Thursday, April 11 – The students have earned a Class Party in Mme Jana’s class, so pizza, a movie, and pajamas! Please send a snack, and if your child is not a pizza-eater, please send a regular lunch or students may still get a cafeteria lunch. Carrots & water will be served with the pizza.
Friday, April 12 – NO SCHOOL for students, Teacher Grading Day
Wednesday, April 24 – SCIENCE FAIR (La foire aux sciences)
Saturday, April 27 – Charlemagne Auction “Caribbean Getaway” 6-10 p.m. Ford Alumni Center (see below for tickets)
Wednesday, May 22 – Field trip to Dorris Ranch, 9-11:50 a.m. 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:
– Transport the intern to and from school,
– Offer her/his own room,
– Offer 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:
I was only present on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, so I don’t have a ton of news! I left Thursday for students to make progress on their francophone study research with Mme Hannah, and on Friday, Mme Rachel spent some time with each class doing an SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) activity, and Mme Roadman did a painting project with them.
French homework this week is vocabulary for our francophone study. Here is a copy of the homework just in case: vocab francophone 8 avril 2024 l Vocab
The vocabulary words spoken and spelled:
The vocabulary words spoken and translated into English:
We continue to correct two horrible sentences on all full days, and alphabetize and/or sort words on our short day. We will get back to our latest “J’observe…” writing project also this week.
Students are beginning to finish the latest art project, so hopefully we can get them up in the stairwell soon. Just waiting for enough students to finish! See Charley’s work at right:
Student goal: I am applying myself to my school work. I am actively seeking learning.
Student goal: I can identify 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 are working on our francophone project daily. 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, a country, and a continent.
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:
With buddies, red class read a French book to their buddy then did a squiggle art project where one student makes a squiggle, then the next one adds to it, and so on until they create something. The blue class worked on a science experiment that got excessively waterlogged as students experimented with displacing water with air to show that air exists.
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 multiplicative comparison, choosing the right operation, multiplication or division to solve appropriately.
There is no MATH HOMEWORK this week. INSTEAD, your child should share their survival narrative with you. Please sign the pink 1/2 sheet to confirm you saw it.
At home continue to work on multiplication facts as needed. A “post-test” similar to our pretest on basic facts will be this Thursday. The goal is to have students improve their scores over last week’s test. It was sent home last Wednesday.
We started problem solving last week using both multiplication and division of larger numbers. This was quite challenging for many students. Problems require students to make meaning of a story in order to select an operation (multiplication or division) to find a missing value. Here are some examples:
- Finn sold 72 tickets. Jan sold 576 tickets. How many times more tickets did Jan sell? (requires division)
- A green snake is 13 inches long. A brown snakes is 9 times longer. How long is the brown snake?
In this unit students build their conceptual understanding of multiplicative reasoning by modeling problems with a “tape” model (below). This model can help students decide if the problem is asking for multiplication or division.
English & Social Studies
Please sign and return the pink 1/2 sheet home assignment once your child has read their narrative final drafts to you. Also, please return field trip permission forms if you haven’t already. Thank you!
We continue our integrated reading, writing, and history unit about the expansion of the United States. This week, students will finish the last chapters of Lewis and Clark in their Own Words; they will read about Sacagawea and hear more about York, the enslaved member of the expedition; and they will read the how fur trade affected the land and Indigenous people. We wrap up the unit with a written 4 paragraph persuasive essay with the prompt:
In your opinion, what were the most significant impacts of the Corps of Discovery on the Oregon region and its people?
The unit may continue a little into next week. Then our student teacher, Mme Hannah, will begin our next unit on Greek Myths!
Charlemagne Auction:
The 2024 Charlemagne Auction tickets are on sale NOW! This key fundraiser helps support our French Interns who are a vital part of our school. Get your tickets online at: auctria.events/2024CharlemagneAuction
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.
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.