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)
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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！