Week 36

Post date: May 08, 2016 2:16:8 AM

05/09/16

Dear Parents,

Happy Mother’s Day and welcome to week 36! I hope all of you enjoy the beautiful vases, flowers, and card that your students made for you.

We have an amazing week ahead. Our chrysalis should be butterflies sometime early this week. We start i-Ready diagnostic testing in math and English so that the students have a baseline for first grade. We also start our trimester 3 evaluations. Review letter names and sounds with your students at home. Write syllabically, decode words together, read together Ask them to describe something they see in French. They know so much vocabulary, let them teach you!

We started writing our collective “why?” story. Of the final questions that they came up with, they chose “Pourquoi les chatons sont mignons? (Why are kittens cute?). The two runner up with 2 votes short were: Why do dinosaurs eat children? Why are t-rex carnivores? If we have time, we’ll write a second collective story.

I will be out of the classroom on Wednesday and Thursday due to different district things. Mme Bollier will be our sub for both days.

Thank you for those of you who have turned in a permission slip and the $10.50 donation (cash). If you have not yet turned them in, please do so ASAP.

Reminder: Monday, May 16 @ 8:30 is our French Spring concert. Please make sure your students come in a white shirt and blue jeans. I’ll put on a red or blue scarf on them.

Here are our adventures this week:

French:

We are working on the last sound “é”. It is a very common sound and is written in 3 different ways: é, er, ez, but we will be focusing only on the é. We will be seeing the following words:

  • Un éléphant – elephant

  • Un écureuil – squirrel

  • Les dés – dice

  • Un canapé – sofa

  • Une école – school

  • Les clés – keys

  • Une fée – fairy

Sight words: Please review sight words using the sight words ebook!

Book: We continue to read “why” books. This week, Why does Leopard have spots?

Math:

  • We’ll be doing a cumulative review in adding/subtracting, counting, naming shapes and attributes, decomposing/composing, and base-10.

Homework explanation.

  • Please read at least 20 minutes per day with your student.

  • Please count to 100 by 1s and by 10s with your student, especially 60-100. It’s a bit tough in French.

  • Please ask your students to describe things they see in pictures in French.

Reminders:

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

  • This week is our last week at the library!

  • Turn in permission slips ASAP!

  • Come to our Spring Show on Monday 5/16!