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Welcome to December! This week we’ve focused on loving the outdoors, even when things are brown and cold.

欢迎来到十二月！ 本周我们的重点是热爱户外活动，即使事情是棕色和寒冷的。

Younger primary students learned a few new words with this week’s book: “collection” and “extraordinary!” To begin the lesson, we discussed what it means to have a collection or to collect something. A lot of students told me about their collections! In The Collectors by Alice Feagan, adventurers Rosie and Winslow trek across the forest and up a mountain to try to find something extraordinary to complete their collection of natural wonders.

小学生们通过本周的书学到了几个新词：“收藏”和“非凡！” 在本课开始时，我们讨论了拥有收藏或收集某些东西意味着什么。 很多学生告诉我他们的收藏！ 在爱丽丝·费根的《收藏家》中，冒险家罗西和温斯洛徒步穿越森林，爬上山，试图找到一些非凡的东西来完成他们对自然奇观的收藏。

Our older primary students tried something new this week: a first chapter preview! Because a lot of the Panda Book Award books are longer chapter books, Ms. Claire will be reading the first chapter or so of the next several books so our students can get a taste of all the other great titles. Soon our Panda Book Award books will arrive and our students can choose which ones they’d like to read! The first chapter preview this week came from Lia Park and the Missing Jewel by Jenna Yoon. In the first chapter, we meet Lia, who is a 12-year-old girl living in California preparing for a big exam to enter the International Magic Agency school. The only problem? She hasn’t gotten her magic power yet! Will she get a magic power in time for the entrance exam, or will she have to adjust to life with no-magic people? Read the rest of the book to find out!

我们的高年级小学生本周尝试了一些新东西：第一章预览！ 由于许多熊猫图书奖书籍都是较长的章节书籍，克莱尔女士将阅读接下来几本书的第一章左右，以便我们的学生可以体验所有其他精彩书籍。 很快我们的熊猫图书奖书籍就会到货，我们的学生可以选择他们想要阅读的书籍！ 本周的第一章预览来自詹娜·尹（Jenna Yoon）的《莉亚·帕克与失踪的宝石》。 在第一章中，我们遇到了莉亚，她是一个住在加利福尼亚州的 12 岁女孩，正在准备参加国际魔法机构学校的大考试。 唯一的问题？ 她的魔力还没有发挥出来！ 她会在入学考试前及时获得魔力，还是必须适应与不会魔法的人一起生活？ 阅读本书的其余部分来找出答案！

This week Ms. Claire is reading a nonfiction book! A Cloud a Day by Gavis Pretor-Pinney is an inspiring tribute to the beauty of clouds, both in nature and in art. Each page has stunning photos or paintings of clouds, accompanied by either scientific descriptions of the phenomena or a poetic excerpt from literature marveling at the grandeur of clouds. So often ignored, this book really makes you appreciate those fluffy puffs above!

本周克莱尔女士正在读一本非小说类书籍！ Gavis Pretor-Pinney 的《A Cloud a Day》是对自然和艺术中云之美的鼓舞人心的致敬。 每一页都有令人惊叹的云彩照片或绘画，并附有对这种现象的科学描述或惊叹于云彩壮丽的文学诗意摘录。 虽然经常被忽视，但这本书确实让你欣赏上面那些蓬松的泡芙！