Just a reminder that tomorrow's day 5 entry will be slightly different. The children will be going directly to the library for social studies and should bring all their belongings. Mme Gaudreault will let them know where to put everything. If you are late getting to school, your child can go directly there and give his/her late slip to Mme Gaudreault. I've explained all this to the kids, so they should already know what's going on.
Paper Work:
Tonight there are also 2 important piece of mail for you. First, we got our picture proofs. If you would like to order pictures, you can do so either online or by returning the form with payment by November 18th. Secondly, you have received a Data Verification form from the office. This is to ensure that we have up-to-date information in the event that we need to contact you (many of you provided this information to me at the beginning of the year, but if you could update for the office that would be amazing). All you need to do is correct anything that is out-of-date, sign the second page and send it back. It should only take a moment, and we would appreciate getting these back ASAP. Thanks! Your child also brought home the November Scholastic order forms on Friday. Any book orders are due back November 19th, and I mentioned in the note that you can send it in a sealed envelope if you would like to keep your order a secret (holiday gifts?). I will contact you to pick it up. If you need some instruction on how to interpret the Scholastic catalogues, please go back in the blog archives to the very beginning of the school year. I posted a long explanation of how it works. Thanks in advance for all the mail!
Today we had a great visit from another parent, Mme Ally, who explained all about the refugee family that Dewson is sponsoring, and helped us make cards to welcome the family to Canada. This afternoon we started learning about measuring temperature and we used a huge thermometer to read the temperature in our class, and outside. Ask your child what the temperature was in our class, and what is was outside (and also how many syllables there are in the word thermomètre)!
Words of the Week
Note: “un” does NOT contain the ‘u’ sound. It sounds a bit like the beginning of the word “under”, without closing to the ‘n’. It is the masculine version of “une”, and an essential word in the French vocabulary.
This week we are reviewing the final basic vowel sound, ‘u’. The sound doesn’t really exist in
English. It is tighter and more nasal than what we know, you kind of need fish
lips for this one. Think “few”. A cool trick you can try is to shape
your lips for a nice round o, and
then in that space, try to say “ee”. You will end up with the right sound. That
said, the best way to learn this one is probably just to ask your child to say
the word “lune” - show them a picture of the moon and they’ll probably know the
word, and they’ll naturally say it correctly. They’ll enjoy being able to teach
you something too!
une, lune, tu, sur, mur
Bonus words: tutu, un* Note: “un” does NOT contain the ‘u’ sound. It sounds a bit like the beginning of the word “under”, without closing to the ‘n’. It is the masculine version of “une”, and an essential word in the French vocabulary.