Newsletter 9/6

Welcome Parents & Students! We are so excited for this year. Here is the info for next week:

English

Unit 1, Week 4
Question of the week: "What can we learn by exploring the desert?"

Spelling Words (Inflected endings: -ed, -ing)

• dropped
• dropping
• excited
• exciting
• lifted
• lifting
• hugged
• hugging
• smiled
• smiling
• talked
• talking

 Vocabulary Words

• animals
• early
• eyes
• full
• water
• warm

 *Please check Pearson for your child's weekly test results for English: pearsonsuccessnet.com

Chinese

 Singapore Lesson 6 (see this blog post for directions on how to navigate the website ). All of the vocabulary we will learn to read, write, and speak will be pulled from stories on this website. We are starting in Lesson 6. I would encourage you to let your kids listen and read along with the stories on this website frequently (to reinforce what we do in class).

Vocabulary Words we will be learning to write: (from story)

• 只 zhī- classifier for animals ("a dog"="一只小狗"）
• 它 tā- it
• 过 guò- to pass over/through("过去")
• 去 qù- to go
• 来 lái- to come
• 马 mǎ - horse
• 出 chū- to put forth, out (“伸出手”）
• 走 zǒu- to walk
• 和 hé- and

 *Chinese test will be given on Wednesday 9/11

Chinese Readers 

will be sent home in the next couple of weeks. A CD with all of the audio will be sent home. Please download the CD onto your computer so that you will have it throughout the school year. We do not have enough to send home every day, only the first time. Kids may keep these readers for the week and read them, but they must be returned by Friday of the same week. Children are not expected to know all the characters in the beginning, but it should build on what they already know. If books are not returned, a small fee will be charged.

Homework Expectations

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese