Week 9

Hi
I hope you all enjoy this week because we had our first snow (actually mine) of this season and Fun Friday.

Homework today is as usual.
Review and Fix week 9 test.

There are two reminders for the following week and one news.

Next week is Halloween and Wednesday is our Halloween Party. Thanks a million for our room parents and volunteers for preparing for our party. I am looking forward to your costumes, kids!!! (My first real Halloween too.)

We will have our first science test (Topic: Water Collection). The test will be in Chinese. I will read the questions to them and them have to decide whether the statement is true or false. Also in some questions I will ask them to write down the answers. Don't worry. If I want them to write the answers down, they must be something you have learned before, like numbers and yes or no in Chinese.

One thing I want to stress is that they must turn in their homework on Fridays.
Some of them told me that they couldn't either find it at home nor in their tote tray "yesterday". That's why they didn't do the homework. However, the writing practice book is always sent home on Mondays and they should keep it at home and complete it before Thursday nights. So that they can bring it on Fridays. If they suddenly can't find their books when they check their backpack again on Thursday evenings, they can get a blank paper, write the vocabulary for ten times and turn the paper in on Friday morning. I will accept that at completing homework, but they will still need to find the writing practice book of their own and complete the pages I have assigned.
I emphasized this again to them today because having good learning attitude do help them learn in many aspects.

We have a new student in my homeroom since today. She studied in Shanghai, China in the past three years. Everyone was thrilled to meet her. I hope everyone can help her to get used to our daily routines soon and they can all learn from each other.