le 7 au 10 avril 2025
Upcoming Dates
- Friday, April 11 – NO SCHOOL – Professional Development for teachers
- Tuesday, May 20 – 3-5 Music Concert (See below for full information.)
Classroom Needs
We asked each family to bring two full boxes of tissues at the beginning of the year, so if you already did that, feel free to ignore this request. However, we are low on tissues and would love some donations. Please don’t send tissues with lotion in them. Thanks to Tessla and Finnegan’s mom for sending in a maxi-set from Costco and to Ian’s family for sending in tissues. Merci!
Please ensure that you email BOTH TEACHERS when you communicate with us.
(kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu and hopper_s@4j.lane.edu)
Roller Coaster Schedule
This past week, we began a new schedule, and it went quite smoothly. I had a bit of a hard time with it after doing the same schedule for over 15 years, but it really cuts down on transitions, which are time-consumers, so that is very positive. Students begin the day in the room in which they ended the day prior instead of beginning in the same room every day of the week. It’s called a “Roller coaster schedule,” and it has brought positive comments from other immersion programs. You don’t need to do anything differently, and if any kids end up in the wrong room, we will figure it out.
Le français

Jana Kincaid, French and Science kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu
There IS French homework this week. This week’s homework covers four additional rules, all of which we’ve been using all year. The goal is to be able to apple the rules when speaking and writing in normal usage, not just for the exercises. Here is a copy of the homework: vocab règles avril 2025 l Vocab
We began working in earnest on our francophone country project this week. THIS PROJECT MUST REMAIN AT SCHOOL. If you notice any parts of this project in the materials your child brings home, please send them back to school. This project will take up most of our time for the next six to eight weeks. Your students will have limited access to the Internet during this time via websites I have already vetted. We began with drawing the country’s flag. Most are pretty simple, but a few are quite complicated!

Le petit îlot
We began a new “J’observe…” this week, Le petit îlot (The little islet). This is an actual place, and in the students’ descriptions of the photo, the students have to make an informed guess of where this could exist in the world, just to get an idea of recognizing clues and to raise awareness of climates around the world. We will work on climates during the Francophone country project.
We have three art projects up in the hallway. Our “Tubes” project is in the stairwell that leads down to 4th & 5th grades. The other project is “Les cerisiers en fleur” or “Cherry blossoms” in a limited space, so Mme Wolf selected a few to display in the display across from the office. They will all come home in the next few weeks. We also have a board showing the body parts drawings we made.
Student goal: I can express myself in writing, conjugating verbs, creating interesting sentences, and respecting the grammar rules I have already been taught.
Student goal: I can find grammatical and punctuation errors in sentences in French.
Student goal: I can form lowercase and uppercase letters correctly in cursive.
Les sciences
We will dive back into our Énergie unit this week. We will test objects in a circuit to determine which items are conductors (un conducteur) and which are insulators (un isolant).
Artist in Residence
This week, fourth grade worked on a tie-dye project with our second artist-in-residence, Tiana Povenmire-Kirk. This project will be completed this week and will take place in both classrooms.
Math

Shelli Hopper-Moore hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math
No HOMEWORK this week
In small groups, students will continue solving problems telling time in French with our intern, Charlotte. This will continue through April.
We continue Bridges Module 5: Geometry & Measurement. Last week we reasoned about angles and learned a lot of geometry vocabulary (acute, obtuse, straight angle, degree, polygon, etc.). This week students will use protractors to measure angles and will describe and classify polygons.
- Determine angles of rotation
- Measure angles with protractors
- Identify types of lines and angles
- Identify and classify types of polygons
Here’s the parent support page to explain the major concepts of this unit.
English & Social Studies
Reminders:

Healthy and Nut-Free Snacks
PE & Recess
At recess, students will be outside even in drizzle. So please have your child wear layers and a jacket or hat during rainy, cool weather. Also, students need secure and sturdy shoes on PE Days:
Blue Class PE & Library days: Monday & Thursday
Red Class PE & Library days: Tuesday & FridayDecember 9-13, 2024
Spring Music Concert
What/Where: 3rd-5th Spring Music Concert on May 20 at 6:30pm in Roosevelt Middle School Gym.
Who is invited: Everyone. Using Roosevelt means anyone can attend. The gym at Charlemagne is too small for this type of event.
Arrival: Students should arrive between 6pm – 6:20pm. The K-2nd concert will be finishing at 6pm so please don’t enter the gym before 6pm unless you are planning to attend the whole K-2 concert which starts at 5pm.
Departure: After the concert, we are asking that students and families help put away chairs, clean up the gym and help load up instruments and equipment into vehicles to be transported back to Charlemagne.
Attire: Dress ‘nicely’.
Help: We will need some volunteers to help transport instruments to Roosevelt from Charlemagne and then back again after the concert. More info coming soon.
Thanks,
M. Eric
blochmiller_e@4j.lane.edu