Week 3

Dear Parents,

Week 3 of the school year has seen our students continuing to work well.

This week we covered the following:

English

· More Telling Sentences

· Questions

· More Questions

· Which Kind of Sentence?

Reading

· New words: jump, school, teacher, read, sing, playground

· We read the following stories: Cam and Pat, A Day at School and 4 different poems

· Beginning sounds p, n, f

· End sounds n, f or p

· Short a

Math

· Comparing 11 through 20

· Problem Solving

· Test Review

· Introduction to Chapter 2

· Test

Science

· How can plants be sorted?

· How do plants change as they grow?

· Review And Test Prep

Journals

· We wrote about, “A day in School”

Spelling List 4 – Test Friday

· Pet, met, set, get, jet, lot, pot, got, trot

· Extension spelling: root, flowers, spines, life cycle, seedlings, cones. These words will be tested but not counted as part of the grade

Dictation

· I met a friend and we got into the jet with our pet.

Important Dates for this week:

· Wednesday, 22 September – No School, Mid-Autumn Festival

· Friday 24 September – Spelling Test and Dictation

· Friday 24 September - English Test – Unit 1, The sentence

Typhoon:

I am sure that you are aware that a typhoon is expected to pass through Taiwan over the weekend. Please check the news report on Sunday night to see whether or not school will be closed on Monday. We follow Hsinchu City School closure directives.

We wish Aoi a Happy Birthday tomorrow!!!

If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me.

Regards

Robyn Wood