Week 9

Post date: Oct 02, 2015 10:18:54 PM

10/5/15

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Week 9! Come visit our class and see how it’s Halloween-tastic, thanks to decorations help from Delphine (Ilan’s mom), Elodie (Dexter’s mom), Jennifer (Oliver’s mom), Rena (Imani’s mom) and Axelle (Liam’s mom). We have our PTA Reflections Art Competition happening right now. I highly encourage every student to participate. The subject this year is: Let Your Imagination Fly! It can be an original dance, painting, art, music, video, etc. The possibilities are endless. Check the website for more info.

Side note: BFEF’s 3rd Annual Science Fair information will be presented in a few weeks. If you would like to help Janet (Zola’s mom) and me plan/organize the event, you’re more than welcome! If you and your student love science, I greatly encourage you and your student to start thinking about a project based on their observations (Does consistent light make a plant grow faster? How are sugar or salt crystals different – which takes longer to form? How much sugar is in a can of soda/juice?). I can provide lots of kinder friendly ideas if you’re interested.

We finally start our French music lessons with Zaia on Monday. Woohoo! Our gardening class with Miss Christina is also going very well. The kids really enjoying being in the garden.

We are 3 weeks into our Witches, Monsters, Ogres literature theme and the kids LOVE it. They painted some really awesome monsters on Thursday and created some happy witches the week before. You’re always welcome to come in and check them out. Here they are on the wall (click on it to enlarge)!

Here’s a breakdown of our week:

French:

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

We will see:

• une semaine – week - pronounced: une suh-men

• un sapin – pine tree – pronounced: un sah-pun

• une salade – salade/lettuce – pronounced: une sah-la-duh

• un serpent – snake – pronounced: un ser-pon

• un sifflet – whistle – pronounced: un seef-lay

• le soleil – sun – pronounced: luh sow-lay

• un sac-à-dos – backpack – pronounced: un sac-a-doe

We will complete letter writing, sound isolating, syllable clapping, and syllable identifying activities. We will be using the syllables sa, se, si, so, su, sé

We will continue to work on the sentence frames we know, in reading and writing:

• Je suis, c’est, je vois, j’ai

• J’aime – pronounced “gem” means I like. This is our new sentence phrase this week. We learned the concept of “j’aime” and “je n’aime pas” a few weeks ago, they’ll see in writing.

Book: Le petit ogre veut aller à l’école – a sweet ogre who wants to go to school to learn to read. We are focusing on sequencing using the phrases: au début (at the beginning) au milieu (in the middle), à la fin (at the end).

Math:

We will be completing 8: adding numbers to get to 8. We continue to decompose, compose, and represent the numbers. We also continue to work on geometric shapes and prepositional words

Art:

• We will be working on gray this week. “Gris” is pronounced “gree” (masculine) or “greez” (feminine).

• We will be creating something ogre-themed – either a mask or a painting/cut/glue

Comptine:

Scions scions scions du bois

Homework explanation:

• Read for 20 minutes daily (e-books count!) and record it on the reading sheet.

• Watch the S video and practice writing the syllables and the sentence frames posted on Google Classroom and complete the typing activity.

  • Typing Club is an option also!

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.

• Halloween Dance Special – 10/29 @ 8:30 at Kinderland

Lastly, congratulations to Audrey and Stone for earning their Be S.M.A.R.T. and Student of the Month awards!