Nov.12- 15 Learning updates

Reminders: 

• There is no school on Monday. 
• Parent teacher conferences are on Nov. 20, 21, 22. Please book your time online.

Hi families,

Our winter concert is coming up soon (Nov. 28), and this year, we will be working with Trickster theatre artists to create an amazing winter concert! Our theme this year will be Winter perspective.

With the winter concert coming up, we will start learning more about seasons, temperatures, weather, and Arctic animals in the coming weeks.

This week (Nov.12-15)

Mandarin中文:

Starting this week, we will be talking about seasons, temperature and weather. We are 

going to continue working on practice using and writing our mandarin name.

Sentences we are reviewing and learning:

1) -你(nǐ)叫(jiào)什(shén)么(me)名(míng)字(zì)？What is your name?

    - 我(wǒ)叫(jiào)__________。My name is ________.

2) -你(nǐ)家(jiā)有(yǒu)几(jǐ)个(gè)人(rén)？（How many people in your family?）

    -我(wǒ)家(jiā)有(yǒu)______个(gè)人(rén)。 （I have _____people in my family.）

3) New sentence of the week

  -你(nǐ)喜(xǐ)欢(huan) 什(shén)么(me)季(jì)节(jié)？(What season do you like?)

-我(wǒ)喜(xǐ)欢(huan)__________。( I like ___________.) (Grade 1)

-我(wǒ)喜(xǐ)欢(huan)________和(hé)___________。( I like _____ and _______.) (Grade 2)

Vocabularies we are reviewing:

家(jiā)（family）你(nǐ) （you）我(wǒ)（I, me） 家人(jiārén)（family member）爱(ài)（love）叫(jiào) （called） 名(míng)字(zì)（name）几（how many/how much）有(yǒu) （have）人(rén)(people/person）

New vocabularies we are learning this week:

喜欢(xǐhuan)（like）春(chūn)（spring）夏(xià) （summer）秋(qiū)（fall）冬(dōng)（winter） 季(jì)节(jié)（season）和(hé)（and）

Students are also reminded to practice using their verbal Mandarin to communicate daily needs, 

including "我(wǒ)可(kě)以(yǐ)去(qù)洗(xǐ)手(shǒu)间(jiān)吗(ma)？我(wǒ)可(kě)以(yǐ)去(qù)喝(hē)水(shuǐ)吗(ma)？你(nǐ)可(kě)以(yǐ)帮(bāng)我(wǒ)吗(ma)？谢(xiè)谢(xiè)，不(bú)客(kè)气(qì)。" 

(Can I use the washroom? Can I get a drink of water? Can you help me? Thank you, you're welcome.)

Math:

Grade 1: This week, grade 1s will start learning about subtraction, and we will start looking at one less/one more and two less/two more of a number. At the end of the week, students will be able to solve simple one digit subtraction questions (with the help of number-line/unifix blocks) and they will be able to use Mandarin mathematical vocabularies 多(duō) (more) 少(shǎo) (less) to communicate their ideas/thought process.

Grade 2: Grade 2s will continue working on two-digit addition, but this week, we will dive deeper and looking at solve addition questions with/without regrouping. If we have time, we will start looking at how to solve two-digit subtraction without regrouping.

Science:

Grade 1s will be finishing the smells and sounds experiments. We will start our new unit in science this week on seasonal change. We will talk about why there are four seasons and what causes seasonal changes, and "do all countries around the world have 4 seasons?".

Grade 2s will finish recording temperatures from different areas of our school.  And we will continue working on the cold/hot temperature unit, students will get a chance to discuss about methods for heating and cooling, and we will be looking at animals living in the Arctic regions.