Schedules of specials:

Library: Monday

PE/Music: Tuesday and Friday (make sure your kiddo is wearing good PE shoes those days)

Bring home folders on Monday (black or purple). It goes home on Fridays. Please remove all papers before bringing it back. 

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Classroom Learning:

Week of 10/19

ELA:

Fundations (phonics): 2 Tests and 2 Homework packets went home. Please practice with short amounts, each day instead of all at once.

Unit 4 suffixes, er, ed, ing, es, s, and est. This is a two week unit. 

ELA and writing: We are writing about our 2nd book A color of his Own. We will be writing a paragraph about the story including a topic sentence. I will keep this paragraph as a reference for Conferences. 

SEL: Students are learning about: Growth mindset and making mistakes. 

Science : Our first unit is Rocks, pebbles, and silt. We will learn about being a geologist. We will learn about the properties of rocks. 

French:

phonics: 

sound "au" (=long 'o' in English) week 2

vocabulary:

• nouns: le dinosaure, la chaussure, une autruche, le dauphin, le crapaud, une faute

• verbs : sauter

• other : aussi, jaune, chaud, faux, haut, au-dessus de, autour de

• mots défis (trick words): aussi, aime, est, dans

reading/writing: week 1

theme: a book about transportation

• Vocab: en avion, en bateau, en moto, en voiture, en patins, à pied, à cheval, à vélo

• trick words/mots défis: 'vais' and 'chez' 

• Grammar: 

• using the structure: 

• je vais + 'chez' ( une personne) or 'à' (+ a place (town, store, event)) + "en/à" (by + mode of transport)

Math:

number corner focus of the month:

arrays: connecting addition with multiplication

time to nearest 5 min

fluency strategies: when we add 9, we 'pretend' it's 10 and then take away 1.

13 + 9 =

13 + 10 = 23

23 - 1 = 22

Bridges: unit 2

Demonstrate an understanding that the digits in a 3-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones.

Write numbers to 1,000 represented with expanded form (500 + 60 + 5)

Compare 3 digit numbers

home connection book pages:

pages for unit 2 module 2+3

Art:

After our study on warm/cold colors, we are now starting our "Meet the Masters" series.

We will be studying an artist: their life, why they became famous, their technique. 

Artist this week: Claude Monet

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Week of 10/13

ELA:

Fundations (phonics): Test on Monday 10/12 for Unit 2. Unit 3 Test on Friday. Two tests and HW will go home on Friday. 

ELA and writing: We are starting our 2nd book A color od his own. This book has a similar problme and resolution as our last book.

SEL: Students are learning about: Growth mindset and making mistakes. 

Science or Social Studies: My world: We will put the book together and bring it home on Friday. 

French:

phonics: 

sound "au" (=long 'o' in English) week 1

vocabulary:

• nouns: le dinosaure, la chaussure, une autruche, le dauphin, le crapaud, une faute

• verbs : sauter

• other : aussi, jaune, chaud, faux, haut, au-dessus de, autour de

• mots défis (trick words): aussi, aime, est, dans

reading/writing: week 2

sentence structure: (noun) est (color) comme (noun). 

theme: fall/colors 

vocabulary: 

• les feuilles, le sol, automne, le panier, les pommes, les oiseaux, la plante, la citrouille, la maison

• tomber, jouer, manger, faire peur, tourner, décorer,

• rouge, vert, jaune, grande, 

Math:

number corner focus of the month:

arrays: connecting addition with multiplication

time to nearest 5 min

fluency strategies: when we add 9, we 'pretend' it's 10 and then take away 1.

13 + 9 =

13 + 10 = 23

23 - 1 = 22

Bridges: unit 2

Demonstrate an understanding that the digits in a 3-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones.

Write numbers to 1,000 represented with expanded form (500 + 60 + 5)

Compare 3 digit numbers

home connection book pages:

pages for unit 2 module 1

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Week of 10/5

ELA:

Fundations (phonics): Unit 2: (2 week unit) Students will learn about bonus letters and glued sounds am,an, all, unk, ung, ong, onk. Test on Monday 10/12

ELA and writing: We are writing our first paragraph answering how did the little yellow leaf change. Then we will do a craft that goes with the story.

SEL: Students are learning about: Growth mindset and making mistakes. 

Science or Social Studies: My world: Students will cover North America and our planet the Earth. Hopefully we will have time to put the book together and bring it home. 

French:

phonics: 

sound "ch" (=sh in English) week 2

vocabulary:

• nouns: le cheval, le chat*, le chien*, la ruche, 

• verbs: cache (v), marche (v), cherche (v), 

• adjectives: faché

• mots défis (trick words):  il y a, j’ai, il, aussi, avec, je,

reading/writing: week 1

sentence structure: (noun) est (color) comme (noun). 

theme: fall/colors 

vocabulary: 

• les feuilles, le sol, automne, le panier, les pommes, les oiseaux, la plante, la citrouille, la maison

• tomber, jouer, manger, faire peur, tourner, décorer,

• rouge, vert, jaune, grande, 

Math:

number corner focus of the month:

arrays: connecting addition with multiplication

time to nearest 5 min

fluency strategies: when we add 9, we 'pretend' it's 10 and then take away 1.

13 + 9 =

13 + 10 = 23

23 - 1 = 22

Bridges: 

Demonstrate an understanding that the digits in a 3-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones.

Write numbers to 1,000 represented with expanded form (500 + 60 + 5)

Compare 3 digit numbers

home connection book pages:

pages for unit 1

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Week of 09/28

ELA:

Fundations (phonics): Unit 2: (2 week unit) Students will learn about bonus letters and glued sounds. 

ELA and writing: We are starting our first unit about Fall. We are reading the book The Little Yellow Leaf. We will explore story structure beginning, middle and end. 

SEL: Students are learning about: How big are our problems. We will create a thermometer we can bring home. 

Science or Social Studies: My world: Students will make a flip book about their world. Students are learning abour their state Oregon and Country. 

French:

phonics: 

sound "ch" (=sh in English)

vocabulary:

• nouns: le cheval, le chat*, le chien*, la ruche, 

• verbs: cache (v), marche (v), cherche (v), 

• adjectives: faché

• mots défis (trick words):  il y a, j’ai, il, aussi, avec, je,

reading/writing: week 1

theme: fall 

vocabulary: 

• les feuilles, le sol, automne, le panier, les pommes, les oiseaux, la plante, la citrouille, la maison

• tomber, jouer, manger, faire peur, tourner, décorer,

• rouge, vert, jaune, grande, 

Math:

number corner focus of the month:

odd and even

time to nearest 5 min

fluency strategies: math facts within 20, 2 addends to make 10 and 20

Bridges: 

Graphing using graphs in columns and Venn diagram

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ELA:

Fundations (phonics): Unit 1: Review of handwriting. They will review diagraphs: ch,th, ck, wh. They will also review of the c, k, or ck rule.  C follows a and o. K follows e and i. "ck" is at the end of single syllable words.  Test is Friday. 

ELA and writing: We are starting our first unit about Fall. We will discuss/look at art  the four seasons. Students will read a poem about weather and do a craftivity exploring the beginning middle and end of the poem. 

SEL: Students are learning about How big are our problems. We will create a thermometer we can bring home. 

Science or Social Studies: My world: Students will make a flip book about their world. They will start in their room and then their house in which they will learn their address. Then city and school. 

French:

phonics: reviewing vowel sounds and letter names. We only spell in French in French class.

reading/writing: reviewing prepositional words and common sight words

vocabulary: 

• prepositions: sous, sur, dans, devant, derrière, à côté de, entre, avec

• classroom objects 

Math:

number corner focus of the month:

odd and even

time to nearest 5 min

fluency strategies: math facts within 20, 2 addends to make 10 and 20

Bridges: 

Graphing using graphs in columns and Venn diagram