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!