vendredi 27 mars 2015

Week 29 : March 23rd - 27th

Dear parents and students,
 

 
Here are the learning we've worked on this week:





French :
Spelling : We have been working on the sound "g" and did the spelling tests on Wednesday and Friday.
Now, spelling test on Friday is prepared in class.
Grammar : We have been working on the pronouns "ils/elles".
Conjugation : We began to learn the verbs "faire/to do" and "dire/to say" in present tense.
Poetry : We have been listening to poems in several languages : Russian, Arabic, Swedish, Indonesian and german and we also went into the whole school to recite the poem we wrote about the children rights.

Thanks to all the parents or grandparents who came in the class to share stories or poems in their native language.

Reading : We read the first part of the Chapter 1 and worked on Voc 24. 
We have also been working on the intonation when telling the parts for the play: The Little Red Riding Hood.


Math :
Mental Arithmetic : time table x6 and we kept working on the distributive property of multiplication.
example : 16 x 5 = 10 x 5 + 6 x 5 = 50 + 30 = 80
We introduced also how to solve a two-digits by one digit multiplication.
Problem solving : we were working on our 17th collaborative math problems.
USMATH : the students practiced word problems involving three-digit subtraction with regrouping, as well as telling time to the nearest five minutes.
 
Discovering the world :
SCIENCE : AIR Contest : after bringing different pictures of objects, we decided to built one sailing boat, a car propulsion and a parachute.
We participated in a science experiment proving that air is everywhere.



De jour comme de nuit, réfléchir la lumière
Day or night, reflect the light