圣诞节快乐！
Merry Christmas!
*Please bring your glass jar for the project in Mrs. Campo's class.
What is being taught this week in English/Chinese?
English literacy:
- Story: "Rosa and Blanca" Unit 3 Week4
- Question of the week: "When does a creative idea lead to a surprise?"
- Spelling words:
- find
- child
- sky
- bright
- wild
- fly
- right
- flight
- spider
- cry
- blind
- myself
- their
- buy
- Bonus:
- generous
- abundant
- Amazing words (words introduced but not tested on):
- abundant
- assist
- generous
- dismay
- efficient
- beam
- forever
- situation
- Unit 14- about numbers and classifiers for objects (quite a bit of review). Test will be Tuesday, December 17.
- Vocabulary we will be learning to write:
- 两 liǎng - two, pair
- 支 zhī - classifier for long, skinny objects (pens)
- 毛 máo- fur, feathers
- 笔 bǐ - writing utensil, pen, stroke
- 石shí - stone, rock
- 块 kuài- piece, lump, or dollar (measurement word)
- 百bǎi - hundreds, many
- 千qiān - thousands
- Vocabulary we will be learning to read/listen to/say:
- ALL pulled from the stories/songs you can listen to on the Singapore website (unit 14). See earlier blog posts for information on how to access this site.
- Unit 7 - Mental Subtraction
- Review of past units
Homework Expectations:
In both English and Chinese classes, homework will now be given Monday-Thursday.
English: daily practice of spelling and vocabulary from weekly story.
Math: English worksheet reinforcing concepts taught in Chinese class daily.
Chinese: homework will consist of character practice, character worksheets, or reading (stories from website or readers with CD listening portion)
Reminder of Upcoming Events:
- December 18 - Christmas Movie Fun!
- December 19- Song Sing-a-long and Christmas party @ 10:30 am
- December 19- Early-out Day
- December 20- Winter break begins
- January 2- School Resumes
