Week 4

Post date: Aug 28, 2015 11:23:19 PM

August 31, 2015

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Week 4. It’s going to be September – where did the month go? This week is going to be a short, action packed week. Every month we will focus on an ethic trait. September is responsibility. We will be talking about this trait as a class consistently throughout the month.

Wednesday night is Back to School Night. Please come as I will be explaining A LOT of our class expectations, routines, homework, communication, volunteering, etc. I will send the powerpoint afterward.

Here’s a breakdown of our week:

French:

We will be working on the letter A. It is pronounced like “AH”. We will see:

• un ananas – pineapple – pronounced: uhn ah-nah-nahss

• un artichaut – artichoke – pronounced: uhn ahr-tee-sho

• un arbre – tree – pronounced: uhn ahr-bruh

• une abeille – bee – pronounced: une ah-bayuh

• un ami – friend – pronounced: uhn ah-mee

• un avion – plane – pronounced: uhn ah-vee-own

• une araignée – spider – pronounced: une ah-rhain-yeh

We will complete letter writing, sound isolating, syllable clapping, and syllable identifying activities.

We will learn to write the word “C’est” as a sight word this week as we continue to use it in our sentence structure.

Book: La semaine de Max et Mathilde, where we learn to recognize and read the days of the week.

We're concentrating on learning the days of the week

Math:

We will be learning the number 3, its representation in words, ten-frame, and tally marks. We will also be completing simple addition up to 3.

We will be going in depth of learning about a triangle – it has 3 straight lines, 3 vertices, 3 sides.

Art:

• We will be working on our “marron” (brown) big book

• We never got around to the apple tree hand paintings the last two weeks… hopefully we’ll get to them this week

Comptine:

La semaine des canards

Clapoti Clapota - a poem with the sound "a"

Homework explanation:

• Read the All About Me Big Book collage explanation and complete the activity with your child. Your family has 3 weekends to complete the project - use both sides of the construction paper!.

• Here's my page and André's page as an example. Click on the image to enlarge.

Reminders:

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

- Please make sure your child has a bottle of water. A hat is optional.

- Please bring back the library book in its ziplock bag on Tuesday morning

- Back-to-school night is Wednesday at 6pm.

- Thursday is a minimum day with dismissal at 11:42! THERE IS NO LUNCH, please pack an extra big snack!

- There is no school on Friday and on Monday.