le 9 au 13 décembre 2024Upcoming Dates
December 13 – RED class Field trip 9:30-11:45 University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History (info below in English)
Here’s a link to photos of the Blue Class field trip photos from last week.
Monday-Monday, December 23- January 6 – NO SCHOOL, Winter Break (Students return on Tuesday, January 7, 2025!)
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
No more French homework until 2025! On the most recent quiz on Friday, students averaged 91% . That quiz will come home this Monday.
Student goal: I can identify the sounds [e] “é” and [ɛ] “è” in words and begin to recognize the different ways the sounds can be written.
We continue with leveled reading groups once or twice a week. Charlotte continues 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, conquering uppercase letters since we have completed lowercase letters. We conjugated two new verbs, voir (to see) and boire (to drink) this past week. We will do manger (to eat) and nager (to swim) this week.
We will begin a new “J’observe…” writing assignment on Wednesday with the photo at left entitled, “Je grimpe..” (I climb/I am climbing.) We’ll work on using simile this time.
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 some uppercase letters correctly in cursive.
We continue the “Moi!” project, and over half of students have completed the project and they are up in the 4/5 stairwell. This week, there will be an opportunity to finish the project up. Many studewnts are very close.The projects will come home just before winter break.
Les sciences
This past week, we began creating a French dictionary of geography terms to accompany the Oregon project they are doing with Mme Shelli in English. This coincides well with our landforms unit, so we will use some of our science time for this. This week, we will begin discussing erosion and deposition and doing some very messy experiments. We also have a lot of photo examples of landforms to enjoy and inspect.
Student goal: I can use some landforms terminology in both languages.
Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher
Math
NEW Homework this week: This week, your child will have homework from our 2nd pilot curriculum. Each night there is one page (front and back) that reviews what we’ve been doing in class. Students should work on explaining their thinking with words and/or illustrations.
Looking for extra math at home? This week, I will send home CLEVER badges and user names/passwords for going on to our class CLEVER site. This is where students can log in to Dreambox and Math 99 at home. See the district page for more explicit instructions about using Dreambox at home.
This week’s goals are:
- Explain (orally) how to use multiples of the numerator and denominator to generate equivalent fractions.
- Explain (orally and using words or other representations) how to generate equivalent fractions.
- Match (orally) equations and number line diagrams that represent strategies for generating equivalent fractions by reasoning about division.
English & Social Studies
This week we will look Oregon’s regions. Students will read about one region in a small group. Then, their group will present their findings to the class. By the end of the week, students will have written and illustrated a short region visitors booklet. All of the maps and art projects from this unit will be put together in a book to share with you later.
The Red Class will visit University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History on December 13th. Students will be participating in the program called Oregon Archaeology Detectives hands-on exploration, and we’ll tour the museum. We have enough chaperones at this time. Thank you to all of you who have offered. Here’s a link to photos of the Blue Class field trip photos from last week.
Looking for ways to extend your family’s understanding of Oregon history? Here are some great family field trips: The Lane County Historical Museum, Eugene Pioneer Cemetery, Fort Vancouver, Fort Clastop (Astoria), Champoeg State Park (North of Salem), Fort Umpqua (Drain), Oregon Historical Society in Portland.
OBOB practice
continues on Wednesdays 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
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, and
- 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 & FridayDecember 9-13, 2024
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