Newsletter 9/12

Announcements:

• No School next Friday 9/19

English:
 
Unit 1: Week 4
Question of the week: "What can we learn by exploring the desert?"
Spelling words: Inflected endings (-ed, -ing)

• dropped
• dropping
• excited
• exciting
• lifted
• lifting
• hugged
• hugging
• smiled
• smiling
• talked
• talking

Vocabulary: (TESTED on THURSDAYS)

• animals
• early
• eyes
• full
• warm
• water

Amazing words: (not tested)

• arid
• landform
• precipitation
• dunes
• ledge
• haven
• extinct
• forbidding

 Chinese:
 We will be reviewing Better Chinese Units 13-15 (Colors, Clothing, and Body Parts). We will be doing a reading, speaking, and writing test this Thursday!

We will be reviewing the following characters (writing):

• 大 dà- big
• 小 xiǎo-small
• 很 hěn - very
• 也 yě- also
• 吗 ma- question word (put at the end of the sentence to signify a question)
• 我 wǒ- I, me
• 他 tā - him
• 她 tā -her
• 你 nǐ -you
• 好 hǎo - good

Math:
Continuing Unit 2: Addition Strategies. Test will be Thursday. We will begin Unit 3: Subtraction Strategies this week.