Today you're receiving an invitation to a very special event in June. To celebrate the end of the year, our class would like to welcome you to an open-house and concert on the morning of June 16th (10:45-11:30 am). During this time, your student will give you a guided tour of our classroom, showing and explaining some of their recent work. We will also perform the play we've been working on and some of our daily poems.
I think it will be a nice way to celebrate the hard work we've been doing this year and it is my hope that each child will have at least one person in attendance.
Please return the RSVP by June 8th so that I know how many people to expect. We welcome close family or caregivers, but will only have enough chairs for 1.5 fans/child, so please keep that in mind when inviting additional family members.
Looking forward to seeing you in June!
As we prepare for this special event, our actors may want to practice their play lines at home. Each actor has their own copy of the script. Most kids will be able to memorize their lines quickly, since I wrote down pretty much what they had been making up each time we practiced. The main reason that I went to the trouble of typing it up is so that we would know when it's our turn to speak. If you are practicing with your child, perhaps you could play the other roles so that they get used to who speaks leading up to their line. It is very important that the scripts come back to school each day so that we can practice together. Thanks!
Scholastic packages for June will be coming home this week as well and orders are due on the 8th along with your RSVP. This is your last chance to order Scholastic books to get you through the summer. It is essential that all French Immersion students continue their well-established reading routines over the summer. Without this consistent practice, we quickly forget so much of what we have worked hard to learn! Like I always say, it's like brushing your teeth.
Of course, purchasing books is not the only way to keep reading. The local library is a great resource, and there are plenty of online options - many linked to this blog. I will also post closer to the end of the year about how you can borrow some of my personal classroom books over the summer.
I have not been very good at recommending books from the Club de Lecture catalogue in recent months. Let me do that one last time... this is hard... there are lots of good ones that we can manage...
- #23F0, "Collection Gros Ours" - Not a bad deal for 5 books, so it'll last a while and the language level should be just right for a lot of us.
- #26F0, "Je suis une histoire" - Haven't seen this book before, but since we are excited about writing our own stories right now, this could be fun. I'm hoping it's the sort of thing that encourages inventing our own stories...
- #25F0, "Le moustique" - We know a poem called "Moustique" so this would be a great extension.
- #15F0, "Ensemble Toujours parfait" - Not cheap, but you get a lot of books at varied levels, so it would serve most of us well and would give you lots of summer reading material. If your reader is quite fluent already, this set would likely not be challenging enough. You can always gift them to a younger friend later, right?
Words of the Week
Different again for both grade 1s and 2s this week.
For the final
month of the school year, we are going to focus on some basic grammar rules and verbs.
This week we are going to solidify our knowledge of “j’ai” and “je suis”. We've already had these words in previous dictées, so the spelling should be a
review. We are now trying to use these words correctly in sentences. It helps
to start orally - we usually can tell if something sounds right when we hear
it.
Your student’s job is to come up with 5 sentences for each sentence
starter. We got started at school today so many students have 1 or more sentence already written down for each starter.