le 13 au 17 novembre 2023Upcoming Dates
- 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
- Thursday, November 30 – 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.
If you would like to conference with our music teacher, Eric Bloch Miller, or our physical education teacher, ErinMarie Langsdorf, during conference week, please reach out to them via email to set up an appointment. M. Eric’s email is blochmiller_e@4j.lane.edu and Mme ErinMarie’s email is langsdorf_e@4j.lane.edu.
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 1-2 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.
Le français:
Mme Jana kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu French & science teacher
This week’s French homework is words with accent aigu: vocab é nov 2023 l Vocab Only the vowel “e” can have this accent and it makes the phonetic sound [e] like in the word bébé! Listen to the words spelled below, and you’ll hear the sound. I’ve also included a version that doesn’t include spelling if you want to use it for Thursday night’s quiz.
With spelling:
Without spelling:
We continue reading groups weekly. 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. We completed uppercase letters T, F, I and J this past week. Next week, we will do the letters D, L, G, & S, all challenging letters to master, I assure you. We only have two capital letters left 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.
Une tornade de poissons
We began our latest “J’observe…” writing activity this past week. It is entitled Une tornade de poissons (A tornado of fish), and we are learning a lot of new vocabulary, like underwater camera (un appareil-photo étanche), diver (un plongeur), tuna (le thon), and flippers (les palmes), among others, as well as learning to create logical and interesting sentences.
Any students who have not managed to complete their “Moi!” project at school will have to complete them at home. They look really great up on the wall. We’ll leave them up so you can take a look during parent/teacher conferences, then they will come home and your child can show you all the hard work he/she/they did to get there. It’s a big project with a lot of steps to complete. To the left is an image of the 44 completed projects hanging in the hallway.
We will conjugate the verbs pouvoir (to be able) and vouloir (to want) this week.
Student goal: I am using a translating dictionary with proficiency.
Student goal: I can type lowercase and uppercase words, symbols, and letters using French accents.
Student goal: I am able to follow multi-step directions and to persevere through them.
Buddies!
This week during buddies, the first graders came to fourth grade for the very first time. They were pretty excited! The fourth graders listened while their first grade buddies read them a story they had written, and then they made a placemat together of things for which they are thankful.
Les sciences:
This week, we discussed, drew, and labeled our soils that had separated into layers, and decided where the soils came from Students were surprised that the soil from a delta had the tiniest grains. We discussed how that happens and looked at an aerial view of the Mississippi delta. We will also discuss the components of soil, and 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 division of larger numbers with an area model.
- We can reason about division of larger numbers using what we know about multiplication.
There is no MATH HOMEWORK this week.
Students in 4th are building number sense as they apply what they know about multiplication to divide. Students will start the week with some hands-on base 10 blocks to model division stories involving numbers in the hundreds. Then, they’ll look at what this would look like in an area model, and finally they’ll look at the division partial quotients model. All of this work goes toward helping students understand the concept of division. Please don’t rush into teaching your child the standard algorithm yet (long division). This will come in 5th grade. When learned too early, students learn a series of mysterious steps to division but often don’t learn the concept of what is happening in division. You can learn a bit more about partial quotients model here.
English
We finished the touching, poetic novel, Love that Dog, last week. This week, students will write a final non-fiction paragraph to explain how a character in the text was “greathearted.” Students will demonstrate their ability to organize their writing with a focus statement, supporting points with evidence from the text, and a conclusion. They will also take a final vocabulary test on the whole module. Then, students will try writing an variety of poetry to enter into a shared class book.
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! 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.
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.
le 30 octobre au 3 novembre 2023
A gentle post-Halloween nutrition reminder: Please resist sending candy as a snack. 
Sending one or two pieces of Halloween candy as an after-lunch treat is fine, but candy is a poor source for body and brain energy. Merci!
Students are really making progress on their “Moi!” projects. To the left is an image of the 31 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.
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le 16 au 20 octobre 2023
We are continuing with our first art project, and we are making progress on the “Moi!” project which is all about them. Here is an image of the completed projects now hanging in the hallway.
