Thanks SO much for coming to our open-house and concert last Friday. It was great to watch the kids lead your around their class, proudly showing off their work. I was so happy with the kids' performance. They really pulled it together quickly. I hope you enjoyed it! If you have pictures, I'd love to see them. Please send them to me at tamara.mitchell2@tdsb.on.ca. Thanks!
It's hard to believe that an entire school year has gone by. We have accomplished so much this year. It always astounds me to recall that only 10 months ago we were learning what sound 'a' makes in French, and now we are reading books and writing 3-part stories! Watching the kids develop from day to day is my favourite thing about teaching the early grades.
We have learned a lot very quickly, but unfortunately we will forget quickly too without regular review. In order to return to school in September in good shape for the coming year, it is essential that you continue some sort of regular French routine. You have our words of the week that you can keep reviewing (make a memory game, play hangman, play wheel of fortune, do a speed round, make cards and put them in categories according to number of syllables or alphabetize...), you can set up some French play dates or have a French day each week in your home, you can listen to French music or watch movies or videos in French, but most importantly, we need to keep reading.
The public library is a great resource, as is this blog, for finding online resources. I also have links to a number of stores that carry French books. However, if you would like a bit more support finding reading materials in French, I would be very happy to loan out some of our classroom books over the summer. Let me know by June 23 if you would like a reading package and I will choose some appropriately leveled books for your child. Just make sure they come back to me promptly in September. I will be in Room 202 trying out Kindergarten for the first time!!
Thanks for supporting our borrow-a-book routine this year. Your participation and support with this has been a HUGE part of our success in reading. Please scour your home for those white paper books and ensure they are ALL returned to me by Friday. I need to box everything up and leave the class stocked for the new room 211 teacher. Thanks!
You may have noticed on our wall, a chart where many readers had listed books they read during class time. For over-filling our reading log, we have earned the prize of a full day spent doing our work outside. It looks like Wednesday will be a good day for this. Please ensure that your student has plenty of water, sunscreen already applied and a hat. We will try to stay in the shade, but sunscreen is very important for this full day outside.
You will also receive a note about another non-work day outside next week. On Tuesday, June 27th, many primary classes will spend the morning at Dufferin Grove park to enjoy some outdoor time together. The kids are welcome to bring games or outdoor equipment to play with, so long as they are able to manage it on their own. We will also bring our lunches and have a picnic in the park before returning to school just before the end of lunch recess.
There is no limit on how many parents we can bring - the more the merrier! Please let me know if you can join us, even if only for part of the time. We do need at least 2 parents to be with us all morning to ensure that we are well supervized. Thanks!
Words of the Week
Thank you for supporting our words of the week routine this year. This will be our last week of words. Please keep your cahiers and use them to review these high frequency words over the summer!!
This week we are formally being introduced to the present of
the verb être (to be). Like avoir, we use this verb every day and
know what it should sound like. We’ve talked about some similarities between
the two verbs that can be helpful for learning the spelling rules.
1. For
tu, the verb ends with s - only one letter changes between the
two verbs
2. Il, elle & on are always the same
3. For
ils & elles, they are always the same as each other and you just add an s to the beginning of what it was for avoir
Again, try making up sentences that begin this way. E.g., Tu es très jolie maman!
je suis
tu es
il est, elle est, on est
nous
sommes
vous êtes
ils sont, elles sont
