IMPORTANT INFORMATION
School starts at 8:40. We will always enter and leave the building at the first grade doors! Bring your planner and folder daily to school! Please contact Ms. Terry if Lexia is still not working for you. We have another option for logging on if the "clever badges" continue to have problems! Thank you to all those who are having their students do Lexia at home! We no longer are sending homework home. We have compiled a list of those who have asked for homework and Ms. Mack is sending it home weekly. If you would like your student to have Chinese and math homework, please contact Ms. Mack! Homework has always been optional. Please remember that if it is too much or too little, you are able to adapt it for your student! Ms. Terry added more slots to her sign up! Here is the link if you want to sign up! :) http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094ba9ac2ba7fd0-volunteer *** REMINDER: As of last week, students are no longer allowed to speak English in the Chinese classroom....! Please reinforce this at home and encourage your child to speak as much Chinese as possible. We are so impressed by the positive attitudes and how diligent your kiddos are about speaking in the target language 100% of the time! LUNCH CHOICES Monday: BBQ Rib Sandwich, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Orange Chicken, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Canyons Chicken Bowl, Cheesy Nachos, Wow Butter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Macaroni and Cheese, Chicken Sandwich (spicy or regular), or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza, Bean and Cheese Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich Monday: Chicken Noodle Soup, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Country Fried Steak, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ELA: Our story this week will be “What do we learn as we grow and change?” The story is an animal fantasy story titled “Ruby in Her Own Time.” We will be working on comparing and contrasting two things. Our phonics focus this week will be consonant patterns –ng and -nk. We will also be working on compound words. The conventions focus will be all about verbs that add –s. We will also be working on writing an informative paragraph this week about penguins. The students will be gathering information, forming complete and detailed sentences as well as providing a sense of closure to the paragraph. CHINESE: We are wrapping up unit 6 of Mandarin Matrix and will be starting unit 7! We will review the stories from unit 6 and reviewing the target characters for boy, girl, dirt, and rain. In unit 7 we will read a new story called "Whose Birthday Cake?". Students will practice reading and writing the following two new characters: day/date, month. We will be practicing the following language features: "Today is/Tomorrow is/Yesterday was. . . ," “Whose is this?,”Who wants. . .?,” “. . . wants/does not want . . . “, “give me.” MATH: We have made it through unit 7 and are about halfway through unit 8. The theme of unit 8 is “Understand Place Value.” Students are practicing identifying how many tens and ones are in numbers 1-120 in both Chinese and English. Reinforce these skills at home by asking your student questions such as “How many 10s are in 101? How many ones are there?”They can practice telling you in English and Chinese! SOCIAL STUDIES: We are continuing our discussion of families in our community and are introducing some interesting features of Chinese New Year traditions, including the Chinese zodiac! We are also practicing songs that the students will be performing at our Chinese New Year party coming up at the end of February!
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Happy New Year! IMPORTANT INFORMATION (there's a lot of it--buckle up!) School starts at 8:40 and gets out at 3:20. We will always enter and leave the building at the first grade doors! Bring your planner and folder daily to school! Hooray! The snow is almost here! But with snowy storms come freezing and near-freezing temperatures. Brrrrrr. We're learning about weather, seasons, the water cycle, and our calendar in math and science right now and it's the PERFECT time to talk about dressing JUST RIGHT for the weather forecast. Please, please, please help your child choose appropriate clothes for school AND outdoor recess. It can get so cold for them when they only come with a hoodie on or a long sleeve t-shirt and no jacket. PLEASE make sure your child has these ON or PACKED in their backpack EVERY DAY until springtime: WARM, WINTER COAT (not just a hoodie or light jacket), MITTENS OR GLOVES HAT TIP: Please label each clothing item with your child's name so we can keep their clothing safely organized! You may also wear or send warm snow boots and snow pants, if you wish. Again, hoodies are just fine for IN school but we also need to wear a winter COAT on top when we are outside! With winter weather here the amount of students tardy and absent have increased—I’ve noticed this in my family too ;) Sometimes this is inevitable and out of our control, but oftentimes it can be alleviated by a little extra preparation. We also have a class challenge starting today (Monday, January 8th). Every time all students are present in our class, we earn a letter to spell the word "Attendance." When we spell the whole word, we will have a reward! :) The bell rings at 8:40 but we will be taking attendance at 8:45. Please plan ahead to get your child here consistently on time everyday. When students are excessively absent and/or tardy, they do not receive the interventions, instruction, and practice they need to keep progressing. The result of poor attendance is oftentimes poor performance and lowered abilities in the classroom. Please plan ahead. While it takes longer to get on all our winter gear and we do need to be extra careful as we travel, we can still be prepared and arrive on time. This is also a courtesy to our classmates who do arrive on time as late arrivals interrupt the flow of instruction and distract from what we are learning. TIPS THAT MAY HELP: --Get clothing laid out and homework done the night before. --Try going to bed extra early (it gets darker earlier now anyway so we can wake up on time and not get too sick and sleepy at school). --Plan extra time into getting dressed for the outside and traveling to school. We have to be extra careful as we travel to be safe J --Try providing a motivating tool to getting ready earlier and being on time. Charts, stickers, a family outing to the library after 5 on time arrivals…whatever works! Please contact Ms. Terry if Lexia is still not working for you. We have another option for logging on if the "clever badges" continue to have problems! Thank you to all those who are having their students do Lexia at home! We no longer are sending homework home. We have compiled a list of those who have asked for homework and Ms. Mack is sending it home weekly. If you would like your student to have Chinese and math homework, please contact Ms. Mack! Homework has always been optional. Please remember that if it is too much or too little, you are able to adapt it for your student! No school on January 15th--- It is MLK Day! *** REMINDER: Starting January 15th (technically the 16th as we don't have school on Monday), students will no longer be allowed to speak English in the Chinese classroom....! We are happy to report that these first graders are already speaking in full sentences in Chinese, and are eager to use as much of the language as they can (in fact, they often jabber away in Chinese to Ms. Terry!). Please support your student by encouraging informal Chinese practice at home, and by practicing strategies they've learned in class. They can act something out, draw a picture, or point to something and say "How do you say this in Chinese?" Many students are already practicing these strategies and it is SO AWESOME! We know that family support goes a long way in helping these awesome first graders to develop the confidence and positive attitude necessary to be successful participants in the DLI program. We are immensely proud of their progress so far and are excited to see continued growth. No school on January 19th-- It is a Teacher Data Day! LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Walking Taco, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Pork Chop Dinner, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Teriyaki Chicken, Cheesy Nachos, Wow Butter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Breakfast Burrito, Chicken Sandwich (spicy or regular), or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza, Bean and Cheese Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich Tuesday: Chili, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: French Toast Sticks, Cheesy Nachos, Wow Butter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Crunchy Fish Filet, Chicken Nuggets, or Taco Salad Ms. Terry added more slots to her sign up! Here is the link if you want to sign up! :) http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094ba9ac2ba7fd0-volunteer WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ELA: We are starting a new unit this week. The big question is “What is changing in our world?” Our story this week will be “How do places change?” The story is a realistic fiction story. We will be working on the sequence of a story as well as summarizing it. Our phonics pattern is vowel sounds of y. We will also be working on the syllable pattern of cv. The conventions focus will be all about action verbs. We will also be working on writing an informative paragraph this week about penguins. The students will be gathering information, forming complete and detailed sentences as well as providing a sense of closure to the paragraph. CHINESE: Students have finished reviewing units 1-5 of Mandarin Matrix and we are now moving on to unit 6! It is astonishing how much your amazing Chinese speakers have learned so far. This week we will read two new stories called "Gardening" and "It's Raining". Students will practice reading and writing the following new characters: boy, girl, rain, dirt. We will be practicing the following language features: " ...... needs .....", "What else does it need?" ".....also needs .....", "Mine/yours is very big/small.", "Why is mine....?", "Too many/too few....", "It's raining," "....isn't there/is on top/is underneath/is inside.", "On top/underneath inside ......" MATH: Students will be wrapping up unit 7 this week. Put their knowledge to the test by asking them to count by 10s in Chinese up to 120 (10, 20, 30, etc.). You can also challenge them by asking them to start counting from a random number (i.e. "Count by 1s from 67 to 79," "Count by 10s from 33 to 103", etc.). We will continue to practice extending the counting sequence and using strategies to count beyond 100. We will review counting by 10s, and counting on a number chart to 120, and will learn counting on an open number line. Encourage your child to share what they are learning in school, and especially to demonstrate that knowledge with as much Chinese as they can! SOCIAL STUDIES: This week we are continuing to review school rules, and we will start talking about families in our community. |
TeachersMs. Terry and Ms. Mack are so excited for this year! In Ms. Terry's class, students will speak, read, and write in English. In Ms. Mack's class, students will be speak, listen, read, and write in Chinese. Archives
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