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)