le 2 au 6 décembre 2024Upcoming Dates
Weds. December 3 – Chamber Music Amici assembly
Friday December 6 BLUE class field trip 9:30-11:45 University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History (info below in English)
December 13 – RED class Field trip 9:30-11:45
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.
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 & Sciences kincaid_j@4j.lane.edu
Thank you so much to all the parents who came to parent/teacher conferences. It was so lovely to meet so many new faces. If I was meant to follow up on something for you or with you at conferences, and you haven’t heard from me, please feel free to remind me. Many plates are spinning!
Yes, there is French homework this week, and there will be a quiz on Friday. Look for the lavender homework sheet to come home on Monday. We are going to work on the other major accent in French, “e” accent grave, and letter combinations that make the equivalent sound. Here is the homework just in case: vocab è déc 2024
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, conquering uppercase letters since we have completed lowercase letters. We will conjugate two new verbs, voir (to see) and boire (to drink) next week.
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! If you were in the building for Parent/Teacher conferences, I hope you admired your child’s in the 4/5 stairwell. If you couldn’t spot your child’s work, you could possibly ask what’s up! 👍🏼
Les sciences
This week, we will begin creating a French dictionary to accompany the Oregon project they will be doing with Mme Shelli in English. We will use some of our science time for this, and also will begin discussing erosion and deposition and doing some very messy experiments. We have a lot of photos 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
NO Homework this week
Before Thanksgiving break, we started our first unit on fractions in the new curriculum we are piloting, Imagine Math – Illustrative Mathematics .
Here’s IM’s family support video explaining major aspects of this unit.
This week’s goals are:
- Justify (orally and using other representations) that two fractions are equivalent if they are on the same point on a number line.
- Label equivalent fractions on number line diagrams.
- Compare and contrast (orally) strategies for generating equivalent fractions.
- Explain (orally) strategies for generating equivalent fractions.
English & Social Studies
This week we will begin a three week unit on Oregon’s geography and first people. We’ll visit University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History on December 6th or 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.
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
will continue 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 & Friday
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