Welcome Parents and Caregivers, 

The school year has begun and fall is in full swing.

Since September, we have been establishing rules and responsibilities.

We continue to explore what respect looks, sounds and feels like.

We made a class book to promote respect of ourselves, others, our class and the school.

We made art for our class using lines and pumpkins.

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Our "Sac Masion / Ecole"  contaisn a duo-tang to support reading and sharing at home. It is also a word reference tool in class. Please return the duo-tang every day to be sure your child gets all the handouts!  Loose papers have a way of becoming lost papers! 

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We have a Vedette du Jour (Star of the day) who may present something personal to the class and field questions.

 Our Vedette should be prepared to answer questions from the class. Classmates are always encouraged to participate by listening to the person speaking and asking questions! 

We have learned a lot already in terms of our oral communication as a class. We continue to work on using respectful language at school and at home.

Your child is making amazing efforts every day to understand and be understood in another language. This effort is well worth some daily recognition! 

Your child is learning and reviewing how to ask for help and clarification with sentences such as:

Je ne comprends pas - I don’t understand…

Comment-t-on dit… ?  How do we say…?

J’ai besoin d’aide – I need help…

  

Our literacy centres offer a variety of ways to work with words, sentence structure, letters and sounds. Independent work and responsibility are very important to success in the centres. Students are reminded of this regularly.

As we focus on various spelling strategies in French, your spelling and reading strategies at home, in French or your home language, are both beneficial. 

Reading in any language will strengthen reading habits!  

Here are some strategies from class:

We follow words with our index finger named "Li-li” ('Lis' - from the verb lire – to read.)  

Does it look right? 

Does it sound right?

Does what you read match the image?

Can you sound it out? Cover half the word or uncover the syllables one at a time.

Is it a word that could sound like another word on the page, or on a previous page?

 Does it rhyme with a known word? 

Is it a word made of two words? Can you cover half of it and read that? Now read the other half.

In Math the class has moved through a unit on addition and subtraction and we are now working on patterning.

The grade one's investigate  1-3 attributes and a variety of pattern structures.

The grade two's work with up to 5 attributes as well as the concept of growing and shrinking patterns. 

I look forward to working with you, with the aim of guiding your child through a productive, inspiring, and fun French Immersion school year!

Kind Regards,

Meghan Hulsman