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.
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