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！