你好 Grade 1&2 friends and families,
Have a good weekend!
We are going to have a lot of fun next week J See you all next Monday! 下星期一见。
Reminders提醒:
Feb.26(Wed 星期三): Pink Shirt day! Please wear pink, it is anti-bullying day.
Feb.26 (Wed 星期三) PM: Shared Assembly @ 10:00 am! Our class is going to share with the
school about one of our superpower- Hand washing! All parents are welcome to join us J
Plant project: Our tomatoes are
finally sprouting!! Yay!! We have planted tomatoes 🍅 in our classroomJ our plants will
likely to harvest in 60-70 days. Be prepared for some tasty tomatoes coming
home!!
This week (Feb.24-28)
Mandarin中文:
Grade 1: This
week, we will be learning the next 3 consonants zh, ch, sh in
pinyin, we will play conversational games to practices the vocabularies of the
month.
-We
will also practice writing sentences this week, we will use the data we
gathered from last week (“Find a friend who… “game) to write sentences.
-We
will start writing sentences describing a third person’s preference, what
he/she likes to eat/to drink, describe 2D& 3D shapes using Mandarin words.
Grade. 2: This
week, we will be learning the next 3 compound vowels ao, ou, iu in
pinyin, we will also play conversational games to practices the vocabularies of
the month.
We
will also practice writing small paragraph this week, we will use the data we
gathered from last week (“Find a friend who… “game) to write sentences. We will
start writing sentences describing a third person’s preference, what he/she
likes to eat/to drink, describe 2D& 3D shapes using Mandarin words.
Pinyin songs we listen in class:
Math数学:
Grade
1: This coming week, we are going to dive deeper into the 3D
shapes world. We will build paper 3D shapes, and learn more about cube,
cylinder, cone, pyramid, sphere. We will talk about three common attributes of
3D shapes (face, edge, corners).
Starting
this week, every Wednesday and Thursday, we will start the day with a 15-20
mins Mental math warm up time. We will review skip-counting, number-talk, days
of the week, reading calendar, months of the year. I will also start teaching
students about different mental math strategies. This week, Grade 1s are going
to review simple subtraction with regrouping.
Grade 2: Grade 2s will be learning about 3 common attributes in 3D shapes
(edge, face, corners). We will also be using clay/playdoh to build 3D Shapes.
Starting this week, every
Wednesday and Thursday, we will start the day with a 15-20 mins Mental math
warm up time. We will review skip-counting, number-talk, days of the week,
reading calendar, months of the year. I will also start teaching students about
different mental math strategies.
Grade 2s will be reviewing
subtraction without regrouping/borrowing and we will also learn about subtraction
with regrouping/borrowing this week.
Science科学:
Grade 1s will start on the new science unit- “building things”. We will read a
story “Three little pigs” and we will have a building challenge in March.
Students will work together in groups to brainstorm ideas on how to build a
strong house (what kind of materials they will need), and they will sketch
their detailed design in their visual journal, and select their materials this
week.
Grade 2s will be starting the new science unit “exploring liquids”. This
week, we will work on an experiment, we will use different types/sizes of
containers, and students will make predictions and observations on which
container hold the most water, and why.
