Homework for December 13

Hi Everybody!

It was great to see you today. To those kids who helped the university students with their research project, thank you very much! Well, today went a little differently than I had planned... you guys went MATH CRAZY!! So, go ahead and go crazy!! You can do ALL of the Multiplication and Division section (green... pages 177 to 206). The girls all told me that the Addition and Subtraction is SO EASY and they said they want to do that, too. OK! Pages 157 to 176 are ok to do at your own pace, too.

What you need to do, though, is think through the equations in ENGLISH!! I know you guys are great at doing math in Japanese, but you also need to be able to talk about it in English -- try saying the equations aloud in English as you do them so you remember to think in English.

For kids who were absent, although pages 84 and 85 were homework last week, a few people didn't have a chance to finish, so you have another week to get that done. We will check it next class. Today, we did page 114 in class, and everybody wrote some wacky sentences with funny adjectives. Give it a try and we'll look at the sentences next week.

Finally, although I had planned to do a dictionary activity today, we got sidetracked by math, so we'll do the dictionary thing next week, too. Please bring your dictionary to class (Ren, just 1 is enough !!).

Ok, I think that's everything. Let me know if you have any questions. See you next Saturday!!

Christie