Weekly Newsletter for 3/21/14

Dear Room 4 Families,

Thank you to all of the parents who contributed their time and efforts to ensuring that our field trip went smoothly. Our Room 4 students had a great time learning and exploring what CuriOdyssey had to offer.

English Language Arts

Working on: closed syllables, contractions,  pronouns, plural,  diagrams and labels, homophones, and publishing our writing.

Next Week’s Spelling Words: https://graceyou.com/2nd-5-4-farfellina-and-marcel/

Math
We are currently on Topic 16 – Money. Our topic test will be administered on Tuesday, so please practice with your child over the weekend!

Chinese
Current Textbook Lessons: Shuang Shuang 3.3
Things we did:

• Studied the parts of our tulip plant growing in class and identified its parts.
• Learned how to write our dictation words in stroke order
• Learned about the plant cycle and plant parts.
• Using flash cards to review and maintain our past dictation words.
• Practiced our dictation words, different variations of reading aloud, writing, singing songs, searching for our vocabulary words in our text.

Next Week’s Dictation Words: https://graceyou.com/shuang-shuang-3-3/

Lingt (online homework): http://lingtlanguage.com/takeassignment/1748239545684670/

Etcetera

Room 4 could use some:

• Reams of white copy paper
• Gallon and snack sized ziplock bags
• Boxes of tissues (we are almost out!)
• Plain band-aids
• Any new or gently used items to be given away as prizes for our raffle
• Cardboard paper towel and toilet paper tubes
• Soft plastic lids from any large tubs/containers (yogurt, butter, ice cream, hummus, sour cream, etc.)

Have a great weekend!

-Ms. You