Spelling and word work will come home every two weeks. We will alternate French and English each week. Students receive assignments on Tuesday, and they have until Friday to complete and return the work to school. Each Tuesday there will be a short quiz before I hand out the next assignment.
Initially, I planned to do English every week, but we decided as a class to alternate French and English to make our homework load more manageable. Sorry if the change causes any confusion!
Our first quiz is this Tuesday in English. Your child's goal should not be memorising the spelling words, but to do the work. In this way, your child both demonstrates responsibility and seeks to understand the connections between the words on the list.
The work on the poem L'arbre for our first dictée is due this Friday (students noted the due date change in agendas). The actual dictée will be next Tuesday, Sept. 25. Again, the goal is not memorisation but understanding. Next week's dictée will ease students into the process with a fill-in-the-blank quiz; I will read the poem to the students and they will write in the missing words.
