This Past Week S Events

Week 12 Newsletter

(November 20th – 24th)

Grade 4

This Past Week’s Events

Grade 4 students started their weekly Friday spelling tests again. As today was the first one since last year, students were reminded of spatially organizing their work into a list form neatly and self-correcting their own tests. Prior to the spelling test, the students learned about different types of clothing worn throughout the world. Teachers were particularly looking for students to write the sounds their heard especially the phonetics letter combinations including “–igh”, “–ck”, and “–oo”.
This week’s curriculum focused on pieces of clothing used in both hot and cold climates in addition to learning new and specific words related to common types of clothing. The students also created types of clothing for the countries they are creating.

Next Week’s Expectations

Next week, we will continue our study of different cultures around the world and we will prepare for a trip to the Hakka Cultural Centre and Park in Taipei. Students will learn about the Hakka culture in China, Taiwan, and beyond. The trip will cover topics we have recently gone over in class including housing, clothing, and transportation. The words learning in these topics can also be used to talk about all cultures. We hope that students can make the connection from the classroom content to their world around them!

Students will continue to practice chunking the sounds of words to help them improve their spelling. We will be covering more key words and letter sounds throughout the week. We want students to recognize the sounds that make up a word, so that they can sound out the words when writing independently.

Some sounds require memorizing, such as the “–igh” sound, but the majority of sounds can be sounded out by chunking the word into pieces.

This Friday, students will be given a second spelling test on the key words. The purpose of having spelling tests is to challenge students to use this chunking of the words to help them to spell better.

Key Words

Australia
Asia
North America
South America
Africa
Europe
Antarctica
Taiwan
Japan
India
United States of America
Canada
France
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
New Zealand
Nigeria
Egypt
South Africa
China
Brazil
Peru
Argentina
Mexico / apartment
house
door
window
wall
hallway
shelter
subject
science
math
English
Chinese
social studies
polite
honest
dishonest
caring
mean
engineer
artist
plumber
electrician
teacher
Doctor
read
watching
movie
listening
music / station
airport
subway
ticket
taxi
bullet train
scooter
bus
train
plane
monorail
hard-working
history
physical education
art
music
health
draw
picture
play
instrument
sports
games
learn
study
test
difficult
easy
challenge

Key Social Conventions

What traditional clothes do ______people wear?
What traditional transportation did Hakka people use?
Where in Taiwan do many Hakka People live?
In Taiwan, Hakka People live ______.
What do traditional Hakka homes look like?
Traditional Hakka homes have ______.
Traditional Hakka homes are ______. / Traditional Hakka people wear _____.
Traditional Hakka people wear comfortable robes.
Traditional Hakka people used ______.
In Taiwan, many Hakka People live in ______.
Traditional Hakka homes have many rooms with 3 walls.
Traditional Hakka homes are round and flat.

Homework

This coming week we will be using the same homework board of the past two weeks.

Many of the subtopics being covered in the Hakka activities are the same as the last few weeks, such as, homes, transportation, location, and clothing. However, please consider this week the students must use this knowledge and apply it to talk about Hakka People. So, review is still necessary, so that students can make these connections of the words and social conventions learned in class to a local cultural group. We are especially looking for students to apply this knowledge on their fieldtrip to the Hakka Park!

Raz Kids Recommendations

Level C - New Again

Level D - My New City

Level E - The Storm

Level F - Are You From India?

Level G -Are You From Australia

Level H - The Day I Needed Help

Level I - Healthy Me

Level J - Hannah’s Townspeople

Sincerely,

The Grade 4 Teachers

光仁小學ESL雙語班週報 – 四年級

第一學期第十二週

本週重點（11/13~11/17）

四年級學生再度開始禮拜五的拼寫測驗。由於今天是自從去年以來的第一次的拼寫測驗，老師要求學生要將他們的課堂作業，以列清單的方式整齊書寫，並自己訂正自己的考卷。在拼寫測驗之前，學生學習了世界各地不同種類的衣服。老師希望學生能寫下聽到的音，尤其是字母組合的音，像是 “-igh”, “–ck”和 “–oo”。

本週除了學習新的常見衣服相關單字外，我們也學習在炎熱及寒冷的氣候下所穿的服裝。學生也為他們所創造的國家創造了不同種類的衣服。

下週重點（11/20~11/24）

下週我們將會繼續世界各地不同文化的主題，另外，我們也準備要去台北的客家文化主題公園進行校外教學。學生將會學到中國、台灣及其他地區的客家文化。這次的校外教學將會包含最近我們在課堂上所學習的主題，如：房屋、服飾以及交通工具。在這些主題中所學到的字彙也可以被用來討論文化。我們希望學生可以將教室裡面所學習的內容結合至他們周遭的環境上!

學生們將持續練習字母發音，以增進他們拼寫的能力。下週我們將學習更多的主題字彙及字母發音。我們希望學生能認識組成一個單字的聲音。這樣他們可以在獨立寫作的時候唸出單字。

有一些音需要特別去記憶，像是“–igh” 的音；但是多數的聲音都可以透過把單字拆解來發音。

這週五學生將會針對主題字彙進行第二次的拼寫測驗。拼寫測驗的目的是為了讓學生練習把單字拆解來發音以幫助他們拼寫。

主題字彙

Australia澳洲
Asia 亞洲
North America 北美洲
South America 南美洲
Africa 非洲
Europe 歐洲
Antarctica 南極洲
Taiwan 台灣
Japan 日本
India 印度
United States of America 美國
Canada 加拿大
France 法國
United Kingdom 英國
Germany 德國
Australia 澳洲
New Zealand 紐西蘭
Nigeria 奈及利亞
Egypt 埃及
South Africa 南非
China 中國
Brazil 巴西
Peru 祕魯
Argentina 阿根廷
Mexico 墨西哥 / apartment 公寓
house 房子
door 門
window 窗戶
wall牆壁
hallway 走廊
shelter 候車亭
subject 科目
science 科學
math 數學
English 英文
Chinese 中文
social studies 社會
polite 有禮貌的
honest 誠實的
dishonest 不誠實的
caring 有愛心的
mean 惡劣的
engineer 工程師
artist 藝術家
plumber 水管工
electrician 電工
teacher 老師
Doctor 醫生
read 讀
watching 正在看
movie 電影
listening 正在聽
music 音樂 / station 車站
airport 機場
subway 地鐵
ticket 票
taxi 計程車
bullet train 子彈列車
scooter 摩托車
bus 公車
train 火車
plane 飛機
monorail 單軌鐵路
hard-working 用功的
history 歷史
physical education 體育
art 藝術
music 音樂
health 健康教育
draw 畫
picture 圖片
play 玩
instrument 儀器
sports 運動
games 比賽
learn 學習
study 讀書
test 測驗
difficult 困難的
easy 簡單的
challenge 挑戰

主題句型

What traditional clothes do ______people wear?
______的人穿什麼樣的傳統服裝?
What traditional transportation did Hakka people use?
客家人用什麼傳統的交通工具?
Where in Taiwan do many Hakka People live?大部分的客家人住在台灣哪裡?
In Taiwan, Hakka People live ______.
在台灣，客家人住_____。
What do traditional Hakka homes look like?傳統客家人的住家長什麼樣子?
Traditional Hakka homes have ______.
傳統客家的房子有_____。
Traditional Hakka homes are ______.
傳統客家的房子是_____。 / Traditional Hakka people wear _____.
傳統的客家人穿______。
Traditional Hakka people wear comfortable robes.
傳統的客家人穿舒服的長袍。
Traditional Hakka people used______.
傳統的客家人用______。
In Taiwan, many Hakka People live in ______.
在台灣，很多客家人住在_____。
Traditional Hakka homes have many rooms with 3 walls.
傳統客家的房子有許多三面牆的房間。
Traditional Hakka homes are round and flat.
傳統客家的房子是圓而平的。

作業

接下來的一週，我們將會使用和前兩週相同的作業表。

在客家活動所包含的主題跟前幾週的主題是相同的，像是住家、交通工具、地區和服飾。然而這週學生必須要使用這些知識，並應用這些知識來討論客家主題，所以複習仍是必要的，學生可以將在課堂上學習過的單字以及主題句型連結到地方的文化團體上。我們特別希望學生將這些知識應用在客家公園校外教學中!