Weekly Newsletter for 5/2/14

Dear Room 4 Families,

Thank you for your attendance at Open House this Tuesday. Room 4 students looked very proud showing off their various projects from this year. This week we kept busy working on our multiplication, testing out new learning games on the iPads, working on a special project for Mother’s Day, and reviewing money in Mandarin.

English Language Arts

Working on:  vowel team spelling (oi, ea, ee, etc.), commas in a series, quotation marks, commas, comparing and contrasting, writing lists.

Next Week’s Spelling Words: https://graceyou.com/2nd-6-3-a-way-to-help-planet-earth/

Math

We took our Topic 18 test on Friday and will be starting Topic 19 next week. This will be a continuation of multiplication as we move from concepts to understanding the organization and memorizing multiplication math facts. Please check your child’s backpack for papers that need to be completed. Many students have been bringing home unfinished classwork to complete at home, but not many worksheets are being returned to the classroom.

Chinese
Current Textbook Lessons: Shuang Shuang 3.5
Things we did:

• Learned about the plant cycle
• Studied our passage with partners to present in front of the class
• Practiced for the Mandarin Showcase with Mrs. Murayama & Mr. Chen’s class
• Practiced new grammar patterns using our vocabulary words
• Learned how to write our dictation words in stroke order
• 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/dictation-week-32/

Lingt: http://lingtlanguage.com/takeassignment/1748239907030573/

Etcetera

Room 4 could use some:

• Reams of white copy paper
• Gallon and snack sized Ziploc bags
• Baby wipes/scrubby wipes (Kirkland brand)
• Boxes of tissues
• Band-aids
• Any new or gently used items to be given away as prizes for our raffle
• Soft plastic lids from any large tubs/containers (yogurt, butter, ice cream, hummus, sour cream, etc.)

Have a great weekend!

-Ms. You