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! Thank you to all those who made the Chinese New Year celebration a tremendous success! We hope you enjoyed the festivities. We were so proud of the students' singing performance, and we hope you liked our take on the traditional Chinese dragon dance :) Parent Teacher Conferences: Dual immersion conferences will be held Monday February 26th during school hours, Wednesday February 28th from 3:30-7:30, and Thursday March 1st 9:00 am-12:00 pm, and 2:00-7:30. Please note that Thursday is an early out day and students will finish school at 1:40! Students will have brought home reminders for parent teacher conferences today (Friday)! Homework: There will be no homework assigned this week! Volunteering: 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 Ms. Mack also has added slots to her sign up! Here's her link! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094ba9ac2ba7fd0-help LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Corn Dog, Hamburger, Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Chili, Mini Corn Dogs, Chef Salad Wednesday: French Toast Sticks, Cheesy Nachos, Wow Butter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. SUESS! Green Eggs & Ham, Chicken Nuggets, or Taco Salad Friday: NO SCHOOL!!! Monday: Pulled Pork Sandwich, Hamburger, Grilled Cheese Sandwich *****BOOK PUBLISHING***** In Ms. Terry’s room, each student has the opportunity to write about their favorite animal for their class book and they also have the opportunity to purchase their class book! If you have not seen a STUDENT TREASURES page and envelop and want to purchase a book, please let Ms. Terry know and she will send one home with your student! Thank you to all the students who have sent their animal paragraph’s back. We are going to be editing and illustrating the paragraph in the upcoming week (as well as next week!) *** REMINDER: As of January 15th, students are no longer allowed to speak English in the Chinese classroom! In both the green and purple classes, this is still a struggle. Please reinforce the "Chinese only" policy at home and encourage your child to speak as much Chinese as possible when they are in Chinese class. You can look on Dojo to monitor your child's progress. We know the students are capable of so much and are eager to help them continue progress in their Chinese language development! Chinese Names A handful of students who already have Chinese names have started going by them at school, and this has made everyone else anxious and excited to get their own Chinese name! Ms. Mack has started the process of selecting an authentic Chinese name for each student, but she needs your help! If your child already has a Chinese name, please send it to Ms. Mack via email, Dojo, or written on a piece of paper. If you are able to include the characters and the pinyin, that would be excellent. If your first grader has older siblings in the immersion program, Ms. Mack needs their Chinese names as well so she can make sure she gives your first grader the same surname, and does not repeat other characters in the names. If you are unable to provide the Chinese names of your older immersion students, please send in their English name, and the name of their Chinese teacher. The sooner this information is sent in, the sooner Ms. Mack can get the names prepared and handed out to the kids! We will have a special naming ceremony for the kids to help them get excited about their Chinese names. WHAT WE ARE LEARNING: ELA: Welcome to Unit 3 Week 6! We are reading a story titled “Where Are My Animal Friends?” We are working on drawing conclusions. Our phonics focus is comparative endings (er and est) and dge as /j/. We will be learning about adjectives. We are working diligently on writing complete sentences and paragraphs. These kiddos are doing an amazing job! They constantly amaze Ms. Terry with the depth of the discussions we have! CHINESE: Students will spend time reviewing some of our previous units in Mandarin Matrix, and will start learning the new characters for unit 9. Students will read a new story called "On the Way Home." This story will introduce the following target characters for unit 9: walk 走, go 去, come/arrive 来, field/farm 田. We will be reinforcing the following key language features: “Don’t…”, “Let’s go behind/back…”, “Let’s go look for…”, “Where did…go?”, “….come and….go”, “can’t find…”, “go up/down”, “Here or not?”, “In the…or not?”. MATH: We are continuing to work on unit 10 this week which focuses on "Using models and strategies to add tens and ones". SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES: The topics for science and social studies this week are “People at Work in My Neighborhood”, and “Making Choices with Money”.
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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! Parent Teacher Conferences: Dual immersion conferences will be held Monday February 26th during school hours, Wednesday February 28th from 3:30-7:30, and Thursday March 1st 9:00 am-12:00 pm, and 2:00-7:30. The online scheduler will close this Wednesday! Please see the Ridgecrest Roar from Mrs. Winfree for more details about how to sign up. We will be meeting in the media center's conference room, same location as last time! Homework: There will be no homework assigned this week! Volunteering: 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 Ms. Mack also has added slots to her sign up! Here's her link! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094ba9ac2ba7fd0-help LUNCH CHOICES Tuesday: Pork Chop, Mini Corn Dogs, Chef Salad Wednesday: Teriyaki Chicken, Cheesy Nachos, Wow Butter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Breakfast Burrito, Crispy Chicken Sandwich (spicy or regular), or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza, Bean & Cheese Burrito, or Turkey Sandiwch *** REMINDER: As of January 15th, students are no longer allowed to speak English in the Chinese classroom! In both the green and purple classes, this is still a struggle. Please reinforce the "Chinese only" policy at home and encourage your child to speak as much Chinese as possible when they are in Chinese class. You can look on Dojo to monitor your child's progress. We know the students are capable of so much and are eager to help them continue progress in their Chinese language development! Chinese New Year: We are excited to invite you and your families to attend the Ridgecrest Elementary Chinese New Year celebration THIS Thursday February 22nd! The event will be held at the school that evening from 6:00-8:00 pm. Families are encouraged to attend and participate in fun Chinese crafts and activities, eat Chinese food, and best of all: watch your students perform! Students will be performing at 7:00 and will need to be in the gym by 6:45 to get lined up and ready to sing. Each grade level will perform a song, and then all the dual immersion students will sing one song together. If your child already owns traditional Chinese clothing, they are welcome to wear it to the event. If not, we are asking dual immersion students to wear yellow and red, which are auspicious colors in Chinese culture. We are NOT requiring anyone to purchase special clothing for this event. Formal invitations were sent out last week. ☺ Chinese Names A handful of students who already have Chinese names have started going by them at school, and this has made everyone else anxious and excited to get their own Chinese name! Ms. Mack has started the process of selecting an authentic Chinese name for each student, but she needs your help! If your child already has a Chinese name, please send it to Ms. Mack via email, Dojo, or written on a piece of paper. If you are able to include the characters and the pinyin, that would be excellent. If your first grader has older siblings in the immersion program, Ms. Mack needs their Chinese names as well so she can make sure she gives your first grader the same surname, and does not repeat other characters in the names. If you are unable to provide the Chinese names of your older immersion students, please send in their English name, and the name of their Chinese teacher. The sooner this information is sent in, the sooner Ms. Mack can get the names prepared and handed out to the kids! We will have a special naming ceremony for the kids to help them get excited about their Chinese names. WHAT WE ARE LEARNING: ELA: We are extending last week's reading street focus. We want to make sure we've mastered the skills! CHINESE: We are wrapping up unit 8 in Mandarin Matrix this week. Students will review the stories called "Staying At Home" and "Where Is Little Mountain Goat?" These two stories will reinforce the characters students have been practicing: today 今, is/are/am 是, yesterday 昨, tomorrow 明. We will be reinforcing the following key language features: “Don’t want to….”, “Today is…”, “Yesterday was…”, “Tomorrow is…”, “….and….draw together/watch a movie together”, “…will or will not…”, “…can go…”, “Do you want to…or not?”, “Where is …?”, “Is…at…?”. MATH: We are working on unit 10 this week which focuses on "Using models and strategies to add tens and ones". SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES: In science and social studies, students will continue to learn about Chinese New Year traditions, activities, and symbolism. We will also have a lesson about rocks and soil! 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! Valentine's Day: Valentine’s Day is coming up! Students are allowed to bring valentines and a valentine’s box if they desire—if not, we will provide a “valentines” bag/envelop for them. We are combining purple class and green class to exchange valentines! We have 54 students between the two classes. Please do not worry about having your student write the 53 other students’ names on the valentines, just make sure their own names are on the valentines they will hand out. The party will be on Wednesday from 2:00-3:00. We sent out a link for volunteers last week! Thank you for everyone who signed up to help make the party a success! Parent Teacher Conferences: Dual immersion conferences will be held Monday February 26th during school hours, Wednesday February 28th from 3:30-7:30, and Thursday March 1st 9:00 am-12:00 pm, and 2:00-7:30. The online scheduler opened last Wednesday. Please see the Ridgecrest Roar from Mrs. Winfree for more details about how to sign up. We will be meeting in the media center's conference room, same location as last time! No School on February 16th (teacher preparation day for Parent Teacher Conferences), and no school on February 19th. It is President’s day! Enjoy your 4-day weekend! Homework: 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! Volunteering: 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 Ms. Mack also has added slots to her sign up! Here's her link! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094ba9ac2ba7fd0-help LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Baked Potato, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Chicken Tortilla Soup, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Crispy Chicken Drumstick, Cheesy Nachos, Wow Butter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Orange Chicken, Chicken, or Taco Salad Friday: No School Monday: No School Tuesday: Pork Chop, Mini Corn Dogs, Chef Salad *** REMINDER: As of January 15th, students are no longer allowed to speak English in the Chinese classroom! In both the green and purple classes, this is still a struggle. Please reinforce the "Chinese only" policy at home and encourage your child to speak as much Chinese as possible when they are in Chinese class. You can look on Dojo to monitor your child's progress. We know the students are capable of so much and are eager to help them continue progress in their Chinese language development! Chinese New Year: We are excited to invite you and your families to attend the Ridgecrest Elementary Chinese New Year celebration on Thursday February 22nd! The event will be held at the school that evening from 6:00-8:00 pm. Families are encouraged to attend and participate in fun Chinese crafts and activities, eat Chinese food, and best of all: watch your students perform! Students will be performing at 7:00 and will need to be in the gym by 6:45 to get lined up and ready to sing. Each grade level will perform a song, and then all the dual immersion students will sing one song together. If your child already owns traditional Chinese clothing, they are welcome to wear it to the event. If not, we are asking dual immersion students to wear yellow and red, which are auspicious colors in Chinese culture. If your student does not already own either traditional Chinese clothing OR yellow or red clothes, THAT IS PERFECTLY FINE! We are NOT requiring anyone to purchase special clothing for this event. If your child would like to practice the songs they are performing that night, there are two links posted under “Chinese Information.” Scroll to the top of the page and click the “Chinese Information” tab and then click on the “Chinese Videos” tab, or hover over it until the “Chinese Videos” tab appears and click on it. The two songs students are performing are at the top of this page under the heading “Chinese New Year.” Purple and green class will sing the “Happy New Year” song together, and will sing the “Chinese Zodiac Song” with the 2nd-5th graders. Formal invitations were sent out today in Mrs. Winfree's "Ridgecrest Roar". ☺ Chinese Names A handful of students who already have Chinese names have started going by them at school, and this has made everyone else anxious and excited to get their own Chinese name! Ms. Mack has started the process of selecting an authentic Chinese name for each student, but she needs your help! If your child already has a Chinese name, please send it to Ms. Mack via email, Dojo, or written on a piece of paper. If you are able to include the characters and the pinyin, that would be excellent. If your first grader has older siblings in the immersion program, Ms. Mack needs their Chinese names as well so she can make sure she gives your first grader the same surname, and does not repeat other characters in the names. If you are unable to provide the Chinese names of your older immersion students, please send in their English name, and the name of their Chinese teacher. The sooner this information is sent in, the sooner Ms. Mack can get the names prepared and handed out to the kids! We will have a special naming ceremony for the kids to help them get excited about their Chinese names. WHAT WE ARE LEARNING: ELA: This week, our story is titled "I'm a Caterpillar." It is a literary nonfiction story. We will be working on a tricky pattern this week. It's the er, ur, ir pattern. Last we we learned the "ar" pattern and then the week before, we learned the "or" and "ore" pattern. Due to the short week and the complexity of practicing and mastering this phonics pattern, we are not doing challenge words or dictation sentences. Please feel free to challenge your student and work on applying this pattern to other words. We will be working on fact and opinion also! :) CHINESE: We are continuing unit 8 in Mandarin Matrix this week. Students will read two new stories called "Staying At Home" and "Where Is Little Mountain Goat?" These two stories will reinforce the characters students learned last week: today 今, is/are/am 是, yesterday 昨, tomorrow 明. We will be reinforcing the following key language features: “Don’t want to….”, “Today is…”, “Yesterday was…”, “Tomorrow is…”, “….and….draw together/watch a movie together”, “…will or will not…”, “…can go…”, “Do you want to…or not?”, “Where is …?”, “Is…at…?”. MATH: Students are finishing unit 9 in math this week! We have been working on comparing numbers using symbols (greater than, less than, or equal to). We will probably start unit 10 this week, which focuses on "Using models and strategies to add tens and ones". SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES: In science and social studies, students will continue to learn about Chinese New Year traditions, activities, and symbolism. We will be getting together with the other grade levels on Thursday to practice the group song for our Chinese New Year performance. Students will also be talking about what's in the sky! 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! Lexia: 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! Homework: 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! Because of copier issues this morning, homework packets will be handed out tomorrow and students will only have work for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week. Thank you for your patience! Volunteering: 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 January 15th, 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. You can look on Dojo to monitor your child's progress. It is amazing to hear them speaking so much Chinese! LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Whole Grain Soft Pretzel, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Hawaiian Haystack, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Chicken Drumstick, Cheesy Nachos, Wow Butter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Spaghetti, Chicken Sandwich (spicy or regular), or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza, Bean and Cheese Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich 100 Days: Happy 100th day of school! Can you believe it?? We’ve been in school for 100 days! We are so impressed and proud of our first graders! We enjoyed seeing the items students brought to share in class in celebration of their successful completion of 100 days of first grade, thank you to all those who participated! Valentine's Day: Valentine’s Day is coming up! Students are allowed to bring valentines and a valentine’s box if they desire—if not, we will provide a “valentines” bag/envelop for them. We are combining purple class and green class to exchange valentines! We have 54 students between the two classes. Please do not worry about having your student write the 53 other students’ names on the valentines, just make sure their own names are on the valentines they will hand out. We do not have detailed information about the party quite yet, but as soon as we do we will send out an email. We do know that the party will probably be from about 2:00-3:00 on Wednesday February 14th. Chinese New Year: We are excited to invite you and your families to attend the Ridgecrest Elementary Chinese New Year celebration on Thursday February 22nd! The event will be held at the school that evening from 6:00-8:00 pm. Families are encouraged to attend and participate in fun Chinese crafts and activities, eat Chinese food, and best of all: watch your students perform! Each grade level will perform a song, and then all the dual immersion students will sing one song together. Please join us in celebrating the most important holiday in Chinese culture! If your child already owns traditional Chinese clothing, they are welcome to wear it to the event. If not, we are asking dual immersion students to wear yellow and red, which are auspicious colors in Chinese culture. If your student does not already own either traditional Chinese clothing OR yellow or red clothes, THAT IS PERFECTLY FINE! We are NOT requiring anyone to purchase special clothing for this event. If your child would like to practice the songs they are performing that night, there are two links posted under “Chinese Information.” Scroll to the top of the page and click the “Chinese Information” tab and then click on the “Chinese Videos” tab, or hover over it until the “Chinese Videos” tab appears and click on it. The two songs students are performing are at the top of this page under the heading “Chinese New Year.” Purple and green class will sing the “Happy New Year” song together, and will sing the “Chinese Zodiac Song” with the 2nd-5th graders. Formal invitations will be sent home in a couple of weeks. ☺ Parent Teacher Conferences: Dual immersion conferences will be held Monday February 26th during school hours, Wednesday February 28th from 3:30-7:30, and Thursday March 1st 9:00 am-12:00 pm, and 2:00-7:30. The online scheduler opens this Wednesday. Please see the Ridgecrest Roar from Mrs. Winfree for more details about how to sign up. No School on February 16th (teacher preparation day for Parent Teacher Conferences), and no school on February 19th. It is President’s day! Enjoy your 4-day weekend! WHAT WE ARE LEARNING: ELA: This week, our story is titled “Frog and Toad Together.” It is an animal fantasy. We will be talking about what changes happen in a garden. We will be working on identifying the author’s purpose. The phonics focus will be words with added endings –ed as well as R-controlled /ar/. We will connect it to the “argh” that a pirate makes! We are working really hard at leveling up in lexia! The students are working incredibly hard. We are also starting a new thing called “#Tweets!” A couple times a week, Ms. Terry will hand out “today’s tweet” paper and the students will be able to write what they learned that day. I will look them over and post some on our “#Tweets” board! Keep an eye out for pictures! We are also working on improving our stations during skill based instruction. We can do it! CHINESE: We are wrapping up unit 7 in Mandarin Matrix this week and will be starting unit 8! The first story we will focus on from unit 8 is “Unwilling To Go To School.” The focus characters in this unit will be: today 今, is/are/am 是, yesterday 昨, tomorrow 明. We will be reinforcing the following key language features: “Don’t want to….”, “Today is…”, “Yesterday was…”, “Tomorrow is…”, “….and….draw together/watch a movie together”, “…will or will not…”, “…can go…”, “Do you want to…or not?”, “Where is …?”, “Is…at…?”. MATH: Continuing with unit 9 in math this week, students will compare two-digit numbers. We have been practicing 1 more, 1 less; and 10 more, 10 less. The rest of this week will focus on comparing numbers with symbols, and comparing numbers on a number line. SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES: In science and social studies, students will continue to learn about Chinese New Year traditions, activities, and symbolism. We will be getting together with the other grade levels soon to practice the group song for our Chinese New Year performance. Students will also review previous science and social studies topics. |
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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