1/30-2/1 Homework and reminder for next week

1/30
1. Read L8 Words 3X
2. Chinese Poem 4 (oral quiz tomorrow)
3. L8 new words: Oral quiz (We didn't do the oral quiz today because I put misplaced L8 with L6 on the morning class's planner yesterday)

1/31
1. Week 23 test
2. Chinese Poem 4
3. Bring Blue Writing Book
4. Read L8 words 3X

2/1
1. Review and fix Week 23 test (Turn in on Monday with a parent's initial)
2. Read Chinese Poem 4 to parents (Turn in on Monday with a parent's initial)
3. Chinese Comic No. 3

Reminder for Week 24

2/7 (Thursday) is an early out day. We go home at 1:40
2/8 (Friday) No school
Week 24 test will be on 2/11 (Monday)

Upcoming event

2/10 (Sunday) Chinese New Year's Day
2/14 Valentine's Day

1/28 and 1/29 Homework

1/28
1. Read L8 Words 3X
2. Study Week 23 test (2/1)
3. Blue Writing Book p.28-p.30 (2/1)
4. Review and fix Week 22 test

(We will skip L7 and L9 first. When we have done the planned lessons, we will come back and learned the vocabulary in the skipped lessons.)

1/29
1. Chinese Poem 4
2. Hanlexon L8 Words
3. Oral Quiz: L8 Words
4. Bring L8 Flashcards
5. Read L8 words 3X

1/22 Homework

1/22
1. Fix Blue Writing Book (Due 1/25)
2. Week 22 test will be on 1/28. (A sample was sent home today and it is uploaded in the Test sample section too.)
3. Read Chinese Poem 3. See Chinese Poem section.

1/23
1. Read L6 Stories 3X
2. Read Chinese Poem 3

Chinese Comic (Week 21 Homework)

Homework needed to be done by Tuesday

1. Review and fix science test and week 21 Chinese test. Need to turn them in with a parent's initial.

2. Chinese Comic

The Chinese comic can be any topic but must be written with the Chinese words that you have learned. Please look the words up in our Extended Practice Book (Blue Reading Book). 

The format of our comic can be downloaded here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5-ydq8fPkuYbndMZW9VTExmcUU/edit

Here are some examples:

Science materials for weather unit

Some materials about weather unit are uploaded in our Science section. http://lindachliao.blogspot.com/p/science.html
They include a vocabulary list, videos of experiments, illustrations of weather knowledge, tests and very useful websites. Please find what you need there.

1/14 and 1/15 Homework

1/14
1. Week 21 test (1/18) (A sample was sent home today. You can also find it in Test Samples section)
2. Blue Writing Book p.21-p.23 (Due 1/18)
3. Oral quiz: Chinese Poem 2 tomorrow (See Chinese Poem section for reading and meanings)
4. Read L6 Words
5. Read science vocabulary  for science test (1/18) (We test weather knowledge in Chinese so you need to know the things that will be included in our test ) (A vocabulary list was sent home today. Vocabulary list is also provided to be downloaded in science section)

1/15
1. Read L6 words 3X
2. Bring L6 blue flashcards
3. Oral quiz: L6 words on 1/17.
4. Read Chinese Poem 2 to parents + initials

Chinese Poems and reminders for Week 20

I have uploaded two poems we learn this two weeks.
They are here: http://lindachliao.blogspot.com/p/chinese-poems.html
Or you can find the section on the top of our homepage http://lindachliao.blogspot.com/
In the videos, you can listen to the poems twice and repeat with the texts, once without pinyin and then with it.
If you want to review what each poem is about, please click on the links I provided.

Reminders:
1. Please see 1/9 post for homework.
2. Please bring Chinese Poem 2 worksheet on Monday.
3. An oral test for L5 story is on Monday (http://lindachliao.blogspot.com/p/level-3-textbook-stories.html)
4. An oral test for Chinese Poem 2 is on Tuesday. (We have 48/51 students passed the oral test for Chinese  
    Poem 1 last week. We will keep on recite the poems at least once a day. And remember, we will need to
    be able to recite at least ten poems by the end of this school year. )
5. There will be a science test for the weather unit on 1/18 (Friday.) I will provide special terms we learn in this unit for them in Chinese and the meanings in English. I will let them know when it is done on Monday. The materials with English meanings can be found in the science section on our homepage. (http://lindachliao.blogspot.com/p/science.html)

6. Please stay warm in the cold weather. I hope to see everyone with a lot of energy at school everyday and we won't miss anything that we learn together.
Happy weekend!!!

1/9-1/11 Homework

1/9
1. Read L5 Stories 3 times
2. Oral test: Blue Story Book L5 on 1/14 (See http://lindachliao.blogspot.com/p/level-3-textbook-stories.html)

1/10
Week 20 Test on Friday (See http://lindachliao.blogspot.com/p/3a-test-samples.html)

1/11
Review and Fix Week 20 test. Need to bring it back on Monday.
Don't forget our oral test for L5 Stories on Monday
Read Chinese Poems 1 and 2 (See http://lindachliao.blogspot.com/p/chinese-poems.html)

1/7 Homework

1. Study Week 20 Test (Sample uploaded in "Test Sample" section too)
2. Read Chinese Poem 1 once
3. Read L5 Stories once

HAPPY 2013...and our homework today (Chinese Poem 1)

It's so glad to see all of you again after the long winter recess. I had a great time in Taiwan getting together with families and friends and having wonderful food there. Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun, too.
Love to have you all back!!!

We will start to learn Chinese poems from the beginning of this year. I will choose fifteen poems this year and they will need to be able to recite at least ten of them. I will ask them to read to the parents too, so please initial on the worksheet after they read to you.

Our homework today is to read the poem at least three times so they can be able to read it to me tomorrow.
Here is our first poem.

登鸛雀樓 王之渙

白日依山盡， 黃河入海流。

欲窮千里目， 更上一層樓。

Videos of this poem. Listen to them and repeat.

 Repeat three times

Video with pinyin

Reading and meanings

Video with pinyin, singing and meanings including explanation in English in the last part.

This is the worksheet for the first poem.