Tonight you will be receiving your very important Interview Form. Progress Reports come home on the 13th, and this is followed closely by our first formal parent-teacher interviews. As the progress reports tend to be quite short, I would love the opportunity to meet with you in person to discuss how your child is doing, and what we can all do to support him/her going forward. Please return the slip with your preferred date and time by NEXT FRIDAY, November 9th. If you have another child(ren) at the school, please indicate the area number somewhere on the form and I will try to coordinate with that teacher. Also, as the form asks only for you to choose the day you prefer, I invite you to write an approximate time beside your choice. This will help me create a schedule that hopefully works for everyone. So, for example, if you're checking off the Friday morning, you could add "around 9:45 if possible". Thanks - I think this will help all of us!
Here are pictures from yesterday's presentations on the seasons. Each group presented their 3-D pictures of each season by telling us what part they built and how they felt they worked as a team to divide the work and solve any problems that arose. The projects are beautiful, the Principal was very impressed when she saw the kids working on this last week!
And here is a list of words containing the sound 'u' (remember, this is not the same as "oo", it's the one that is very tight sounding, and almost makes you look like a fish). If you're not sure that your child is making the correct sound, ask them to read "salut" or "une" - we use these words a lot.
* Be careful of the difference between "un" and "une". The words mean the same thing (one, or a), but "un" is masculin (un garçon) and "une" is feminine (une fille). Despite their meaning, they sound different. Until we learned the 'u' sound, the class had no problem with "un" - they know it as a number (1). But, now that we know more about the sound that the letter 'u' usually makes, they have been mixing them up! Ahhhhh! Please correct this if it happens in your review! Thanks!
A few more pictures...
Here are the masks we decorated before Halloween:
After we discussed features of our homes that protect us from the elements, we had a few minutes to work on building a shelter that had some of the things we talked about, for example, a door, windows and roof.
