Next week schedule:)

Parents,
We had a great week!!!

Business---please help me enforce these things at home as it will make classroom life easier! Thanks!

1. SNOW DAYS---We had a lot of snow this week! Please help me tell your child NOT to throw snowballs at each other ( as it can cause injuries!), NOT to SHAKE the trees with snows (as that can also cause injuries) and especially NOT TO RUN in the snow (as the sidewalks are still slippery due to black ice) we had quite a few of injuries where children slip and fall (because they were running!) please please please please, help me tell them about SAFETY ISSUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. Putting things in MOUTH----Yup, it is happening again, where a lot of children love sucking/bitting stuff. I have told them multiple times that those things do NOT go into their mouth as it is dirty. Please help me remind them at home.

3. JACKETS---With the cold weather, a lot of jackets are worn, please help me teach them to zip their jackets, a lot of them want their jackets to be zip up ( as it is chilling cold outside), I will gladly help them zip their jackets, but to help a whole class ( it takes a lot of time)

4. If your child need to go to the office/bathroom please please please let me know first, please explain to your child that they need to tell me and let me know FIRST as it is a safety issue, I need to know where they are. Especially in case of emergencies ( eg fire drill, lock down etc), I don't know where they are and that is dangerous. With a lot of children, it is hard to notice right away if one child goes missing.

5. For RECESS, when MRS GOLD or MRS GOLDYEAR announces BLACKTOP ONLY, it means that they have to keep off the grass ( which might be wet and slippery), please help me tell your child NOT to walk, run, slide down the grass, they have to keep OFF the grass due to safety issues.

*in the event of snow, if your child has NO BOOTS, they cannot play on the snow (due to the safety issues!!!!)


6. ABSENSES-----If you child is sick or you are on a vacation, please refer to my blog on what we are doing that week, especially the audio clips on the vocabulary and MATHS!! that we are learning that week, so that way, your child does not get too far behind when he/she returns to school. I have seen some 'lost' or 'overwhelmed' faces when some children return to school (after being absent)

Agenda.......

1. Chinese---
We will continue the expression/feeling unit

THIRSTY / HUNGRY---

and start a new unit..the WEATHER UNIT

SUN / CLOUDY-------RAIN / LIGHTNING----SNOW / WIND

2. MATHS----We will start 1-50
Please practice with them at home, especially with their counting and one on one numeral recognition. Some children tend to skip count and practice saying random numbers and asking your child to write it down.

*if you can do it in Chinese (when saying the numbers) that would be great!!!! If not, if you have another child in a upper grade that is also learning Chinese to help say the numbers in Chinese and have your kindergarten child write the numbers in English, that would help a lot.  I know they know their numbers in English, but some struggle with the Chinese part.

*also, as we are learning till 40 now, a few students have been still 'stuck in the 20's phrase' for example,  I draw 34 dots in the ten frames worksheets, they count it as 24, so the ones part is right but they miss a whole set of tens part. please help with practice with them at home. I notice a lot of them count so fast that their dots and actual counting do NOT match OR they skip count. Please emphasize this at home, pretty please.

* This will help so much if they know their numbers and can count from any given number, that would help in their addition and subtraction problems that we will be starting in about 2 weeks time( the last week of school)

*please emphasize,
 CHECKING and DOUBLE CHECKING their work, I told them they need to check for 2 things always, (before handing their assignment to me)

1. Their Chinese Name and their school number
2. They need to re-count and re-check their work

ALOT of students can spot their mistakes before I tell them as a result they have to go back and re-correct it, I have sent a lot of children back once, twice and even thrice to go back and re-correct careless mistakes or nameless and numberless (School number) worksheets
Especially in MATHS, they need to be EXTRA careful

3. Science---We will finish up our winter unit

4. Chinese TEST on feelings/expressions! Please review with them. They love doing their facial/hand/body expressions when I am teaching them the different expressions! Have FUN!

Stay Warm and have a SUPERB weekend----