le 4 au 8 mars 2024
 

Upcoming Dates

Wednesday, March 6 & Friday, March 8 – Salsa Dancing with our artist in residence

Monday, March 11 & Wednesday, March 13 – Salsa Dancing with our artist in residence

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

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

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:

This week’s French homework is filled with words that the kids misuse or confuse in class. Here is a copy of the homework for this week:  mots variés 4 mars 2024 l Vocab

Here is me saying and spelling each word: 

 

Here is me saying each word and translating it into English:

 

We continue to correct two horrible sentences on all full days, and alphabetize on our short day, although we’ll be sorting words instead this Wednesday into two groups:  adjectives that come before the noun and adjectives that come after the noun. We recommenced our reading groups this past week and will do them once this week. We also conjugated two new verbs:  mettre (to put or place) and prendre (to take). 

Most students have completed the most recent “J’observe…” writing project about the mama and baby polar bears, and some of the kids are really developing their writing! A few students will be reading their writing aloud to the class next week, before we start the new one, which has yet to be selected.

We continue studying telling time in French and will continue to do so for the next week. 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. Most students are doing just fine with it, although I haven’t graded today’s work yet, nor has everyone completed it.

We began our newest art project, where the kids chose among portions of image that selected from a magazine, and they have to complete the rest of the image. It’s a cool Gestalt kind of thing. Nobody has finished, nor will they soon, and the attached image is one that I began years ago, but have not completed. It, at least, gives an idea of the project.

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 continue our geography unit as a precursor to our big francophone country study in the spring, and the kids are loving it. We will continue to work with a compass rose (la rose des vents) and the four cardinal directions, identify where continents and countries are in relation to one another, and we’ve continued to talk about the difference between a continent, a country, a state or province or region, and a city, and the prepositions we use with them. 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 completed our map about different climate zones 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:

On Wednesday, blue class did a science experiment that the red class had already done about how to make air visible, and red class played a math game with dice and adding. We also stuck with our buddies for the all-school (very wet and rainy) walk on Friday morning.

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

•In a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to the right.

There is no MATH HOMEWORK this week.

We wrap up our first unit on decimals this week, but will continue to discuss decimal notation as we move into our next unit “Introducing Measurement Conversions.” Students will solve problems involving converting metric units of measurement for length, weight, and volume. For example, “Michael is carrying 6 kilograms. If he is holding two boxes, and each weighs the same amount, how many grams each box weigh?”

 

English

We will wrap up the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen this week. To finish the novel, students will write a short paper that will analyze how the main character, Brian, changes as he encounters extreme challenges.

Ask your child about their fiction survival narrative. Most students are just about finished with their stories. This week, they will edit, revise and print their stories to make into a class book. A copy of their final draft will be sent home to share with you in the near future.

 

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