Over the next two weeks, school will look a little different. At home learning opportunities will be made available either digitally or you may pick up a hard copy from school on Thursday from 8-3. During this time, both Ms. Mack and Ms. Terry will be available for questions, talks, video conferencing, messages, and anything that will help the students continue to feel connected to school. Here is a phone number to get ahold of Ms. Terry: 801-826-9265. Here is a phone number to get ahold of Ms. Mack: 801-826-9271. These are both our school numbers that we have forwarded to our cell phones. We are still learning how to return a phone call from that number so if we miss your phone call, we will get back to you as an "unknown number." We thank you in advance for your patience as we get the hang of this new setup! The optional "at home learning opportunities" are all review of material we have previously covered in school since the beginning of the year. Each activity is a review of skills students have learned and practiced in the classroom. As we have shared since the beginning of the school year, you are more than welcome to enrich or adapt these activities. Do what is best for you and your family during this time. Please let us know if you have questions regarding how to adapt or enrich--we are more than willing to share ideas and tips! A Note From Ms. Terry: In addition to the district provided learning materials, I know that many students (and/or parents) may want additional review options. Under the English Language Arts tab at the top of this page, I have added other optional items. There is also a link to go to my google drive. In the google drive folder, there is reading street flashback reviews from unit 1 all the way until unit 4.6 (but please don't do 4.6 as we haven't learned this material yet). There is also a folder in there, it is mainly English Language Arts but there are color pages, math pages, ideas for writing. I've also added the District provided packet PDF. My main goal is to help you however you need my help during this time. If you have a desire for something else to be added, let me know and I will add it. But please remember, these are all optional and to be used however you wish. Here are a few simple ideas that I shared with my friend who also has a first grader: Bumping reading out loud minutes to 20. When increasing reading stamina, take turns since this may be a challenge for your student. Maybe it starts out with taking turns at 5 minutes or maybe a parent reads 2 minutes to the students 8 minutes and then repeats the pattern. Do what is best for your student. When reading, parents can ask different comprehension questions : What happened at the beginning (but big idea of the beginning), middle and end? Who are the characters? Where is the setting? What is the theme ? For writing, students can write little stories. They can write about the day before, their favorite holiday, their best friend, their favorite food, what they read about or anything that intrigues them, I just would love to see them continuing to write. If students want to share what they wrote with me, they can send me a video of them reading it or even a picture! Remind them to check for capitals at the beginning of the sentence, finger spaces between words and punctation at the end of the sentence! Students who love to draw can also draw a picture then write about what they drew! For math review: Simple addition and subtraction facts are always wonderful to review. The students can also do addition and subtraction with double digit numbers without regrouping (90-10) or (45+46) they can draw models to add it, add the ones first, circle the 10 ones, then add the tens up and the leftover ones). You can also work with your student on skip counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s starting from anywhere between 0-100 (for example, skip count by 2 starting at 32: 32, 34, 36, etc.). A Note from Ms. Mack: All stories for units 1-9 are in the online Mandarin Matrix library. As the next two weeks will be focused on reviewing previously covered materials, I would love for students to review the stories currently available in their Mandarin Matrix library. Students can push a play button and hear the story read to them, read along with the recording, or read independently. It would be especially beneficial if students would read OUT LOUD. Using the audio recording to hear the sentences read out loud can support their reading and comprehension if they forget a character.
At the end of every story, students can practice answering comprehension questions, writing characters, and matching phrases or characters to pictures that represent their meaning. If you have other children in your home who speak Chinese, I would love for you to encourage them to speak Chinese together for an allotted amount of time each day (it is entirely up to you to determine what is feasible for your family). You may also want to have FaceTime or Skype hangouts with other students in the class and let them practice speaking Chinese together! Keep an eye out on Dojo as I will be posting short videos in Chinese to continue engaging with students during this period of school closure. I am also adding more YouTube videos to the "Chinese Information" portion of this blog. You can find this tab at the top of the blog page, or click on the button below to take you directly there! I will add links for songs students have already learned, as well as episodes of TV shows with Mandarin soundtracks and even some new songs they can listen to and learn. For those with Netflix accounts, many Netflix original TV shows have a Mandarin soundtrack so students can watch familiar stories in Chinese!
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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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