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)