Newsletter 2/1/13

新年快乐！

•  Valentine's Day: Please send your student in with a small-medium box for valentine's day. We will be decorating these in class a few days before Valentine's Day.  The boxes will be decorated with our Big Question for Unit 4 which is: Our Changing World. Students will have an opportunity to pass out valentine's to other students in their homeroom (of course, this is optional if they don't want to). We as teachers will make sure each child has something in their boxes
• Chinese New Year celebration: In addition to learning about Chinese New Year during class, and doing craft projects, we will have a small Chinese New Year celebration next Thursday, February 7. Please let us know if you would like to donate food or other party items. We would greatly appreciate any donations. Please have your child wear red to school on Thursday in celebration for Chinese New Years!

  
Here are some updates on the info being taught this next week in Chinese/English. 

English literacy: 

• Story: Unit 4 Week 3 "Soil" (Weekly Reading Test Thursday, Spelling Test Friday)
• Question of the week: "What changes occur under the ground?"
• Spelling words: 
• around
• out
• gown
• sound
• flower
• howl
• toy
• noise
• royal
• moist
• coil
• cow
• Sight words:
• world
• push
• Bonus:
• incredible
• discovery
• Amazing Words:
• blizzard
• discovery
• fine
• incredible
• landscape
• molten
• transform
• underneath

Chinese literacy: We will now skip to Lesson 3 on Singapore 2 A level. It is about the Chinese New Year. For directions on how to access Singapore 2 A, see previous blog post.

• Vocabulary we will be learning to write:

• 带 dài- belt, girdle, band, to bring, to lead, to look after, to raise
• 爷爷 yéye - father's father (grandfather)
• 奶奶 nǎinai - father's mother (grandmother)
• 真zhēn- really, truly, indeed
• 肉 ròu- meat
• 干gān-dry, clean
• 新 xīn-new
• 年 nián-year

• Vocabulary we will be learning to read/listen to/say: 

•  All on the Singapore website in the stories and in the stories sent home to practice reading (Year 2 Unit 3).

Math:

•    Unit 9: Subtracting Two digit numbers, Regrouping 

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.

Announcements:

•  Short day Thursday Feb 7
• Chinese New Year Party Feb 7
• No School Friday Feb 8