Good evening panda friends! Can't believe it's almost October! Here are some highlights of last week: 1. In math, 3rd graders finished the first module. They group worked together to discuss and demonstrate two steps word problems! 2. In Mandarin, we reviewed the characters we learned in the past two weeks and used them to make sentences! 3. Fun moment learning place value through math game! 4. This week's golden turtle goes to Daniel Zhang for being a good inquirer! Congrats! Reminders for next week:
1. Picture Day on Tuesday Oct. 1st 2. Field trip to Art Museum on Friday Oct. 4th. Please sign and return the permission slip by Oct. 2nd. 3. The timeline project on the last page of the Mandarin homework pack is due Thursday. Please use quizlet.com/_75uhke for some related life event vocabulary. Also feel free to bring it back and ask teachers how to say/write them in Chinese. 4. Google Classroom code: m50wver 5. Math learning schedule for the upcoming week: 2nd grade: Module 3 Lesson 7 (Monday), Lesson 8 (Tuesday), Lesson 9 (Wednesday), Lesson 10 (Thursday), and Mid Module (Friday) 3rd grade: Module 2 Lesson 4 (Monday), Lesson 5 (Tuesday), Lesson 6 (Wednesday), Lesson 7 (Thursday), and Lesson 8 (Friday) If the student is out of school for any reason, please follow the schedule and finished Problem Set and Homework at home so that when student comes back, he/she can catch up. A great resource for you if you need help with any math lesson!! (Second Grade) embarc.online/course/index.php?categoryid=4 (Third Grade) embarc.online/course/index.php?categoryid=5 Let me know if you have any questions! Best, Huang Laoshi 9/29/19
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Good evening panda friends! We had a short but busy week last week! Here are some highlights: 1. Pandas visited the library and checked out books on Tuesday! Please bring books back this Tuesday for renewal/returning. 2. When we do centers, we have fun! Some lovely learning moments during the center time this week: 3. Congrats to Kyle for being an inquirer this week! 4. The most excited special event on Friday-first PBIS party!!! Pandas worked really hard over the past month and they deserved it! Plus, all pandas got a free book by the end of the PBIS party! Thanks Ms. Kelly and Ms. Starla! Reminders for next week:
1. The school provides healthy snacks every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We are requesting that you do NOT bring in any other snack on Tuesdays - Thursdays. Please let me know if your child is unable to eat anything on this menu. If this case, bringing in a special snack just for that day would be acceptable. Feel free to pack snacks on Monday/Friday. 2. Math learning schedule for the upcoming week: 2nd grade: Module 3 Lesson 2 (Monday), Lesson 3 (Tuesday), Lesson 4 (Wednesday), Lesson 5 (Thursday), and Lesson 6 (Friday) 3rd grade: Module 1 Lesson 21 (Monday), End of Module Assessment (Tuesday), Module 2 Lesson 1 (Wednesday), Lesson 2 (Thursday), and Lesson 3 (Friday) If the student is out of school for any reason, please follow the schedule and finished Problem Set and Homework at home so that when student comes back, he/she can catch up. A great resource for you if you need help with any math lesson!! (Second Grade) embarc.online/course/index.php?categoryid=4 (Third Grade) embarc.online/course/index.php?categoryid=5 Let me know if you have any questions! Best, Huang Laoshi 9/22/19 Good evening Panda friends! Hope you enjoyed your weekend! Here are some highlights of last week: 1. On Monday, we celebrated the Grandparents Day in class! Thank you, grandparents, for coming and spending time with us! 2. We started our first IB unit: Homes and Journey through "See/Think/Wonder" activity! Students asked a lot of interesting questions they want to know about homes and journeys! And we continued the IB learning by making a school day timeline: 3. In Science this week, we observed the pattern of a spinning top could make by using a very cool tool. And then we creatively made our own spinning top and the designs: 4. In 2nd grade Mandarin center, we tried to use paint brush to write characters! 5. We also celebrated one of the traditional Chinese festivals-Mid Autumn Festival (中秋节) through so many fun activities: We made play dough mooncakes, made rabbit brown bags, listened to Mid Autumn Festival story, and we are so honored to have Wang Laoshi from CSU to tell stories about the festival! 6. This week we have a big shout-out to Kieran for being an inquirer! Reminders for next week:
1. No school on Monday (9/16): Teachers' PD 2. PBIS party on Friday (2:15-3:00pm). 3. The school provides healthy snacks every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We are requesting that you do NOT bring in any other snack on Tuesdays - Thursdays. Please let me know if your child is unable to eat anything on this menu. If this case, bringing in a special snack just for that day would be acceptable. Feel free to pack snacks on Monday/Friday. 4. Math learning schedule for the upcoming week: 2nd grade: Module 2 Lesson 10 (Tuesday), End of Module Assessment (Wednesday), Module 3 Lesson 1 (Thursday), and Lesson 2 (Friday) 3rd grade: Module 1 Lesson 18 (Tuesday), Lesson 19 (Wednesday), Lesson 20 (Thursday), and Lesson 21 (Friday) If the student is out of school for any reason, please follow the schedule and finished Problem Set and Homework at home so that when student comes back, he/she can catch up. A great resource for you if you need help with any math lesson!! (Second Grade) embarc.online/course/index.php?categoryid=4 (Third Grade) embarc.online/course/index.php?categoryid=5 Let me know if you have any questions! Best, Huang Laoshi 9/16/19 Good evening panda friends! Thank you for coming to our family open house on last Wednesday! Here are some other highlights of the last week learning! 1. We are ready for the library! Students had a fun time listening to the story and also learned rules for the library. Thank you Ms. Kelly and Ms. Starla for helping in library! 2. In science this week, we did several experiments about balancing. We tried to balance arch and triangle shape using counterweights: We also did a pencil challenge: balancing the pencil on its point by using a piece of wire and counterweights. 3. In math, the 2nd graders keep working on measurement. We practiced how to use centimeter ruler to measure daily objects and learned several benchmarks. 4. On Friday school assembly, we had our first stage performance! We sang the song "上学歌" and here is the video: twitter.com/snail_bubble4/status/1170151048058691584?s=20 Also congratulations to Luke for winning this week's inquirer golden turtle! 5. Also on Friday, we drew some pictures for the upcoming grandparents day: Reminders for next week:
1. We will celebrate Grandparents Day on September 9, with a special breakfast at 8:00 AM. Grandparents will be able to walk with their grandchild to the classroom and share juice and donuts during our regular breakfast time. 2. On Tuesday and Wednesday, panda students will be testing NWEA reading and math. 3. The school healthy snacks will starts from Sep. 10 and it is every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We are requesting that you do NOT bring in any other snack on Tuesdays - Thursdays. Please let me know if your child is unable to eat anything on this menu. If this case, bringing in a special snack just for that day would be acceptable. Feel free to pack snacks on Monday/Friday. 4. Math learning schedule for the upcoming week: second grade: Module 2 Lesson 6 (Monday), Lesson 7 (Tuesday), Testing (Wednesday), Lesson 8 (Thursday), and Lesson 9 (Friday) third grade: Module 1 Lesson 14 (Monday), Lesson 15 (Tuesday), Testing (Wednesday), Lesson 16 (Thursday), and Lesson 17 (Friday) If the student is out of school for any reason, please follow the schedule and finished Problem Set and Homework at home so that when student comes back, he/she can catch up. A great resource for you if you need help with any math lesson!! (Second Grade) embarc.online/course/index.php?categoryid=4 (Third Grade) embarc.online/course/index.php?categoryid=5 Let me know if you have any questions! Best, Huang Laoshi 9/8/19 Good evening panda friends! Hope you all had a restful Labor Day weekend! Here are some wonderful learning moments in the past week: 1. In third grade math centers, they reviewed the concepts of rows/columns by playing matching number sentence and array! 2. At the same time, the second graders started a new unit: measuring! The first lesson is to use centimeter cubes to measure the daily items. 3. In this week's science, we kept doing experiments of balancing crayfish! Though the experiment, we learn that the crayfish with counterweights are easier to balance! 4. Big shout out to Messiah for being a caring classmate! He is so nice to new students and helps them all the time! Reminders for next week: 1. No school on Monday (Sep. 2) - Labor Day 2. Family night open house on Wednesday (Sep. 4) from 4:00-6:00 pm. Parents will meet in the cafeteria at 4:00 for an informational session and classroom visits will occur between 4:30 and 6:00 PM. Teachers will be preparing their rooms from 4:00 to 4:30 PM. Also, be sure to visit our Scholastic Book Fair at Open House. Pandas will visit next Tuesday (Sep. 10 8:30-9:00 am) and it will also be open at dismissal. 3. This Friday, pandas will perform in school assembly! The song we are going to perform is called 上学歌 (Going to school), please practice at home if you have some time! 4. This year we will have snack break in the morning around 11am. Feel free to pack a light snack as needed. It will be also great if you can donate some snacks to the class to share, like fruit snack, crackers, goldfish, etc.
The school healthy snacks will starts from Sep. 10 and it is every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The monthly snack menu will be coming out early next week. We are requesting that you do NOT bring in any other snack on Tuesdays - Thursdays. Please let me know if your child is unable to eat anything on this menu. If this case, bringing in a special snack just for that day would be acceptable. 5. Math learning schedule for the upcoming week: second grade: Module 2 Lesson 2 (Tuesday), Lesson 3 (Wednesday), Lesson 4 (Thursday), and Lesson 5 (Friday) third grade: Module 1 mid-module assessment (Tuesday), Lesson 11 (Wednesday), Lesson 12 (Thursday), and Lesson 13 (Friday) If the student is out of school for any reason, please follow the schedule and finished Problem Set and Homework at home so that when student comes back, he/she can catch up. A great resource for you if you need help with any math lesson!! (Second Grade) embarc.online/course/index.php?categoryid=4 (Third Grade) embarc.online/course/index.php?categoryid=5 Let me know if you have any questions! See you on Monday! Best, Huang Laoshi 9/2/19 Good evening Panda families! Welcome to Panda Class Weebly site! In this site, I will post weekly news, pictures and videos, reminders for the upcoming weeks, and other useful links. Please check this site for the updates! Last week is our first full week! We spent time learning and having fun in the new panda class! Here are some highlights of last week's learning: 1. In 2nd grade Mandarin time, we started to run centers. We tried to review 1st grade vocabularies and sentences in so many different ways! 2. We started our math learning journey right away!! In this year, I keep all in class worksheets and homework in a binder. Homework questions are closely related to the in class worksheet. It helps students to review and refresh the knowledge when they are doing homework, also helps parents understand every lesson's objective. I would highly recommend to do homework everyday (say we learned lesson 5 last Friday, do lesson 5's homework on Friday). It only takes about 5-10 minutes when the content knowledge stay fresh!! Also, please remind your child to bring the binder to school EVERYDAY! What's more, we tried centers too! So far we have fact fluency center, MobyMax center, interactive notebook center, and teacher center! 3. In science, we began with some fun activities about Motion and Balance! We tried to balance different objects on head and figured what object is the easiest to balance: 4. We also had our first school community meeting on Friday! We practiced how to quickly get into our spot and demonstrated the good example for kindergartners! 5. And also, I hope you all enjoyed the Chunk E. Cheese event last Friday! Kids were so excited to see Chunk E. Cheese in our cafeteria during the dismissal! Reminders for next week:
1. This year we will have snack break in the morning around 11am. Feel free to pack a light snack as needed. It will be also great if you can donate some snacks to the class to share, like fruit snack, crackers, goldfish, etc. 2. If you haven't returned the medical record form, please sign and return it this week. 3. Math learning schedule for the upcoming week: second grade: Module 1 Lesson 6 (Monday), Lesson 7 (Tuesday), Lesson 8 (Wednesday), end of module assessment (Thursday), and Module 2 Lesson 1 (Friday) third grade: Module 1 Lesson 6 (Monday), Lesson 7 (Tuesday), Lesson 8 (Wednesday), Lesson 9 (Thursday), and Lesson 10 (Friday) If the student is out of school for any reason, please follow the schedule and finished Problem Set and Homework at home so that when student comes back, he/she can catch up. A great resource for you if you need help with any math lesson!! (Second Grade) embarc.online/course/index.php?categoryid=4 (Third Grade) embarc.online/course/index.php?categoryid=5 Let me know if you have any questions! See you on Monday! Best, Huang Laoshi 8/25/19 |
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