trip last week, and first grade has a field trip on Wednesday of this week. Our last buddy day will be June 5.
Mme Hannah is taking the lead in English and Math Class for the next two weeks. Mme Shelli will still be here to guide and advise.
Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher
Math Key concepts:
There is no more MATH HOMEWORK this year.
In Math, we will wrap up our nit on estimation and solving problems with the four operations this week. We are also reviewing some previously learned topics such as decimals and generating equivalent fractions. Over the next few weeks, students will be completing some short review quizzes to assess their end of the year understanding of 4th grade math concepts. We will also play some games and do some collaborative activities to make the review fun.
English & Social Studies
We wrap up our student of Oregon history this week! Students will learn about how Oregon was divided into counties, how the government works, and how will take a VIRTUAL Guided FIELD TRIP to the Oregon State Capitol (Wednesday). As we finish our study, students are creating a game board of Oregon history trivia. They’ll get a chance to play the game with friends. Their final homework assignment (coming home June 3rd) will be to share their Oregon History game with you.
State & District Testing
Almost all Students have finished state testing. Your students’ results will be available in the fall at parent conferences. Next week, we’ll wrap up district EasyCBM testing, our three times per year progress monitoring check.
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.
Wednesday, May 22 – Field trip to Dorris Ranch, 9-11:50 a.m. Wear layers for being outdoors all morning.
Monday, May 27 – NO SCHOOL, Memorial Day
Monday – Friday, June 3-6 – French Book Fair
Friday, June 14 – Field Day, last day for students, 11:45 release
Merci
to the PTO and families for sending kind notes, flowers and yummy treats to us on teacher appreciation week! We feel very appreciated.
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 Janakincaid_j@4j.lane.edu Français, Sciences
This week and next week, we will be doing our final French evaluations, approximately one per day. Monday is listening (the easiest), Tuesday is writing, & Thursday is speaking. The week of Memorial Day, we’ll do Oral Reading Fluency on Tuesday and comprehension on Thursday. If you know that your child will be missing any of these days, please try to let me know ahead of time. Merci!
The students did their quiz on Friday over the second set of four rules. A few kids got 100%, but the average score was 66%. I would say it was almost solely due to the one rule that has to do with conjugating a verb in past tense. Conjugating verbs is one of the trickier aspects of learning French. So, I’m actually pretty satisfied with how most students did on the rules I hoped they could apply already.
This is the last week of French homework. It’s a review of prior vocabulary words. with some rules mixed in. Here is a copy: Les mots de révision mai 2024 Vocab
Here are the words spelled:
Here are the words spoken with their translations:
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 can apply learned French grammar rules during daily speaking and writing.
Les sciences humaines (la géographie):
Presentations continued this past week. Thus far, 15 students have presented, and nine other dodecahedrons are ready to be presented, with many more finishing up. When the presentation is complete, I hang the completed dodecahedron in the classroom (See below). Students who have not yet completed their projects will continue to have work time, and those students who have finished will have the option of doing another project or helping other students to finish. A number of students took their research packets home to finish the research this weekend. I will email you if your child has work to complete on this project at home. Thank you to the parents who made sure the students who needed to catch up did so.
A member of our community who was raised in Burkina Faso will visit this Thursday, and she will be sharing photos & experiences from her childhood growing up there.
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:
We weren’t able to our science unit, but will begin Énergie in the coming week. We’ll discuss energy sources and try to build our first circuit using electrical wires (les fils électriques), a D battery (une pile D), and a tiny bulb (une ampoule).
Les copains/Buddies:
This week in buddies, the fourth and first graders read a packet together about birds, then drew birds. I wore a dress without a pocket, so I didn’t have my phone, so I didn’t take photos. You’ll have to use your imaginations. 😜
Mme Hannah is taking the lead in English and Math Class for the next two weeks. Mme Shelli will still be here to guide and advise.
Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher
Math Key concepts:
•We can solve problems with the four operations (+, -, x, ÷)
There is no more HOMEWORK this year.
In Math, we are putting lots of the hard work we’ve done all year into one unit! We will be solving word problems using all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), practicing estimation, and reviewing a bit of measurement.
English & Social Studies
We have returned to studying Oregon history! Students will be working over the next few weeks to create an interactive map and timeline with important dates and information in Oregon history. We are learning about different people groups that moved West and what motivated them. We are simultaneously learning about how those decisions impacted the Native peoples on the West Coast.
As a fun culminating projects, students will create and play a board game of Oregon History Trivia. Our final homework assignment (coming in a few weeks) will be to share their Oregon History project with you.
State & District Testing
Almost all Students have finished state testing. Your students’ results will be available in the fall at parent conferences. Next week, we’ll wrap up district EasyCBM testing, our three times per year progress monitoring check.
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.
May 6-17 – Oregon Statewide Assessment window. 4th grade will take tests in English and math. Find out more below.
Wednesday, May 22 – Field trip to Dorris Ranch, 9-11:50 a.m. Please have your child dress in layers for a cooler morning.
Monday, May 27 – NO SCHOOL, Memorial Day
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)
Le français:
Mme Janakincaid_j@4j.lane.edu Français, Sciences
First, thank you so much for all the teacher appreciation gifts. Usually, I write thank you notes, but I wasn’t in the classroom when most of the presents were dropped off, and even though my subs tried to label things, I’m really not sure who gave me what. So….thank you so much!
A few students had a hard time with last week’s French rules, so we’re going to spend more time on them this week and do our quiz this Friday.
We will not alphabetize or sort this Wednesday. We’ll be spending time completing our francophone country studies and hearing presentations that are ready. We’ve begun our newest “J’observe…” called Le cercle magique, which you can see below. The kids have to guess where the photo is taken and why the circle exists. No spoilers if you recognize it (or Google it)!
Most students have completed their most recent art project, and they will come down from the stairwell and home this week.
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 can apply learned French grammar rules during daily speaking and writing.
Les sciences humaines (la géographie):
Presentations began last week. Thus far, nine students have presented, and seven others are ready to go, with many more finishing up. When the presentation is complete, I hang the completed dodecahedron in the classroom. Students who have not yet completed their projects will continue to have work time, and those students who have finished will have the option of doing another project or helping other students to finish. Some students have begun to bring some of the work home as homework if they aren’t as far along as they ought to be by now. I will email you if your child has work to complete on this project at home. Thank you to the parents who made sure the students who needed to catch up did so.
I’m still planning to have a Senegalese visitor and also a visitor from a member of our community who was raised in Burkina Faso, although we are experiencing some scheduling obstacles. They will be sharing photos & experiences from their childhoods growing up in these francophone countries.
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:
We will begin our science unit, Énergie in the coming week. We’ll discuss energy sources and try to build our first circuit using electrical wires (les fils électriques), a D battery (une pile D), and a tiny bulb (une ampoule).
Les copains/Buddies:
We had buddies this past week, which Mme Roadman and I prepped, and Mme Shelli handled for me while I was at jury duty. Merci, Mme Shelli! The students made Mother’s Day cards together, so hopefully those made it home!
Mme Hannah is taking the lead in English and Math Class for the next two weeks. Mme Shelli will still be here to guide and advise.
Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher
Math Key concepts:
•Points, lines, line segments, and rays can be combined to make geometric figures.
•An angle is measured degrees. An angle that turns through 1/360th of a circle is called a one-degree angle.
It is a HOMEWORK week!
In Math, students have been working on measuring angles using protractors, estimation, and division. We’ve learned about acute, obtuse, right, reflex, and straight angles. This week, we will have a math unit test about angles.
English
Students have been working hard finding similarities between myths and stories from different cultures. They have read Ancient Greek and Native American myths to compare and contrast and find universal themes in myths. This week, we will be writing a compare/ contrast essay answering the question, “What do myths from different cultures have in common?” If you have a story passed down in your family, this is a great time to share with your child so they can learn even more themes and morals from more cultures!
State Testing (OSAS)
Students will wrap up state testing this week. The test is not timed, so they will have as much time as needed.
Each spring, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students test in Math and ELA. Students and families can practice taking these tests here. (More information can be found on 4j’s testing website.)
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.
Please send your child to school in proper footwear and sunscreen especially for field day. Please have your child wear layers as mornings will be cool. Thank you!
Presentations are complete! The completed dodecahedrons are displayed in the classroom (See below), but they will be coming home with graded presentations on Monday! Please allow your child to take you through the faces of the project; the shape represents a whole lot of work and learning.
Student groups received a packet of objects (including plastic, paper, rubber, plastic, aluminum, copper, brass, and steel), and proceeded to make a circuit with a switch, then used the circuit to test whether a wide range of objects were insulators (un isolant) or conductors (un conducteur) of electricity. We talked about metal, open circuits, closed circuits, and the kids had a few surprises. This week, we’ll test those same objects to see which are magnetic (magnétique) and which are not!
Our last buddy day was June 5. Both fourth and first grade students loved doing buddies this year and formed good relationships with their buddies. Here are a few shots of them playing (soft) Frisbee in the north field.
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.
A member of our community who was raised in Burkina Faso visited this past Tuesday, and she shared a bit about her country. 
We had buddies this past week, which Mme Roadman and I prepped, and Mme Shelli handled for me while I was at jury duty. Merci, Mme Shelli! The students made Mother’s Day cards together, so hopefully those made it home!