Newsletter 3/27/15

Announcements: 

• WE ARE NOW SWITCHING EVERY OTHER DAY A.M./P.M. CLASSES IN CASE YOU DIDN'T ALREADY REALIZE! We are sorry if this makes for confusing situations in the morning, but it definitely shows in the lack of more transitions in the afternoon. The kids seem to be adjusted now :)
•  Spring Break is April 6-10

English:
Unit 5 Week 4: "How can we be responsible friends and neighbors?"

• Spelling words: Consonants ph, gh, ck, ng

• phone
• enough
• backtrack
• laugh
• ticket
• duckling
• graph
• tough
• photo
• rough
• cough
• clang

• Vocabulary words
• adventure
• climbed
• clubhouse
• exploring
• greatest
• truest
• wondered

 Chinese:
 We will be moving on to our next Unit (27): Time & Schedules. We will be learning how to write the following characters:

• 几 jǐ- how many
• 点 diǎn- little/small/point/o'clock
• 了 le - past tense (added at the end of something to show completion)
• 分 fēn- minute/part
• 半 bàn- half
• 课 kè- class
• 放 fàng- to put/place (放学- to "put school" - to be done with school for the day)
• 学xué- to learn/school/student

Also, here are some videos of a song we have been practicing. I hope you find them as funny as I did. Hopefully your child will be able to tell you what we're singing about. If not, I fail. :)

 Math:

We will be starting GEOMETRY (my personal favorite unit)! :)

加油！