Weekly news

 

  Week 37 ( 5/13~5/17）                                                                   

Dear Parents,

Hope you all got the sweet card for Mother's day. Hope your kid read what they write for you. Their writing and painting is so awesome because of plenty of love they have for you. Happy mother's day. Happy everyday.

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/2013/05/happy-mothers-day.html

Math
We have done the last topic: Fraction. I let kids bring their workbook home today. We will stated to review what we learn this school year, and reinforce the two-digits addition and subtraction. Please help check and encourage and praise them after they finish their math homework everyday. It means a lot to them. They are very good and motivated kids.

Chinese
We are reviewing all lessons and try to intergrade. Kids have learned many basic sentences patterns and they can start to create their own words that they want to say in Chinese. I am so excited when they create their sentences. Sometimes the classes are kind of noisy, but I can't stop them. Because they are speaking Chinese. So proud of them.

We will go to Clark planetarium tomorrow. Please don't be late. Our bus will leave at 9:15 pm.

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/

Sleep well…

Fengyin Lee

 

  Week 35~36 ( 4/29~5/3）                                                                   

 

Dear volunteer moms for field trip,

We will leave school at 9:15 am on May 15. Please arrive school by 9:00 am. And please give me (my home base )( give Mrs Anderson if your kids are in Mrs Anderson's home
Base ) $6  for your entrance when you come to the class.

Please don't bring any treats to kids. Thanks for helping and taking care of our lovely and energetic kids. : )

Fengyin Lee

 

 

Dear parents,

We grouped our kids and volunteer moms for our field trip on May 15. Thanks for all volunteer moms coming to help. If you miss this chance, we will have a field day on June 4. Welcome you to join us then. The following is the group list:

Mrs Collard: (5) Zayzee, Hannali, Jaci, Eden, Alyssa
Mrs Hendricks: (6) Adrian, Sydney, Sophie, Ava, Chase, Cohen
Mrs Amaya Penunuri: (5) Natalia, Paige, Sierra, Elina, Jasmine
Mrs Miller: (6) Sam, Nash, Mitchell, Mason, Ashton, Gage
Mrs Martin: (6) Ben, Dylan, Alexander, Luke, Rex, Tate
If you haven't returned the parents agreement and school lunch order for that day, please return it back ASAP. If you still have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me.
Thank you very much for your help and support.

Have great day!

Fengyin Lee

  Week 28~34 ( 3/11~4/26）                                                                   

 Dear Parents,

I am so glad to see that he  closer to the end of school year, the more Chinese that our kids can speak in class. I am more strict in letting kids try to speak all Chinese in class. They are trying very hard everyday and really improve a lot.
Math
We are done the Topic 13: Time ( Time to the hour and half hour ) last month, and also done the Topic 14: Graphing last week. Kids already brought those workbooks home. We are doing Topic 16: Fraction. We have math homework (review) everyday. Kids are very good at doing homework and returning to me. Thank you so much for your cooperation.

ChineseWe are done all Chinese curriculum ( Better Chinese Vol. 1 and 2 ). Now we are reviewing. I made a workbook for them with 80 pages. It includes all basic sentences patterns, some math concepts and many useful terms in our everyday life.  We are using this  workbook for reviewing ( listening, writing, reading and speaking ) everyday. I hope they can keep this book for reviewing at summer, if they have too much free time. It must be helpful for preparing to be in 2nd grade Chinese class.

Field Trip
We will have field trip to Clark planetarium and Midvale Park(?)  on May 15.
We will leave school at 9:15 am and have lunch at park on 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm.
We can have FIVE volunteer moms to go with. If you want to go with us, please e-mail me. First come first serve. Each adult needs to pay $6 entrance fee.  
If you have any questions, please e-mail me.

Thank you very much.
Fengyin Lee
 

  Week 25~27 ( 2/18~3/8）                                                                   

 

Dear Parents,

Our PT conference in on March 6 ( tomorrow ) and 7. It is still in kiva in school hour. But after school, we will sift to Mrs Anderson's class.  You may come about 5 mins earlier than your scheduled time. If you come in school hour, please go to class to pick up your kid first then come to the kiva TOGETHER. Thanks so much for your help.

The PTA will host he Book Fair that is set up in the Media Center and is open Wednesday from 3:30-7:30 p.m., and Thursday from 2:45-7:30 p.m.

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-fair.html

Math lesson

We are done the Topic 12:Measurement. Kids really enjoy the hand-on activities and all of them are very focused. They can also do a great job in group. They listened to my directions and followed the group leader. I am so proud of them.

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/p/todays-math.html

We have done the Topic 12 and Topic 10. The morning class bring one ( Topic 10) workbook home today, and the afternoon class bring the two ( L12 and L10 ) workbook home today. I will let the morning class the bring the other book home next week. It really make much more than the other lessons to teach "Measurement", but kids like it very much.

The math schedule in March is Topic 10 and reviewing Topic 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12. We will keep reviewing the two-digit addition and subtraction this month. Please help kids check and review their workbook and homework. There is no doubt. They can learn much better with your accompany, help and encouragement.

Chinese Lesson

L17 What pets do you have?

L23 What animal does have long nose?

We are learning pets and animals these two weeks. We try to combine these two related lessons together. Besides the basic vocabularies ( dog, cat, bird, fish, elephant, giraffe, snake, Monkey..)in textbook, we also learn some extra words about animals ( frog, chicks, turtle, rabbit, penguin, pig...). Kids are very interested in imitating every animals. Learning from playing. It really helps them remember the words.    

We still keep practicing writing. Our kids love writing. Some kids can remember and recite the names of every stroke when we start to write a character. They are amazing. We practice the characters in Volume 1. We can go back to review the lessons. It's also much easier for them to learn writing something that they have been familiar with for a while.

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/2013/03/chinese-writing.html

I am really proud of our kids learning so hard and so well. Thank you so much for your support all the time. If you have any questions, please e-mail any time or bring to the PT conference.

See you in PT conference.

Have a great evening.

Fengyin Lee

 

  

  Week 23~24 ( 2/4~2/15）                                                                   

Dear Parents,

We had a  very happy Valentine's day and Chinese new year at school this week. You can see the how happy and excited they are from their laughter. This week is really a HIGHLIGHT of all school year.  Please enjoy the photos in our class blog.

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/2013/02/happy-chinese-new-year-3.html

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/2013/02/happy-valentine.html

Thanks for all volunteer moms who brought some much fun games for kids.


We are going to have a CAREER DAY next Wednesday morning. There will be a parent from ANIMAL CONTROL bringing several animals to class. We are not sure what kind of animals that he will bring. It might be cats or dogs.  I just want to remind you kindly that if your kids in my morning are allergic to animals, please tell me before Wednesday. We can switch your kids to A. Anderson's class.

Next week is WHITE ROBBON/ BULLY WEEK. We have some activities in our school. Kids can be dressed with the flowing funny directions ( optional ):
Tuesday: Crazy hair/ Hat day.    I control what goes in my head.
Wednesday: Wear White.   Be safe online.
Thursday: Wear Jeans and Draper spirit wear.   I'm technology Jean-ius.
We will have a bully assembly at 1:30~2:25 pm Wednesday.
Friday: Wear Blue. No Bullying.


Have a great LONG weekend. :-D

Fengyin Lee
 

 

  Week 22  ( 1/28~2/1）                                                                   

Dear Parents,

Chinese New Year is around the corner. The students in Taiwan now is taking their one-month ( we usually have three-week) winter vacation, because Chinese New Year this year is late in solar calendar ( The Chinese New Year is counted in Chinese Lunar calendar. It’s on February 9 in 2013. )

There are two Chinese activities that you might be interested in. One is in Cottonwood high school, and one is in Lehi high school. Please see the attached files.

We also do a lion mask ornament this week. They did a great job and can’t wait to bring it home to share with you. 

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/p/artwork.html

Math

Our math standard schedule in February is Topic 9 and  Topic 12. And we are doing Topic 9.

Comparing/ Ordering Numbers to 100 ( Topic 9) and Measurement ( Topic 12)
1.     Comparing using > < =
2.     Ordering numbers on a 100 chart
3.     Estimating and measuring length with nonstandard and standard units


Chinese

We are learning L16: I like sports.
http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/p/todays-chinese.html

Have a great weekend.

Fengyin Lee

Week 21  ( 1/22~1/25）                                                                   

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Dear Parents,

I have done our M-com math test this week. All kids did awesome job. I am so proud of them. I also appreciate what you did for them.

Math

We finished the topic 8 today. Kids will bring our math workbook today. If you have time, you can help them review on www.pearsonsuccessnet.com. I believe they will benefit a lot from reviewing.

We are going to have CFA2 math test next week.  This test includes topic 4~7, and 15. We did the CFA1 by hardcopy last time, but we will try to have kids use laptop to do the test this time. If you still have time, please help kids review and practice to answer questions online. This is a “skill” that our young kids need to learn.

Chinese

We are reviewing L13, learning L14, L15 and previewing L16. We learn Chinese in spiral way. Two to three weeks before we start a lesson, we start to learn the key vocabularies in that lesson. After kids are familiar with those words, it’s easier to learn sentences.

We never really FINISH a lesson, because we need to review again, again and again.

The best part to be a teacher is to see our students are enjoying in learning and did learned what we teach. Thank you so much for letting me have your great kid in my class. I did enjoying teaching. Thanks for all you do.  

Have a great weekend.

PS: I have 5 new posts in our class blog. There are some information on each post. You may have a look and see how hard our kids are learning. : )

Chinese Character Writing  http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/2013/01/chinese-character-writing.html

Read, Ask and Answer http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/2013/01/chinese-character-writing.html

Give me the microphone http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/2013/01/give-me-microphone.html

Indoor Recess  http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/2013/01/indoor-recess.html

PE~2 http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/2013/01/pe2.html

Fengyin Lee

Week 20  ( 1/14~1/18）                                                                   

Dear Parents,

Thanks for your coming for our first grade Fun Frolics. Hope you have a great time with your kids. Please enjoy the photos that I post in our class blog.
http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/


Chinese

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We have been done the Better Chinese Volume 1 ( Lesson 1 to 12) before Christmas. And we are doing Lesson L14 now. We review and reinforce the previous lessons everyday. These are very fundamental sentence patterns and contents that we can use in our everyday life.

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/p/todays-chinese.html




Math

We are almost done the L8. Our math schedule is about a week prior than the state and district's standard.  We have plenty of time to practice and review our M-COM and CFA math tests. We are going to have these two tests next week. I think all (most) kids bring math homework back and practice everyday this week. Most kids do a great job, and some kids make lots of progress during this week. Thank you so much for your help.

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/2013/01/math-class.html

L7 and L8: 
Counting/ Number Patterns to 100 and Tens and Ones
1. Making and using numbers 11-20
2. Counting patterns on a 100 chart
3. Group of 10 and leftovers
4. Expanded from

If you have any questions about our curriculum, math test, homework or anything, please feel free to email me. 
Thank your very much for your support and have a great long weekend.

Fengyin Lee

Week 13 14  ( 11/19~11/30）                                                                   

Dear Parents,

Thanks for your coming to parent-teaching conference. I am so grateful of having so many wonderful kids in my class this year. They are learning much faster and better than my last year students. To be honest, it was a kind of hard for me in teaching them at the beginning of the school year. And I know it's much harder for them to be in Chinese class for 3.5 hours everyday. If I were them, I would be bored to death.  But they are still learning very hard, even though they talked a lot to each other in English.  And for me, I was used to the interaction with my old students last year. I only remember how happy I was with them everyday and totally forgot we also had hard time at beginning.  Fortunately, now most kids can understand what I am talking about in Chinese and study harder in class. This is the most exciting thing in the world for a teacher, especially for a Chinese teacher alone  here. They are my dearest kids, my family. I enjoy a lot with them everyday.

We enjoy very much in class everyday so we sincerely invite you to our Chinese class. We are going to have a Open House on November 28. Morning Chinese classes have an open house from 9-10 am.  Afternoon Chinese classes have an open house from 2-3 pm. Please come to see how hard our kids are learning.

Wishing you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with your family.



Mrs Lee

Week 12 ( 11/12~11/16）                                                                           

Dear old and new parents,

I post some popular(mostly in Taiwan) songs in our blog.  Welcome to download when you have a long trip by car. I will also keep continue to posing more songs. You can also see many other songs on the right column after clicking on the song in YouTube.

I don't teach all songs in our blog. Because after learning Target language and math in Chinese, kids are tired. Our math and language schedule is very intense, and we really don't have much time to learn many songs.  But I try to use the sentences that we learned in class as lyrics to make a easier song. Then we can review what we learn by singing.

Have fun with your kids.

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/p/sing-song.html


Mrs Lee

Week 11 （11/05~11/09）                                                                       

Dear parents,

We are sending an ENVELOP home today. There are some papers inside.
Report card: ( X1, White)about reading, math, social studies, science studies and behavior.
SEP conference form: ( X2, one blue, one white) if you have any questions, please write it down on the white paper.
Chinese report card: ( X1, I just do the listening and speaking parts. We will evaluate the writing next time and do the reading part at the end of the school year.)
Draper Dragon conference sheet: ( x1, to remind your SEP conference schedule)
Math

I have done the chapter 3. Our math schedule in November is Addition and subtraction to 12.
Most kids can do addition and subtraction under 10 very well, but not to 12. (Because they have only ten fingers.) We will teach new strategy to do that in this month.

Chinese

We will learn  L5 this and next week. Which school do you go to? And Which grade are you in?
We wil reinforce L6. It's I love my family.

If you have any questions about SEP conference, please feel free to e-mail me and Mrs Anderson.
Thank you.

Have a great week.

Mrs Lee

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Dear parents,

One more important reminder.
PLEASE bring that envelope with you, when you come to the SEP conference. If you have any questions about any grade on that, we cal discuss about them.

We will also give you the reading improvement report card and math improvement report card ONLY on the day you come for the SEP conference. You can see kids' improvement from kindergarden to 1st grade. They probably didn't improve on that test, because the district did that at the start of the school year. After a LONG summer vacation, most kids forgot what they learned in kindergarden. Our next AIMSweb tests for reading and math in this winter, I believe all kids will make (little, a lot, huge…) improvement next time. They are working very hard and have been doing a great job so far.

Thank you so much for your support that make our kids make such improvement.

Mrs Lee

Week 10 （10/29~11/02）                                                                         

Dear Parents,

I am so impressed that most kids return the homework the next day during last week. Thank you very much for your support. I checked out their homework. They all did a great job. Thank you very much for your support.

Chinese

We are learning Lesson 4: What is nationality? Please check up the Today's Chinese.
We are still practicing L1 to L3. We learn more sentences based on the basic sentences.
For example:
How are you? >>>  How are you TODAY? I am fine Today.
How old are you? >>>  How old is your dad/ mom/ sister/ brother...?
(The people in family is in Lesson 6, but I have already learned the name of the family people in Calendar math everyday.)
We also need to practice not only answering my questions, but also asking questions at the same time. We need to practice speaking to fluency. I try my best to make sure everyone get chances to ask and answer questions and we try to make it more interesting.

As to the Chinese writing, we just practice basic writing. Let kids familiar with Chinese character. Sometimes it's just a component of a character, we don't really use that character. It's the basic writing for the beginners from the workbook of Better Chinese. We will practice to write a phrase or sentence after kids get used to the rules of Chinese writing. That would be more understandable for them.


Math

We are learning addition and subtraction under 10 in many ways, such as: ten frames, known/ unknown park of a number, story questions.....We have done the Chapter 2, and let kids bring the book home. We are doing Chapter 3. It's also about the addition and subtraction under 12. And 5 and 10 relationships. We are practicing that in our calendar math everyday too.

We are going to have a CFA test on second week of November. That's that test for Chapter 1~3 (Counting numbers, known and unknown part of a number, compare two/ three numbers from greatest to least, vice verse, > and <, short story questions, addition and subtraction under 12 ). We will have quiz everyday since tomorrow till the CFA test day.  I will let kids to bring the quiz home everyday. You can help kids to practice that type of math questions.

If you have any questions or you just want to know about your kid's learning and behavior in Chinese class. You are welcomed anytime. You can come in to watch or help anytime even though you don't sign to be a volunteer.

If you have any questions about kids, homework or everything, please feel free to e-mail me. Thank you so much for your support.

Mrs Lee

Week 9 （10/22~26）                                                                         

10/22

Dear parents,

We have a Chinese homework and a math homework today.
In Chinese homework, that is the wordbook going with our textbook "Better Chinese". There is a big character on the top of the paper. It shows all strokes in Chinese.
The kids only need to trace and write 6 words in the square.
This is the word   人   . It means person, people.

In math homework, we are doing under 6 subtraction. Most kids can do it very well with their fingers.

After a long weekend, I am so glad to see that all kids can still remember Chinese and still study very hard. The kids in the afternoon are a kind of tired today. I know it's the common syndrome after a long weekend. The library lady said they were very  good in the library. Proud of them.

Please let kids return the homework tomorrow. We will have this type of Chinese and math homework this week. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.  Thank you for your support.

Have a great evening.

Mrs Lee

Week 7~8 （10/8~19）                                                                         

Math

1.Using addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing ( two numbers: 大 （greater), 小(smaller) ), with unknowns in all positions, eg., by using objects. drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

2. Understnad subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10-8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8.

Chinese

1. Parents can help kids do their Chinese homework by checking out the page "Today's Chinese".
Recognize and write the sentences in Lesson 1~3.

We will try to learn writing next week. After that, we have Chinese homework. Every character has its stroke order on the top of the paper. The basic rules for stoke is from top to down, from left to right, from outside to inside.

10/17

Dear parents,

I am so excited to tell you that our kids are doing great job in class and they are progressing everyday. I know they are leaning very hard to be a good students in Chinese class. For example: They try to repeat after me. They can understand and say some simple sentences that we use everyday in our class. They know many math words in Chinese. I know it's very hard for them. They need to learn math, and they also try their best to understand and say those words at the same time…. We almost find out our common rhythm.  I am so proud of them.

I will post our weekly reviewing plan on Weekly New in our class blog every week. We totally can catch up the schedule that the sate government set for us. I also provide some supplementary books and math worksheets for kids. They are like a sponge. They surprise me all the time.

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

We have math homework everyday these two weeks. I am so grateful for all parents' support. Most kids can return their homework the next day. I am so impressed of their responsibility for their homework.

Chinese review

Our kids need to learn MANY classroom vocabularies since the school started. I want them to understand these rules and basic conversation efficiently. We always practice ask and answer questions. And now all kids are getting on tract now. We can start to write Chinese characters that really help them recognize. We will start next week. We will practice at school first then I will give them homework. On the top of every Chinese worksheet, there are stroke orders of every character. You can help kids. You can also show the link for every word on the Today's Chinese on our class website.

http://mrsleedraper.blogspot.com/p/todays-chinese.html

I know some parents take kids to family trips during school day. Please don't worry about the homework in Chinese class. We always review our lesson again and again. Please go ahead to enjoy your trip.
I also post some photos on artwork and school activities. Please enjoy it. If you have any questions about your kid, leaning, homework,……, please feel free to e-mail me anytime.

Thank you very much for your support.
Enjoy your fall recess!!


Mrs Lee : )

Week3~6                                                                                    

Math:

We do calendar math everyday. It contains a lots...

1. What day is today? Month/day/date
2. What's the weather today? Windy/Cloudy/Rainy/Sunny/snowy/
3. Counting 1~50. Skip counts by 2, 5 and 10....
   ( One class can count to 100 today (Sept. 25). I am SO proud of them.)

4. Math practice

5. Reading Chinese little books.

6. Review Chinese sentence patterns.

7. Singing songs and doing some activities. 

8. Relaxing...: )
   
Using addition and subtraction within 10 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing ( two numbers: 大 （greater), 小(smaller) ), with unknowns in all positions, eg., by using objects. drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
     
                  
Chinese:

Emphasize on listening, speaking and recognize the characters.

Lesson 1: Hello!

How are you?  I am fine. Thanks.

Hello, class. Hello, teacher.

Good-bye, class. Good-bye, teacher.

Lesson 2: What's your name? 

What's your name? My name is...

What's his name? His name is...

What's her name? Her name is...

Lesson 3: How old are you?

How old are you?  I am _____ years old.

How old is he? He is _____ years old.

How old is she? She is _____ years old.

Week 1~2                                                                                                     

Before learning math, kids need to know numbers very well in CHINESE. We try to use different ways and games to memorize numbers.
1. Each number has it's own Chinese Kongfu position.
2. Use body to write numbers. and let kids guess.
3.Write and draw.
4.Counting in different sounds, volume and in different situations ( ex: lunch counting).
5.Using manipulates.