Newsletter 10/31

Announcements:

• Chinese Corner- happens twice a month after school - a great opportunity for students to speak and practice Chinese in a low-stress, fun environment. Look for email from Kami McMaster to sign up for it (first-come, first-serve basis)

English:
 
Unit 2 Week 4: Question of the week "Why is it a good idea to work together?"

• Spelling words:  Plurals -s, -ies, -es
• baby
• babies
• note
• notes
• lunch
• lunches
• story
• stories
• tune
• tunes
• switch
• switches

• Vocabulary words 
• bought
• people
• pleasant
• probably
• scared
• shall
• sign

• Amazing words:
• partnership
• solution
• struggle
• survival

 Chinese:
 We will continue the unit on transportation (Better Chinese 18). In addition to our vocabulary words we are learning to read, we will be learning to write the following characters (we started last week but got too busy with Halloween festivities and bigger projects to make a lot of progress so we are still working on them this week):

• 坐 zuò- to take, take a seat, to sit
• 去 qù- to go to
• 来 lái- to come to
• 怎 zén- how
• 么 me- interrogative symbol (怎么，什么）

Please encourage your kids to practice writing as much as possible at home, as it improves all other aspects of Chinese (reading and listening). 

See this post for helps for your child with Chinese: http://mshatchchineseimmersion.blogspot.com/2014/10/stroke-order-practice-better-chinese.html


 Math:
We have begun and will continue Unit 5: Place Value. 

加油！

Lingt + Stroke Order Practice- Better Chinese Unit 17

I am starting to use a new website called "Lingt" where your children can record their responses online and I can send them feedback. Really cool. See here to help your kids record their responses:

http://lingtlanguage.com/lhatch/

Here are the characters we are learning to write this next week. I found a way to post the stroke order for each character. Exciting, in a nerdy kind of way! 

• 坐 zuò- to take, take a seat, to sit (to take the bus)
• 去 qù- to go to
• 来 lái- to come to
• 怎 zén- how
• 么 me- interrogative principle (how- 怎么)

Newsletter 10/24

Announcements:

• Halloween Party on Friday!!
• Chinese Corner- happens twice a month after school - a great opportunity for students to speak and practice Chinese in a low-stress, fun environment. Look for email from Kami McMaster to sign up for it (first-come, first-serve basis)
•  

English:
 
Unit 2 Week 3: Question of the week "How can we work together to meet people's needs?"

• Spelling words:  r-Controlled er, ir, ur
• person
• nurse
• dirt
• turn
• birth
• serve
• curb
• curl
• skirt
• purse
• turtle
• her

• Vocabulary words 
• above
• ago
• enough
• toward
• whole
• word

• Amazing words:
• consumers
• decisions
• extraordinary
• fiber

 Chinese:
 We will continue Better Chinese (18) on Animals/Pets. In addition to our vocabulary words we are learning to read, we will be learning to write the following characters (we'll had a few more next week):

• 坐 zuò- to take, take a seat, to sit
• 去 qù- to go to
• 来 lái- to come to
• 怎 zén- how
• 么 me- interrogative symbol (怎么，什么）

Please encourage your kids to practice writing as much as possible at home, as it improves all other aspects of Chinese (reading and listening). 

If you want to look up the stroke order of each character, you can copy and paste the above characters into this website: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php and then click on the icon below the character that has a little picture of a Chinese brush and then you can see the stroke orders! 


 Math:
We have begun and will continue Unit 5: Place Value. Great job last week on Unit 4 test!!!!

加油！

Newsletter 10/15

Announcements:

• FALL BREAK tomorrow and Friday
• PLEASE look for the NEW homework folder/packets coming home MONDAY for the English side. They should be returned back by Friday of every week (or Thursday on short weeks). 

English:
 
Unit 2 Week 2: Question of the week: "How has working together changed history?"

• Spelling words (contractions)
• isn't
• haven't
• hadn't
• I'll
• can't
• it's he's
• I'm
• didn't
• who's
• she's
• aren't
• Vocabulary words 
• certainly
• either
• great
• laugh
• second
• you're
• worst

• Amazing words:
• ingenious
• identify
• significant
• participate
• tinker

 Chinese:
 We will continue Better Chinese (17) on Animals/Pets. In addition to our vocabulary words we are learning to read, we will be learning to write the following characters (we'll had a few more next week):

• 有 yǒu－to have
• 没 méi- to not (not have: 没有）
• 家  jiā- home/house
• 爱  ài- love
• 可 kě- to be able to, can
• 在 zài- at
• 那 nà- that
• 这 zhè- this

Please encourage your kids to practice writing as much as possible at home, as it improves all other aspects of Chinese (reading and listening). If you want to look up the stroke order of each character, you can copy and paste the above characters into this website: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php and then click on the icon below the character that has a little picture of a Chinese brush and then you can see the stroke orders! 


 Math:
We will be taking a test on Unit 4: Repeated Addition and beginning Unit 5: Place Value. 

加油！

Newsletter 10/3

Announcements:

• No school Friday Oct 10
• PLEASE look for the NEW homework folder/packets coming home MONDAY for the English side. They should be returned back by Friday of every week (or Thursday on short weeks). 
• Parent-Teacher Conference Wednesday & Thursday! We are excited to visit with you!!

English:
 
Unit 2 Week 1: Question of the week: "How can we help each other in dangerous situations?"

• Spelling words (r-Controlled ar, or, ore)
• hard
• born
• horse
• before
• more
• smart
• farm
• porch
• corn
• chore
• score
• part
• Vocabulary words 
• break
• family
• heard
• listen
• once
• pull

• Amazing words:
• courageous
• hazard
• rescue
• avalanche
• instinct

 Chinese:
 We will be doing our test on Unit 16 Review from Better Chinese (Exercise) and then beginning the next Unit from Better Chinese (17) on Animals/Pets. In addition to our vocabulary words we are learning to read, we will be learning to write the following characters (we'll had a few more next week):

• 有 yǒu－to have
• 没 méi- to not (not have: 没有）
• 家  jiā- home/house
• 爱  ài- love
• 可 kě- to be able to, can

Please encourage your kids to practice writing as much as possible at home, as it improves all other aspects of Chinese (reading and listening). If you want to look up the stroke order of each character, you can copy and paste the above characters into this website: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php and then click on the icon below the character that has a little picture of a Chinese brush and then you can see the stroke orders! 
 
I have posted my first assignment to online! Take a look at this website: lingtlanguage.com/lhatch
 and your child can post their responses to the first assignment. :)

 Math:
Testing on Unit 3: Subtraction Strategies. Then beginning the next Unit 4 (Adding multiple numbers/ connecting to multiplication). 

加油！