Newsletter 12/13/14

Announcements:

• Chinese Corner- happens twice a month after school - a great opportunity for students to speak and practice Chinese in a low-stress, fun environment. Look for email from Kami McMaster to sign up for it (first-come, first-serve basis) 
• Christmas Concert- December 15. 2nd grade will be singing at 2:35 p.m. so make sure to come and watch! It will be cute. ;)

English:
 
Unit 3 Week 3: "How can creative thinking solve a problem?"

• Spelling words:  Compound words

• driveway
• bedtime
• raindrop
• mailbox
• basketball
• someone
• weekend
• something
• birthday
• riverbank
• bathtub
• backyard

• Vocabulary words 
• been
• believe
• caught
• finally
• today
• tomorrow
• whatever

• Amazing words:
• consume
• gloat
• incident
• shrewd
• snicker

 Chinese:
 We will start Better Chinese Unit 23/24 on comparisons. This unit will extend past Christmas break because we probably won't get it finished before (given all the Christmas activities we have planned). So don't stress if they don't get it by Friday as we'll take however long we need after break. We will be learning different animals' body parts in Chinese and then comparing them. Students, by the end of the unit, should be able to compare to things and say which is is longer, shorter, taller, fatter, skinnier, etc. 

• 长 cháng- long
• 比 bǐ - to compare _____比_______大 （something compared to something else)
• 快 kuài- fast, happy
• 多 duō- a lot, many
• 高 gāo- tall, heightened

In case you didn't see these cute videos from last week's blog post, here they are again. Hopefully we will get some videos of the kids singing a Christmas song on here soon. :)

Purple class.

Yellow class.

 Math:
We have started the next unit, Unit 8 on Place Value. We will be learning, among other important math strategies and concepts, REGROUPING. 

加油！

Newsletter 12/5

*So sorry about the blog not being updated. Mrs. Campo and I were pretty shocked when we realized we missed a WHOLE MONTH! Don't worry, we're back on here. :)

Announcements:

• Chinese Corner- happens twice a month after school - a great opportunity for students to speak and practice Chinese in a low-stress, fun environment. Look for email from Kami McMaster to sign up for it (first-come, first-serve basis)

English:
 
Unit 3 Week 2: "In what creative ways do we communicate?"

• Spelling words:  Plurals -s, -ies, -es
• goat
• hold
• show
• most
• open
• told
• toad
• slow
• bowl
• float
• toast
• ago

• Vocabulary words 
• answer
• company
• faraway
• parents
• picture
• school
• wash

• Amazing words:
• correspond
• postage
• sign language
• transport

 Chinese:
 We will continue the unit 22 on Weather. We have been working on the characters below in red and will start learning the characters in black. The words in paranthesis are words that that character are used in (they should know these words). There will be a writing, reading, and speaking test on Friday. 

• 今 jīn- today (今天）
• 天 tiān- day （今天）
• 明 míng- tomorrow/clear （明天）
• 昨 zuó- yesterday （昨天）
• 后 hòu- after （后天）
• 上 shàng- on/before （上午）
• 下 xià- under/after （下午）
• 午wǔ- noon （see above words)

• 晚 wǎn- night/evening (晚上）

Also, here are some links to some videos of a song we practiced this last month. Pretty cute (if you can ignore my annoying voice! ha ha). I'm sure your kids would love to sing along at home or laugh at themselves ;)

Purple class.

Yellow class.

 Math:
We have begun and will continue Unit 7: Two-digit Subtraction Strategies

加油！

Newsletter 10/31

Announcements:

• Chinese Corner- happens twice a month after school - a great opportunity for students to speak and practice Chinese in a low-stress, fun environment. Look for email from Kami McMaster to sign up for it (first-come, first-serve basis)

English:
 
Unit 2 Week 4: Question of the week "Why is it a good idea to work together?"

• Spelling words:  Plurals -s, -ies, -es
• baby
• babies
• note
• notes
• lunch
• lunches
• story
• stories
• tune
• tunes
• switch
• switches

• Vocabulary words 
• bought
• people
• pleasant
• probably
• scared
• shall
• sign

• Amazing words:
• partnership
• solution
• struggle
• survival

 Chinese:
 We will continue the unit on transportation (Better Chinese 18). In addition to our vocabulary words we are learning to read, we will be learning to write the following characters (we started last week but got too busy with Halloween festivities and bigger projects to make a lot of progress so we are still working on them this week):

• 坐 zuò- to take, take a seat, to sit
• 去 qù- to go to
• 来 lái- to come to
• 怎 zén- how
• 么 me- interrogative symbol (怎么，什么）

Please encourage your kids to practice writing as much as possible at home, as it improves all other aspects of Chinese (reading and listening). 

See this post for helps for your child with Chinese: http://mshatchchineseimmersion.blogspot.com/2014/10/stroke-order-practice-better-chinese.html


 Math:
We have begun and will continue Unit 5: Place Value. 

加油！

Lingt + Stroke Order Practice- Better Chinese Unit 17

I am starting to use a new website called "Lingt" where your children can record their responses online and I can send them feedback. Really cool. See here to help your kids record their responses:

http://lingtlanguage.com/lhatch/

Here are the characters we are learning to write this next week. I found a way to post the stroke order for each character. Exciting, in a nerdy kind of way! 

• 坐 zuò- to take, take a seat, to sit (to take the bus)
• 去 qù- to go to
• 来 lái- to come to
• 怎 zén- how
• 么 me- interrogative principle (how- 怎么)

Newsletter 10/24

Announcements:

• Halloween Party on Friday!!
• Chinese Corner- happens twice a month after school - a great opportunity for students to speak and practice Chinese in a low-stress, fun environment. Look for email from Kami McMaster to sign up for it (first-come, first-serve basis)
•  

English:
 
Unit 2 Week 3: Question of the week "How can we work together to meet people's needs?"

• Spelling words:  r-Controlled er, ir, ur
• person
• nurse
• dirt
• turn
• birth
• serve
• curb
• curl
• skirt
• purse
• turtle
• her

• Vocabulary words 
• above
• ago
• enough
• toward
• whole
• word

• Amazing words:
• consumers
• decisions
• extraordinary
• fiber

 Chinese:
 We will continue Better Chinese (18) on Animals/Pets. In addition to our vocabulary words we are learning to read, we will be learning to write the following characters (we'll had a few more next week):

• 坐 zuò- to take, take a seat, to sit
• 去 qù- to go to
• 来 lái- to come to
• 怎 zén- how
• 么 me- interrogative symbol (怎么，什么）

Please encourage your kids to practice writing as much as possible at home, as it improves all other aspects of Chinese (reading and listening). 

If you want to look up the stroke order of each character, you can copy and paste the above characters into this website: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php and then click on the icon below the character that has a little picture of a Chinese brush and then you can see the stroke orders! 


 Math:
We have begun and will continue Unit 5: Place Value. Great job last week on Unit 4 test!!!!

加油！

Newsletter 10/15

Announcements:

• FALL BREAK tomorrow and Friday
• PLEASE look for the NEW homework folder/packets coming home MONDAY for the English side. They should be returned back by Friday of every week (or Thursday on short weeks). 

English:
 
Unit 2 Week 2: Question of the week: "How has working together changed history?"

• Spelling words (contractions)
• isn't
• haven't
• hadn't
• I'll
• can't
• it's he's
• I'm
• didn't
• who's
• she's
• aren't
• Vocabulary words 
• certainly
• either
• great
• laugh
• second
• you're
• worst

• Amazing words:
• ingenious
• identify
• significant
• participate
• tinker

 Chinese:
 We will continue Better Chinese (17) on Animals/Pets. In addition to our vocabulary words we are learning to read, we will be learning to write the following characters (we'll had a few more next week):

• 有 yǒu－to have
• 没 méi- to not (not have: 没有）
• 家  jiā- home/house
• 爱  ài- love
• 可 kě- to be able to, can
• 在 zài- at
• 那 nà- that
• 这 zhè- this

Please encourage your kids to practice writing as much as possible at home, as it improves all other aspects of Chinese (reading and listening). If you want to look up the stroke order of each character, you can copy and paste the above characters into this website: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php and then click on the icon below the character that has a little picture of a Chinese brush and then you can see the stroke orders! 


 Math:
We will be taking a test on Unit 4: Repeated Addition and beginning Unit 5: Place Value. 

加油！

Newsletter 10/3

Announcements:

• No school Friday Oct 10
• PLEASE look for the NEW homework folder/packets coming home MONDAY for the English side. They should be returned back by Friday of every week (or Thursday on short weeks). 
• Parent-Teacher Conference Wednesday & Thursday! We are excited to visit with you!!

English:
 
Unit 2 Week 1: Question of the week: "How can we help each other in dangerous situations?"

• Spelling words (r-Controlled ar, or, ore)
• hard
• born
• horse
• before
• more
• smart
• farm
• porch
• corn
• chore
• score
• part
• Vocabulary words 
• break
• family
• heard
• listen
• once
• pull

• Amazing words:
• courageous
• hazard
• rescue
• avalanche
• instinct

 Chinese:
 We will be doing our test on Unit 16 Review from Better Chinese (Exercise) and then beginning the next Unit from Better Chinese (17) on Animals/Pets. In addition to our vocabulary words we are learning to read, we will be learning to write the following characters (we'll had a few more next week):

• 有 yǒu－to have
• 没 méi- to not (not have: 没有）
• 家  jiā- home/house
• 爱  ài- love
• 可 kě- to be able to, can

Please encourage your kids to practice writing as much as possible at home, as it improves all other aspects of Chinese (reading and listening). If you want to look up the stroke order of each character, you can copy and paste the above characters into this website: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php and then click on the icon below the character that has a little picture of a Chinese brush and then you can see the stroke orders! 
 
I have posted my first assignment to online! Take a look at this website: lingtlanguage.com/lhatch
 and your child can post their responses to the first assignment. :)

 Math:
Testing on Unit 3: Subtraction Strategies. Then beginning the next Unit 4 (Adding multiple numbers/ connecting to multiplication). 

加油！

Newsletter 9/26

Announcements:

• No school Friday Oct 3 ! 
• Parent Teacher Conferences Oct 8- 9. Sign up online!

English:
 
Unit 1: Week 6 REVIEW WEEK! (No new spelling words). Big Test on Thursday/Friday on:

• Long vowel sounds
• Short vowel sounds
• Subject and Predicate
• Reading Comprehension

 Chinese:
 We will be continuing Unit 16 Review from Better Chinese and will be adding on the characters highlighted in red to the top 5 we learned last week (to write). We will have a test on Thursday (writing and reading) on the characters below, as well as exercise terms for the reading test. 

• 是 shì- is, to be
• 的 de- possessive article (his: 他的, yours: 你的, mine: 我的)
• 喜 xǐ- to like
• 欢 huān- to like (喜欢)
• 最 zuì- favorite
• 打 dǎ- to hit, play (with your hands)
• 不 bù- not
• 和 hé- and, with
• 会 huì- to be able to

I have posted my first assignment to online! Take a look at this website: lingtlanguage.com/lhatch
 and your child can post their responses to the first assignment. :) It is due next Thursday, and hopefully if everyone posts a response, we can use it as our ORAL TEST for next Thursday.

 Math:
Continuing Unit 3: Subtraction Strategies. Test will be Thursday.

Newsletter 9/19

Announcements:

• Look for Reflex Math username/login information coming home with your child. It should have been brought home yesterday. Reflex math is an online program to help your student track their math facts progress. Please check it out! at reflexmath.com.
• No more "Family Times" assignments. Instead, every Monday please look for a bright green sheet that will be coming home with your child entitlted "Second Grade Weekly Study Skills." This will outline what skills they will focus on that week in reading. 
• 
  

English:
 
Unit 1: Week 5
Question of the week: "How does exploration help us find answers?"
Spelling words: Consonant digraphs (tch, ch, sh, th)

• that
• wish
• patch
• when
• what
• math
• them
• shape
• whale
• itch
• chase 
• bunch

Vocabulary: (TESTED on THURSDAYS)

• gone
• learn
• often
• pieces
• though
• together
• very

Amazing words: (not tested)

• inquire
• resist
• sturdy
• genius

 Chinese:
 Good job on your first Chinese test last week! We will be moving on to Better Chinese Unit 16: Sports and Exercise.  We will be learning to write the following words over the next 2 weeks:

• 是 shì- is, to be
• 的 de- possessive article (his: 他的, yours: 你的, mine: 我的)
• 喜 xǐ- to like
• 欢 huān- to like (喜欢)
• 最 zuì- favorite
• 打 dǎ- to hit, play (with your hands)
• 不 bù- not
• 和 hé- and, with
• 会 huì- to be able to

 Math:
Continuing Unit 2: Addition Strategies - test will be Monday. Starting Unit 3: Subtraction Strategies.

Newsletter 9/12

Announcements:

• No School next Friday 9/19

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: (TESTED on THURSDAYS)

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

Amazing words: (not tested)

• arid
• landform
• precipitation
• dunes
• ledge
• haven
• extinct
• forbidding

 Chinese:
 We will be reviewing Better Chinese Units 13-15 (Colors, Clothing, and Body Parts). We will be doing a reading, speaking, and writing test this Thursday!

We will be reviewing the following characters (writing):

• 大 dà- big
• 小 xiǎo-small
• 很 hěn - very
• 也 yě- also
• 吗 ma- question word (put at the end of the sentence to signify a question)
• 我 wǒ- I, me
• 他 tā - him
• 她 tā -her
• 你 nǐ -you
• 好 hǎo - good

Math:
Continuing Unit 2: Addition Strategies. Test will be Thursday. We will begin Unit 3: Subtraction Strategies this week.

Newsletter 9/5

Announcements:

• Pearson Successnet: The letter sent home yesterday has your child's username (their seven-digit school ID number followed by "csd"), as well as password (same for everyone: core@csd). You can track your child's progress by logging in with this information.

English:
 
Unit 1: Week 3
Question of the week: "What can we discover by exploring nature?"
Spelling words: Consonant Blends (tested FRIDAY)

• stop
• stra
• nest
• hand
• brave
• ask
• clip
• stream
• mask
• twin
• breeze
• state

Vocabulary: (TESTED on THURSDAYS)

• bear 
• build
• couldn't
• father
• love
• mother
• straight

Amazing words: (not tested)

• galaxy
• tranquil
• wildlife
• fledgings
• secure
• detective
• fascinating
• slimy

 Chinese:
 We will be spending one week per unit reviewing Better Chinese Units 13-24 (and buildling upon last year). We have already reviewed Unit 13-14 and next week will move on to Unit 15. This unit is on body parts. 

We will be reviewing how to READ/RECOGNIZE (not necessarily write) the following words:

• 头发 tóufa- hair
  
• 长／短 cháng / duǎn- long/short
  
• 眼睛 yǎnjīng- eyes
• 大／小 dà /xiǎo- big/small
• 鼻子bízi - nose
• 嘴巴 zuǐba- mouth
• 耳朵 ěr duō- ears

We will be learning to WRITE the following characters:

• 大 dà- big
• 小 xiǎo-small
• 很 hěn - very
• 也 yě- also
• 吗 ma- question word (put at the end of the sentence to signify a question)

Math:
Beginning Unit 2: Addition Strategies!

Great job on the first math test today :)

Our first Chinese Gym class－ 踢毽子

This past summer, I attended a teacher training program in Beijing for 6 weeks. It was awesome, and I am so excited to show the kids all the videos I took of "real" Chinese life!

One thing I wanted to do while in China was to get a few Chinese games and bring them back to the U.S. for the kids to play. Below are some videos of the kids kicking a "jianzi" (踢毽子), a common game in China, for our first P.E. class this past week. We need to practice more, but it's a good start. :)

Newsletter 8/29

Announcements:

• Back to School Night- September 4- 7:00pm

English:
 
Unit 1: Week 2
Question of the week: "What can we learn by exploring space?"
Spelling words: Long Vowels VCe (TESTED on FRIDAYS)

• page
• nose
• space
• size
• fine
• mice
• late
• huge
• blaze
• race
• rie
• vote

Vocabulary: (TESTED on THURSDAYS)

• everywhere
• live
• machines
• move
• woman
• work
• world

Amazing words: (not tested)

• ascend
• descen
• orbit
• universe
• enormous
• journey
• launch
• meteorite

 Chinese:
We will be reviewing clothes and adding upon colors from last week. There will be more detailed descriptions of Chinese vocabulary starting after next week when we begin non-review material. :)

Math:
Continuing Unit 1: Understanding Addition & Subtraction- Test will be FRIDAY

Welcome!!

欢迎学生们！

WELCOME to our blog! We are excited for this new school year!

On this blog you will find:

• links to websites that can help your children's Chinese/math (look to left sidebar)
• weekly newsletter posts (Friday) explaining what your child is learning in both the Chinese/English classes
• videos/pictures of your kids speaking/singing Chinese in class
• instructions on how to access Chinese curriculum/materials

Please let Mrs. Campo or Ms. Hatch know if you have any questions. We look forward to working with you and getting to know your amazing children!

Next week's newsletter:

English:
 
Unit 1: Week 1 
Question of the week: "What can we learn by exploring different communities?"
Spelling words: Short vowels and consanants (tested)

• rock
• list
• desk
• job
• sad
• chop
• sack
• tag
• rib
• mess
• dust
• drum

Vocabulary: (tested)

• beautiful
• country
• friend
• front
• someone
• somewhere

Amazing words: (not tested)

• investigate
• rural
• urban
• downy
• perch
• founders
• muttered
• unanimous

 Chinese:
Review fruit and colors!

Math:
Unit 1: Understanding Addition & Subtraction  

Newsletter 5/15

Announcements:    

• May 26- Memorial Day (No School)

English 

• Unit 6 Week 5: "How are different traditions celebrated and shared?"
• Vocabulary: Prefixes mis- and -mid
• assembly
• election
• microphone
• rallies
• slogan
• speeches

• Spelling words:
• midair
• misplace
• mislead
• midway
• misprint
• midday
• midweek
• misbehave
• midyear
• mismatch
• misdeed
• mistake

Chinese

We will start our last unit, 2 A 9 in the Singapore textbook materials. Test will be the following week following which we will do a few days of review. Below are the characters we will be learning to write. I encourage daily practice of writing with the correct stroke order, so these would be good to practice at home!

• 铅 qiān - lead
• 笔 bǐ - pen/pencil
• 放 fàng - to put or place
• 知 zhī -to know, be aware of
• 道 dào - direction, way
• 见 jiàn- to see
• 为 wéi - hard
• 什shén- past tense (at the end of a sentence)
• 么me - to see, look at

They will be learning to read the terms in the stories as well as write the following vocabulary terms:
We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home the first day of the week and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math

Unit 11: Three-digit addition & Subtraction (Test Thursday)


Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

母亲节快乐 Happy Mother's Day!

In order to celebrate mother's day, we learned the chorus to a famous song in China. It's by a famous singer, 周杰伦 Zhou Jie Lun. The song is called "听妈妈的话" ("Listen to your Mother's Words!")

Yellow Class 黄斑

Blue Class蓝斑

Chorus translation: (rough translation)
听妈妈的话，别让她受伤
Tīng māma de huà, bié ràng tā shòushāng
Listen to mother, don't let her get hurt

想块块长大，才能保护她
Xiǎng kuàikuai zhǎngdà, cáinéng bǎohù tā
Want to group up quickly, so you can protect her

美丽的白发，幸福中发芽，
Měilì de báifà, xìngfú zhōng fāyá
Beautiful white hair, sprouting in happiness

天使的魔法，温暖中慈祥
Tiānshǐ de mófǎ, wēnnuǎn zhōng cíxiáng
Angel's magic, benevolent and kind.

Newsletter 5/8

Announcements:    

• THANK YOU谢谢 for all of the generous gifts, supplies, flowers, candy, and for letting us teach your wonderful children. We appreciate your support now and throughout the school year! We have really felt the love this past week, so thank you for all you have done to make it great for us!

English 

• Unit 6 Week 4: "What can we learn about cowboy traditions?'
• Vocabulary: Suffixes -ness, -less, -able, -ible
• campfire
• cattle
• cowboy
• galloped
• herd
• railroad
• trails

• Spelling words: 
• kindness
• careless
• goodness
• useless
• fearless
• darkness
• sadness
• sickness
• helpless
• thankless
• fitness
• weakness

Chinese

We will continue the earlier unit that we skipped- 2 A 1. Below are the characters we will be learning to write. I encourage daily practice of writing with the correct stroke order, so these would be good to practice at home!

• 对 duì - to, correct
• 你 nǐ - you
• 常 cháng - often (常常）
• 还 hái - still
• 们 mén - plural "us" "you all" (我们，你们）
• 笑 xiào - to laugh
• 难 nán - hard
• 了le- past tense (at the end of a sentence)
• 看kàn - to see, look at

They will be learning to read the terms in the stories as well as write the following vocabulary terms:
We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home the first day of the week and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math

Unit 11: Three-digit addition & Subtraction


Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

Newsletter 5/2

Announcements:    

• Math test (Place value up to 1,000) Wednesday

English 

• Unit 6 Week 3: "Why are family celebrations special?"
• Vocabulary:
• aunt
• bank
• basket
• collects
• favorite
• present

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

Chinese

We will return back to an earlier unit that we skipped- 2 A 1. Below are the characters we will be learning to write. I encourage daily practice of writing with the correct stroke order, so these would be good to practice at home!

• 对 duì - to, correct
• 你 nǐ - you
• 常 cháng - often (常常）
• 还 hái - still
• 们 mén - plural "us" "you all" (我们，你们）
• 笑 xiào - to laugh
• 难 nán - hard
• 了le- past tense (at the end of a sentence)
• 看kàn - to see, look at

They will be learning to read the terms in the stories as well as write the following vocabulary terms:
We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home the first day of the week and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math

Unit 10: Place Value to 1,000 test Wednesday.



Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

拔萝卜

We have been learning a new Chinese song from youtube. Below you can see us practicing it as a class. Hope you can ignore my terrible voice (ha ha)

Here is the yellow class（黄斑）:

Here is the blue class（蓝斑）:

And here is the real video in case they want to practice at home :)

Newsletter 4月25号

Announcements:   

• Apr 30-Final Reading CBM test (92 wpm=goal)

English 

• Unit 6 Week 2: "What traditions and celebrations involve our country's flag?"
• Vocabulary:
• America
• birthday
• flag
• freedom
• nicknames
• stars
• stripes

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

Chinese

We will continue the next unit- 2 A 7. Below are the characters we will be learning to write. I encourage daily practice of writing with the correct stroke order, so these would be good to practice at home!

• 兔 tù- rabbit
• 饿 è- hungry
• 到 dào- to arrive
• 菜 cài- vegetables
• 果 guǒ- fruit
• 汤 tāng- soup
• 蛋dàn- egg
• 饭 fàn- rice, meal
• 吃 chī- to eat

They will be learning to read the terms in the stories as well as write the following vocabulary terms:
We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home the first day of the week and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math

We are continuing our unit on Place Value (to 1,000) Ch.10!


Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

Newsletter 4/4

Announcements:   

• Spring Break April 14-18
• Switch am/pm classes, starting April 21
• Library back on Thursdays
• Good job on the Math-a-thon & Field Trip! 

English 

• Unit 5 Week 6: REVIEW WEEK
• Please watch for homework as it is all review. 40-question Unit test will be on Thursday.

Chinese

We will continue the next unit- 2 A 6. Below are the characters we will be learning to write. I encourage daily practice of writing with the correct stroke order, so these would be good to practice at home!

• 没 méi - none, not (没有）
• 有 yǒu - to have
• 弟 dì - younger brother （弟弟）
• 姐 jiě - older sister (姐姐）
• 飞 fēi - to fly
• 游 yóu - to travel, move (GAME- 游戏）
• 戏 xì - have fun, trick, play, show
• 在 zài - at or upon

They will be learning to read the terms in the stories as well as write the following vocabulary terms:
We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home the first day of the week and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math

We are continuing our unit on GRAPHS/TIME Chapter 16.


Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

Newsletter 3/28

Announcements:   

• Library times switched this week to Wednesday because of the field trip
• Wed April 2- Weekly English Test
• Thurs April 3- Field Trip to the Aquarium
• Fri April 4- Math-a-thon, spelling test

English 

• Unit 5 Week 5: "How can we responsible when we make a mistake?"

• Spelling words: Vowel patterns aw, au, au(gh), al
• Spelling words:
• talk
• because
• August
• caught
• draw
• walk
• chalk
• auto
• taught
• thaw
• fault
• launch

• Vocabulary words:
• idea
• important
• blame
• signmaker
• townspeople
• afternoon

Chinese

We have begun the next unit- 2 A 6. Below are the characters we will be learning to write. I encourage daily practice of writing with the correct stroke order, so these would be good to practice at home!

• 没 méi - none, not (没有）
• 有 yǒu - to have
• 弟 dì - younger brother （弟弟）
• 姐 jiě - older sister (姐姐）
• 飞 fēi - to fly
• 游 yóu - to travel, move (GAME- 游戏）
• 戏 xì - have fun, trick, play, show
• 在 zài - at or upon

They will be learning to read the terms in the stories as well as write the following vocabulary terms:
We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home the first day of the week and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math

We are beginning our unit on GRAPHS/TIME Chapter 16.


Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

Newsletter 3/21

Announcements:   

• Library times are back to Thursdays
• Chinese Test Friday 3/28
• Math test Thursday 3/27 

English 

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

• Spelling words: Consonants: ph, gh, ck, ng
• Spelling words:
• phone
• enough
• backtrack
• laugh
• ticket
• duckling
• graph
• tough
• photo
• rough
• cough
• clang

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

Chinese

We have begun the next unit- 1 B 15. We had to skip a unit in the last Chinese textbook in order to get the Chinese New Year unit in on time, so we are going back to 1 B 15 in the pink Singapore textbook.
Here is a video of the terms they will need to be able to read/recognize and say:

They will be learning to read the terms in the stories as well as write the following vocabulary terms:

• 会 huì- can, to be possible, will
• 电 diàn- electric
• 脑 nǎo- brain (电脑- "electric brain"=computer :) )
• 书 shū-book
• 包 bāo-bag
• 起 qǐ-to rise, to get up, to start, appear
• 自 zì- self
• 己 jǐ-oneself

We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home the first day of the week and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math

We finish our unit on Measurement (Ch. 15) this week on Thursday! After that, we will begin graphing & review time!


Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

Newsletter 3/14

Announcements:   

• Library times are back to Thursdays
• Chinese Test Monday 3/17 

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
• wrap
• wren
• gnat
• lamb
• comb
• knob

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

Chinese

Our test for our last unit (see last blog post) will be MONDAY. On Tuesday we will begin the next unit- 1 B 15. We had to skip a unit in the last Chinese textbook in order to get the Chinese New Year unit in on time, so we are going back to 1 B 15 in the pink Singapore textbook.
Here is a video of the terms they will need to be able to read/recognize and say:

They will be learning to read the terms in the stories as well as write the following vocabulary terms:

• 会 huì- can, to be possible, will
• 电 diàn- electric
• 脑 nǎo- brain (电脑- "electric brain"=computer :) )
• 书 shū-book
• 包 bāo-bag
• 起 qǐ-to rise, to get up, to start, appear
• 自 zì- self
• 己 jǐ-oneself

We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home the first day of the week and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math

We began our unit on Measurement (Ch. 15) last week and we will be continuing this for the next few weeks!


Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

Newsletter 3/6

Announcements:   

• Library times are back to Thursdays

English 

• Unit 5 Week 2:"How can we be responsible community members?"

• Spelling words: Prefixes un-, re-, pre-, dis-
• unsafe
• preheat
• rerun
• disappear
• ulock
• discolor
• rewind
• unpack
• unplug
• regroup
• preschol
• disagree

• Vocabulary
• annoy
• complain
• mumbles
• shrugs
• signature
• P.M.

Chinese

We will be starting the next unit in Chinese, 2 A 5. This unit is about seeing clouds that looks like animals (I know, kind of strange to say in English ha ha). They will be learning animal terms as well as some body part terms.
Here is a video of the terms they will need to be able to read/recognzie and say:

They will be learning to read the terms in the stories as well as write the following vocabulary terms:

• 园yuán- park
• 耳ěr- ear
• 朵duō- ear (classifier for small things)
• 鼻bí- nose
• 子zi- nose
• 水shuǐ- water
• 草cǎo- grass
• 羊yáng- sheep

We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home the first day of the week and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math
Continuing Unit 12: Geometry. Test will be Thursday.


Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

2 A 5 VOCABULARY

Here is a video of the vocabulary we are working on in Chinese - by the end of the unit, they should be able to know how to say the words, recognize the characters, and know the meaning. Hopefully this helps!

Newsletter 2/27/14

Announcements: 

• No School Feb 28
• No School Mar 7
• Parent-teacher Conferences Tues Mar 4, Thurs Mar 6 (and book fair)
• Swith am/pm classes starting Mon Mar 3   

English 

• Unit 5 Week 1: "Why Should we be responsible for doing a good job?"
• Spelling words: (-ly, -ful, -er, -or)
• cheerful
• visitor
• slowly
• weekly
• teacher
• helper
• hardly
• graceful
• yearly
• quickly
• fighter
• sailor

• Vocabulary
• station
• buildling
• roar
• masks
• quicly
• tightly
• burning

Chinese

We will be starting the next unit in Chinese, 2 A 5. This unit is about seeing clouds that looks like animals (I know, kind of strange to say in English ha ha). They will be learning animal terms as well as some body part terms. They will be learning to read the terms in the stories as well as write the following vocabulary terms:

• 园yuán- park
• 耳ěr- ear
• 朵duō- ear (classifier for small things)
• 鼻bí- nose
• 子zi- nose
• 水shuǐ- water
• 草cǎo- grass
• 羊yáng- sheep

We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home the first day of the week and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math
Continuing Unit 12: Geometry!


Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

Newsletter 2/14/14

 情人节快乐！

Happy Valentine's Day!

 
Announcements:

• Feb 17-No School, President's Day

English 

• Unit 4 Week 5: How do changes in the weather affect us?
• Spelling Pattern: Vowel Digraphs oo, ue, ew, ui
• too
• new
• fruit
• blue
• true
• fool
• suit
• spoon
• clue
• juice
• drew
• flew
• Vocabulary Words: 
• awaken
• clifs
• mountain
• prize
• rainbow
• suffer
• volcano

Chinese

We will be continuing the next Unit 2 A 4 in the Singapore materials. This unit is about what you want to be when you grow up. The vocabulary we will be learning to read are all from the stories that are sent home (from the Singapore website). The vocabulary we will be learning to write are the following:

• 张 zhǎng (cháng)- long, to grow
• 开 kāi- to open
• 车 chē- car
• 哪 nǎ- where
• 里 lǐ- distance
• 也 yě- also
• 想 xiǎng- to think
• 人rén- people, person, man

We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home the first day of the week and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math
Continuing Unit 14: Adding & Subtracting Money


Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)