Week of 12/17 - 12/21

Curriculum for this week
Chinese- 1B L14
Math- Topic 8 Adding Two-Digit Number

Week of 12/10 -12/14

Curriculum for this week
Chinese- 1B L13
Math- Topic 8 Adding Two-Digit Number

I would like to remind the parents to keep helping your children go over the pearsonsuccessnet website.  I have assigned your children different videos, games, and test on the pearsonsuccessnet website.  https://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/snpapp/login/login.jsp 

Week of 12/3 - 12/7

Curriculum for this week
Chinese- 1B L13
Math- Topic 7 Mental Math Subtraction and Topic 8 Adding Two-Digit Number

For our Chinese Lesson this week the State asked us to skip lesson 12 and go on to lesson 13.  I feel there is some important vocabulary in lesson 12, and would really like you to still go over it with your children.  I will be adding the vocabulary from lesson 12 as extra credit in our next few tests.

I would like to remind the parents about a very useful tool to help your children go over the Math concepts from our classroom.  I have assigned your children different videos, games, and test on the pearsonsuccessnet website.  https://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/snpapp/login/login.jsp 

Week of 11/26 - 11/30

The curriculum for this week:
Chinese: 1B Lesson 11
Math: Topic 6 Mental Math Addition and Topic 7 Mental Subtraction
Interconnections: Cultures in our Community and Fish

 

Week of 11/12-11/16

The curriculum for this week:
Chinese: 1B Lesson 11
Math: Topic 6 Mental Math Addition
Interconnections: Cultures in our Community

I would like to encourage you to help your child get on to the Pearson SuccessNet web site at https://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/snpapp/login/login.jsp.  I have given each child logins so they can get on and practice their math.  It is very important for your child to get on and so they can also learn and practice their English math vocabulary.  If you are having problems getting on the website with Internet Explorer try it with Firefox.

Week of 11/5-11/9

Curriculum for this week:

Math Topic 5 - Place Value to 100

Chinese - 1B L10 做体操

Interconnection: Gravity 

We had a really fun time at our Halloween party last week.  I have uploaded some photos and videos to our Skydrive from the party.  You can access our Skydrive through this link: https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=78C920CA2076C3AE!330&authkey=!AN_9VKxtb2VGpBo

Parent Teacher conferences are this week on Wednesday and Thursday.  When you come in to meet with me, we will be discussing Chinese goals with you and you’re Children.  The main goal I would like to focus on is for the students to only speak Chinese during class, no English.  

We will have our Chinese and math tests on Thursday the 8th of November.

Week of 10/29 - 11/2

This week curriculum:
Chinese- 1BL10 做体操
Math- Topic 5 Place Value to 100

Dear Parents :
We are very excited to announce the addition of Pearson SuccessNet to our educational curriculum
here at SOUTHLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Pearson SuccessNet offers you the opportunity to look inside your child's day-to-day learning.

How to get started? It's as easy as 123!
Success at school can be a shared learning experience!
As a partner helping your child make the most of learning, Pearson SuccessNet offers the right tools for you and your child. It all begins with a simple login at the web site.

How to access the Web site:

1.     Access your Internet browser - (For your reference, Pearson SuccessNet Internet and System Requirements can be found at http://knowledgebase.pearsonschool.com/kmp/article/AA-04713).

2.     Enter the URL (site address) -- http://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com

3.     Then, use the following information to get started in Mrs. Oreno's Red Class classroom:

Your child's user name: your child class’s color and number
Your child's password: math@123
Note: User name and password are case sensitive

4.     Congratulations! You should see your home page.

You will be amazed at how motivated and excited your child will be to share in the interactive learning experiences while studying at home. Watch as your child "teaches" you how to access the resources we utilize in the classroom.

Sincerely yours,

Wu Lao Shi

P.S.: If you ever run into technical difficulties, there is a Pearson SuccessNet online help connection to serve you. You can reach them at http://support.pearsonschool.com.

Important note:

After you login to www.pearsonsuccessnet.com with your child’s login and password, you will see the main screen. To view the assignment, click on To Do in the right hand corner.  After clicking on it, you will get a list of current assignments and online test.

Week of 10/22-10/26

Parents,

We are going to have Math Benchmark test on Monday Oct. 29.  Please help your understand how to solve these math problems.

Thanks!  Wu Lao Shi

Math Review Guide

1.          Practice addition and subtraction

For example: ___ + 10 = 17

                                      12 - ___ = 6

                                      17 - 6 = ____

                             14 = 9 + ____ + 1

2.      Doubles

          For example: 7+8=

          Show a way to find the sum for near double(doubles + 1)

The answer should be 7+7+1=15

3.      Story problems with more and fewer

          For example:

·        Evan has 15 stickers.  Thomas has 6 stickers. How many more stickers does Evan have?  Show the picture and write equation.

·        When Mary started the year, he had 18 crayons.  When the school year finished, he had 5 crayons left.  How many crayons did Mary use during the year?

Draw a model to represent the story.

Write the equation to solve the problem

·        Tom has 13 balls in his room.  His friend Tanner has 7 balls.  How many fewer balls does Tanner have? Write the equation that helps solve this problem.

                

4.      Multiple number addition

          For example: Solve.  2 + 6 + 4 + 3= __________

          Show the steps to solve this equation above.

Find the 2 numbers that add up to 10 first.  In the equation above it is 6+4=10 then add the remaining numbers.

5.      Repeat addition:

For example: Mrs. Wu asked her students to stand in three groups with four students in each group. How many students does she have altogether? _______________

Draw the picture and write the equation.

Week of 10/15 - 10/19

There are printable and interactive Chinese vocabulary flash cards available through our class blog. 

The printable Chinese vocabulary flash cards are available on the class blog Skydrive share.  I made these so you can print them out for your children to practice at home.   These do not need to be turned in. These flash cards are located in the 1A -2B Printable Flash Cards Folder under the class Skydrive: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=78c920ca2076c3ae&id=78C920CA2076C3AE!330.  We are on 1B L9.  One section is I can read, and one section is I can write.

The online flash cards are on the class blog under the Flash Cards tab.  With these flash cards you can hear the character pronunciation along with other learning activities.  There are also 2 games available for your child to play and review the characters.

Please spend time practicing addition and subtraction up to 20 with your child.  There are also review worksheets you can download under the homework folder (Topic 4 Review) on Skydrive: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=78c920ca2076c3ae&id=78C920CA2076C3AE!330

Austin has earned a Show and Tell coupon in our red class.  He brought his 2 pets to our class last Friday.  The pictures will be in the pictures folder on Skydrive.

Week of 10/8-10/12

Dear Parents,

I am going to have a new format for the Chinese homework.  Every 2 weeks we will go over one Chinese lesson.  The homework will have 2 different parts.

The first part will be “I Can Write”.  The students will need to be able to write these characters without any help.  The writing sheet is with the parent’s guide will have the stroke order for the characters.  You can also go to the “Stroke Order” page on our class blog to view an animation of the stroke order for each character.   There is also an option to hear the pronunciation of the character by clicking on the speaker icon.

The second part is “I Can Read”.  The students will need to be able to read these characters.  There is a “Flash Cards” page on the classroom blog that will have links to online flashcards.

I will be sending a parent’s guide sheet with these 2 lists home on the Monday at the beginning of these 2 weeks.  This will allow the students to be able to practice reading and writing Chinese characters every day. The writing will be due on the second Friday after the assignment was sent home.

Next Monday we will start 1B Lesson 9.  So next Monday I will send home the parent’s guide and the Chinese character practice writing sheet. 

For Math, please review number 10 facts with your child. With this letter I have a flash card set for addition and subtraction to 10.  For example, show the card with 1 on it and have your child to figure out what number added to 1 makes 10.  So the answer would be 9.  Also practice this with subtraction. For example, always start with 10 and show the card with 2 on it. And have your child subtract the number on the card from 10 and have them give you the answer. The answer to this example would be 10-2=8.

Please also help your child memorize adding double numbers. For example, 1+1=2, 2+2=4, 3+3=6, 4+4=8, 5+5=10,….all the way up to 10+10=20.

Week of 10/1-10/5

Dear parents,

I would like to thanks the parents for the Oreo cookies for the phases of the moon project.  We had enough Oreos, and the students had a lot of fun doing it!

I have been working on a way to make the Chinese homework easier for the parents to follow.  Over the next week or 2, I will be changing the Chinese homework around a little bit, and hopefully this helps the parents.

This week I am sending a Parent’s Guide home for Chinese with 2 parts.  The first part has I can read, and the second part has I can write.  The part that says I can read is for the students to learn how to read characters out of the text book.  The second part is for the Chinese characters that the students need to learn how to write for the test on Friday.

Sunday, September 30th , is the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.  There will be a full moon that night, and hopefully you can do something Chinese to celebrate this Chinese holiday!

This week we are talking about Clouds.

In Chinese we are working in lesson 8.

Week of 9/24-9/28

We started Chinese Lesson 8 last week. If you would like to review the stroke order with you child, you can click on the Stroke Order tab in this class blog.  All of the Chinese characters are listed.  You just need to click on the link next to the character, and it will take you to the character.  Then click on this button:



Then click on this button.



Your children can follow the animation showing them the correct stroke order.
If you want to hear the sound for the Chinese character, click on the icon next to the Pinyin.  It looks like these 2 buttons:

 

The dot means there is more than one pronunciation for the character.  This depends on where the Chinese character is used.

 

I posted the math vocabulary cards in the Skydrive homework folder for 9-21-12.  If you would like to study them with your child.  This does not need to be turned in with homework.

 

We will be talking about the moon phases this week because the Chinese Moon Festival is on September 30th.  We will also have other activities pertaining to the Chinese Moon Festival.

Week of 9/17-9/21

Here are 2 videos.  One video of each class.  They are doing the Doubles Chant in Chinese.

Week 3

Dear parents,
 
Last Friday we took our Chinese and Math tests. The students did a good job overall. Please take some time to check with your child what they have done in class and encourage them to keep up their good work.

Some parents were not sure what they should go over with their children at home.  The main thing is to practice writing the characters and understanding the correct pronunciation.  We do not focus on the pinyin in the younger grades because the state feels it will confuse the students while they are also trying to learn English.  We also do not want the students rely on pinyin to recognize the Chinese character.  The pinyin is helpful when the parents need to help them study at home.

Here are some instructions on how to access the Singapore text website.  This is so you will be able to review our Chinese lessons online, at home.


Click here.

A list will drop down, and select this part.

 

 

A new screen will come up. Select this button.

You can then select the activities in the center.

You can get to this website by selecting the XueLe link in the top right corner of this blog. 

Dear Parents and Students,

Welcome to second grade!  I am very excited to be teaching your student this year!

This year we are using a Chinese text book from Singapore.  This text book has been created for native Chinese speaking students.  Because of this, it is harder than the text book your children had in the first grade.  Your children will need to spend more time practicing at home.  I will send home packets to help them study.

The Chinese text book from Singapore also has a website your children can go to, to practice.  The website address is

http://xuele.edumall.sg/xuele/slot/u107/index1.html

I also use a blog online to keep the parents updated on what we do in class.  The address for the blog site is:

http://southland-elementary-wulaoshi.blogspot.com/

This blog site is private, and to be able to access it you must have a Blogger account.  I will give you a permission slip to sign that will request your email address you have for your Blogger account, and request permission to use video and pictures of your children on the classroom blog.

I also have a file share where I will place files related to our class.  For Example, I will have a homework folder with all of our homework files located in it.  There is a link on the classroom blog called Parents Folder 2012-2013.  The link to access this folder is:

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=78C920CA2076C3AE!330&authkey=!AN_9VKxtb2VGpBo

We will have a fun and exciting year learning Chinese!

Sincerely,

吴老师 Wu Lao Shi
Mrs. Oreno

Chinese Vocabulary Lists Updated

I have updated the Chinese vocabulary lists under the Chinese Vocabulary tab.

2A Lesson 1

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常 http://www.365zn.com/xhzd/dh.asp?swf=O05619416K.swf&mc=%B3%A3
妹 http://www.365zn.com/xhzd/dh.asp?swf=Z02069481T.swf&mc=%C3%C3
吗 http://www.365zn.com/xhzd/dh.asp?swf=W09972469M.swf&mc=%C2%F0
牙 http://www.365zn.com/xhzd/dh.asp?swf=T03978074I.swf&mc=%D1%C0
笑 http://www.365zn.com/xhzd/dh.asp?swf=O06560344B.swf&mc=%D0%A6
气 http://www.365zn.com/xhzd/dh.asp?swf=U05464008X.swf&mc=%C6%F8
哭 http://www.365zn.com/xhzd/dh.asp?swf=U03268196R.swf&mc=%BF%DE
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Stroke order learning - Vocabulary for Lesson 15

自 - Zì / Oneself

己 - Jǐ / Self

书 - Shū / Book

电 - Diàn / Electricity

包 - Bāo / Package

衣 - Yī / Clothes

起 - Qǐ / Get up

Grade 2 Block 7- Subtracting Two and Three-digit Numbers

Math Vocabulary-

How many more, subtraction, difference, regroup (borrow), solve, number sentence, and make up a story problem that matches the number sentence.

Flashcards for Lesson 14 week of March 12-16

Click on this link to review the flashcard vocabulary for this week.

http://quizlet.com/10653323/lesson-14-flash-cards/

Week of 3/5-3/8

Math
We will be continuing to learn how to add and subtract 2 and 3-digit numbers.
I would like to congratulate all of the students for doing a great job on their Benchmark 2 assessment test!

Chinese
We are working on Lesson 14.  Please go to the http://xuele.edumall.sg/xuele/slot/u107/index1.html website and select the top 2 buttons that are selectable inside the oval to practice reading.  I will send home the vocabulary flash cards during the week.  Please help your child review the vocabulary at home.

小草

Stroke order learning - Vocabulary for Lesson 14

千
支
毛
石
两
块
笔
牛
鸟