le 4 au 8 décembre 2023Upcoming Dates
- December 6, Guest Speaker: Indigenous Storytelling
- December 18-January 2 – Winter break, NO SCHOOL
- Wednesday, January 3 – Students return to school
Field Trip Photos
Thank you to the parents who joined us for our field trip last week to UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Here are some photos of our time in the Archaeology Detectives class:
Red Class Photos Blue Class Photos
Personal Safety Lessons
This week we’ll be going through the district’s Personal Safety lessons based on Erin’s Law lessons provided through Second Steps Curriculum. Links to parent information letters for the lessons are here.
We will cover lessons 1-4 this week and next: Ways to Stay Safe, Always Ask First, Unsafe & Unwanted Touches, Private Body Parts Rule.
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
French homework this week concentrates on letters that make the è sound. Here is a copy in case your child needs one: vocab è déc 2023
And here are the words, first spelled, second listed.
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 and we’re also sorting by letters that make the sound we’re studying). We have nearly completed all uppercase letters in cursive, so next week we’ll finish those up, and we’ll work on our signatures, and on correcting fossilized writing errors. We conjugated the second group of verbs, verbs ending in -ir this past week. We spent quite a bit of time catching up this week, and almost everyone has completed his/her/their first writing assignment, has completed his first reading comprehension packet, and many students have completed their “Tubes” art now, or at least are on the final stages. We also completed the dictionary use packet.
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.
Buddies!
Aetherya’s mom graciously offered to bring in baby goats this past Wednesday, and we visited them with our buddies. Several children got to feed the twin baby goats, and Cora’s mom took a lot of beautiful photos for us.
Les sciences:
We did 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. With all the absences, we will take them out of the freezer on Monday, so ask your child what happened! We also began discussing chemical weathering, and the room will smell delightfully of vinegar for weeks! We will put four kinds of stones: basalt (le basalte), limestone (le calcaire), marble (le marbre), and sandstone (le grès) in vinegar, and we’ll observe the effects of vinegar on the stones. The vinegar mimics acid rain in this experiment.
Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher
Math
This week’s Key Concepts:
- We can identify fractions of a whole.
- We can construct a whole given any fractional part of that whole.
There is NO MATH review HOMEWORK. IF mentioned in conferences, please help your child become more fluent in their basic multiplication facts if they are not yet fluent.
Due to fun field trips and many absences last week, our multiplication & division unit has been extended; we’ll wrap up the unit with a test this week. Then, we’ll begin looking at fractions. Almost HALF of the 4th grade standards in math are around the understanding of the concept of fractions. To start, we’ll review the idea of fractions of a whole. We’ll build our vocabulary around fractions, and look play some games.
English
We are in week 2 of our Oregon Geography and history unit. Last week, we started a building geography book of art, maps, and short written projects. Students made maps of important locations in Oregon. This week, students will research a region of Oregon with a small group. This research will lead to group presentations and a small writing project. They’ll compare regions’ geography, climate, resources, tourist attractions, and more.
Woven into our Geography unit, students are learning about Oregon’s indigenous people and about how they have lived in our area since before recorded 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
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.
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.
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!
OBOB:
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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