Newsletter 12/13/14

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) 
• Christmas Concert- December 15. 2nd grade will be singing at 2:35 p.m. so make sure to come and watch! It will be cute. ;)

English:
 
Unit 3 Week 3: "How can creative thinking solve a problem?"

• Spelling words:  Compound words

• driveway
• bedtime
• raindrop
• mailbox
• basketball
• someone
• weekend
• something
• birthday
• riverbank
• bathtub
• backyard

• Vocabulary words 
• been
• believe
• caught
• finally
• today
• tomorrow
• whatever

• Amazing words:
• consume
• gloat
• incident
• shrewd
• snicker

 Chinese:
 We will start Better Chinese Unit 23/24 on comparisons. This unit will extend past Christmas break because we probably won't get it finished before (given all the Christmas activities we have planned). So don't stress if they don't get it by Friday as we'll take however long we need after break. We will be learning different animals' body parts in Chinese and then comparing them. Students, by the end of the unit, should be able to compare to things and say which is is longer, shorter, taller, fatter, skinnier, etc. 

• 长 cháng- long
• 比 bǐ - to compare _____比_______大 （something compared to something else)
• 快 kuài- fast, happy
• 多 duō- a lot, many
• 高 gāo- tall, heightened

In case you didn't see these cute videos from last week's blog post, here they are again. Hopefully we will get some videos of the kids singing a Christmas song on here soon. :)

Purple class.

Yellow class.

 Math:
We have started the next unit, Unit 8 on Place Value. We will be learning, among other important math strategies and concepts, REGROUPING. 

加油！

Newsletter 12/5

*So sorry about the blog not being updated. Mrs. Campo and I were pretty shocked when we realized we missed a WHOLE MONTH! Don't worry, we're back on here. :)

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 3 Week 2: "In what creative ways do we communicate?"

• Spelling words:  Plurals -s, -ies, -es
• goat
• hold
• show
• most
• open
• told
• toad
• slow
• bowl
• float
• toast
• ago

• Vocabulary words 
• answer
• company
• faraway
• parents
• picture
• school
• wash

• Amazing words:
• correspond
• postage
• sign language
• transport

 Chinese:
 We will continue the unit 22 on Weather. We have been working on the characters below in red and will start learning the characters in black. The words in paranthesis are words that that character are used in (they should know these words). There will be a writing, reading, and speaking test on Friday. 

• 今 jīn- today (今天）
• 天 tiān- day （今天）
• 明 míng- tomorrow/clear （明天）
• 昨 zuó- yesterday （昨天）
• 后 hòu- after （后天）
• 上 shàng- on/before （上午）
• 下 xià- under/after （下午）
• 午wǔ- noon （see above words)

• 晚 wǎn- night/evening (晚上）

Also, here are some links to some videos of a song we practiced this last month. Pretty cute (if you can ignore my annoying voice! ha ha). I'm sure your kids would love to sing along at home or laugh at themselves ;)

Purple class.

Yellow class.

 Math:
We have begun and will continue Unit 7: Two-digit Subtraction Strategies

加油！