Week 10

Post date: Oct 09, 2015 11:36:2 PM

10/12/15

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Week 10! Can you believe we’re ¼ way done with the school year? Time is flying by! We will start 1st trimester assessments next week; they’re mostly individual assessments that the students will complete with Giulia or with me. If you haven’t signed up yet for a conference time for the end of the trimester, please don’t forget to do so via GoogleDocs.

Square 1 Art project samples went home on Friday. I hope you all enjoy the Arc de Triomphe that they have drawn/painted. Every student’s work turned out amazing. Please make sure your orders are placed by Monday, October 19!

I will be out of the class on Wednesday writing curriculum for the district. Mme Bollier (Lucy’s mother from 1st grade) will be our substitute.

Thursday is an important day. We’re having the Great Shakeout and we will be having a full practice drill. The alarm will sound, teachers will be at their posted duties - I’m with search and rescue, so your students will be under Giulia’s surveillance. We will be going over the process again in English on Monday and Tuesday, but please talk about it at home with your students, also. Sometimes the students get really anxious and scared. Even though it’s a drill, I would like for them to be serious about it.

Here’s a breakdown of our week:

French:

We will be working on the letter P. It makes the same sound and is pronounced the same way as in English.

We will see:

• un panda – panda - pronounced: un pon-da

• une poule – hen – pronounced: une pooool

• une porte – door – pronounced: une port

• un pantalon – pants – pronounced: un pon-ta-lone

• un policier – police officer – pronounced: un po-lee-see-ay

• la pluie, il pleut – rain, it’s raining – pronounced: la plwee, eel pluh

• une poupée – doll – pronounced: une poo-pay

We will complete letter writing, sound isolating, syllable clapping, and syllable identifying activities. We continue with decoding syllables: pa, pe, pi, po, pu, pé.

We will continue to work on writing/reading the sentence frames: je vois, je suis, c’est, j’aime, j’ai until the end of the trimester. The goal is to have every student writing these sentence frames independently. The students who are more advanced will be challenged to add the appropriate adjective with the words in a sentence.

Book: L’ogre tendre – a misunderstood ogre who enjoys life’s pleasures (good book, food, flowers and butterflies) and prefers to be alone.

We continue to learn to sequence using the phrases: “au début… au milieu… à la fin…” (in the beginning, in the middle, in the end)

Math:

We work on 9 this week. We continue to add, categorize, make patterns, and use prepositions to describe positions of things.

Art:

Your students have been blowing me away with their creativity. Here's a sample of ogres from last week - come check out our spooktastic classroom!

This week, we will be making a bat.

Comptine:

• Have you asked your student to sing a song to you, yet? They’re rockstars!

• We’ll be learning “Une poule sur un mur” this week.

Homework explanation:

• Read for 20 minutes and record it on the yellow sheet on the back of the homework folder

• Watch the P writing video, check the typing assignment, and e-book on Google Classroom.

Reminders:

• Please make sure you sign your child’s behavior log every day.

• Library time is Tuesday at 8:30. Please bring the book back in the 2-gallon ziplock bag.

• Remind your students to use the restroom before lining up, during recess, and lunch time.