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)