Dear Parents,

We have concluded our Second Monthly Exam and you'll be receiving the hard copies for you to sign tonight. Please have the students bring them back to file away in their learning portfolios.

I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the following students for achieving the top five Test score averages of our class; Yvonne Lin, Nini Lu, Tiger Yu, Wendy Lo and Nicholas Chen, keep up the great work, you are being great examples for the rest of your classmates.

Additionally, I would also like to congratulate and encourage our most improved students of the month; Jimmy Lee, and Teresa Chen, keep up your diligent effort and in time you'll be top of the heap.

I would also like to remind the rest of the class that our online component assignments need to be completed and encourage them to put their focus on the tasks at hand each day, each class if they want to see real improvements in their learning progress.

Dear Parents, The Second Monthly Exams are upon us once again, hereafter is the exam schedule and test scope. Please remind our kids to go over vocabulary and reading stories listed in the test scope. 11/14 Tuesday- Vocabulary Review Test 11/17 Friday- Listening & Reading Test 11/22 Wednesday- Written Test Test Scope: Vocabulary Focus  Week 6 ~ Week 11 (Communication Book) Reading Street Stories Henry and Mudge, A Walk in the Desert, The Strongest One. Grammar Focus Subjects, Verbs, Objects, and Time Subject/Verb Agreement (I go vs he goes) Phonics Focus Consonant Blends (pg 29, 34) Consonant Diagraphs (pg 53, 58) Declarative, Interrogative (pg 43) Inflected Endings (41, 46) Imperative, Exclamatory (pg 55, 60) Study well

Mexican Halloween- Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

 Dear Parents,

In celebration of Halloween and in conjunction with our Global Education theme for experience class this year we are hosting two events next Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday, we will be hosting a costume party in class, our kids are welcomed to come to school in their costumes to join in the fun. On Wednesday, we will introduce the Day of the Dead, All Saints' Day, and All Soul's Day festivities to our kids. We'll also host a burrito tasting to introduce Mexican cuisine to the class.

Hereinafter is a brief cookware and utensil list we'll need the students to supply; 

Burrito Feast

List of materials:

Cookware and Utensils-

·       3 hot plates

·       2 frying pans, 1 saucepan

·       Knives, and cutting board

·       Sanitary gloves

·       Paper plates

The Food list will be supplied by the school

  

Food Ingredients-
butter

·       12 flour tortillas 

·       Cooked rice (enough for 12 bowls)

·       2 cans of cooked black or pinto beans 

·       1 head of lettuce 

·       2 jars of ready-made salsa (mild and spicy)

·       Assorted vegetable for sautéing (mushrooms, onions, and peppers)

·       Cilantro (1 bunch) 

·       Hard tofu (for pan frying) 

·       4 pieces 200g. chicken breasts 

·       1 container of Sour cream (if possible)

Looking forward to next week, happy Halloween!!

Soda Bottle Terrarium

                          


Dear Parents,

As you know, next week is sports week so we'll be preparing for the Saturday activity during experience class next week. However, Teacher Jessica and I feel this week and next week is also the perfect time to squeeze in a quick group project to better our children's understanding of habitats and biomes. Before the end of this unit next week I would like to gather all necessary materials to begin our sealed terrarium project.  Each group will create one terrarium. Hereinafter is our materials list;

A 2 liter soda bottle
Small rocks (*2 cup)
Charcoal (1 cup) can be found at a supermarkets or plant store.
Soil (about 3 cups) 
5 different types of miniature plants that can fit in the bottles
**Optional: little people/animals/houses (figures)

I'd like the items to be present by Wednesday next week, that way we can begin the project on Friday.

Please follow this link for further details: Soda bottle terrarium

Dear Parents,

Welcome back, I hope everyone is well rested and had a fun few days with family and friends. Due to two shortened weeks because of holiday schedule and testing, we will not be testing the unit Henry and Mudge until the Second Monthly Exam.

Dear Parents, The First Monthly Exams are upon us once again, hereinafter is the exam schedule and test scope. Please remind our kids to go over vocabulary and reading stories listed in the test scope. 9/26 Tuesday- Vocabulary Review Test 9/29 Friday- Listening and Reading Test 10/02 Monday- Written Test Test Scope: Vocabulary Focus: Week 1 ~ Week 4 (Communication Book) Reading Street Stories- Unit 1: The Twin Club, and Exploring Space with an Astronaut. Grammar Focus: Sentence Structure- Identify subject, verb, object and time in a given sentence Nouns: names for people, places and things Phonics Focus: Short and Long Vowels Consonant S Study well

Dear Parents,

Immediately due this Wednesday for our group experience class project is a short list of materials needed. We'll build 6 rockets, one for each group. As such, we'll assign something for each member of the group to bring to class which we'll do tomorrow.

We'll need the following for each group of students;

• One empty 1 liter soda bottle 
• One roll of duck tape
• On piece of cardboard no smaller than A3 size
• One fist sized lump of clay or Play-Doh
• One standing bike pump as show in the web link
• One ball pin for a pump

Please consult the following link for precise details



For your future reference here's the link for Fry's 1000 sight words;

At this moment, our kids should be able to master the use and understanding of the first 300 words.

Sight words PDF link


Good luck,
Arthur