Happy Halloween!
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! HALLOWEEN PARADE INFORMATION: The parade officially starts at 9:00 but we will be outside around 9:30! Reminder: No masks or weapons! HALLOWEEN PARTY is from 1:45-3:00! Come and join us if you can! Remember to sign in at the office! LUNCH CHOICES Monday: No School Tuesday: Mummy Dogs or Chef Salad Wednesday: Dutch Waffle, Nachos or Tuna Sandwich Thursday: Hot Ham and Cheese Sandwich, Chicken Nuggests, or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza Rippers, Bean and Cheese Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ELA: This week is a REVIEW week! :) We will be reviewing all the skills and strategies that we have learned in Unit 1. We will be having a spelling test over the phonics skills that were covered in unit 1 but there won't be a list sent home. We are wanting to see the mastery of each student's phonics skills! We will be reviewing what the main idea is, where stories take place and well as the details of a story. We will review cause and effect. We will also be reviewing exclamatory sentences, interrogative sentences and declarative sentences. One of the ways that we will be reviewing is through an interactive games (jeopardy and games like "blurt") and even Socratic seminars! CHINESE: Students are continuing Unit 3 of Mandarin Matrix. Students will read a new story called "Sit Down," and review the stories "Amusement Park," and "Haircut." Students will practice key phrases including "Where is....?," "Who wants to sit here?," "He/she is sitting," "He/she isn't sitting," etc. Students will be able to read and write the characters "不 (no/not), 坐 (sit), 在 (at/in), 里 (inside)," and we 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). MATH: We finished unit 2 at the beginning of last week and are well into unit 3! Students will learn strategies to help them do addition and subtraction using numbers from 1-20. We have been spending a lot of time practicing doubles (2+2, 3+3, 4+4) and near doubles (3+4, 5+6, 7+8). The students know songs about these in Chinese--ask them to sing them to you! Please continue to practice math fluency at home and ask your child to practice talking to you about math in Chinese! HOMEWORK: We will have English and Chinese reading fluency, beat the clock, spelling practice, Chinese character writing practice, and reading for 10 minutes. Please let us know if you have any questions! Please remember to adapt the homework if needed. If it needs to be more challenging, use the same procedure and use a more advanced text! 1. Student reads the entire passage to him/herself. 2. Students reads aloud the passage to the adult/parent, who is timing them for exactly ONE minute. During this time, the parent is also keeping track of (counting up) any errors the child makes while reading, BUT does NOT try to correct the child at this time. 3. Adult/Parent counts all the words read in ONE minute, then subtracts the amount student got incorrect and the difference is the words per minute. For example: I read 53 words TOTAL including all the errors I made and I made 6 errors throughout the passage. My “parent” would take 53 words minus 6 which equals 47 words per minute. (53-6=47) Our Winter goal is for oral reading fluency is 24+ words in 1 minute with accuracy of 75%.
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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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