Newsletter 1/9/15

Announcements:

• Library will be moved to Monday this next week due to testing in the library on Tuesday (our regular scheduled day). 
• R-CBM （standardized reading test) will be on Tuesday 1/13. Read read read!
• Gym is always on Thursdays, so please remind kids to wear sneakers that day.
• Chinese Corner- Thursday 1/15 @ 3:30 pm. If you would like to come, contact Kami McMaster.
• No School 1/19 due to Martin Luther King Day.
• Spelling Bee- Thursday 1/22 @ 1:00 pm. Class Spelling Bee to determine finalists is Friday 1/16.

English:
 
Unit 3 Week 5: "Where do creative ideas come from?"

• Spelling words: Comparative Endings -er, -est

• fatter
• soonest
• happiest
• hotter
• busier
• busiest
• fattest
• smaller
• happier
• hottest
• smallest
• sooner

• Vocabulary words 
• clothes
• hours
• money
• neighbor
• only
• question
• taught

• Amazing words:
• accomplish
• research
• opportunity
• unusual

 Chinese:
 We will be starting Better Chinese Chapter 25 about locations. "Where is it?" (它们在哪里?) We  had our test on the last unit (comparisons) and they all rocked it ;) Be looking for the tests coming home this next week.

• 看 kàn- to see
• 后 hòu- behind, last
• 前 qián- in front of, first
• 外 wài- outside
• 面 miàn- surface, place (外面，后面，前面）

We will be practicing for the Chinese New Year performance in Februrary, so get excited. And if you hear your kids singing themselves to sleep, that's why ;)

 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！