le 13 au 17 janvier 2025Upcoming Dates
Monday, January 20 – NO SCHOOL, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Friday, January 31 – NO SCHOOL, Grading Day
Monday, February 3 – NO SCHOOL, Transition Day
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
Jana Kincaid, French and Science kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu
It is the last month 0f our first semester of school, so we’ll be finishing a few things up and reassessing your child’s French this month, so please let us know if your child is going to be absent at all. We continue with leveled reading groups once or twice a week. Charlotte continues to read individually with some students four days a week. With the upcoming assessments, it will be exciting to see student progress, which I feel very confident we will see. Also, we will be piloting a new French report card, which we hope better communicates your child’s progress in each area we assess.
This week, our French homework is on the sound “ñ” spelled “gn” in French. It is a common error for learners to reverse the letters, which completely changes both the pronunciation and the meaning. Here is a copy of the homework if needed: vocab gn jan 2025
The vocabulary pronounced and spelled:
The vocabulary translated into English:
The vocabulary pronounced for the Thursday night home quiz:
Les canetons
While some students are still working on the “J’observe…” writing assignment, “Je grimpe..,” with the polar bears, we have also moved on to a new photo this week. The new photo is entitled “Les canetons,” and the students chose it by vote from amongst, perhaps, too many photo options. We began our discussion about the photo, and this time, in addition to the usual writing prompts, they have to express why they think the ducklings are in the sink. This should be excellent.
We will do a little cursive assessment this week on all the letters we have learned. Also, we’re going to rewrite our signatures this coming week. We completed H and K, and began the letters T and F. Next, we are doing I and J. It’s all hard ones from now on 😱, although we are nearing the end!
Student goal: I can find grammatical and punctuation errors in sentences in French.
Student goal: I can form most lowercase and many uppercase letters correctly in cursive.
The “Moi!” projects were sent home this week past week. Hopefully you were able to have your child explain the project to you and all the work that went into it. If your child did not complete the project, it should still have come home in parts, which may be completed and assembled at home, then brought back to school, completed, for full credit.
Les sciences
This week, we completed a little foldable that helps clarify the difference between weathering, erosion and deposition. It also compares quick environmental changes, like a mudslide, versus slow changes, like erosion. We’ll finish up and do an open-journal quiz this week. Next week, we’ll set a date for students to bring in rock collections!
Student goal: I can use landforms terminology in both languages.
Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher
Math
No Homework this week.
We are in Illustrative Math Unit 3: Extending Operations to Fractions.
Here’s a family support video to go along with our current math unit.
This week, students will explore more with multiplying whole numbers and fractions by solving problems such as 2 x 4 x 1/4.
Next we will create and analyze line plots (graphs) that display measurement data in fractions of a unit.
Students will represent and solve problems that involve the addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers, including measurements presented in line plots.
English
Our current English Language art unit: EXTREME SETTINGS
We read and analyzed the short story, All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, last week. This week, students will practice writing elements of fiction with a focus on writing dialog and descriptive scenes. Students will explore the idea of an “exploded moment” in writing which is when an author slows down the action of a narrative and describes in detail the sights, sounds, and feelings of an event.
Find out more about 4j’s 4th Grade English Curriculum. This fact sheet for parents also includes a full list of the texts we’ll read as well as additional texts that can be read at home to extend your child’s learning.
OBOB practice
continues on Wednesdays during lunch and recess. Battles will begin in February. If you’d like to volunteer, please contact Mme Ginger, the teacher coordinator for OBOB at topize_g@4j.lane.edu
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
We are working on the “J’observe…” writing assignment with the photo at left entitled, “Je grimpe..” (I climb/I am climbing.) We are working on creating similes, and I was quite impressed with their abilities. We’ll move on to a new photo next week.
le 16 au 20 décembre 2024
WE REALLY NEED HOST FAMILIES 
Thank you so much to all the parents who came to parent/teacher conferences. It was so lovely to meet so many new faces. If I was meant to follow up on something for you or with you at conferences, and you haven’t heard from me, please feel free to remind me. Many plates are spinning!