Dear parents,
It's crazy that summer vacation is only 3 short months away. The year has flown by!
This is the time of year when you're probably starting to plan for the summer and you may be considering camp for the kids. Of course, I recommend anything French, as the summer is long and we forget... If you're looking for suggestions, I have a few in the link list to the left. I don't know much about them except that they have been recommended by other teachers and parents. Feel free to investigate further, and if you know of a French summer program that you like, please email me the link and I'll post it for everyone.
We are continuing with measurement this week, but focusing on Area. We learned that measuring area means counting the number of units needed to cover an area. For example, yesterday we estimated and then counted how many cue-cards were needed to cover our chairs, desks, math books and how many students were needed to cover the carpet!
We have also completed a school-wide math challenge. All classes are working on solving the same problem and I think we'll get to look at some solutions that other grades came up with when everyone's done. Ask about the pig and chicken question. It would be a fun one to do again at home!
In French, we are working away at our fairy tales. Most of us have moved on to writing our rough copy, which is our real story but with lots of mistakes. When we've written our beginning, middle and end, we need to check our writing. Each writer is going to check their own writing, then ask a friend to check it, before coming for their teacher meeting. We are looking for words that we have in our dictionaries that we could fix, les majuscules et les petits points, and we are asking ourselves if we have any questions about the story or details we could add. When we write our good copy, we will include the corrections we made to our brouillon.
Ask your writer what's happening in their story, and try to dig deeper by asking why or how questions. This will help us add details beyond what we had in our first plan.
Wednesday, April 9th is Day of Pink. Many students already know the story of how this day originated. We talked a little bit about it last week. Today and tomorrow we will talk more and read a book about what we like about ourselves. Check out DayofPink.org for more info.
Have a great week!
Tamara