Wednesday, January 30, 2013

January 30, Wednesday 一月三十日星期三

Absent students - Please copy down the words we learned in class and show the teacher your notes when you come in. 


Today we learned several phrases about Chinese as the followings:


nǐ hǎo = hello
nǐ hǎo ma? = How are you?
wǒ hěn hǎo = I am fine
bù hǎo = no good
mǎ mǎ hǔ hǔ = so-so
hěn lèi = very tired
hěn 餓è= very hungry

And then students were asked to pull out a piece of paper and fold in half. On the top of the first half write down - nǐ hǎma? and on the top of the 2nd half write down 你nǐ 是shì 誰shéi ?  
And write down the number from 1-34 (as we have 34 students in class today). 
Each student walked around the classroom and asked the student he/she met and asked nǐ hǎo ma? Write down the answer that the person answer, and then ask nǐ shì shéi ? and write down their name. 
Example is below: 


nǐ hǎo ma?
shì shéi ?
1
 hěhǎo
 Maddie
2
 mǎ mǎ hǔ hǔ
 Noah
3
 hě餓è
 Chase
4


5


6


7


After that we discussed the answers about knowledge of China. 

Monday, January 28, 2013

January 28, Monday - 一月二十八日星期一

We read an article about China and students were asked to fill-in the answers to the questions.









Thursday, January 24, 2013

January 24, Thursday 一月二十四日星期四


Today we first introduced the classroom procedures and gave students a hall pass. Next we learned the following words, and reviewed the words taught last time. We used a soft ball and fluffy monkey to circling PQA questions.

wǒ = I 
nǐ = you
tā = he/she/it
shì = is/am/are, yes
不是bù shì = is not/am not/are not, no
sheí ? = who?
我是wǒ shì ....= I am ...
你是誰nǐ shì shuí  ?= Who are you?

Classroom Procedures/Rules



Today is the first day of the 2nd semester so first we quickly went through the classroom procedure/disclosure-

#1, Hall pass is given - students may go to the locker, restroom, or get a drink twice each term with the hall pass. The first time students go out for any reason with the hall pass, there will be a punch on it to refer that this students has been out once. The second time you use the hall pass to go out, it will be taken away to refer that you run out of your privilege to go out of classroom. If you need to go out the classroom but also run out of your hall pass, you need to ask your classmates or friends in class if they would like to let you use their hall pass. If they do, you may use their hall pass to go out. Non-used hall pass will be used at the end of the term to be a missing assignment pass, a tardy pass, an absence pass, or a 10 extra points for participation.

#2, participation points - each student may receive 15 points for their participation each time they come to the class and participate the activities in class. If a students is absent, then he/she needs to get online www.sjhchineseclasses.blogspot.com to copy down the words we learn that day onto their notebook and show the teacher their notes next day they come to earn back their participation points.

The student who talk and/or has disruptive behaviors will be marked on a piece of paper and taken away their participation points. 

absent = -15pts  (may earn the pts back by coping down the words online onto their notes and show the teacher) 

tardy = -5 pts (may use the hall pass to be a one-time tardy pass) 

talkative/distruptive behavior = -5pts (may earn extra back if their behavior is improved for making up their previous lost points)

extra points = +5 pts for striving hard to speak Chinese in class and extra effort in performance 

#3, Missing assignments - any assignment is and will be posted online. Students may download the assignments online and complete them and turn in in.

#4, Late assignments- late assignments and re-do assignments ARE ALLOWED for the class. There is mercy week for students to turn in their assignments. After the mercy week, students turn in assignments late will be given 90% of points for the assignment. The teacher ask for COMPLETED assignments. Any incompleted assignments will be returned to the owner and required to turn in COMPLETED.

#5, Referral -
if you talk while the teacher is talking or have disruptive behavior, you will be marked a tally (-1pt), two tally (-2pts); three tally (-3pts); four tally (-5pts) and your parents will receive an email that day.

If your behavior is not improved after an email sent to your parents and you still talk while the teacher is talking or have disruptive behavior, you will be marked a tally (-1pt), two tally (-2pts); three tally (-3pts); four tally (-5pts) and you will receive a blank referral and your parents will received another email that day.

If your behavior is not improved after an email sent to your parents with a blank referral and you still talk while the teacher is talking or have disruptive behavior, you will be marked a tally (-1pt), two tally (-2pts); three tally (-3pts); four tally (-5pts) and you will receive a filled-in referral and your parents will received another email that day.


If your behavior is not improved after an email sent to your parents with a filled-in referral and you still talk while the teacher is talking or have disruptive behavior, you will be marked a tally (-1pt), two tally (-2pts); three tally (-3pts); four tally (-5pts) and you will be sent to the administrator's office/ISS room directly.

For Chinese Level II and III students, they have more strict classroom policy than level I students as we have 40 students in the class. To remain class learning environment, strict classroom rules are required for Level II and III students. if you talk while the teacher is talking or have disruptive behavior, you will be marked a tally (-5pt), two tally (-10pts); three tally (-15pts) and your parents will receive an email that day.