Week 6: October 13-15

Important Upcoming Dates

Message from our school counselor, Mme Rachel

We are continuing the Bullying Prevention Unit this week. Grades 4 and 5 will be focusing on Bystander power. 5th graders have also be working on their Unity Day paper chain link, so I can get it displayed for Unity Day next Wednesday. 

English Class

This week in math, we took the assessment for unit 1 focusing on expressions and equations with volume. All students were given the assessment to take home today. The front side is graded for both expressions and equations work and volume work. The backside are challenge problems on the same content, but is not a skill they should have mastered yet, so it only adds as extra points, not in the calculated 20 points possible on the front of the assessment. Students should be getting a 3 or 4 on the front. Scores of a 1 or 2 are not expected as those items, as noted in the curriculum, should be solid at the end of unit 1. 

In ELA, students worked in teams to read about one aspect of the Nez Perce tribe in the early 1800s. They processed the information in their assigned piece ad generated a poster of the content to teach to their peers. All students then recorded the content on a graphic organizer to internalize and capture all the aspects of the Nez Perce culture in one spot. We also had a guest speaker on Friday- Josh Davies. He is a member of the Hanis-Coos tribe and the NATIVES program director for 4j. He shared his role, his family history, the tribe's culture and spoke about the 9 recognized tribes of Oregon. 

In health, the blue class finished up unit 1 by defining assertive and refusal skills. They took a quiz over the entire unit. This was also sent home. Red class did not finish the unit as they had a behavior reward party in leiu of. 


Quoi de neuf en français? (What’s new in French?)

Weeks 6-7 study guide

Look for two graded assessments sent home Friday on white paper: 1) an open-book comprehension quiz from our small group text that we read over three weeks, and 2) Week 5 assessment of technology vocab and verb conjugation. 

Now that we are using iPads more in class, we reviewed technology expectations at school. See our discussion below, as well as a list of logical consequences that we talked about in class to help students anticipate consequences for their actions. 

In math, we plotted various data points of the mass in grams of two carrots we've been observing since October 1st. We will eventually use these data points to make a line graph by the end of the month.

In conjugation, we continued to practice irregular verbs faire, vouloir, venir, aller and pouvoir in the present tense. This week, we really focused on mettre and devoir in the present tense.


In grammar, we took notes on negative sentences and transformed affirmative sentences into negative ones using ne…pas, n’...pas, il n’y a pas, ne…plus, ne… personne, and ne…rien.  


In small group reading, students focused on building necessary vocabulary to access new non-fiction, space-themed books at their reading levels. We did some oral reading for fluency.  


In science, we began Investigation n°2. We took notes in our science notebooks, shared our observations of the night sky, and began to reflect on the guiding question: 



In small groups, Lou-Anne met with all students to play 21 questions in French.


On Friday, students had fun playing Interland (a game produced by Google designers, available in French!) to teach kids about digital citizenship for their first positive behavior party celebration of the year in Mme McLaren's class.