Newsletter November/December 2018

Mont Saint Michel, France.

                               Hello parents ! Here is what happened the two last month of 2018 ! 
                          I wish all of you enjoyed family time and the best for the coming year !

TAOKI 
- We studied and learnt the spelling and the sounds of : /s/, /u/, /f/, /e/, /m/
- We worked on the vocabulary and created sentences related to the daily life of a student, at school, after school, or during a field trip, the thematics of our poster were : the street (Taoki and his friends taking the bus downtown), the playground at school, the classroom (Taoki ans his friends and gardening in the class), the lunch room, the museum. 
- We continue our reading learning journey, students really improve their fluidity I noticed a lot of them use a lot the sign related to the sound to help themselves to read a word which is really great ! 
The two classes are really involved and interested into reading and appreciate our reading time 

MATH
- We worked deeper on additions and subtraction equations with the topic 5, we learnt how to read and represent a data with the topic 6, we extended our counting sequence to 120 thought 1 to 1 counting, 10 to 10, some students don't need the number chart to count and memorized very well the name of numbers in French, this was with the topic 7 and then we finished December with some reviews. 
- I have assessed the students a little everyday at the end of a lesson or during a lesson for example, they have 3 little assessments for one standard/topic which are spread during the week.
- I graded a lot of very good tests, I am very proud of our little 1st graders, a lot of them figured their own preferred math resolutions methods, other really stick to what I have been teaching, other use a little combination of everything. They are very involved in math !  
- I wanted to thank you parents with your involvement into the homework, every time I am checking them, I see how seriously everything is done ! 

CULTURE / GENERAL ACTIVITIES
- As you know, we prepared a holiday winter program to offer the students and family the occasion to share about different holiday celebrations which take place in different culture. 
- You can find the two french songs in the "sing and train" part of this website. 
- All the 1st grades trained 2 times a week, at the end of the end to learn our songs, we also trained during our BFF deeper in French to understand more the meaning and the pronunciation. 

As usually, if you have any question, feel free to contact me through this website or through Bloomz. I wish you all the best for the coming year !