Week 20

Post date: Jan 11, 2016 6:51:24 AM

01/11/16

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Week 20! We’ve got an action-packed week. I will be at curriculum writers’ district day on Tuesday and out of town for a friend’s wedding on Friday; Mme U will be our substitute both days.

We have a slight change of music teachers. We will have music with Mme Hope starting this Tuesday for every other Tuesday.

We will be reading the story Roule Galette and a few other stories about Epiphany this week. We will have our Epiphany celebration with a galette des rois on Wednesday with Mme Olson’s class. IF YOU CHILD HAS FOOD SENSITIVITIES to almonds, PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP. La galette des rois is made with frangipane.

Here’s the breakdown of our week:

French:

We will be learning the letter D this week. As in English, D makes the sound “d”. It is pronounced like “deh”. Here are the words we will be seeing:

  • Un drapeau – flag – un dra-po

  • La dinde – turkey – la dhan-duh

  • La dame – woman – la da-muh

  • Le dauphin – dolphin – le do-fin

  • La salade – salad – la sah-la-duh

  • Le domino – domino – le do-mi-no

  • Le radis – radish – le ra-dee

  • Le dé – die – le day

We work on reading syllables, da, de, di, do, du, dou, don, dé. We continue writing our common sentence starters: “je suis”, “c’est”, “je vois”, “j’ai”, “j’aime”, “il est” and “elle est”.

We’re trying hard to differentiate between masculine and feminine words in order to use the correct form of description: “il est…” and “elle est…” “un” or “le” = masculine, “une” or “la” = feminine.

Books: We’ll be learning about three different stories: Roule galette, Juliette et la galette des rois, Une histoire de galette et de rois

Here are 2 videos for Roule galette:

Pere Castro version

Book version

Math:

  • We will be writing #16 this week

  • The concept of subtraction will be introduced

  • We will be comparing numbers (greater, less)

  • We continue to work with base-10 and describing geometric shapes

Comptine:

    • J'aime la galette:

Homework explanation:

  • Read for 20 minutes daily minimum

  • Google Classroom – check the video for letter formation and read the e-book!

Reminders:

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

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

  • I will not be here on Tuesday and Friday; Giulia will be here and Mme U is the substitute

    • La galette des rois will be on Wednesday with Mme Olson's class

  • There is no school on Monday, 1/18 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.