Monday, 8/27  Welcome!  Hope you had a wonderful summer vacation.
                       Be sure to review Course Expectation Sheet.  Put the sheet in your Chinese binder.
                       Prepare supplies: binder w/ loose leaf notes, a quiz book, and a dry-erase marker.  Bring to school
                                                 tomorrow.
                       Review your notes.  There may be pop quiz any day.
                       Go to this website to listen to the four tones. (click "esc" to get rid of the sales pitch popup window)
                                                 Practice all 4 tones for 10 minutes.
                      
Tuesday, 8/28 Review radical sheet (handout), memorize.  You may go to this website if you want to see the
                      animation again: link
                      Review (and practice) tones (see yesterday's website link for practice)
                      Review pinyin (single finals (a, e, i, o, u), and initials (bpmf, dtnl, gkh).  Use yesterday's link to
                      hear the sounds. (practice for 15 minutes)

Wednesday, 8/29 Review radical sheet (handout), memorize. see yesterdays link for animation.
                           Review pinyin (new initials: j, q, x) use the pinyin website to hear combination of sounds
                           Review numbers 1-10, memorize, (possible quiz tomorrow)
                          
Thursday, 8/30 Review numbers 1-10.  Copy each number at least 5 times (in characters), memorize
                        Review pinyin (new initials: z, c, s).  use pinyin website to hear the sounds
                        Review radical sheet (handout), memorize.  (see animation website if you wish)
                        There will be a quiz next Tuesday (1. numbers 1-10 in pinyin and characters, 2. pinyin: what
                        you've learned up to today, 3. radicals: what you've learned so far)
                       

Friday,8/31 (period 5 drop)
                   Period 7 students: review radical
                                              new initials: zh, ch, sh, r (listen to combination of sounds using pinyin website)
                                             
 
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Mandarin 1 students: welcome to Wulaoshi's Mandarin classroom! 

Just sit back and relax for the weekend. 

We are going to have a fun year learning Chinese.