Dear parents and students,

It’s SO GOOD to see your kids’ faces (and their dogs/cats) on flipgrid. It’s such a fun experience. I’ve given them video responses on flipgrid. Please check it out. Below are the links to go there.

https://flipgrid.com/32dc6756    https://flipgrid.com/e953e04e

Also, a few parents have shared with me a very helpful app called Google translate. It reads your kids’ Mandarin work and translate it into English immediately. It helps your kids learn Mandarin and do the homework. However, as always, please keep it to the minimum. Another great feature is that it can read the Mandarin text out loud. When your kid reads his/her book-bag book and encounter unknown words, this app can read it out loud for him/her. This is very helpful! I’ve put some basic introductions of it at the bottom.

Today, there are two parts in our learning plan- Math and Mandarin. Please follow the instructions below.

 Math

• Please watch the flipgrid video below.

2nd grade: https://flipgrid.com/adf70c7b

3rd grade: https://flipgrid.com/c66880aa

• Please visit Khan Academy and finish the homework assigned to you there. Please follow the same steps that I shared yesterday to enter. Please watch all the learning videos first. Then, go to the quizlet website (see below for each grade). The quizlet lists the important vocabulary that you might need when you do the exercise. Go through this list. Look at the vocabulary word, press the audio button, listen to its Mandarin pronunciation and English definition, and take a look at the picture. Go through every word. You may go back to this list if you need to when you are doing exercise. Afterwards, go back to Khan Academy and do the exercises.  You may go back and watch the learning videos whenever you need to.

2nd grade: https://quizlet.com/_8821pt?x=1jqt&i=2eu679

3rd grade: https://quizlet.com/_8822tm?x=1qqt&i=2eu679

Mandarin

Please find the story sheet in your homework folder (as shown below). Please read the story by yourself first. If you don’t know a word, just skip it. Afterwards, you may listen to my audio reading of this story.

Students should finish the three questions on the sheet. Please encourage them to try their best. After they are done, they can look at the answer keys below. He/she needs to use a pen/pencil of another color to correct their own answers. Please take a picture of his/her corrected homework and send it to me. Thank you!

Answer keys:

1. 因为他不会说英语，很想念中国的朋友和老师。
2. 我们每个人都花时间陪他玩、说话。父母给他讲故事，猜谜语，带他去公园踢足球，或者去湖里游泳。
3. 他现在变得越来越开心了。

Resources: Google Translate

Find it on your app store.

Have it set up to go from chinese to English as seen on the top of the picture.

Click the camera button. Use your camera to hold it over mandarin characters and it translates the characters to English. 

You could also take a picture of the Mandarin text beforehand. Go to google translate, click the camera button, choose the upload option, upload your picture, use your finger to color all the texts, click the blue button once it pops up, and you will be directed to another page. On that page, there is a sound button above the Mandarin text. Click it and it will read the text in mandarin out loud. (It’s a great tool to help your kids practice reading. )Also, there are English translations on the bottom.

Answer Keys for Yesterday’s Fill-in-blank sheet

(Disregard this part if you have sent me your kids’ fill-in-blank work.)

If you haven’t sent me your kids’ fill-in-blank work yesterday, your kids may check their answers after they are done by themselves. He/she needs to use a pen/pencil of another color to correct their own answers. Please take a picture of his/her corrected homework and send it to me. Thank you!

1. 难看
2. 迷路
3. 难过
4. 谜语
5. 耐心
6. 摸
7. 迷路
8. 模仿
9. 难看
10. 耐心
11. 谜语
12. 摸
13. 难过
14. 模仿
15. 摸
16. 迷路

 

Thank you very much for your hard work today!!

Danchao