le 21 au 24 janvier 2025Upcoming Dates
Friday, January 31 – NO SCHOOL, Grading Day
Monday, February 3 – NO SCHOOL, Professional Development & Transition Day
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
It is the last month 0f our first semester of school, so we’ll be finishing a few things up and reassessing your child’s French this month, so please let us know if your child is going to be absent at all. We continue with leveled reading groups once or twice a week. Charlotte continues to read individually with some students four days a week. With the upcoming assessments, it will be exciting to see student progress, which I feel very confident we will see. Also, we will be piloting a new French report card, which we hope better communicates your child’s progress in each area we assess.
No French homework this week, so no quiz. On last week’s vocabulary quiz for words containing “gn,” the average students score was 22/24 or 92%. I’m pretty happy with this because the sentences were not from the homework this week. They were the terrible sentences that we worked on during the week.
We did not work on our writing project this past week, we had assessments to do. We may not continue with our “J’observe…” activity until next week.
We also had our first buddy meet up with first graders on Friday. We will get together with them every two weeks, and I promise to take photos next time.
The cursive assessment revealed that some students are still having problems forming some letters correctly, particularly p and x. We rewrote our signatures this past week, along with much hilarity as we regard the signatures from the first week of school. We have completed all capital letters except for D, L, S & G. Finally, we will work on a culminating cursive project.
Student goal: I can find grammatical and punctuation errors in sentences in French.
Student goal: I can form most lowercase and uppercase letters correctly in cursive.
Les sciences
This week, we finished up writing definitions in our journals for our open-journal quiz this week. We will do the quiz tomorrow, and students may bring in rock collections on Thursday. Please do not let them bring more than one dozen rocks. They can have a place for rocks that can be touched, and one for rocks that may NOT be touched.
Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher
Math
Yes, there is Math homework this week, one page (back to back) per evening which includes review questions from each lesson so far in this unit.
We are in Illustrative Math Unit 3: Extending Operations to Fractions.
If you have thoughts about our current pilot materials, please respond to the district survey here by Friday.
Last week, student explored multiplying whole numbers and fractions by solving problems such as 2 x 4 x 1/4. Look for a quiz (check point) in your child’s homefolder.
Here’s a short family support video to go along with our current math unit. Included in the video (about 3 mins in) is a game you can play at home. Playing games and discussing fractions at home during this unit can help build your child’s understanding and
Currently we are solving problems addition and subtraction of fractions and mixed numbers. Also, student will create and analyze line plots (graphs) that display measurement data in fractions of a unit.
English
Our current English Language art unit: EXTREME SETTINGS
We wrapped up “All Summer in a Day” last week by comparing the short film to the text. The story and film lent itself to some deep discussion around the theme of bullying and respecting others’ differences.
This week, as we explore dialog in stories, students will write a dialog between the characters in two Robert Frost poems, “Dust of Snow” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
Find out more about 4j’s 4th Grade English Curriculum. This fact sheet for parents also includes a full list of the texts we’ll read as well as additional texts that can be read at home to extend your child’s learning.
OBOB practice
Students have a couple more weeks of practice before in-school battles. The battles are 100% randomly chosen upfront by a bracket maker machine. This guarantees that there is no subjective scheduling, but also means that your child will battle grade levels other than their own. It is is 3-5 mixed competition with one winning team from each school. This year, regionals are a bit different. 4J will be holding their own regionals and will send the winner of each grade band to the state competition. If you are an approved OBOB volunteer, you will be receiving an email with sign-ups for the battles. If you have any specific questions, please email Ginger Topize at topize_g@4j.lane.edu.
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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