Dear Parents,
For this week’s reading, we read about Astronomy, and we worked on the workbooks. We imagined and thought of what would it be like if we were to live on the moon. We also read about “Mummies, Tomb, and Treasure: Secrets of Ancient Egypt”, and learned the ancient Egyptians’ beliefs; that a dead person’s spirit could live forever if the body was preserved as a mummy. And most Egyptian upper-class citizens and royalty had fancy burial customs; that their tombs contained luxurious items and possessions such as food, games, water, which they believe those possessions are needed in afterlife.
For grammar class, we learned Complex Sentences and Clauses, and distinguished the difference between independent clause, a sentence that can stand alone, and dependent clause, a sentence that cannot stand alone.
For science, we learned about “The moon in motion”, and the vocabularies, “Phase, “Lunar eclipse”, “solar eclipse”, and “tide”, and we also worked on the science workbook. We reviewed the whole Chapter 5, from lesson 1 to 3, and its main ideas. We are going to have a Science test on Chapter 5 next week.
For writing, our topic was, “What is global warming? And how can we protect the earth?” Each student expressed his/her thoughts well. We also had discussions about something interesting, such as, “If you were to write a book for your age group to read, what would it be about?” and “If I had three wishes, they would be…” Through these discussions, I can better understand each student's character.
For fun day, we went to Da-An Park and played games, one of the highlights of the games was tug-of-war, teachers against students, and after some hard pulling, the students won! Everyone was excited and had fun.

For this week,

Betty – Through her writing, it shows she is a sweet person.
MJ – He likes to share thoughts with his classmates, and he expresses his thoughts well. He also writes well.
Howard – He is active in class and likes to ask questions.
Teddy – He is friendly, and he is also diligent. His reading is improving.
Irisa – She reads fast and well.
Anne – Most of the time she is quiet in class, but she likes to tell jokes and make her classmates laugh.
Have a great weekend!
Teacher Jennifer