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! UEA/FALL BREAK: No School on Thursday and Friday 10/19 & 10/20. LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Corn Dog, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Lasagna, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: French Toast Sticks, Nachos or Tuna Sandwich WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ELA: This week we are studying pumpkins, spiders, and bats. We are connecting these new topics to our discussion from last week about wild animals that live in our neighborhoods. We will also be working on our reading comprehension, reading and writing poetry, and reading fluency. CHINESE: We are wrapping up Unit 2 of Mandarin Matrix this week. Students will review the two stories we read last week ("Dad's Chair" and "Animal Tower"), and add a new story called "Birthday Party". Students will continue to make comparisons (big and little) and identify the location of objects/people in these stories (on top of/underneath). Students 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). In science, students will continue to learn about school communities. Who are the people we see in school? What do they do? What places and objects do we see in our schools? MATH: Continuing our work in unit 2, students will learn strategies to help them do addition and subtraction using numbers from 1-20. Please continue to practice math fluency at home and ask your child to practice talking to you about math in Chinese! HOMEWORK: Students will not have new spelling words or reading passages this week. Instead, students will only work on reading and writing Chinese characters for numbers from 1-10, big (大), little (小), on top of (上), and underneath (下). Special instructions will be sent home for parents to guide the reading and writing practice. This week's homework assignment will be due on Monday October 23rd, when students return from fall break. Please let us know if you have any questions! Please remember to adapt the homework if needed. If your student is overwhelmed by the amount of work, have them practice a little bit less each night. If your student needs a challenge, have them teach YOU what they know! We only have 3 days of school this week and we are going to make them count! Thank you parents for supporting your students and thank you first graders for being so amazing and responsible. Happy Fall Break!
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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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