November Newsletter
FRENCH LANGUAGE ARTS:
This month we will be learning about family names (maman, papa, frère, soeur, etc.), relatives (mon cousin, ma cousine, ma tante, mon oncle, etc.), and pets. We will also be talking about peace and Remembrance Day. In writing we will start the process of writing a personal narrative; a first-person story that describes a true, personal experience. This activity helps students to develop writing and reflection skills.
MATH:
Students have shown that they are comfortable counting forward starting from 0. Things get trickier when they are asked to count backward or skip count from a number other than 0 (ie. start at 26 and count backwards to 17), so building confidence in this area is exactly what we will be working on this month.
We have starting working on place value. Place value is the idea that a digit’s position in a number determines its value — for example, in 342, the “3” means 300 because it’s in the hundreds place, the “4” means 40 because it’s in the tens place, and the “2” means 2 because it’s in the ones place .
All of this practice is laying the foundation for the 2-digit addition and subtraction work we will start in a few weeks.
DATES TO REMEMBER:
November 5th and 6th - PEITF Annual Convention (no school)
November 11th - Remembrance Day (no school)
November 13th - Photo Retakes
November 16th - PD Day (no school)
November 26th & 27th - Parent-Teacher Interviews (no school on November 27th)
PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS:
Parent-teacher interviews will be held during the week of November 23rd. I will send home a questionnaire with this newsletter. This questionnaire is optional but it might give you the chance to jot down some of your questions before our meeting time so that I can focus my attention on the topics that you would like to discuss.