Happy Monday! The countdown continues!! We have (after today) 11 school days until Winter break! We have 2 full weeks and then a 2-day week left!
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 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 assigning homework. 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! J LUNCH CHOICES Monday: BBQ Rib Sandwich, Hamburger, or Grill Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Orange Chicken, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Canyons Chicken Bowl, Cheesy Nachos, Tuna Sandwich Thursday: Mac and Cheese, Chicken Nuggets, or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza, Bean and Cheese Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ELA: This week, we are reading a story titled “The Big Circle” It is a fiction story. We will be using this text as well as other texts to talk and deepen our understanding of the sequence of a story. We will also be talking about how animal communities work together to survive. Our phonics focus for the week is learning about contractions as well as the long o: o_e. We have been talking a lot about how that e is such a bossy letter when it’s at the end of a word that it uses all its energy to make the vowel say its name that it just becomes quiet. Our conventions focus is proper nouns of days, months and holidays! We have started writing more each day! CHINESE: Students are continuing Unit 4 of Mandarin Matrix. Students will review the stories "Little Firefighters" and "Ant Guard." We will read a new story called "Monkeys Go On An Outing." Students will practice key phrases including "Here", "there", "none", "is there any?", "where is/are?", and "the most." Students will be able to read and write the characters "mountain," "person," "water", and "fire." They will continue to reinforce "不 (no/not), 坐 (sit), 在 (at/in), 里 (inside)," and we will continue to reinforce the characters for numbers 1-10, as well as the characters for big (大), little (小), on top of (上), and underneath (下). MATH: We are finishing unit 4 this week and 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. Keep up the awesome job, first graders!
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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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