3B L14 New words

Hi
We are going to have a REAL writing test this Friday.
There will be no word bank to copy from so I believe it will take a lot more time and hard work to practice. Please practice as early as possible (the sample was given this Tuesday.) Don't wait until the last moment to study.

New test format

For next level, we will have a different test format.
The first part will be Chinese character writing and the second part will be word-and-sound matching.
All these answers can be found in our new flashcards (green sets for home and orange sets for school).

Here is the test sample for this Friday.

3A vocabulary

We have finished 9 lessons in textbook 3A. Next week we will start five lessons in 3B.
In order to  be very well prepared for next level, you need to review all the vocabulary in the 9 lessons in 3A. It's our homework for Monday, 3/18.


Please go to http://lindachliao.blogspot.com/p/level-3-new-words.html to study.

There will be new test formats for next level. You will need to know how to write the taught words without copying from the word bank.


Now we are in our 7th Chinese poems, here is the link to review all 7 of them. http://lindachliao.blogspot.com/p/chinese-poems.html and http://lindachliao.blogspot.com/p/chinese-poem-6-10.html.

Welcome to Week 29!!! Here is the work for this week (updated 3/14)

Homework:

Monday
1. Read L11 Stories 3X (Here are all the stories!)
2. Week 29 test on 3/15 (Friday) (See sample in "Level 3 Test Samples")
3. Fix, sign and turn in week 28 test.

We will say goodbye to  our 3A book and will start 3B next week.
We will only learn L14, L16, L17, L18 and L20 in 3B.
In next level, we will add word phrase flashcards and also you will need to memorize character writing and be tested.
New materials will be provided next week.

Tuesday
1. Read L11 Stories 3x
2. Fix Blue book L11 (Due 3/15)
3. Read and complete worksheet foe Chinese poem No. 7

Wednesday
1. Read L11 stories 3X.
2. Read Chinese poem 7 (oral quiz on Friday 3/15.)

Thursday
1. Read L11 stories 3X. (When you are listening to our stories in the textbook, you should also  use our blue READING book to look up the meanings of the word or phrases you don't know and to practice word recognition.)
2. Read Chinese poem 7 (quiz tomorrow) (Link http://lindachliao.blogspot.com/p/chinese-poem-6-10.html)
3. Week 29 test
4. Bring blue book (Fix L11, sign, and turn in.)

Friday
1. Read L11 stories 3X
2. Fix week 29 test (sign and turn in on Monday.)
3. Read Chinese poem 7 to parents (sign and turn in).

Week 28 Starts (updated 3/8)

Our Homework

Monday
1. Study Week 28 test (on 3/11)
2. Write Blue Writing Book (Due 3/11)
3. Read L11 vocabulary 3x
4. Bring L11 flashcards
5. Check "Science" section for more videos about "weathering and erosion."

We had our third science test today and THUMBS UP for those who did a nice job. You prepared and you deserve a good score for yourself.  For those who didn't have what you expected, try to spend more time practicing, ask questions any time to make sure you understand every point we learn, or be careful and double check the answers you write. Also we have plenty of resources for learning and reviewing on this blog, please come back at lease twice a week (Monday and Friday) and see what updates we have. If you want to study for our oral tests, poems, or listen to stories in our textbook, then you would want  to come back at least three times a day.

Though we have finished three units (water cycle, weather and rocks and soil), I still will keep on updating the resources  (in Chinese and in English) I collected for you and please come back regularly to review. We will have a science test in May administrated by the state and I believe you would love to be very well prepared then.

Tuesday
1. Read L11 vocabulary 3 times
2. Read Chinese poems 1-6. ("Chinese Poems" sections can help you review.)

A reminder for our kids about parent teacher conference.
1. If your appointment is at school time, please come five minutes earlier and wait by where we meet. If you come with your parents after school, just be there at the time we arranged.
2. What you need to show off: ) (1) Pick your favorite poem and read to us. Please also review what the poem is about as well. (2) I will ask questions from L10 stories, so please make sure you are well prepared. (3) Pick a word for the L10 vocabulary list, tell us how to pronounce it and make a compound/complex/ long sentence with the word. Be careful! You would want to also review all the other words for the list. I might ask you extra questions. Good luck tomorrow!!!

Wednesday
1. Read L11 vocabulary 3 times
2. Early today tomorrow

Thursday

1. Read L11 vocabulary
2. Bring Blue Book (Finish L11)
3. Week 28 test on Monday
4. No school on Friday
5. Chinese comic #8. (Get a comic form from classroom or use any blank paper you have)

Science Test on Monday

They have a sample of the test to bring home and prepare for the study today.
The first part is what the test will look like and the second part is the exact same questions with pinyin.
They will need the vocabulary list and the practice sheet to study (the yellow paper that has nine illustrations on it).  See below for questions in English



Download the test sample with pinyin here

 Science Test: Rocks and Soil/March 4

Questions in English

(Note: For the word bank, I will switch the spots of vocabulary but keep their pinyin. I won’t read the answers in the word bank when they take the test.

For the question part, I will keep the question order but remove the pinyin and read to them instead.)

1. ____ is inorganic. It is a single substance.

2. ____ has one or more minerals in it. It’s a natural occurring object.

3. ____ is a rock that is formed from cooled down and hardened magma.

4. ____ is a rock formed by high pressure and you can see layers in it.

5. ____ is a rock that is formed under high temperature and high pressure inside of the Earth.

6. ____ is a process that ice, wind, water, plants, animals or change of temperature makes rocks become smaller and smaller.

7. ____ is a process that the minerals inside of a rock have a chemical reaction or dissolved and makes the rocks break, crack or become smaller.

8. ____ is a process that a rock becomes smaller and is carried away by wind, a river, a glacier or animals and the sediments are left at somewhere further and flat.

9-11. What components can we find in soil? (See practice paper #7)

12-14. What are the layers of soil? (See practice paper #8)

15. There are many plants that can live without soil because they do ____ to provide their own nutrients and also release oxygen.

16-20. What are they in a process of photosynthesis. (See practice paper #9)