Sunday, June 1, 2014

The Last Week of School


Dear Parents,

Congratulations!  Your child has completed the Chinese Immersion Program and Math Curriculum for the second grade.  I would also like to thank everyone that volunteered throughout the school year, without your help many of the activities would not have gone smoothly.  I would also like to thank all of the parents for the support they have given their children and the Chinese Immersion program here at Southland Elementary.

 
On our last day of school Friday June 6th, please have your child bring a favorite game to share and play with their friends.  The last day of school will be a game day!

 
I have posted, and will be posting all of the videos and pictures I have from this school year to my SkyDrive on the Internet.  I thought many of the parents would be interested in downloading pictures and videos of your children.  Here is the link:  http://1drv.ms/T56rmh

 
Here are some suggestions for how to help your child continue to progress through the summer.


1.       Review the yellow picture dictionaries and practice that vocabulary.

2.       Practice reading in the Green book your child brought home from school.

3.       Have fun doing Chinese things like going to one of the Chinese stores (Ocean Mart, Asian Gifts, etc.) or Chinese restaurants.

4.       For math, be certain your child is fluent in all of the basic addition and subtraction facts.  Periodically review problems with regrouping (carrying and borrowing)

5.       Work with measuring using inch and centimeter rulers.

6.       My blog will be up over the summer with everything that was placed in it over this school year.  If you do not have the link it is located here:


7.       Help you children go over their multiplication tables for next year.

 
I have enjoyed teaching your children this year!

 
Have a wonderful summer and we wish you success in the third grade!

 
Your Second Grade Chinese Immersion Program Teacher,
Wu Lao Shi

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

5/12 - 5/16

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 36 Going To A Chinese Restaurant (please click on "Better Chinese Flash Cards")




Math - Topic 16 Time, Graphs, and Data
Lesson 16 - 2 Time: Telling Time Before and After the Hour

Lesson 16 - 3 Graphs: Organizing Data
Lesson 16 - 4 Graphs: Graphing Lengths
Lesson 16 - 5 Graphs: Pictographs
Chinese Parents Night: 5/28/2014

Sunday, May 4, 2014

5/5 - 5/9

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 35 Please Come to Play At My Home (please click on "Better Chinese Flash Cards" and  "Better Chinese Sentences")

Math - Topic 15 Measuring Length and Topic 16 Time, Graphs, and Data
Lesson 15 - 7 Measurement: Adding and Subtracting in Measurement

Lesson 15 - 8 Measurement: Comparing Lengths
Lesson 15 - 9 (Problem Solving) Use Objects
Lesson 16 - 1 Time - Telling time to Five
IC - Animal Habitat

Field Trip - Tuesday 5/6

Sunday, April 27, 2014

4/28 - 5/2

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 35 Please Come to Play At My Home (please click on "Better Chinese Flash Cards" )

Math - Topic 15 Measuring Length
Lesson 15 - 1 Measurement: Exploring Length
Lesson 15 - 2 Measurement: Inches


Lesson 15 - 3 Measurement: Centimeters

Lesson 15 - 4 Measurement: Inches, Centimeters, and Yards
IC - Animal Habitat

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Week of 4/22 - 4/25

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 34 The Zoo (Please click on "Better Chinese Flash Cards" and "Better Chinese Sentences")

Math - Topic14 Money and Topic Measuring Length
Lesson 14 - 3 Money: Estimating Sums and Differences
Lesson 15 - 1 Measurement: Exploring Length
Lesson 15 - 2 Measurement: Inches


Lesson 15 - 3 Measurement: Centimeters


IC - Animal Habitat

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Week of 4/7 - 4/11

Curriculum for this weekChinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 34 The Zoo (Please click on "Better Chinese Flash Cards")


Math   Topic 13 Counting Money
Lesson 13 - 3 Money: Ways to Show the Same Amount
Lesson 13 - 4 Money: One Dollar
Lesson 13 - 5 Problem Solving - Make an Organized List

IC- Animal Habitats

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Week of 3/31 - 4/4

Curriculum for this weekChinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 33 Teacher Li's House (Please click on "Better Chinese Flash Cards" and "Better Chinese Sentences")

Math   Topic 13 Counting Money
Lesson 13 - 1 Money: Coins
Lesson 13 - 2 Money: Counting Collections of Coins

Monday, March 24, 2014

Week of 3/24 - 3/28

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 32 Teacher Li's House (Please click on "Better Chinese Flash Cards" and "Better Chinese Sentences")

Math - Topic12 Geometry
Lesson 12 - 8 Problem Solving - Using Reasoning
Review for Benchmark 3 (Topic 8 - Topic 12)
Benchmark 3 on Tuesday April 1.

Grandparent Day- Wednesday March 26, 2014
 








Sunday, March 16, 2014

Week of 3/17 - 3/21

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 32 Teacher Li's House (Please click on "Better Chinese Flash Cards")


Math - Topic12 Geometry
Lesson 12 - 4 Making New Shapes
Lesson 12 - 5 Cutting Shapes Apart

Lesson 12 - 6 Dividing Rectangles into Equal Squares
Lesson 12 -7  Wholes and Equal Parts

IC: Plants




Monday, March 10, 2014

Week of 3/10 - 3/13

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 32 I See With My Eyes. (Please click on "Better Chinese Flash Cards" and "Better Chinese Sentences")


Math - Topic12 Geometry
Lesson 12 - 1 Geometry: Flat Surfaces, Vertices and Edges
Lesson 12 - 2 Geometry: Relating Plane Shapes to Solid Figures
Lesson 12 - 3 Geometry: Polygons and Angles

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Week of 3/3 -3/6

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 32 I See With My Eyes. (Please click on "Better Chinese Flash Cards" and "Better Chinese Sentences")








Math - Topic11 Three-Digit Addition and Subtraction
Lesson 11-7 Subtraction: Models for Subtracting With Three-Digit Numbers
Lesson 11-8 Addition:  Subtraction: Subtracting Three-Digit Numbers

Lesson 11-9 Problem Solving: Use Logical Reasoning



Social Studies/Science - Civic Responsibility - Good Citizen

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Week of 2/24 - 2/28

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 32 I See With My Eyes. (Please click on "Better Chinese Flash Cards" to practice the words for Volume 3 Lesson 32 I See With My Eyes.



Math - Topic11 Three-Digit Addition and Subtraction
Lesson 11-3 Addition - Models for Adding with 3-Digit Numbers
Lesson 11-4 Addition:  Adding Three - Digit Numbers
Lesson 11-5 Subtraction - Exploring Subtracting Three-Digit Numbers
Lesson 11-6 Subtraction: Mental Math - Ways to Find Missing Parts





Social Studies/Science - Civic Responsibility - Good Citizen

Monday, February 17, 2014

Week of 2/18 - 2/21

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 31 What Classes Did You Have Today? (Please click on "Better Chinese Sentence" to practice the sentences for Volume 3 Lesson 31 What Classes Did You Have Today?



Math - Topic 10 Place Value to 1,000 & Topic11 Three-Digit Addition and Subtraction
Lesson 10-9 Look For A Pattern
Lesson 11-1Addition: Exploring Adding Three - Digit Numbers
Lesson 11-2 Addition : Mental Math

Social Studies/Science - Civic Responsibility - Good Citizen

Monday, February 10, 2014

Week of 2/10 - 2/14

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 31 What Classes Did You Have Today?(Please click on "Better Chinese Sentences" Tab)

Math - 

Topic 10- Place Value to 1,000
Lesson 10 - 5 Patterns With numbers o Hundreds Charts
Lesson 10 - 6 Skip Counting by 5, 10, 100 to 1,000

Lesson 10 - 7 Comparing Numbers
Lesson 10 - 8 Ordering Numbers

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Week of 2/3 - 2/7

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 31 What Classes Did You Have Today?(Please click on "Better Chinese Flash Cards" Tab)

Math - 
Topic 10- Place Value to 1,000
Lesson 10 -1 Building 1,000
Lesson 10 -2 Counting Hundreds, Tens, and Ones
Lesson 10 -3 Reading and Writing Numbers to 1,000
Lesson 10 -4 Changing Numbers by Hundreds and Tens

Chinese New Year Assembly is on February 7,2014.
Chinese Lantern Festival is on February 14, 2014 the same day as Valentines Day!

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Week of 1/27 - 1/31

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 30 Making A Phone Call (Please click on "Better Chinese Sentences" Tab)

Math - 
Topic 9 - Subtraction
Lesson 9-6 Subtracting on a Number Line

Lesson 9-7 Using Addition to Check Subtraction
Lesson 9-8 Ways to Subtract

Lesson 9-9 Ways to Subtract

Happy Chinese New Year on January 31, 2014!
Chinese Lantern Festival is on February 14, 2014 the same day as Valentines Day!

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Week of 1/21 - 1/23

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 30 What Are They Doing? (Please click on "Better Chinese Vocabulary Flash Cards" Tab)

Math - 
Topic 9 - Subtraction
Lesson 9-3 Two and One Digit Numbers

Lesson 9-4 Model to Subtract Two Digit Numbers
Lesson 9-5 Two Digit Numbers


We are going to learn about Chinese New Year.  We will also be preparing for our Chinese New Year assembly on February 7, 2014.

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Week of 1/13 - 1/17

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 29 What Are They Doing? (Please click on "Better Chinese Sentences" Tab)


Math - Review for Benchmark 2 (Topic 5 - Place Value to 100,Topic 6 - Mental Addition,Topic 7 - Mental Subtraction and Topic 8 - Adding Two-Digit Numbers)

Benchmark 2 Test: 1/14/2014

Topic 9 - Subtraction
Lesson 9-1 Regrouping 1 Ten for 10 Ones

Lesson 9-2 Models to Subtract Two - and One-Digit Numbers

We are going to learn about Chinese New Year.  We will also be preparing for our Chinese New Year assembly on February 7, 2014.

To learn about Chinese New Year we will go over lesson 3 in the Singapore text book.  To get to it you click here 2A Lesson 3 Flash Cards.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Week of 1/6 - 1/10

Curriculum for this week
Chinese - Better Chinese Volume 3 Lesson 29 What Are They Doing? (Please click on "Better Chinese Flash Card" Tab)


Math - Review for Benchmark 2
Topic 5 - Place Value to 100

Topic 6 - Mental Addition
Topic 7 - Mental Subtraction
Topic 8 - Adding Two-Digit Numbers

We are going to learn about Chinese New Year.  We will also be preparing for our Chinese New Year assembly on February 7, 2014.

To learn about Chinese New Year we will go over lesson 3 in the Singapore text book.  To get to it you click here 2A Lesson 3 Flash Cards.

Here are instructions on how to get to the Chinese New Year section on the Singapore text book XueLe web site.


I would like to thank everyone that gave me the wonderful gifts before Christmas break!  I have great kids in our Chinese Immersion class!