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！