2 A 4 vocabulary

newsletter 2/6/14

*Please bring your Valentine's Day boxes in by Friday, Feb 14 for the Valentine's day party that day. Please decorate them at home. Be creative!
 
Announcements:

• Feb 14 Valentine's Day Party! 

English 

• Unit 4 Week 4: Why are some changes difficult?
• Spelling Pattern:Syllable Patterns
• downstairs
• football
• cowboy
• houseboat
• railroad
• rainbow
• boyhood
• oatmeal
• soybean
• roadway
• outplay
• daydream

• Vocabulary Words:

• balance
• rattle
• whisper
• slivers
• canyons
• sway
• coral

Chinese

We will be starting the next Unit 2 A 4 in the Singapore materials. This unit is about what you want to be when you grow up. The vocabulary we will be learning to read are all from the stories that are sent home (from the Singapore website). The vocabulary we will be learning to write are the following:

• 张 zhǎng (cháng)- long, to grow
• 开 kāi- to open
• 车 chē- car
• 哪 nǎ- where
• 里 lǐ- distance
• 也 yě- also
• 想 xiǎng- to think
• 人rén- people, person, man

We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home on Mondays and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math
Beginning Unit 14: Adding & Subtracting Money


Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

新年快乐！

We are so proud of your hard work! 新年快乐！

This song is about the 12 Chinese Zodiacs. See if you can tell which animal we are singing about!

Our second song is called "Dong Dong Qiang" and, in addition to celebrating the New Year, talks about all the different seasons of that upcoming year - see if you can tell which season we are singing about!

And here are some pictures from the event:

Newsletter 1/31

新年快乐！Happy New Year! 

Thank you to all the parents who have supported and help with our Chinese New Year celebration!

 
Announcements:

• Feb 6- Chinese Food Party 1:00 pm
• Feb 7- No School 

English 

• Unit 4 Week 3: What Changes Occur Under the Ground?
• Spelling Pattern: Diphthongs ou, ow, oi, oy
• Spelling Words:
• around
• out
• gown
• sound
• flower
• howl
• toy
• noise
• royal
• moist
• coil
• cow

• Vocabulary Words:
• grains
• materials
• particles
• seeps
• substances
• texture

*Please check Pearson for your child's progress: pearsonsuccessnet.com

Chinese

We will be continuing the next Unit 2 A 3 in the Singapore materials. This unit is about Chinese New Year. The vocabulary we will be learning to read are all from the stories that are sent home (from the Singapore website). The vocabulary we will be learning to write are the following:

• 带 dài- to carry, take
• 爷爷 yé yé- grandfather (mother's side)
• 奶奶 nǎi nǎi- grandmother (mother's side)
• 真 zhēn- really, true
• 肉 ròu- meat
• 干 gān- dry
• 新 xīn- new
• 年 nián- year

We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home on Mondays and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math
Continuing Unit 9: Double-Digit Subtraction with Regrouping (test this Thursday or the following Monday)

Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

1/24/14

Announcements:

• Jan 29- MComp test (Math comprehension test!)
• Jan 30 (Th)- Chinese New Yr performance for parents 2:15 pm 
• Jan 31(Fri)- Chinese New Yr Performance for the school 
• Feb 6- Chinese Food Party 1:00 pm

English 

• Unit 4 Week 2: Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
• Spelling Pattern: vowel patterns oo, u
• Spelling Words:
• put
• cook
• stood
• full
• wood
• July
• shook
• push
• pull
• brook
• hook
• hood

• Vocabulary Words:
• bumpy
• fruit
• harvest
• root
• soil
• vine
• smooth 

* Congratulations to all students for an OUTSANDING performance on their Reading CBM test Jan 23!

*Please check Pearson for your child's progress: pearsonsuccessnet.com

Chinese

We will be starting the next Unit 2 A 3 in the Singapore materials. This unit is about Chinese New Year. The vocabulary we will be learning to read are all from the stories that are sent home (from the Singapore website). Test will be two weeks from today. The vocabulary we will be learning to write are the following:

• 带 dài- to carry, take
• 爷爷 yé yé- grandfather (mother's side)
• 奶奶 nǎi nǎi- grandmother (mother's side)
• 真 zhēn- really, true
• 肉 ròu- meat
• 干 gān- dry
• 新 xīn- new
• 年 nián- year

We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home on Mondays and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math
Continuing Unit 9: Double-Digit Subtraction with Regrouping

Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

1/10/2014

Announcements:

• Jan 16- Classroom Spelling Bee
• Jan 20- No School
• Jan 21- Switch am/pm classes 
• Jan 23- Reading Fluency Test. Please read, read, read!
• Jan 24- Schoolwide Spelling Bee 
• Jan 29- MComp test (Math comprehension test!)
• Jan 30- Chinese New Yr Performance for parents 2:15 pm (might change to 2:00 pm, stay tuned)

English

• We will have our Unit 3 Test this Thursday. As a reminder, it is a 40-question test covering the past 5 weeks of material. Please pay extra attention to the homework that comes home, as it is all review directly correlating to the unit test.

*Please check Pearson for your child's progress: pearsonsuccessnet.com

Chinese

We will be continuing Unit 14. The vocabulary we will be learning to read are all from the stories that are sent home (from the Singapore website). Test will be FRIDAY. The vocabulary we will be learning to write are the following:

• 本 běn- number word for book (1 本 book, 2 本 book, 3 本 book)
• 书 shū- book
• 张 zhāng -number word for paper, pictures, anything thin, sheet (1 张 picture, 2 张 picture, etc)
• 画 huà- to draw, picture, color
• 百bǎi- 100
• 生 shēng- birth (生日- birthday)
• 日 rì- date, day (生日-birthday)
• 鸟 niǎo- bird

We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home on Mondays and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math
Continuing Unit 8: Addition of 2-digit numbers, Regrouping

Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)

Newsletter 12/6

Announcements:

• Polar Express Movie Day- Friday December 13 (wear pajamas, bring slippers and small stuffed animal). We will watch the movie in pajamas and have hot chocolate. Let us know if you would like to donate any of the following items: 125 small styrofoam cups, cocoa mix, 2 bags of mini marshmallows.

English

Unit 3 Week 3
Question of the week: "How can creative thinking solve a problem?"
Spelling Words (Compound Words)

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

Amazing Words:

• consume
• prey
• shrewd
• boast
• gloat
• snicker
• contentment
• cure
• incident

Vocabulary Words (in weekly test)

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

*Please check Pearson for your child's progress: pearsonsuccessnet.com

Chinese

We will be continuing Singapore Unit 13 under Level 1. Here is a link to the Singapore materials. The vocabulary we will be learning to read are all from the stories that are sent home (from the Singapore website). The vocabulary we will be learning to write are the following:

• 送sòng －to gift/give
• 给 gěi- to give to
• 以 yǐ- permission (可以)
• 红 hóng- red
• 色 sè- color
• 要 yào- to want
• 抱 bào- to hug
• 两 liǎng- two (classifier) (两个）
• 个 ge－ classifier (one, two, three, counter word)

We encourage you all to have your student practice writing the above characters (and using them in sentences, which they should be able to do by now) frequently. Any repetition is beneficial, as they are hard to memorize sometimes!

Chinese Readers 

The readers are still coming home on Mondays and should be back at the latest by the Friday of the same week. They are not expected to read them perfectly, but are expected to be able to pull out characters they know from class. Please make sure they keep track of these readers and return them, as they cost $5.00 each and will not be able to receive the next book until they have turned in previous books.

Math
Beginning Unit 7: Mental Subtraction on Monday! Great job on Unit 6: Mental Addition Test this week! We are so proud of your hard work!

Homework Expectations:

• Homework will be given Mon-Thur in English & Chinese (except for occasional "no homework" days after a long day of testing or other occasional exceptions)