Newsletter February/March 2019

Carrières de lumières - Les Baux de Provence (click fo website)
I highly advise this place to anybody who share with me the wish to go to France. This place, located in South of France is an old quarry (see last picture) transformed into an incredible art spectacle ! Every 6 month approximatively there is a new artist honoured (now it is Picasso), all the paintings are projected on walls and floors and roof ! To that is added incredible classic music which matches the paintings. It is a must see !! There are a lot of typical south of France romantic hotels around, and the cottage of "Les Baux de Provence" is gorgeous, the food there is incredible.

Hello parents ! Here is the February/March newsletter  !
                      
TAOKI / FRENCH SPELLING & WRITING
- We studied and learnt the spelling and the sound of : /ou/ /z/ /p/ /e/ /b/
- What I really like about Taoki reading method is that each week is correlated to each other, thanks to that we can see and learn a lot of vocabulary every week but always in a logical progression.
- I keep increasing the amount of writing productions using Taoki poster (tomorrow, I am going to hang your student's productions on the wall, feel free to come and check it out ! You will be so proud !
- I also use our weekly Album to create writing activities, since last newsletter, we write about feelings, we worked on how European countries celebrate the Carnival (I showed them videos and pictures about the costumes in Venise, and in South of France), we learnt place prepositions, the difference rooms in the house (students where very surprise when I told them that there is no basements in France)

MATH
- We worked on 9 standards : represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction within 20, compare two digit numbers, add within 100, mental calc (10 more 10 less), subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10-90, order three object by length, express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, tell and write time in hours and half hours, identify the values of pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
- Students know perfectly the math rituals and are extremely on task, interested, involved, respectful, ready to learn every day. This group is really a daily pleasure to teach.

MORNING RITUALS
- I include in our rituals little exercises linked to the math standards we are working on. Recently we have our new ritual "quelle heure est-il ?" ( what time is it ?)

CULTURE / GENERAL ACTIVITIES / GENERAL INFOS
- Field trip March 21st 
- Art lesson on March 29th
- Big Friendly Friday on April 6th
- Field trip "This is the place" on April 23rd
- Art night April 26th

BEHAVIOR
Nothing to add, they are awesome !!!

As usually, if you have any question, feel free to contact me through this website or through Bloomz. 

Thank you !