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)

2 A 4 vocabulary

newsletter 2/6/14

*Please bring your Valentine's Day boxes in by Friday, Feb 14 for the Valentine's day party that day. Please decorate them at home. Be creative!
 
Announcements:

• Feb 14 Valentine's Day Party! 

English 

• Unit 4 Week 4: Why are some changes difficult?
• Spelling Pattern:Syllable Patterns
• downstairs
• football
• cowboy
• houseboat
• railroad
• rainbow
• boyhood
• oatmeal
• soybean
• roadway
• outplay
• daydream

• Vocabulary Words:

• balance
• rattle
• whisper
• slivers
• canyons
• sway
• coral

Chinese

We will be starting 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 on Mondays 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
Beginning 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)

新年快乐！

We are so proud of your hard work! 新年快乐！

This song is about the 12 Chinese Zodiacs. See if you can tell which animal we are singing about!

Our second song is called "Dong Dong Qiang" and, in addition to celebrating the New Year, talks about all the different seasons of that upcoming year - see if you can tell which season we are singing about!

And here are some pictures from the event: