Plan your Survey!

Hello, I hope everyone had a great long weekend!

Our words of the week are:

monde, j'aime, qu'est-ce que, non, gros, grosse, elle

We are also working on the sound "ai" this week. You probably recognize those letters from the word j'ai, which we are all trying so hard to spell correctly. J'ai, however, is an exception to the rule. It sounds more like "é" (ay), while "ai", normally sounds a little less bright. Start saying the name for the letter 'f' - ok, just like that, but of course without closing your teeth on it.

You can hear this sound in the words: Aire 24, semaine, mais and in lots of verbs... j'aime, je fais, je vais, je sais...

There are many letter combinations that make the same "ai" sound. For instance, you already know the words les, mes, and c'est. So, you can assume that "es" makes that sound. There are a couple others as well, but I'll save them for next week!

Today your mathematician did a great job collecting data (question: what's your favourite subject at school?), making a tally of responses, and creating a diagramme à bandes based on their information. Ask them how many people they asked and what the most popular response was! This week we will begin our big final project in this unit. This is for each student to plan a survey question, come up with the choices and then do what we did today (collect the data and create a diagram). To get a head start on this, help your child brainstorm a simple survey question that they'd like to ask, and 3 possible answers to choose from. For example, Quel animal préfères-tu, les baleines, les éléphants, ou les rhinocéros?

Today we also got to visit our reading buddies' classroom to watch their modified fairy tale films - in French of course. Ask your student if he/she recognized any of the fairy tales? (There was a Little Green Riding Hood, a Rumpelstiltskin where a baby is turned to chocolat, and a Three little monkeys and the big bad bear... for starters.)

Talk to you soon,
Tamara