Weekly PWA Family Email
Week 13
November 16th, 2018
Well, this turned out to be an unexpectedly short week! But what a way to cap it off, with our annual Thanksgiving feast. Thanks to all the parents who came out and joined their children for this fun event, and to all the teachers and staff who helped with setup, cleanup, and serving the food.
And a special, heartfelt thanks to Chef Veronica, who organized and cooked this delicious feast, which included 9 turkeys, numerous sides, and desserts. We are so lucky to have her here at PWA. The meal was amazing!
Remember: November 20th is the day for make-up photos, sibling photos, class pictures, and the whole-school photo.
Also, please be sure to return your proofs and photo package choices by November 19th!
Thanks to all of you who purchased a ticket in support of the PTC’s objective of enhancing technology at PWA. The drawing took place today, and we’re thrilled to announce the winners:
The Gyenai Family: 1st Prize Raffle Basket
The Omeish/Bashagha Family: 2nd Prize $50 gift certificate to Taste of Tandoor
The Muffareh Family: 3rd Prize Candle Basket
Congratulations to you all! We hope you enjoy your prizes.
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Our Winter Concert for Preschool and Kindergarten will take place on December 13th in the gym. Our older grades will perform in the spring.
The Preschool 2s and 3s will go on at 3:00 pm
The Jr K and Kindergarten will perform at 4:00 pm.
More details to come.
Our Scholastic Book Fair will run this year from December 2nd until December 13th. Books make great Christmas gifts, and your purchases help us enhance our classroom and school libraries.
On December 7th, PWA will host a Parents’ Evening Out! From 5-7 pm, you can drop your child (ages 2 and up) off here for a movie, popcorn, and a hot dog. Take a couple hours, have dinner, do your shopping, and have some “me” time on us. This complementary annual event is a gift from teachers to parents.
We’ll have a sign-up sheet out front soon.
Spanish:
Week Nov 12-16
JK – Colors and numbers 30-40
Kinder – Consonants phonetic ( F,G,H,J ) and parts of the face
1-2 G – Weather and seasons, exercises and objects in the classroom.
3-4 G – Vocabulary: Household Items
Grammar : ¿Que es? ¿Que son? ¿What is it? ¿What are they?
This group will have a vocabulary quiz next week. ( household items )
5-8 G – Vocabulary: verbs ending ER
Grammar: The present indicative tense; regular ER conjugation.
This group will have a quiz next week (vocabulary AR verbs and ER verbs)
Mandarin:
Jr. K: Reviewed four colors (red, yellow, blue and white). Learned the names of body parts (head, foot and hand). Listened to Chinese stories. Learned Bird Flying song.
Kindergarten: Daily expressions and sentence pattern “I love my family.” Learned Pinyin finals (zhi, chi, shi, ri). Practiced color flash cards. Learned the Rabbit Song and Pinyin Song.
1st & 2nd grade: Recognized more colors (purple, silver). Learned Pinyin spelling for car, sofa, pig and hot. Practiced Shark Songs and Jasmine Song. Studied sentence pattern: Where is …
3rd -4th Grade: Focused on the names and written characters for body parts – eye, mouth, head, hand, tooth and ear. Practiced Pinyin spelling. Two worksheets homework assignment on writing Chinese characters and their Pinyin spelling. Learned a rhyming song. Big and Small usage.
5th -8th Grade: Reviewed Lesson 3 of textbook Kuaile Hanyu (seven new words and phrases, sentence patterns, dialogues & translations). New sentence pattern listening comprehension and responding in dialogues. Reviewed sentence summary for Chapter 1 in preparation for test next Wednesday.
Arabic:
Review of last week’s materials
Music:
Most of our elementary students will catch up on Music next week due to the snow day.
Jr K and K focused on learning the lyrics for their Winter Concert songs (December 13th)
5th – 8th worked with learning basic rhythms on the bucket drums.
Art:
This week we continued working on line as an element of art.
First and second graders were introduced to Larry the Line, reciting the poem and drawing him as a snake using various styles of lines.
Third and fourth graders were introduced to Gustav Klimt, an Austrian painter. They began a project imitating his painting, “The Tree of Life.”
The Tuesday Jr. Kindergarten classes created their own works imitating Klimt’s painting using a continuous line to draw a fall tree.
Due to the “snow day” yesterday and Thanksgiving, the Thursday art classes will catch up starting November 29th.
