Weekly Newsletter #25

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Dear Parents,

This has been a busy week, and next week will be even busier. Thanks to all the parents who attended the PTA meeting on Monday. The safety issues regarding the construction on Haiqing Lu have been discussed with all students, and we hope there will be no further problems.

On Tuesday, Mr. De Souza and myself conducted an assembly to inform the students about the upcoming International Food and Culture Festival on Friday, September 21st. We had a lottery, and each grade in the IED randomly chose a country to represent. Third grade chose Italy, and we will study Italy in preparation for the festival. We have decorated our classroom with an Italian theme, and we will cook spaghetti and meatballs with garlic toast with class 3-2. To see a video that introduces the festival, you may visit the class website at www.3-1kisq.blogspot.com or go to http://youtube.com/watch?v=QLS1rI6MLeU

Similar to our last cooking day when we made fruit salad, our class will need help from mothers to supply cooking materials. We will need three gas-range stoves, and large pots for cooking the noodles and tomato sauce. We will also need a large frying pan to cook the meatballs, and toaster ovens to toast the garlic bread. Mrs. Choi will be in contact next week to inform about this. Hopefully it will be a fun and interesting day with lots of delicious food from around the world!

Now, to update about what we did this week and what we will do next week.

Reading

We finished reading “The Adventures of Frog and Toad.” Next week we will begin a new book. Students are welcome to take these books home but they must return them within a few days in good condition.

English with Mr. Bean

This week we studied the episode “Car Trouble.” The video and question sheets are available on the class website if you wish to review them.

Science

This week we learned about hurricanes, tornados, tsunami etc. Next week we will focus on earthquakes and tornados. I encourage students to take the science book home and review with tutors, as it seems students have trouble with the science-related sentences in Daily English.

Megaflash

We are on almost finished Unit 7. I am preparing the students to write a test next week. I have spent a lot of time reviewing the things we learned before summer vacation. When the Megaflash book is finished, I am considering moving on to the Let’s Go series, perhaps studying level 5.

Italy

This week, we learned a lot about Italy, and we decorated our classroom. I do intend to continue studying Italy similar to how we studied Egypt, and I would like to test them in this information.

Now here is the spelling list for next week.


1. spaghetti
2. culture
3. Italians
4. gelato
5. Coliseum
6. museum
7. earthquake
8. volcano
9. landslide
10. possessive
11. rescues
12. mechanic
13. tectonic plate
14. destroy
15. engine
16. balloon
17. ruined
18. traffic
19. greedy
20. euro


Now here is this week’s Daily English, dealing with frequency, science, and giving reasons using “because”:

1. Italy is in Europe. It is shaped like a boot.

2. Rome is the capital city of Italy. It has more than 5 million people.

3. The Coliseum is in Rome. It is almost two-thousand years old.

4. Earthquakes happen when the earth’s tectonic plates hit eachother.

5. A landslide happens when soil on a hill slips.

6. My favorite international food is _____________ because it tastes ____________.

7. The most interesting thing about Italy is ____________________________________.

8. I think our classroom looks very (adjective). We should decorate it with (noun).

9. (Tell the teacher a funny joke._

10.(Ask the teacher an interesting question.)


That is all for this week! Have a nice weekend!

Regards,
Mr.Garrioch