Summaries and pictures from this week (Nov. 25-29)

Hi families and friends,

What an amazing week we had in our school! We learned so much about acting and theatre this week.  I am so proud of all of our grade 1 & 2 friends, you guys are awesome！We had such a great winter concert! 

Next week, we will start preparing for the Chinese New Year celebration. We will be making Chinese new year related crafts and we will be learning about our CNY performance songs and finale song. It will be another week filled with fun and excitement! (New learning update for the coming week will be posted before Monday) 

I have created a page for Mandarin stroke order rules and names, please check it out, and let me know if you need any Mandarin resources to help with your child's learning :) 

Here are some pictures from this past week,

Have a fun weekend! 周末愉快！

Stay warm and drive safe. 

Ms. Fan 凡老师

Nov 25-29 Learning Updates

Hi families,

With our daily Trickster performing workshops (preparations for the winter concert), we continue learning and reviewing about seasons, temperatures, weather, and Arctic animals this week.

Reminders提醒:

AUDIO files in the homework & dictation page are finally working!! Please go check them out!

Thursday night: Mrs. Yaunish’s homeroom is performing from 5:00 to 6:00. Ms.Fan’s homeroom is performing from 6:30 to7:30.

Friday morning Winter Concert Assembly: 

If grandparents/uncles/aunts/friends, anyone who wants to come to see our winter concert, you are more than welcome to join us on Friday morning @ 9:30am

This week (Nov.25-29)

Mandarin中文:

With the busy performing workshops happening, we will be focusing on word recognition and conversational practices this week. We will keep learning and reviewing 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 continue 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) -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 and continue learning:

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）

天(tiān)气(qì) (weather)

Math数学:

Grade 1: This week, grade 1s will continue learning about subtraction, we will be looking at 2 more mental math strategies to solve subtraction questions. At the end of the week, students will be able to use more than 4 ways to solve simple subtraction questions. 

We will also be working on identifying patterns in our classroom, around the school, and in our daily life. 

Grade 2: Grade 2s will be working on double-digit addition and subtraction. Students will also be working on identifying increasing patterns in numerical and non-numerical form.

Science科学:

Grade 1s will be discussing polar bear and snowy owl’s habitat, and how those animals stay warm in winter. 

Grade 2s will be discussing “how do polar bears stay warm?” and make connections to buoyancy science (we are going to learn about boat and buoyancy after winter break) about if they think polar bears buoyant?