Nov. 18- 21 Learning updates

Hi families,

This week is really short. Early dismissal (12:05pm) on Thursday and NO SCHOOL on Friday.

Parent Teacher Conferences are on Nov.20, 21, 22. We can’t wait to see all of you J

With the winter concert coming up (Nov.28), we are learning about seasons, temperatures, weather, and Arctic animals in these few weeks. We need parent volunteers for next week!! Please let me know if you can come and help with the preparation for the winter concert. 

This week (Nov.18-21)

Mandarin中文:

Continuing from last week, we will keep learning more about seasons, temperature, weather and Arctic animals. We are going to continue working on practice using and writing our mandarin name.

Sentences we are reviewing and learning:

1)-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.）

2) –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…..）

  

3) New sentence of the week

  -今(jīn)天(tiān) 天(tiān)气(qì)怎(zěn)么(me)样(yàng)？ （How’s the weather today?）

  -今(jīn)天(tiān)天(tiān)气(qì)很(hěn)_____。（The weather is _____ today.）

Vocabularies we are reviewing:

家(jiā)（family）你(nǐ) （you）我(wǒ)（I, me）喜欢(xǐhuan)（like）春(chūn)（spring）夏(xià) （summer）秋(qiū)（fall）冬(dōng)（winter） 季(jì)节(jié)（season）和(hé)（and）

New vocabularies we are learning this week:

春(chūn)（spring）夏(xià) （summer） 季(jì)节(jié)（season）天(tiān)气(qì) (weather) 热(rè)(hot)  冷(lěng)(cold) 很(hěn) (very) 怎(zěn)么(me) (how)

Math:

Grade 1: This week, grade 1s will keep learning about subtraction, and we will be looking at different strategies to solve subtraction questions. At the end of the week, students will be able to use more than 2 ways to solve simple subtraction questions.

Grade 2: Grade 2s will finish working on double-digit addition (with/without regrouping). Students will start learning about double-digit subtraction without regrouping.

Science:

Grade 1s will be learning more about seasonal change, students will think about colors that represent each season.

Grade 2s will keep talking about extreme cold/hot temperature and extreme hot/cold areas in the world. We will also discuss about how Arctic animals survive the cold weather.