IMPORTANT INFORMATION
School starts at 8:40. We will always enter and leave the building at the first grade doors! Bring your 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! 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 Chinese Incentive Party: Starting in November, students started to work on filling up a chart by speaking Chinese, and even brainstormed incentives they would like to receive once they met their goal. Both green and purple classes have earned their first incentive for speaking Chinese only while in Chinese class! Although the incentives were drawn randomly from the envelopes for each class, they have both earned the incentive to watch a short movie in Chinese and to wear pajamas to school! Yay! LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Whole Grain Soft Pretzel, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Chicken Tortilla Soup, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Country Fried Steak, Cheesy Nachos, or Wow Butter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Spaghetti, Chicken Sandwich (spicy or regular), or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza, Bean and Cheese Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich Chinese New Year: We are excited to invite you and your families to attend the Ridgecrest Elementary Chinese New Year celebration on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH. 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 be performing different songs, demonstrations, or skits. 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” on our blog. 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 and "Seasons Song--Dong Dong Qiang" together. Formal invitations will be sent home today. ☺ 100 Days: Can you believe it?? This week we will have been in school for 100 days! Students will be commemorating this day with some fun activities in school. Career Day: We are excited to have some of you join us this Friday for Career Day and hope that the students enjoy these awesome presentations! 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 48 students between the two classes. Please do not worry about having your student write the 47 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. No School on February 15th (teacher preparation day for Parent Teacher Conferences), and no school on February 19th. It is President’s day! Enjoy your 4-day weekend! Parent Teacher Conferences: Dual immersion conferences will be held Monday February 25th during school hours, Wednesday February 27th from 3:30-7:30, and Thursday February 28th 9:00 am-12:00 pm, and 2:00-7:30. The online scheduler will open soon. Please see the Ridgecrest Roar from Mrs. Winfree for more details about how to sign up. WHAT WE ARE LEARNING: ELA: This week, we are reading “The Class Pet!” It is an expository text. Our weekly question is “What can we learn about animals as they grow and change?” We will be discussing how babies go through many changes and that babies learn as they grow. We will be able to recognize that it is fun to learn something new! Our reading comprehension skill is learning to recognize fact verses opinion. Our phonics focus is words ending with -es as well as plurals with -es. We also will be learning about the r-controlled -or and -ore. It will be a busy week learning about these two phonics patterns as well as learning about verbs that don’t add -s. We have been working on writing more narrative and informational paragraphs. Our tool that we have been using is a 4-square. We always start our paragraph with a topic sentence and we end with a conclusion. Last week, you saw 2-3 of these come home but it is amazing to see how far the students are coming with just increasing our writing practice. 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. Students will also review previous science and social studies topics SECRET WORD: Congratulations! You made it to the end of the blog post. If your student tells either Ms. Mack or Ms. Terry the secret word by TUESDAY, they will receive a prize! Please note that the secret word is not to be revealed to anyone except the teachers! :) This week's secret word is: Cheerios!
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Devin Durfee
2/8/2019 05:42:09 am
So pajama day is when? Friday?
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