le 23 février au 1er mars 2024
 

Upcoming Dates

Friday, March 1 – 9:00-10:00 am. All-school walking field trip. See below.

Monday-Friday, March 25 – 29 Spring break, NO SCHOOL

Monday, April 1 – NO SCHOOL for students, Teacher Professional Development (No Poisson d’avril! 🐟)

Celebrate Black History – all school walking field trip

Charlemagne will celebrate the bravery of American hero Ruby Bridges with an all school “Black History Celebration Walk” on Friday, March 1, from 9:15 am-10:00 am around the Amazon Bark Path. We are looking for volunteers to walk with their child’s class, help stop traffic and motivate walkers!

*Volunteers will need to have an up-to-date field trip chaperone background check on file, and should plan to meet us in the front parking lot of Charlemagne at 9:10am on March 1. Please email us if you are interested in volunteering for the walk! (hopper_s@4j.lane.edu & kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu).

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. It’s getting cold, too, so 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 (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:

We had our French vocabulary quiz on Friday. This week, I attempted a new way of helping students be successful in learning the geography vocabulary and in being able to be successful on the quiz. The sentences we did during “horrible sentence time” (les phrases horribles) were essentially the same sentences that were on the quiz. That said, the average of the two classes was 86%. Thirteen students scored 104%, making it the high mode for the class. The low mode was 79%, scored by seven students. This quiz will come home on Monday.

We continue to correct two horrible sentences on all full days, and alphabetize on our short day. The alphabetizing includes vocabulary words or a sound we’re working on. We’re continuing our reading groups this week. This week, for sure, we will conjugate two new verbs:  mettre (to put or place) and prendre (to take).  Most students have completed their culminating cursive packet in yellow. If you haven’t seen your child’s yet, feel free to ask him/her/them about it.

We began studying time in French and will continue to do so for the next couple of weeks. Time is expressed a bit differently in French. In English, if it’s 10:00 am, then in French, it’s 10h00. The letter “h” stands for “heure” meaning hour/hours.

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 uppercase letters correctly in cursive.

Student goal:  I am expanding my vocabulary by incorporating new words into my speaking and writing.

Les sciences humaines (la géographie):

We continued our geography unit this past week as a precursor to our francophone country study, and the kids are loving it. So many kids are enthusiastic about geography! We will continue to work with a compass rose (la rose des vents), identify continents and oceans of the world, and we’ve begun talking about the difference between a continent, a country, a state or province or region, and a city. Many kids are still confused by which is which, so if you have the opportunity to talk about the macro to the micro on how we identify physical places, please do so, especially if you’re traveling. We’ve put together a map of the continents, and this week we’ll make a map about different climates (le climat) in the world.

Student goal:  I can identify and name the world’s oceans and continents.

Student goal:  I can identify the four cardinal directions.

Les copains/Buddies:

Red class buddies experimented with making air visible with their buddies, using syringes (les seringues) and a tube. Blue class buddies worked on a booklet about famous characters from Black History and chose a person to whom they wrote a thank you note.

 

Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher

Math Key concepts:

• Write fractions with denominators of 10 and 100  in decimal notation. 

• Model the value of decimal fractions on a number line

There MATH DECIMAL HOMEWORK this week.

 If you see decimals around in your everyday life at the store or in scores, etc, please ask your student to read it to you in decimal form (with “tenths” and/or “hundredths”) to get them thinking about where decimals are in their real lives!

English

We are half-way through Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. As we read the exciting yet complex text, students will analyze how the main character, Brian, changes as he encounters extreme challenges. Brian will struggle for quite awhile as he tries to survive in the harsh Canadian wilderness, but eventually he’ll overcome many challenges.

Ask your child about their fiction survival narrative. Most students have written the exposition and rising action of their story. They will write a climax, falling action, and resolution next week.

 

Here is more information for parents about the Wit and Wisdom unit, Extreme Settings. The unit will continue through the beginning of March.

 

 

 

 

Yearbook: ACTION NEEDED

Based on popular demand, the full school yearbook is back! We are now collecting money so that every student in the school can receive a yearbook.  The school is asking for a $20.00 donation per yearbook, as you are able. Checks or money orders are PREFERRED but cash is accepted (note: cash can easily be lost, so please put it in an envelope with your student’s name). Please write your child’s name on the memo line of the check and remind him/her/them to give the check or cash to his/her/their teacher in the morning. If your family can give more, please do so for those students whose families aren’t able to spare $20 this year. So far we’ve collected about 70% of what is needed to provide yearbooks to all students.