Upcoming Dates
Monday, November 25 – NO SCHOOL, Parent Teacher Conferences 8 am-8 pm & Book Fair (see Festival du Livre details below)
Tuesday, November 26 – NO SCHOOL, Parent Teacher Conferences 8 am-12 pm & Book Fair
Wednesday-Friday, November 27-29 – NO SCHOOL, Thanksgiving Break
Friday December 6 & December 13 – Field trips to the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History (See Below in English for more information.)
Monday-Monday, December 23- January 6 – NO SCHOOL, Winter Break (Students return on Tuesday, January 7, 2025!)
Behavior Note
Please read the message from Mme Poppy about school wide behavior challenges (LINK). In 4th grade, we are seeing a number of behaviors that are causing disruptions to student learning in class. Along with Mme Rachel, the school counselor, we are working on empathy, consideration of others, thinking before speaking or acting, and generally being kind, grateful, and inclusive. We really need your support at home for this to improve. There are a handful of students in each class whose behavior is impacting the whole day for all of us.
Parent Conference Sign-up
Parent-Teacher Conferences are the week of Thanksgiving on Monday and Tuesday, November 25 and 26. Our schedule links are below. If you need to change your scheduled time, please call the office. We will be in conferences and may not notice if you make changes after 8am Monday.
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
No French homework until after Thanksgiving break. The kids took the quiz on Monday for the sound [e] that we have been studying all year.
Student goal: I can identify the sound [e] in a word and begin to understand the different ways the sound can be written.
We continue with leveled reading groups once or twice a week. Charlotte is reading individually with students who need a little extra support four days a week, and those students are really making strides. We continue our cursive writing instruction, and have completed lowercase letters. We began capital letters this past week with the letters A, C, O, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. Last week, we learned how to conjugate the verbs mettre (to put or place) and prendre (to take).
Student goal: I can find grammatical and punctuation errors in sentences in French.
Student goal: I can read and decode in French.
Student goal: I can form all the lowercase letters correctly in cursive.
Most students completed their “J’observe…” writing activity this week “Une tornade de poissons,” and will begin a new photo after Thanksgiving break.
Student goal: With support, I can write a four sentence paragraph about a photo.
We continue the “Moi!” project, and over half of students have completed the project! If you are in the building for Parent/Teacher conferences, you can admire them in the 4/5 stairwell .
Les sciences
This past week, we labeled a landform drawing and learned how to say many landforms in French, including canyon (un canyon), valley (une vallée), cliff (une falaise), mountain (une montagne), hill (une colline), floodplains ((les plaines inondables), etc. Next, we’ll begin discussing erosion and deposition and doing some very messy experiments.
Student goal: I can use some landforms terminology.
Math
NO Homework this week
We started our first unit on fractions in the new curriculum we are piloting, Imagine Math – Illustrative Mathematics on Monday, November 18th.
Here’s IM’s family support video explaining major aspects of this unit.
Last week’s goals were:
- Review what a fraction is and key vocabulary of fractions
- Use fraction strips, tape diagrams, and number lines to represent fractions
- Make sense of fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12
English & Social Studies
We have enough chaperones at this time. Thank you to all of you who have offered.
Friday December 6
Blue Class Field trip to Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Bus load at 9:35, Arrive back to school at 11:50.
Friday December 13
Red Class Field trip to Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Bus load at 9:35. Arrive back to school at 11:50.
OBOB practice will continue on Wednesday during lunch and recess. If you’d like to volunteer, please contact Mme. Ginger, the teacher coordinator for OBOB at topize_g@4j.lane.edu
Students may order a special OBOB sack lunch to eat during OBOB meetings or they may bring a lunch from home.
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) with Mme Rachel
Our school counselor, Mme Rachel, meets with our fourth graders each week. Here’s what they’ve been discussing:
This week students participated in a How to draw Ruby Bridges art lesson as they talked about her bravery during the challenging time of the integration of public schools. Students were able to draw and color their poster for the optional Ruby Bridges Walk to School Event.
Hosting Interns
Bonjour Charlemagne families,
We have 2 AMAZING interns from France working at our school. We are asking families to think about hosting one of them for the next term: January(ish)-March (ish).
Tom is a 21-year old young man who is very enthusiastic, an extravert and a sports/outdoor LOVER. He is currently the host brother of a 2nd grader.
Charlotte is a 22-year old young woman who is calm and an art lover. She is currently with a 3rd grader.
The requirements to host are:
– Transporting the intern to and from school,
– Offering her/his own room,
– Offering 3 meals a day
The host families don’t have to be part of our Charlemagne community, so tell friends, neighbors, family members!
If you have an interest in hosting, please reach out to our host family coordinator, Rachel Buciarski (Charlemagne parent) at rachel@buciarski.com.
Merci beaucoup!
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 & Friday
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