Monday, April 1 – NO SCHOOL for students, Teacher Professional Development (No Poisson d’avril! 🐟)
Thursday, April 11 – The students have earned a Class Party in Mme Jana’s class, so pizza, a movie, and pajamas!
Friday, April 12 – NO SCHOOL for students, Teacher Grading Day
Wednesday, April 24 – SCIENCE FAIR (La foire aux sciences)
May 22nd –Field trip to Dorris Ranch, 9am-11:50. Please return signed permission slips as soon as possible.
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.
Host Families needed for next year’s interns!
Calling on Host Families for 2024-2025!
Bonjour Charlemagne families,
We are getting ready to host more interns next year…
Our Amity interns are a huge part of our school. Thanks to them, teachers in grades 2-5 can differentiate their instruction and students can experience more French speaking. We could not do this program without host families who agree to host them for 2-3 months.
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! Aurelie Sion (she/her), 2ème année
Le français:
Thank you so much to the parents who have let us know your child would be missing some school before or after spring break. It has helped us with our planning.
French homework will be next week. I’m sorry to tell you I will miss Thursday and Friday of this week, taking care of my husband after a medical treatment. I will be back next Monday, April 8. My guest teacher on Thursday will be Mme Hannah, Mme Shelli’s student teacher, and on Friday, it will be Mme Roadman.
Les canetons
We continue to correct two horrible sentences on all full days, and alphabetize and/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?
Students are beginning to finish our newest art project, where the kids chose among portions of images that were selected from magazines, 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 began working on our francophone project in earnest this past week and assigned countries. Countries were chosen randomly. Students will be spending most of their time on this project over the next six weeks. There are 12 categories to work on, each category representing one side of a dodecahedron. They work on learning about their countries at the same time as they work on their dodecahedron. They will construct the dodecahedron at the very end, and then they will give a presentation on their country to the class. Also I am arranging a variety of visitors to come in and talk about the francophone country they grew up in. Hopefully, afterward, your students will be very knowledgeable about which 29+ countries have a living link to French.
Student goal: I can identify and name the world’s oceans and continents.
Student goal: I can identify the difference between a city and a country.
Student goal: I begin to see my role in this world as a global citizen and to understand that my reality is not the same as other children’s in the world.
Les copains/Buddies:
The last week before spring break, we made an Easter (la fête de Pacques) card in blue class, and in red class, the students either read to their first grade buddy or were read to by their first grade buddy. We’ll likely be doing 1st grade science with our buddies.
Mme Shelli hopper_s@4j.lane.edu English & Math teacher
Math Key concepts:
•Work toward becoming more fluent with basic multiplication facts, if not already mastered.
•Solve problems with multiplictative comparison, choosing the right operation, multiplication or division to solve appropriately.
There is no MATH HOMEWORK this week. Please practice multiplication facts with your child at home, if they are not fluent. We’ll do an assessment of x1 through x 9 early in the week. If your child needs additional practice outside of school, I will send an email to you. See below for another English home assignment coming this week.
This week students will be practicing multiplication and division calculations in differentiated groups. Some students are just learning to multiply one digit by two digits; While others are fluent with multi-digit multiplication and will be working on becoming more fluent in division. These skills will be extremely beneficial as we work toward our new unit “Multiplicative Comparison.” In this unit students build their conceptual understanding of multiplicative reasoning by modeling problems with a “tape” model. Once visualized, students should be able to decide if the problem is asking for multiplication or division.
Here are a few examples.
Note, that some require multiplication, while others require division.
Here’s an example “TAPE” model we use to visualize what is happening in the stories.
English & Social Studies
Students’ narrative final drafts will come home mid-week. Please set aside 10-15 minutes later this week to have your child read their story to you. Understand, that not all grammatical errors will be fixed, but their current draft represents multiple revisions and improvement.
We are in week three of our 4 week integrated reading, writing, and history unit about the expansion of the United States. This week, students will finish reading, 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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On Wednesday, blue class did a science experiment that the red class had already done about how to make air visible, and red class played a math game with dice and adding. We also stuck with our buddies for the all-school (very wet and rainy) walk on Friday morning.
Student goal: I am applying myself to my school work. I am actively seeking learning.
Red class buddies experimented with making air visible with their buddies, using syringes (les seringues) and a tube. Blue class buddies worked on a booklet about famous characters from Black History and chose a person to whom they wrote a thank you note.