Chinese Kindergarten Bumblebee Class Newsletter Newsletter Date: October 22
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Message from Ms. Grace and Ms. Yang
This week, we learned about grocery shopping in Chinese language, odd & even numbers, and more shapes in math. For details, please see Activities of This Week below. Halloween is coming and kids are getting exited! So we made some pumpkins, spiders, bats and autumn leaves for this special day. Students traced and cut these things and decorated them with glitter glue, it was so much fun making them! We used them to decorate our classroom and hallway. Kids love to see their works hanging around the classroom. This week’s Friend of the Week was Caitlin, she did very well on show and tell about herself and her family. The Daily and Weekly Behavior Chart works well and some students showed obvious improvement on their behavior. In the end, many thanks to the parents who brought food for staff meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday!
Activities of This Week Chinese Language Arts: 1) Leaned a new book买东西 (Buying Stuff), including the stuff like 水果(fruit),牛奶(milk), 冰淇淋(ice-cream), 果汁(juice), 面包(bread), 巧克力(chocolate), 蛋糕(cake). 2) Learn and write Chinese characters 牛 (cow) 3) Did lots of fun activities on smart board, such as exercise, magical Chinese, fun story, song/rhyme, read with me, etc 4) Reviewed some of the books,
daily language and sentence patterns we learned. 5) Reviewed some Chinese Characters we learned before, including 12 color words, 8 family member names, 7 clothing names, and 8 fruit names etc. 6) Learned a new nursery rhyme “妈妈早” in Chinese. (Please see it in the Chinese Song/Nursery Rhyme folder) 7) Reviewed the old nursery rhymes, including Little Monkey Little Mouse Practiced old songs: Little Stars; Little Rabbits, etc.
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Activities of This Week
Math: 1) Reviewed the shapes like 圆形(circle), 正方形(square), 三角形(triangle), 长方形(rectangle), 椭圆形(oval) and learned some new shapes, including 星形(star), 菱形(diamond), 心形(heart), 梯形(trapezium), 六边形 (hexagon) and did some worksheets on finding, tracing and coloring shapes. 2) Use objects to introduce the concept of addition within 1-10. Game 1: use objects like little bears or blocks to count from 1-30; Game 2: use different shapes to fill up the pattern cards. 3) Whole class, big group and small group counting by 2’s. 4) Worked on math worksheets for number 1-20, such as “fill in missing numbers”, “dot to dot”, “measure the height”. “Count and circle the number”, etc. 5) Practiced writing odd numbers 1-35 and even numbers 2-36. 6) Reviewed the Fruit Song “水果歌” and Five Finger Song “五指歌” Activities of Next Week Next week we only have two days for school, no school from 10/27-10/29. So we are not going to learn any new book. We will review all the Chinese books we learned before, review the shapes and counting from 1-100 in math. We will have a Halloween party on 10/26 (Tuesday). There will be no news letter for next week; the activities for 10/25-10/26 will be mentioned in the news letter of 11/5.
Mark Your Calendar 10/26 (Tuesday), parent helpers for handcraft project and party are needed (some parents already signed up for this). --1:00pm, Handcraft project --1:30pm, Halloween party --2:15pm, line up for the parade --2:45pm, Chinese song singing and Chinese nursery rhymes recital in the classroom.
Note: Our room parent Emily already sent email to everyone regarding when to put on the Halloween costume, please check email.