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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