Week 9/14-9/18

Dear Parents,

Hope this weekly update finds you well! We have had a great week and are continuing to get to know each other as a class well. We apologize for the late notice about intervention groups this week. We will work to let you know each Monday who will have work and material to go through on Fridays.

English Class:

In math class this week we have continued to study the area of different figures. Most of the students aced our quiz on area and have been doing great. We also have added fantasy football to our math class. This is a great opportunity to learn math through statistics and also grow in their understanding of teamwork.

In language arts I usually start the year with a research paper. This week they learned how to find sources for their paper and this weekend will take notes on their sources. I also will be sending home our reading plan for this year on Monday. It has taken some time to establish and get things rolling this year, but I know the students are doing great.

Please always reach out with any questions you may have and let me know any help your student may need.

Chinese Class:

Thank you for bringing your student to school for intervention. Last week, we had a lot of fun learning Chinese and Science.  For Canvas, I haven't posted any assignments in the past few weeks.  Next week, I will walk through with students step by step how to use Canvas and find assignments.  There are some students who told me that they have difficulty doing the Mandarin Matrix and submitting their work.  Don't worry about it!   I already wrote to an MMX technician; hopefully, I will receive a response sooner. Also, if you haven't login in class dojo, please do it sooner.

Chinese:

We will review MMX unit 4-6 lessons.  Homework: Students will login into MMX to read assigned lessons.

Science:

We will continue to learn about the effects of the water cycle on ecosystems and make DIY terrarium.  If you can please have your student bring 32 oz clean Mason Jar with lid or clean spaghetti sauce 32 oz jar and a small sandwich bag with some dirt, grass, or living bugs so we can make ecosystem terrarium. Please see the video, student don't need to find exactly same things, they can just find thing around your house or garden. We will need this on Tuesday.

Science vocabulary: Observations (观察），inference (推论），food （食物），habitat (栖息地），individual （个体），phenomena （现象），capacity (能力 or 容量)，ecosystem (生态系统）

Social Studies:

We will learn about about social studies （社会学）, government （政府）, economics（经济）, culture （文化）, ancient civilization （古代文化）, geography （地理）, history （历史）, religion （宗教）.

There is a weekly assignment for Chinese, Science and Social study.  I will talk to students on Monday.