Week of April 20-24, 2015

I seriously cannot believe we are reaching the end of April 2015! In just a month, our kindergarteners will officially be graduating from K! Looking back, I remember those tears vividly and those uncertainties ( from both parents and students!). Amazing growth is seen everywhere from students' social behaviors to academics. Oh hey! Learning a new language and being able to own those survival phrases is pretty practical to me. And THAT is why I believe GLOBE stands out from the rest of the nation.

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the National Chinese Language Conference in downtown Atlanta. There were few students from Minnesota who have been part of the Mandarin Immersion program for six to eight years. Not only they were conversing in fluent Mandarin, but they are also very global minded. Dual language immersion students set themselves apart from traditional students. Language is just one part of the components that makes up the well balanced, open minded, and risk-taking citizen.

In the month of May, we will be reviewing addition, subtraction, flat and solid shapes, place value, as well as counting. In language, we will be wrapping up with our final project, stay tuned.

Below are examples of centers as well as a Math activity.

 
Math Story Problems
The students came up with the story problems verbally in both English and Mandarin, illustrated, and wrote out the number sentence.