2017 年 1 月 28 日 Jie Ming Kindergarten Parent Weekly Newsletter

Happy Chinese New Year to All Kindergarten Families! J (Year of Rooster) Learning of This Week Morning Meeting: ¨ Greetings & Songs ¨ Sharing Activity, Calendar, Weather, Season

Reading: ¨ Big Book: Wo De Zhong Guo Xin Nian

(My Chinese New Year) ¨ Skill: Readers can identify characters and settings

of a story

Writing: ¨ Author Study: Eric Carle

Finished our 1st project: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Language Skills: ¨ Vocabulary:

Chinese New Year ¨ Review:

Strokes & Characters “春” (spring) papercutting as part our classroom decoration:

Math: ¨ Patterns: Repeating patterns & Growing patterns

Social Studies: ¨ Chinese New Year: Da Shao Chu (the Big Sweeping

to get rid of bad luck inside the house and bring good luck in for the new year)

Chinese Names 中⽂名字 We officially started using the Chinese names two weeks ago. Students are expected to say their names correctly and write them with the correct stroke orders:

A little art project

we made with our

Chinese names on:

Important Notes ¨ Field Trip: Chinese Acrobatic Show

12:00-1:00pm at Washington Technology Magnet School, on Wednesday, February 1

¨ Jie Ming Chinese New Year Celebration In the evening on February 3, Friday at Highland Senior High. Please drop off your child at 4:45pm.

¨ February: National African American History Month.

¨ No School days in February: February 20, Monday & February 24, Friday Please mark them on your calendar

Johanna Huang (Huang Laoshi)

Email: he.huang@spps.org Work Phone: (651)293-8715