Flash cards and dialogue video

Halloween pictures

The students were making their halloween books and Ms.Bai's homeroom Halloween kids.

Halloween Book Project and video

10/31/14

Dear Parents,

We hope your children came home and told you wonderful stories about our fun and creative school day.  I am so proud of the progress they are making in the Mandarin language!

We are starting the weekend with a Halloween Mandarin Book reading project. The students made the book in the classroom, and we read it all together. I hope they practice their reading and storytelling to you at home. I posted my reading video in the blog already. Please video their reading and email the short video to mbbing@theglobeacademy.net. The video will need to be submitted to me by Monday, November 10^th.  

Requirements for the video:

l   Mandarin reading only- since this is a language immersion school, we need to practice Mandarin as often as possible

l   The students will act out the book’s story in the video

l   They cannot explain to you in English during the video

I look forward to seeing their creative videos by the 10^th of November.

Thanks,

Ms. Bai

Schedule details and MAP TESTING

Oct 28th, We will talk about bully depends on Monday Bully presentation. ---Crazy socks and shoes day
Oct. 29th Wednesday , Dr. Resee Will visit our mandarin classroom, Ms.Murphy's and Ms.Bai's room will combine together, talk about health/hygiene.
Thursday, Oct. 30th , Assembly for K/1 8:30 about staying healthy.
Oct. 31th, Friday, Dekalb county will visit our school. Book Character day dress up.

Map Test: Ms.Murphy and Ms. Bai's room will combine together do map test. Since the amount of computer, we will have some students in library while others do test in lab.
Testing time: Oct.29th Wednesday  8:15am
                      Nov. 3rd, Monday 8:15 am
The average testing time will last about 45 minutes.

Nice reminder: Please bring water bottle and snack for your kids every day.
                         Please bring the mandarin journal back in the next time when the students come to mandarin.

Reading time

Rug rhyme : They paste the rhyme on their mandarin journal, and drew picture next to each sentence to illustrate. They also shared the reading with each other. We kept the buddy reading with kinder. We add new topic every two weeks. When they practiced with their partners, they did the new topic and old topic together.

Garden project due date

Nice Reminder: Garden project due this Tuesday which will be October 28th. Thanks! :)

Things Sharing

Couple of things sharing:

• PEACE WEEK: Monday-Assembly-9:00am ,Thursday-Assembly-8:30
• Food Drive ends on Oct.31st 
• Halloween Party: Oct. 31st 1:30-2:30
• Map test on Oct.28th ,29th ,30th

Nice reminder: 

• Don't forget  practice your mandarin through your mandarin journal at home, time can be before dinner, before bed, any time you feel comfortable. :)
• Please check the staff from your kids folder every day(may be in the backpack too, in case they drop something there). Use the materials we put in the folder to practice, like the Chinese flash cards. 

Thanks:)

The Week of Oct. 20 and Oct.27

Language art: We will continue work on the problem and solution finding. We used the book that the students were familiar with in English, but in Chinese edition.They drew the picture that reflect the problem and solution they found in the book, and illustrate in Chinese sentence. Also, we will use the Chinese story "mouse steal oil" to look for problem and solution in it too. Extra reading staff: Halloween words, rug rules rhyme.

Math: Keep working on two digit add one digit, also add plus ten more, minus ten more. 

Science: We started garden already last week. We will keep working on garden. Since taking a lot test in October, we use computer time to work on garden project. Qiao lao shi taught the science class. She brought our students to garden, they created a garden book by themselves. Each student grew a bean in the bag, and hang up on our classroom. 

Reminder for the two weeks: ITBS test and Map test

                                               Oct. 31 st Halloween party (dress up book characters, can borrow book for class or library) 

Pronunciation video about ocean animal

Journal Book Using

Dear parents,

We will send the mandarin journal book home every day starts this week. But please make sure bring it back the next day, because we still gonna need it for our class.

Reason for sending home: 

• You will see how the kids do mandarin in the classroom.
•  It's the opportunity to practice it at home.

How to use mandarin journal book: 

• The kids will choose their favorite,either the rhyme, the song, the story, the words, the sentence by themselves, and they will read for you or read themselves.Sound out reading,silent reading, or singing.
• I didn't put the limitation for choosing, for example , has to read the specific ryhme or sentence. 
• They can do one or multiple at a time. 
• The one I circle in red color(not for everybody) is the mistake one when they read for me.Therefore, they can pay attention to that one when they read. 

Thanks:)

           

Video of prounciation

The week of Oct. 6th and Oct. 13th and TESTING TIME

Language Art: We will start our finding problems and get the solution. I will use the book The Knuffle Bunny and Radi Cat Go To School that the students are familiar with. We will do whole group discussion and small group sharing ideas to find out the interesting things in the story. Also, I would like our students to work on the story" I have a little donkey" and " Mouse steal oil"(we learned the story already) by themselves. They will find the problems happened  in the story and solve the problems by themselves through role play, drawing pictures, small group sharing. English class will do the same theme(problem solving) as the mandarin class. I will also add the ocean animals name under the language part.(only mandarin class)

Math: We will start adding numbers with two digit and one digit. Students will practice these through centers, like rolling dice, number card adding, word problems play...

Science/Social study: We will start our garden very soon, so it will be really helpful for English and mandarin both classes.

Test in October a lot. Please let your kids relax more at home since they will have testing at school. I posted all testing time in this month, hope it will be helpful for you!

Oct.7 th, Tuesday 1^st Cog

Oct.8 th  Wednesday 1 st Cog

Oct.9 th  Thursday 1 st Cog

Oct. 15 th Wednesday ITBS window

Oct. 16 th Thursday ITBS window

Oct.17 th Friday ITBS window

Oct.21 st Tuesday ITBS

Oct. 22 nd Wed. ITBS

Oct. 23 rd Thursday ITBS

Oct.28 th Tuesday Map

Oct 29 th Wednesday map

Oct 30 th Thursday map 

Words with pictures as flash card

Dear parents,

I made the words with the pictures together this time , and I will send these in the students' folders. It will be easier for you and kids for using and making flash card.  

I will also send the words list as before, but these just for let you know what we have been working on for the last two weeks. 

I will video the pronunciation very soon, and post here.

Thanks,
Ms.Bai

Students were singing a song, song also as a story we taught

Little Donkey

Videos and pics for the reading,also our buddy reading with kinder

We started our reading buddy since two weeks ago. Every Friday we will go to kinder room, practice our speaking, and our kids really enjoy it!:)