Week 17 Highlights

Dear beloved students and parents,

Another week has flew by and I can't believe that I'm writing another 'Highlights' post! Anyways, I hope you enjoy reading this week's highlights:

• In Reading, my 402 students learned about ants. Did you know that ants can lift objects that are five times their weight? Even elephants can't do that! As for my 403 students, we learned a lot about bees. Did you know that bees make honey by taking excess water out of the nectar?
• In Writing, we wrote our last persuasive essay of the year. I urged all students to give in their 110% because they must end this year strong with an excellent essay.. and you know what? All of you did! I have to say that I'm impressed with the effort you all have put in to this week's essay. The students wrote about why we shouldn't have Good Morning English. Most students pointed out that we should do other productive things (such as writing homework and studying) instead of doing Good Morning English.
• In Grammar, we continued to learn about the present progressive tense. The trickiest part about present progressive tense is making sure that the spelling is correct. For example, if the infinitive ends with 1 vowel + 1 consonant (such as 'run'), you must double the last consonant and add -ing when changing it into the present progressive form. I've created a worksheet for students to practice so that they could sharpen their saws and all of them did superb.
• In Math, we learned about the product of fractions and whole numbers. I didn't have to explain too much to them as they are already quite familiar with this content from their Chinese Math Class.
• In Science, we learned about the properties of light. Do you remember what's the difference between transparent, translucent, and opaque objects?

Finally, I'd like to update and remind ALL of you that we will be having a Christmas Party on Friday, December 27th. Because of the party, we will be having our Spelling and Grammar Test on Thursday, December 26th next week. Please make sure to bring a gift if you would like to participate in Secret Santa. I will prepare a small snack for each student. However, you are more than welcome to bring snacks to share with everyone if you wish. Alright! I think that's all for this week. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns regarding the Christmas Party.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Ms. Wendy