Mardi 11 Septembre

Hello again. It was a nice day. The kids were well behaved and, on the whole, fairly attentive. We do have a few lallygaggers/slowpokes when it comes to snack time and lunch. I have been reminding them to focus on eating and less on chatting or daydreaming and they are coming along. If you notice a lot of food left in the lunch bag, they might have been too focused on the movie that played through the eating period. We'll get better!
Today, after our routine, we did a little review of numbers in French. We will have to work on the higher ones, above 50, as they seem to have forgotten over the summer. We also did some mental math counting/adding. I am a big fan of a strong number sense and so we will work it all year long! After recess, we discussed small animals that crawl and fly, our first science unit. We discussed which ones live in our province and their names in French. We also spoke about our field trip on Thursday and what we'd be doing. The forecast looks nice! After lunch the students had music and we ended the day with French. We finished off the sentence from my Tony story and they drew/coloured pictures of things they remembered/understood from it.
Remember that tomorrow is library day and to place any books in the backpack. Also, if you haven't filled in the permission form for the trip, please do so.
Finally, below I have cut and pasted the spelling words for the weekly dictées. We will do a lot of work with these throughout the week so don't fret and try and drill them all week:) If you need/want a hard copy, just email me.

GRADE 2 FRENCH DICTÉE WORDS

September/October

Sept. 3rd week Dictée 1 (on) mon non ton son sont long	Sept. Last week Dictée 2  (oi) moi soi toi trois froid un roi	October 1st week Dictée 3 (ou) ou où nous sous tous vous
October 2nd week IN-CLASS REVIEW	Oct. 3rd week Dictée 4  (in) cinq un jardin un lapin un patin un sapin quinze	October Last week L’Halloween un bonbon un chat un chapeau un costume la lune noir

1. On the first day of each week, the students will write their “Mots de la semaine/Words of the week” in their  

    Agenda.

2.  We will also use the “Mots de la semaine/Words of the week” in class during our reading and writing lessons. 

      a) They will be written in our “Dictionnaire/Dictionary”.

      b) We will use them to create word lists/families and to write sentences/stories.

      c) We will use sentence closure activities to aid in learning to read and write the words.

      d) They will be placed in a “Mur de Mots/Word Wall”, on a class bulletin board, so 

           that they are visible and accessible at all times.

3.  The words will be dictated randomly on the last day of the school week.

4.  The next week, the “Dictée/Dictation” sheet will be sent home and a new list of

      words will be written into the Agenda.

The following are some of the ways that you can help your child study the word family/sight words:

• review daily by reading the words aloud
• break a word up (mix up the letters) and ask your child to put it back together
• *Activity may be done by writing the word onto an index card, and then cutting the index card apart between each letter of the word.
• have your child look at the word, try to keep its image in mind, and then spell the word orally.

Note:  underlined letters are silent (ex. joue), bold letters are focus sounds