le 18 au 22 mars 2024
 

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

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

This week is Charlemagne Spirit Week!   March 18-22

Monday:  Wear Charlemagne swag or PURPLE

Tuesday:  Silly socks

Wednesday:  Class colors: 4th = Blue!

Thursday:  Ocean Day – wear beach-themed clothes or dress as an ocean animal (NO SWIMSUITS!) 

Friday:  Pajama Day!

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:

Thank you so much to the parents who have let us know your kids will be missing some school before or after spring break. It really helps us with our planning.

No French homework this week. We’ll start back up after Spring Break.

Les canetons

We continue to correct two horrible sentences on all full days, and alphabetize or sort words on our short day. We began our newest “J’observe…” writing project. Since blue class chose last time, red class got to choose this time, and they chose…“Les canetons,” because who can resist a bathroom sink full of ducklings?

Kids are beginning to finish 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. They will be going up in the stairwell once there are enough of them.

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 will begin discussing our francophone project in earnest this week and will assign countries. Countries are chosen randomly. I pull a stick with a student name and the student pulls a country from a hat. If a student is absent, they still get the same chance to select a country, but I pull for them. I am also arranging a variety of visitors to come in and talk about the francophone country they grew up in.

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

Les copains/Buddies:

We weren’t able to do buddies this past week because of the Salsa schedule. 😕 We will see them this coming week though.

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

Math Key concepts:

•Multiplication can be thought of as a comparison in contexts other than place value.

•We can convert units of measurement in both metric and customary systems.

There is no MATH HOMEWORK this week.  

We have worked hard working on converting within the metric system. It’s been very fun to measure and compare length, mass, and volume of objects in our room and even objects from home. This week, we will work on the customary system. If you’re cooking or baking, including your kiddo in measuring using cups, quarts, pints, and gallons is a great way to help them see the customary system in real life! We’ll also practice converting between inches, feet, and yard and pounds and ounces. 

English & Social Studies

We are in week two of our 4 week integrated reading, writing, and history unit about the expansion of the United States. This week, students are reading the chapter book, In Their Own Words: Lewis and Clark. A major goal of the unit is to look at history from multiple points of view. We will read the words of Thomas Jefferson about his goals for the expedition. We’ll also listen to videos of Native perspectives as Native historians recount stories of Lewis and Clark that have been passed down for generations.

This 4j English/Social Studies learning module incorporates lessons from Oregon’s Tribal History/ Shared History lessons, has students reading from primary sources to learn about various perspectives on history, and teaches students to write opinion essays using evidence from text.

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