IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Thanksgiving Recess is coming up on Wednesday November 27th through Friday November 29th! Please make sure to let us and the office know if you are planning on taking extra days off that week for vacation. We will not send makeup work with students who do not fill out a vacation form through the office. Additionally, because we only have two days of school the week of Thanksgiving, there will be no math and Chinese homework practice packet, and there will not be a new blog post. Speaking of Thanksgiving, we are grateful for our awesome room moms who have planned some Turkey Time Activities to get us in the holiday spirit! Mark your calendars for November 26th at 1:30! :) Here is the signup link if you want to donate items or volunteer to help with the party: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0949A8AD2DA1FC1-turkey Start saving pop can tabs and sending them in! We are doing a school-wide contest. Whichever grade has the most pop can tabs (in weight) will win a small prize! We are still working to earn our attendance incentives in both classrooms. Each class is working on building their own Mister Potato head. As soon as they build it, they will earn a mystery motivator that they have chosen (crazy socks, extra recess, pajama day, etc). Please help your student be at school by 8:40 so each class can earn their mystery motivator! Here is Ms. Terry's Volunteer Calendar: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094ba9ac2ba7fd0-volunteer The dates go out until January in hopes of keeping it up to date! Thank you for all those who are volunteering in both classrooms! We really appreciate it! Every Friday is Tiger Pride Friday! We encourage students to show school spirit by wearing Ridgecrest t-shirts, sweatshirts, or socks on Fridays. If you don’t have a Ridgecrest shirt, a blue or orange shirt works, too! :) LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Walking Taco, Hamburger, or Grill Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Crunchy Fish Fillet, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Teriyaki Chicken, Nachos, or Wowbutter & Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Thanksgiving feast! Turkey, mashed potatoes, whole wheat roll, stuffing, and pumpkin cake! Friday: Cheese or Pepperoni Pizza, Bean and Cheese Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich Monday: Turkey Hot Dog, Hamburger, or Grill Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Chili, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ELA: This week, we are reading a story titled “The Big Circle” It is a fiction story. We will also be talking about how animal communities work together to survive. Our phonics focus for the week is bossy "e" and long "o". We will also be learning contractions for not, am, and will. Our conventions focus is proper nouns. We are continuing to write more each day! CHINESE: Students are wrapping up unit 3 of Mandarin Matrix (all three stories we studied for this unit are now on our class Mandarin Matrix library so your student can continue to practice them at home!). We will begin learning four new key characters for unit 4 and will begin exploring and reading two stories called "Little Firefighters" and "Ant Solider." Students will practice key phrases including "There is...here/there", "There isn't any...here/there", "the most", "where is there...?", etc. Students will be learning and reinforcing the following characters over the next several weeks: "山 (mountain), 水 (water), 火 (fire), 人 (person)". MATH: We are continuing to work on unit 5 in math. Unit 5 is combining what students learned in units 3 and 4, while developing subtraction and addition strategies even further. This unit continues to reinforce the relationship between addition and subtraction. We have heard some students say that the math we are doing at school is too easy. Please remember that the "skill" of doing the math problems may be easy, but they are learning how to talk about each math problem in Chinese. They are talking about the steps they did to solve the problem, the solution and even different ways that some may have gotten the sum or difference. While basic math skills are fundamental, the students are diving in and applying each math skill they know, building upon it as well as increasing their Chinese vocabulary. Please help reinforce the importance of what we are doing each day! One way to help improve the connection to what they are doing at school to home is to continue to practice math fluency at home and ask your child to practice talking to you about math in Chinese! After a somewhat difficult start to the week, we have noticed students working hard to follow school rules and teacher expectations, as well as showing kindness and patience to each other and themselves. Ms. Mack is very pleased to hear students beginning to speak in full sentences in Chinese without any prompting from the teacher! Students who are working hard to speak Chinese will earn rewards like Tiger Pride cards, trips to the prize box, having the privilege of a stuffed animal buddy at their desk, or sitting in some of our comfy chairs! Please continue to encourage your student to do their best and to speak as much Chinese as they know!
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Welcome to a "regular" schedule week! We have brainboosters on Wednesday and Thursday!
IMPORTANT INFORMATION 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 folder to school daily! Start saving pop can tabs and sending them in! We are doing a school-wide contest. Whichever grade has the most pop can tabs (in weight) will win a small prize! We have changed our attendance incentive! Each class is working on building their own Mister Potato head! As soon as they build it, they will earn a mystery motivator that they have chosen (crazy socks, extra recess, pajama day, etc). Please help your student be at school by 8:40 so each class can earn their mystery motivator! Here is Ms. Terry's Volunteer Calendar: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094ba9ac2ba7fd0-volunteer The dates go out until January in hopes of keeping it up to date! Thank you for all those who are volunteering in both classrooms! We really appreciate it! Every Friday is Tiger Pride Friday! We try to wear our tiger pride shirts. If you don’t have one, a blue or orange shirt works! :) We are very lucky to have 2 amazing room moms who are helping us to have a"Thanksgiving" filled afternoon the day before Thanksgiving Break! Mark your calendars for November 26th at 1:30! :) There will be a sign up to help with donations! LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Mini Pepperoni Calzones, Hamburger, or Grill Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Breakfast Burritos, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Crispy Chicken Drumstick, Nachos, or Tuna Sandwich Thursday: Orange Chicken, Chicken Nuggets, or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza Rippers, Bean and Cheese Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich Monday: Walking Taco, Hamburger, or Grill Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Crunchy Fish Fillet, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ELA: This week, we are reading a story titled “Who Works Here?” It is an expository text. We will be using this text as well as other texts to talk and learn about author’s purpose. We will also be talking about who works to make our community a nice place. We will be talking about the community we live in, our school community and even our family community. Our phonics focus for the week is consonant digraphs wh, ch, tch, and ph. We will also be learning the i_e pattern. Our conventions focus is special titles. We have started writing more each day! We are going to be learning how to log on to Pearson Realize to take our weekly test online! CHINESE: Students are continuing unit 3 of Mandarin Matrix. We will review the stories "Amusement Park" and "Haircut." We will read a new story called "Sit Down." Students will practice key phrases including "Who wants to do this?", "I want to", "I don't want to", "where is/are?", etc. Students are reinforcing the following characters: "不 (no/not), 坐 (sit), 在 (at/in), 里 (inside)". MATH: We have finished unit 1 and are starting unit 5. Unit 5 is combining what students learned in units 3 and 4 and developing subtraction and addition strategies even further. This unit will continue to reinforce the relationship between addition and subtraction. Some have stated that math is too easy for their child. Please remember that the "skill" of doing the math problems may be easy but they are learning how to talk about each math problem in Chinese. They are talking about the steps they did to solve the problem, the solution and even different ways that some may have gotten the sum or difference. While basic math skills are fundamental, the students are diving in and applying each math skill they know, building upon it as well as increasing their Chinese vocabulary. Please help reinforce the importance of what we are doing each day! One way to help improve the connection to what they are doing at school to home is to continue to practice math fluency at home and ask your child to practice talking to you about math in Chinese! We are so proud of the hard work we are seeing from students in both English and Chinese classes. Students are working hard to speak Chinese only when they are in Ms. Mack's class. Please encourage them to do their best and to speak as much Chinese as they know! Keep up the awesome job, first graders! |
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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