vendredi 14 novembre 2014

Weekly letter #13

Dear Parents,

Here are our learning events for this week.

French :
Spelling : We did the sound T tests on Wednesday and Thursday.
Reading / Writing: We are almost finished with our comic Popotka and were writing the story of page 16 of the book. The students had to use most of the vocabulary they learned so far to write at least 9 sentences telling the story of this page.
Conjugation : We reviewed the lesson about "past, present and future" tense of a sentence. C1
Grammar : We worked about the verb. G4
Vocabulary : Begin using alphabetical order to look for the definition of a word in the dictionary.

Math :
Calculation : We continued working on "rounding to the nearest ten and hundred" with numbers up to 999.
We worked on subtracting with carrying. CALC 7
Numeration : We continued working on numbers up to 1,000 (place value, expanded form and written form).
US MATH : Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar graph.

Discovering the world :

History : Read a family tree and construction of their own.
Art : Finish the family tree.
Computer science : We had, today, the visit of Remi Thillier, a software engineer, who presented his job and what code is used for.
We presented the course we will follow to learn CODE : INTRO TO COMPUTER SCIENCE K-8th grade. Each child will use his credentials to work on this course.
Thanks to Shawn Seaton who generously offered an APPLE TV for the class.


Have a wonderful weekend.