Week 2 (9/18/23 - 9/22/23)
See our Week 1 newsletter below for more dates to add to your calendar.
Wow, great to see so many of you on Wednesday! For those of you unable to attend, here's a LINK to the slideshow we presented. It has helpful information about classroom procedures, our approach to behavior management, the scope and sequence of our curriculum, and ways to support us in the classroom. We sent home this document on Friday, as well, with your student.
Thanks to the 19 families who have already responded! Your responses have been a very helpful reference tool for us in the past. All responses will remain confidential. Please submit by next Friday, September 29. Thank you in advance for your time! Here's the LINK.
Ring of Fire Eclipse - October 14th, 2023
Eugene will have a front row seat to the “ring of fire” eclipse. For maximum viewing pleasure, use appropriate eclipse glasses from 9:16 AM to 9:21 AM.
Q&A from Curriculum Night
Q: Is there a specific cursive style that is expected in the 5th grade?
A: No. We are looking for legibility and accuracy of letters in any font.
Q: Is Outdoor School overnight? In French? Need parent volunteers?
A: Yes. It is 3 days and 2 nights. Currently not in French, but we have a plan to try to incorporate high school Frenchies as camp counselors and to translate materials. Camp Tamarack is really interested in aiding us in this process. No parent volunteers are needed for the trip. Camp Tamarack employs trained camp counselors to accommodate all students. Please visit the Camp Tamarack Website to learn more about our new outdoor school program.
A message from Mme ErinMarie, our PE teacher
Next week, September 28th (Thursday) and 29th (Friday) 2nd-5th grade students will be learning Pedestrian safety during Physical Education class. Students are welcome to bring their own labeled helmet and labeled, in good working order, scooter to P.E. on those days only. Blue class has P.E. on Thursday and red class is on Friday, please only have your child bring their scooter for their P.E. day. They will need to pick it up after school from the gym the same day. They can drop it off in the gym on their way into school in the morning. Only your child will ride their scooter. I have many scooters and helmets to loan if your child does not own a scooter or would prefer to borrow. If any parents are interested in volunteering to help during your child's P.E. time please email Mme. ErinMarie langsdorf_e@4j.lane.edu for more details. This is in preparation for our Walk and Roll to school even on Wednesday, October 4th. Please see Mme. Poppy's weekly email for more information.
Quoi de neuf en français? (What’s new in French?)
Devoir n°1 - Les phases lunaires, draw / write your observations of the moon!
Devoir n°2 - Catégories, à rendre (due): mardi le 26 septembre
In vocabulary, we developed our science vocabulary for this unit in French. We also practiced our emotion adjectives. We played verb charades to help us remember the meaning of many commonly used French verbs.
In science, we tracked shadows during different times of the day, made observations about the ways in which shadows changed over the course of the day.
In conjugation, we took notes on how to conjugate regular verbs in the 1er (-er), 2e (-ir), and 3e (-er) groups. We practiced with a fun conjugation game as a class.
In reading, we read a text on the theme of respect called “Denis et les clous.” In the story, a boy named Denis has trouble controlling his temper and, to teach him a lesson, his father asks him to hammer a nail into an old fence each time he loses his temper. Denis discovers it is a great strategy to blow off steam. Then, his father tells him that every time he is able to control his anger to pull a nail out of the fence. After some time, Denis proudly reports his progress and shares with his dad that there are no nails left in the fence as he has pulled them all out. His father asks him to look at the fence and notice all the holes left behind. We discussed the way this story was a metaphor for how words can be hurtful. The nails represent words, the holes in the fence represent the damage that is left behind even after taking the nails out (or apologizing). We reflected on the ways that words can hurt, and how both our actions can leave marks that others won’t soon forget.
In writing, students took notes and answered questions about the text.
In conversation, we shared how we are feeling and discussed our science observations / understandings both in small groups and as a whole class.
We have begun our volume unit. Students identified volume of simple 3-D representations by noticing how many cubes were present. They learned how to report 1D, 2D and 3D measures using units, units squared, and units cubed with superscript as required.
Module One has begun. This unit focuses in on writing to inform based on content learned from non-fiction Native American studies. We use the Nimiipu removal story and culture to explore the question, "How do people's values and beliefs guide their actions?"
