Newsletter 5/8/2015

Announcements:

• BIG THANK YOU to everyone for making us teachers feel so loved this past week <3 

English:
Unit 6 Week 3: "Why are family traditions celebrations special?"

• Spelling words: Final Syllables -tion, -ture
• mixture
• nation
• section
• future
• picture
• action
• caution
• station
• fixture
• motion
• nature
• feature

• Vocabulary words 
•  aunt
• bank
• basket
• collects
• favorite
• present

 Chinese:
 We will be moving on to a unit about senses. They already know how to say body parts but now we will be learning how to say actions with each word (for example, you use your nose to smell, etc) and learning verbs to match each body part.The red characters are the one's we are adding on this week.

• 用 yòng- to use
• 走 zǒu- to walk
• 咬 yǎo - to bite
• 再 zài - again (bye: 再见- literally "see again" )
• 手shǒu -hand
•  见 jiàn- to see
• 先 xiān- first
• 东 dōng- east (thing-东西)
• 西 xi- west (thing- 东西）

 Math:

We will be continuing into MEASUREMENT (Chapter 15). Two more units! Go go go!

加油！

Newsletter 5-1-2015

Announcements:

• May 5 - Field Trip to the Aquarium

English:
Unit 6 Week 2: "What traditions and celebrations involve our country's flag?"

• Spelling words: Abbreviations

• Mr.
• Mrs.
• St.
• Jan.
• Feb.
• Aug.
• Dr.Ms.
• Rd.
• Oct
• Nov.
• Dec.

• Vocabulary words
• America
• birthday
• flag
• freedom
• nicknames
• stars 
• stripes

 Chinese:
 We will be moving on to a unit about senses. They already know how to say body parts but now we will be learning how to say actions with each word (for example, you use your nose to smell, etc) and learning verbs to match each body part. 

• 用 yòng- to use
• 走 zǒu- to walk
• 咬 yǎo - to bite
• 再 zài - again (bye: 再见- literally "see again" )
• 手shǒu -hand

 Math:

We will be continuing into bigger word problems with money (adding, subtracting money). Please review coins and their values at home. :) Thanks!

加油！

Newsletter 4/24

Announcements: 

• April 30- Mrs. Campo's birthday :)
• April 30- RCBM (one-minute reading assessment) 
• May 5 - Field Trip to the Aquarium

English:
Unit 6 Week 1: "Why are sports traditions important in our country?"

• Spelling words: Inflected endings (-ed, -ing)

• tried
• trying
• planned
• planning
• liked
• liking
• skipped
• skipping
• heavier
• heaviest
• lighter
• lightest

• Vocabulary words
• bases
• cheers
• field
• plate
• sailed
• threw

 Chinese:
 We will be moving on to a unit about buying/selling things. Although they won't likely encounter a situation where they will be buying and selling things in China YET (ha ha, hopefully)...since we are doing money for math, and they love pretending to buy things, we'll be doing this unit. They will be learning to write the following characters:

• 买 mǎi- to buy
• 块 kuài- piece, dollar
• 要 yào- to want
• 钱 qián- money
• 太 tài- too

 Math:

We will be continuing into MONEY! Please practice counting coins at home with your child. It'd be a great idea to give them a bowl of coins and have them count out different amounts of money in order to remember what each coin is worth. Of course, we will be doing this in class, but reinforcement at home with REAL money is both more interesting and great practice.

加油！

Newsletter 3/27/15

Announcements: 

• WE ARE NOW SWITCHING EVERY OTHER DAY A.M./P.M. CLASSES IN CASE YOU DIDN'T ALREADY REALIZE! We are sorry if this makes for confusing situations in the morning, but it definitely shows in the lack of more transitions in the afternoon. The kids seem to be adjusted now :)
•  Spring Break is April 6-10

English:
Unit 5 Week 4: "How can we be responsible friends and neighbors?"

• Spelling words: Consonants ph, gh, ck, ng

• phone
• enough
• backtrack
• laugh
• ticket
• duckling
• graph
• tough
• photo
• rough
• cough
• clang

• Vocabulary words
• adventure
• climbed
• clubhouse
• exploring
• greatest
• truest
• wondered

 Chinese:
 We will be moving on to our next Unit (27): Time & Schedules. We will be learning how to write the following characters:

• 几 jǐ- how many
• 点 diǎn- little/small/point/o'clock
• 了 le - past tense (added at the end of something to show completion)
• 分 fēn- minute/part
• 半 bàn- half
• 课 kè- class
• 放 fàng- to put/place (放学- to "put school" - to be done with school for the day)
• 学xué- to learn/school/student

Also, here are some videos of a song we have been practicing. I hope you find them as funny as I did. Hopefully your child will be able to tell you what we're singing about. If not, I fail. :)

 Math:

We will be starting GEOMETRY (my personal favorite unit)! :)

加油！

Newsletter 3/20/2015

Announcements: 

• WE ARE NOW SWITCHING EVERY OTHER DAY A.M./P.M. CLASSES IN CASE YOU DIDN'T ALREADY REALIZE! We are sorry if this makes for confusing situations in the morning, but it definitely shows in the lack of more transitions in the afternoon. The kids seem to be adjusted now :)
•  Spring Break is April 6-10

English:
Unit 5 Week 3: "How can we be responsible animal-owners?"

• Spelling words: Consonants kn, wr, gn, mb

• knock
• sign
• knee
• wrong
• write
• climb
• wrao
• wren
• gnat
• lamb
• comb
• knob

• Vocabulary words 
• chased
• chewing
• dripping
• grabbed
• practice
• treat
• wagged

 Chinese:
 We will be moving on to our next Unit (27): Time & Schedules. We will be learning how to write the following characters:

• 几 jǐ- how many
• 点 diǎn- little/small/point/o'clock
• 了 le - past tense (added at the end of something to show completion)
• 分 fēn- minute/part
• 半 bàn- half

 Math:

We will continuing Unit 11 on Three digit addition/subtraction & doing our test on Thursday. This concept is a little difficult for the kids (regrouping three digit subtraction especially) so we will be doing lots of review!

加油！

Newsletter 3/6/2015

English:
Unit 5 Week 1: "Why should we be responsible for doing a good job?"

• Spelling words: Suffixes -ily, -ful, -er, -or

• yearly
• quickly
• fighter
• sailor
• cheerful
• visitor
• slowly
• weekly
• toeacher
• helper
• hardly
• graceful

• Vocabulary words 
• building
• burning
• masks
• quickly
• tightly
• station
• roar

• We are working on writing multiple paragraphs. 

 Chinese:
 We will be moving on to our next Unit (Better Chinese Unit 28) about items in your room. Over the next two weeks, we will be learning how to write the following words in addition on how to say common items in your room. One of our activites will be to take home cards and label the items in your own room, so be looking for those cards :)

• 玩 wán- to play (toy)
• 具 jù- tool
• 可 kě- to be able (可是- but)
• 是 shì- to be (可是-but)
• 英 yīng- England/English (英文）
• 文 wén- word
• 中 zhōng- middle/Chinese (中文）
• 有yǒu- to have

 Math:

We will doing our test (Unit 10) on Tuesday and then beginning Unit 11 on Adding/Subtracting 3-digit numbers.

加油！

Newsletter 2/20

Announcements:

• No School Friday February 27
• ALSO, we had a fun Chinese food party with dumplings and fried noodles (delicious). They were donated to us by a restaurant called Asian Star here in Salt Lake. It'd be great to go and eat there if you're looking for amazing Chinese food and as a way to pay it forward for their kindness in donating. 

English:

Unit 4 Week 5: "How do changes in the weather affect us?"

• Spelling words: vowel digraphs oo, ue, ew, ui

• clue
• juice
• drew
• flew
• true
• fool
• suit
• spoon
• too
• new
• fruit
• blue

• Vocabulary words 
• awaken
• cliffs
• rainbow
• mountain
• prize
• suffer
• volcano

• Amazing words:
• sparkle
• swirl
• terrifying
• whip

 Chinese:
 We will be moving on to our next Unit (Better Chinese Unit 26) about Professions. We will be learning to write the following characters: (we were going to start these this past week but didn't have time with all the Chinese New Year festivities, so we'll start this week)

• 做 zuò- to do
• 还 hái- still, or
• 是 shì- to be
• 什 shén- what (什么）
• 么 me （see above)

 Math:

We will continuing our next Unit 10 on Place Value!

加油！