Chinese New Year Week

This week is our Chinese New Year's week. It's the Year of Snake (we usually call it Year of Little Dragon)

According to the Lunar Calendar, Chinese January 1st is on 2/9 Saturday in American time zone (but it's on Sunday 2/10 to Taiwan, China, Singapore and Malaysia, etc.)

We will talk about the customs of Chinese New Year and what we do with a lunar calendar. We will learn how we name different days and what Chinese people do on each day during the biggest holiday. Also we will learn Chinese New Year stories, twelve zodiacs, songs and arts and crafts.

Students can wear red or bright color clothes if they want, but we don't force them to do so if they don't want to wear. If you have traditional Chinese clothes, you can wear it to class on Thursday and I plan to do so too.

Also, we will do calligraphy on Thursday. Please bring old newspaper to school. We will use it to cover our clothes to prevent ink stain on clothes.

Here are some resources to learn about Chinese New Year.

Chinese Twelve Zodiacs

Lucky Phrases

Chinese New Year Food

Chinese New Year Songs

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