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！