Dear Families,
My apologies! I made a mistake on several of the report cards by accidentally reversing the DAYS LATE and DAYS ABSENT boxes on the first page. I am attaching a new first page for those of you that had the wrong numbers. If you do not have a page attached to this letter, that means your child’s report card was correct. Thank you for your understanding.
Several announcements and reminders for this week:
• No homework this week. However, please prepare your sharing. This week is a regular sharing about something you can decorate.
• Friday volunteers do not need to come this week.
• Thursday, December 14th: Cupertino Library Field Trip – Send your library cards to school in the morning!
• Friday, December 15th: Polar Express Party – wear your pajamas to school all day and bring your favorite stuffed animal!
Also, I am sad to announce that Young-Jin will be leaving Eaton school because he is moving back to Korea. Friday will be his last day with us. We will miss him and his family! Remember to say good-bye on Friday!
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
December 8, 2006
Upcoming Dates
Monday, December 11th – Friday, December 15th: No Homework Packets
I will not be sending home homework packets the week before Winter Recess, so there will be no spelling or vocabulary test because of the holidays. However, please continue to prepare your child’s sharing and continue reading daily for 15 minutes for the Book-It! Reading Log. Remember the reading logs are due when we come back after Winter Recess. *** Friday parent volunteers: You do not need to come help on Friday, December 15th. Thank you!***
Thursday, December 14th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
If it is not raining, we are planning on going to the Cupertino Library. Please remember to send your child to school with his or her library card. They must also remember their 4-digit PIN number.
Friday, December 15th: Polar Express Party
This will be a special day to celebrate the holidays! We will be doing activities and games based off of the story, The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg. It will also be a pajama day (because we are pretending to be the children in the train)! Please send your child to school in their favorite pajamas and they can also bring one stuffed animal or pillow too.
Monday, December 18th to January 1nd: NO SCHOOL – Winter Recess
School will resume on Tuesday, January 2rd.
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December is going by quickly! Next week will be a fun week for the students as we get ready for the holidays. Many activities will be different than usual.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Reva
Poem of the Week: Hannukah Rainbow
Song of the Week: Money Song
Kindness is … donating food.
Story of the Week: Sitting on the Farm
Vocabulary of the Week: People 5
Word Wall Words: all, call, eat, every, first, never, paper, shall, why
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – something you can decorate (4 complete sentences and bring object you decorated.)
• Language Arts: Theme 3 All Together Now – Week 2
• Stories: Mr. C’s Dinner
• Word Families: –ip (hip, dip, flip) and –in (fin, tin, pin)
• Sounds: verb endings –s, -ed, -ing, short I, possessives with ‘s
• Grammar: Naming Parts of Sentences
• Writing: This week we wrote letters to Santa Claus. We thought of three reasons why we have been good this year and we also wrote what gift we wished for. In addition, we made a Santa portrait with curly beards!
• Social Studies: We continued our Winter Holiday book this week with many circuits! This week, we went to Mrs. Bachelor’s class and learned about Hanukkah, we went to Miss Salter’s class and learned about Christmas in Sweden, and finally we also went to Mrs. Tambe’s class to learn about Kwanzaa. We are making fun projects for each holiday!
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee has been out the past few weeks due to a knee surgery and will not be returning until the New Year. We made a card and sent her a get well gift from Eaton. In class, we made ornaments for our class tree using dried pasta! We will hang the ornaments next week.
• Music: We saw Mrs. More this week and she taught us a song using fake candles! We turned off the lights while we sang and danced together. Also, she taught us how to play a new instrument singing Merry Christmas!
• Vision Test: On Thursday, we all had a vision test from the nurses in Cupertino. This is a nice service that Cupertino provides for its students. All first grade students have to take the vision test, and all first grade boys also take a color test. You will be notified if anything was abnormal.
• Computer: This week we used KidPix 4 to create a math project. We counted by 10’s all the way to 100 using different stamps.
Today you are receiving your child’s report card for the first trimester. Please remember that some of the standards are based on what your child should know at the END of first grade. Therefore, your child has only learned 1/3 of first grade curriculum, and they will continue to grow and improve in the next few months. If you have any questions, please send me an email or leave a note inside the report card envelope. Please keep the report cards at home, but return the envelope. Thank you.
Monday, December 11th – Friday, December 15th: No Homework Packets
I will not be sending home homework packets the week before Winter Recess, so there will be no spelling or vocabulary test because of the holidays. However, please continue to prepare your child’s sharing and continue reading daily for 15 minutes for the Book-It! Reading Log. Remember the reading logs are due when we come back after Winter Recess. *** Friday parent volunteers: You do not need to come help on Friday, December 15th. Thank you!***
Thursday, December 14th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
If it is not raining, we are planning on going to the Cupertino Library. Please remember to send your child to school with his or her library card. They must also remember their 4-digit PIN number.
Friday, December 15th: Polar Express Party
This will be a special day to celebrate the holidays! We will be doing activities and games based off of the story, The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg. It will also be a pajama day (because we are pretending to be the children in the train)! Please send your child to school in their favorite pajamas and they can also bring one stuffed animal or pillow too.
Monday, December 18th to January 1nd: NO SCHOOL – Winter Recess
School will resume on Tuesday, January 2rd.
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December is going by quickly! Next week will be a fun week for the students as we get ready for the holidays. Many activities will be different than usual.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Reva
Poem of the Week: Hannukah Rainbow
Song of the Week: Money Song
Kindness is … donating food.
Story of the Week: Sitting on the Farm
Vocabulary of the Week: People 5
Word Wall Words: all, call, eat, every, first, never, paper, shall, why
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – something you can decorate (4 complete sentences and bring object you decorated.)
• Language Arts: Theme 3 All Together Now – Week 2
• Stories: Mr. C’s Dinner
• Word Families: –ip (hip, dip, flip) and –in (fin, tin, pin)
• Sounds: verb endings –s, -ed, -ing, short I, possessives with ‘s
• Grammar: Naming Parts of Sentences
• Writing: This week we wrote letters to Santa Claus. We thought of three reasons why we have been good this year and we also wrote what gift we wished for. In addition, we made a Santa portrait with curly beards!
• Social Studies: We continued our Winter Holiday book this week with many circuits! This week, we went to Mrs. Bachelor’s class and learned about Hanukkah, we went to Miss Salter’s class and learned about Christmas in Sweden, and finally we also went to Mrs. Tambe’s class to learn about Kwanzaa. We are making fun projects for each holiday!
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee has been out the past few weeks due to a knee surgery and will not be returning until the New Year. We made a card and sent her a get well gift from Eaton. In class, we made ornaments for our class tree using dried pasta! We will hang the ornaments next week.
• Music: We saw Mrs. More this week and she taught us a song using fake candles! We turned off the lights while we sang and danced together. Also, she taught us how to play a new instrument singing Merry Christmas!
• Vision Test: On Thursday, we all had a vision test from the nurses in Cupertino. This is a nice service that Cupertino provides for its students. All first grade students have to take the vision test, and all first grade boys also take a color test. You will be notified if anything was abnormal.
• Computer: This week we used KidPix 4 to create a math project. We counted by 10’s all the way to 100 using different stamps.
Today you are receiving your child’s report card for the first trimester. Please remember that some of the standards are based on what your child should know at the END of first grade. Therefore, your child has only learned 1/3 of first grade curriculum, and they will continue to grow and improve in the next few months. If you have any questions, please send me an email or leave a note inside the report card envelope. Please keep the report cards at home, but return the envelope. Thank you.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
First of December
Upcoming Dates
Tuesday, December 5th: Family Night at the Book Fair 6:00pm-8:00pm
Our regular Eaton library visits on Friday mornings were cancelled this week and next week because of the Book Fair. Therefore, our next Eaton library visit will be on Friday, December 15th.
Monday, December 11th – Friday, December 15th: No Homework Packets
I will not be sending home homework packets the week before Winter Recess, so there will be no spelling or vocabulary test because of the holidays. However, please continue to prepare your child’s sharing and continue reading daily for 15 minutes for the Book-It! Reading Log. Remember the reading logs are due when we come back after Winter Recess. *** Friday parent volunteers: You do not need to come help on Friday, December 15th. Thank you!***
Thursday, December 14th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
If it is not raining, we are planning on going to the Cupertino Library. Please remember to send your child to school with his or her library card. They must also remember their 4-digit PIN number.
Friday, December 15th: Polar Express Party
This will be a special day to celebrate the holidays! We will be doing activities and games based off of the story, The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg. It will also be a pajama day (because we are pretending to be the children in the train)! Please send your child to school in their favorite pajamas and they can also bring one stuffed animal or pillow too.
Monday, December 18th to January 1nd: NO SCHOOL – Winter Recess
School will resume on Tuesday, January 2rd.
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December 1, 2006
AHHH! It is so cold! I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. I read about some of your trips in the children’s Weekend News journals. It sounded like all of them had a great time! I enjoyed my trip to Taiwan and Japan very much. It was my first time in Japan and I thought it was beautiful. Plus, the food everywhere was delicious! In Taiwan, I attended my cousin’s wedding and saw many relatives that I haven’t seen for 6 years. I had a nice time.
Thank you for your generous donations of canned food to the Second Harvest Food Bank this week. It is important to teach students about having a giving heart.
We began Star of the Week this week. Each week I will choose a new Star who brings home a poster on Monday and returns it Friday of the same week. The Star of the Week should practice reading the poster with a nice and loud voice. He or she gets to also bring Beebear home for the weekend and writes a journal entry about what they did with Beebear over the weekend. Please return Beebear on Monday and be ready to share your poster and your journal! Sammy was randomly selected as our first Star of the Week.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: I Heard a Bird Sing
Song of the Week: Skip Counting
Kindness is … reading a book to someone.
Story of the Week: Jessie Bear, What Will You Wear?
Vocabulary of the Week: People 4
Word Wall Words: animal, bird, cold, fall, flower, full, look, of, see
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – favorite holiday (remember 4 complete sentence clues and a picture or object hidden in a bag.)
• Language Arts: Theme 3 All Together Now – Week 1
• Stories: Seasons
• Word Families: –ack (tack, sack) and -ap (cap, gap, map)
• Sounds: double final consonants, short a, plurals with -s
• Grammar: What is a Sentence?
• Social Studies: We started our Winter Holiday book and will be completing it in the next 3 weeks. We are studying different holidays around the world and learning about the world map. This week, we learned about Christmas in Holland, Germany, and Mexico.
• Science: We finished our Solids and Liquids unit this week. We went to the computer lab and played with a fun website that let us see what happened to solids and liquids in the oven and the freezer.
I have not received everyone’s November BOOK-IT! Reading Log. Please make sure you return the form. Thank you to Patricia and her family for sharing early Christmas presents for our class. It is a very thoughtful present and much work must have gone into making them. If you have not opened it yet, put it under the Christmas tree =) I hope all of you have a nice weekend. I cannot believe how fast time is going – already in December! See you on Monday!
Tuesday, December 5th: Family Night at the Book Fair 6:00pm-8:00pm
Our regular Eaton library visits on Friday mornings were cancelled this week and next week because of the Book Fair. Therefore, our next Eaton library visit will be on Friday, December 15th.
Monday, December 11th – Friday, December 15th: No Homework Packets
I will not be sending home homework packets the week before Winter Recess, so there will be no spelling or vocabulary test because of the holidays. However, please continue to prepare your child’s sharing and continue reading daily for 15 minutes for the Book-It! Reading Log. Remember the reading logs are due when we come back after Winter Recess. *** Friday parent volunteers: You do not need to come help on Friday, December 15th. Thank you!***
Thursday, December 14th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
If it is not raining, we are planning on going to the Cupertino Library. Please remember to send your child to school with his or her library card. They must also remember their 4-digit PIN number.
Friday, December 15th: Polar Express Party
This will be a special day to celebrate the holidays! We will be doing activities and games based off of the story, The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg. It will also be a pajama day (because we are pretending to be the children in the train)! Please send your child to school in their favorite pajamas and they can also bring one stuffed animal or pillow too.
Monday, December 18th to January 1nd: NO SCHOOL – Winter Recess
School will resume on Tuesday, January 2rd.
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December 1, 2006
AHHH! It is so cold! I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. I read about some of your trips in the children’s Weekend News journals. It sounded like all of them had a great time! I enjoyed my trip to Taiwan and Japan very much. It was my first time in Japan and I thought it was beautiful. Plus, the food everywhere was delicious! In Taiwan, I attended my cousin’s wedding and saw many relatives that I haven’t seen for 6 years. I had a nice time.
Thank you for your generous donations of canned food to the Second Harvest Food Bank this week. It is important to teach students about having a giving heart.
We began Star of the Week this week. Each week I will choose a new Star who brings home a poster on Monday and returns it Friday of the same week. The Star of the Week should practice reading the poster with a nice and loud voice. He or she gets to also bring Beebear home for the weekend and writes a journal entry about what they did with Beebear over the weekend. Please return Beebear on Monday and be ready to share your poster and your journal! Sammy was randomly selected as our first Star of the Week.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: I Heard a Bird Sing
Song of the Week: Skip Counting
Kindness is … reading a book to someone.
Story of the Week: Jessie Bear, What Will You Wear?
Vocabulary of the Week: People 4
Word Wall Words: animal, bird, cold, fall, flower, full, look, of, see
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – favorite holiday (remember 4 complete sentence clues and a picture or object hidden in a bag.)
• Language Arts: Theme 3 All Together Now – Week 1
• Stories: Seasons
• Word Families: –ack (tack, sack) and -ap (cap, gap, map)
• Sounds: double final consonants, short a, plurals with -s
• Grammar: What is a Sentence?
• Social Studies: We started our Winter Holiday book and will be completing it in the next 3 weeks. We are studying different holidays around the world and learning about the world map. This week, we learned about Christmas in Holland, Germany, and Mexico.
• Science: We finished our Solids and Liquids unit this week. We went to the computer lab and played with a fun website that let us see what happened to solids and liquids in the oven and the freezer.
I have not received everyone’s November BOOK-IT! Reading Log. Please make sure you return the form. Thank you to Patricia and her family for sharing early Christmas presents for our class. It is a very thoughtful present and much work must have gone into making them. If you have not opened it yet, put it under the Christmas tree =) I hope all of you have a nice weekend. I cannot believe how fast time is going – already in December! See you on Monday!
Friday, November 17, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving!
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, November 20th: De Anza Flint Center Field Trip
We will be traveling by bus to De Anza College to watch the play, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. We will leave around 9:30am and return by 12:00pm. Thank you Mr. Hung (Jonathan’s father) for being our chaperone.
* Wednesday, November 22nd – Friday, November 24th: NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving Break
* Monday, November 27th: Scholastic Book Orders Due!
I have attached the November and December Seesaw and Lucky book orders to today’s newsletter. If you are interested in purchasing books, please fill out the forms and write ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. Please return the forms by the Monday after Thanksgiving.
* Friday, December 1st: Turn in November’s BOOK-IT Reading Log
The December reading log will go home in that Friday Folder
* Friday, December 8th: First Trimester Report Cards go home.
Next Tuesday is the end of the first trimester. The report card will evaluate your child’s progress from the beginning of the year to this point in the year.
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Dear Families,
I hope you enjoyed the long weekend! On Monday, Anushka joined our class. Please welcome her and her family to Eaton. We learned more about Anushka during our Princess of the Day activity. You can read about Anushka on our classroom website!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Here is a Turkey
Song of the Week: Seasons
Kindness is … giving thanks.
Story of the Week: Lunch
Vocabulary of the Week: People 3
Word Wall Words: away, does, live, pull, where
Next Week’s Sharing: No sharing! Short week!
• Language Arts: Theme 2 All Together Now – Week 3
• Stories: A Hut for Zig Bug and The Rope Tug
• Word Families: –ug (hug, tug, rug) and -ut (but, hut, cut)
• Sounds: q, j, z and short u
• Grammar: Action Words
• Writing: This week we wrote several things. We discussed what Thanksgiving means and wrote about things we are thankful for. Also, we pretended we were turkeys and did a writing activity from the point of view of a turkey!
• Social Studies: We learned about Thanksgiving and the reason why we celebrate it! The students made a book called The Thanksgiving Story about Pilgrims, Indians, and the Mayflower. I hope you enjoyed reading the book with your child yesterday!
• Science: We are starting a new first grade circuit on Tuesday afternoons. This new circuit is all from a science unit in the district called Here’s Looking At You. This program teaches students how to treat others and that they are special. It also has components about staying away from drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc. This week, we worked with Mrs. Burgess on reasons why we are each special.
• Art: We continued working on our still picture drawings of flowers with Mrs. Blakeslee. This time we worked on our final draft using colors to finish our pictures.
• Music: This week with Mrs. More we sang a fun Fall leaf song where we danced and moved like falling leaves. Also, we learned a hello dance and march. We finished with our metal and wood instruments.
After Thanksgiving, we will be starting Star of the Week. When your child is the Star of the Week, they will bring home a poster on Monday and they have to complete the poster by Friday of the same week. They will need to read and share their poster with the class. Then that weekend, they will take home our class stuffed animal, Beebear. Each student will write and draw what they did with Beebear over the weekend, and return Beebear on Monday. This is a fun activity because students love to share Beebear! Don’t worry, parents, Beebear is machine washable!
Congratulations to Yo, who was our Author of the Month today. He shared a writing we did in October on monsters. Great Job! Next week is very short! Therefore, we will not be doing homework, sharing, and there will not be any Friday Folders. I will be traveling to Asia, specifically Japan and Taiwan, over the holidays because my cousin is getting married. I hope everyone enjoys the long Thanksgiving weekend!
* Monday, November 20th: De Anza Flint Center Field Trip
We will be traveling by bus to De Anza College to watch the play, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. We will leave around 9:30am and return by 12:00pm. Thank you Mr. Hung (Jonathan’s father) for being our chaperone.
* Wednesday, November 22nd – Friday, November 24th: NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving Break
* Monday, November 27th: Scholastic Book Orders Due!
I have attached the November and December Seesaw and Lucky book orders to today’s newsletter. If you are interested in purchasing books, please fill out the forms and write ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. Please return the forms by the Monday after Thanksgiving.
* Friday, December 1st: Turn in November’s BOOK-IT Reading Log
The December reading log will go home in that Friday Folder
* Friday, December 8th: First Trimester Report Cards go home.
Next Tuesday is the end of the first trimester. The report card will evaluate your child’s progress from the beginning of the year to this point in the year.
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Dear Families,
I hope you enjoyed the long weekend! On Monday, Anushka joined our class. Please welcome her and her family to Eaton. We learned more about Anushka during our Princess of the Day activity. You can read about Anushka on our classroom website!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Here is a Turkey
Song of the Week: Seasons
Kindness is … giving thanks.
Story of the Week: Lunch
Vocabulary of the Week: People 3
Word Wall Words: away, does, live, pull, where
Next Week’s Sharing: No sharing! Short week!
• Language Arts: Theme 2 All Together Now – Week 3
• Stories: A Hut for Zig Bug and The Rope Tug
• Word Families: –ug (hug, tug, rug) and -ut (but, hut, cut)
• Sounds: q, j, z and short u
• Grammar: Action Words
• Writing: This week we wrote several things. We discussed what Thanksgiving means and wrote about things we are thankful for. Also, we pretended we were turkeys and did a writing activity from the point of view of a turkey!
• Social Studies: We learned about Thanksgiving and the reason why we celebrate it! The students made a book called The Thanksgiving Story about Pilgrims, Indians, and the Mayflower. I hope you enjoyed reading the book with your child yesterday!
• Science: We are starting a new first grade circuit on Tuesday afternoons. This new circuit is all from a science unit in the district called Here’s Looking At You. This program teaches students how to treat others and that they are special. It also has components about staying away from drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc. This week, we worked with Mrs. Burgess on reasons why we are each special.
• Art: We continued working on our still picture drawings of flowers with Mrs. Blakeslee. This time we worked on our final draft using colors to finish our pictures.
• Music: This week with Mrs. More we sang a fun Fall leaf song where we danced and moved like falling leaves. Also, we learned a hello dance and march. We finished with our metal and wood instruments.
After Thanksgiving, we will be starting Star of the Week. When your child is the Star of the Week, they will bring home a poster on Monday and they have to complete the poster by Friday of the same week. They will need to read and share their poster with the class. Then that weekend, they will take home our class stuffed animal, Beebear. Each student will write and draw what they did with Beebear over the weekend, and return Beebear on Monday. This is a fun activity because students love to share Beebear! Don’t worry, parents, Beebear is machine washable!
Congratulations to Yo, who was our Author of the Month today. He shared a writing we did in October on monsters. Great Job! Next week is very short! Therefore, we will not be doing homework, sharing, and there will not be any Friday Folders. I will be traveling to Asia, specifically Japan and Taiwan, over the holidays because my cousin is getting married. I hope everyone enjoys the long Thanksgiving weekend!
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Veteran's Day
Upcoming Dates
* Friday, November 10th: NO SCHOOL TOMORROW– Veteran’s Day
* Monday, November 20th: De Anza Flint Center Field Trip
We will be traveling by bus to De Anza College to watch the play, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. I am still missing a few permission slips. Please make sure you turn them in ASAP. Also, we will have Mr. Hung (Jonathan’s father), come with us on this field trip. Thank you to the other parents who were available to chaperone, but unfortunately we can only have one parent this time.
* Wednesday, November 22nd – Friday, November 24th: NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving Break
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Dear Families,
What a short week! This will be a short newsletter as well. I’m glad the rain stopped and the sunshine came out for a while. It’s that time of the year when everyone needs to be extra careful about not getting sick! Stay warm and healthy! I wasn’t feeling well earlier in the week, so it’s definitely coming around! Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: My Nose
Song of the Week: The Eaton Song
Kindness is … offering free hugs.
Story of the Week: Lunch
Vocabulary of the Week: People 2
Word Wall Words: brother, do, for, I, said, sister
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – something you are thankful for
(Prepare 5 complete sentences and try to memorize the words.
Bring an object or picture to show while you share).
• Language Arts: Theme 2 All Together Now – Week 2
• Stories: What Can a Vet Do? and Hot Fox Soup
• Word Families: –et (pet, vet, met) and -en (ten, pen, men)
• Sounds: y, k, v, and short e
• Grammar: Naming Words
This week, we started doing many Thanksgiving projects and turkey art. We made a turkey using our hands, we wrote about things we are thankful for on turkey feathers, and we also read a Thanksgiving story about Pilgrims and Indians. November is already flying by really fast!
* Friday, November 10th: NO SCHOOL TOMORROW– Veteran’s Day
* Monday, November 20th: De Anza Flint Center Field Trip
We will be traveling by bus to De Anza College to watch the play, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. I am still missing a few permission slips. Please make sure you turn them in ASAP. Also, we will have Mr. Hung (Jonathan’s father), come with us on this field trip. Thank you to the other parents who were available to chaperone, but unfortunately we can only have one parent this time.
* Wednesday, November 22nd – Friday, November 24th: NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving Break
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Dear Families,
What a short week! This will be a short newsletter as well. I’m glad the rain stopped and the sunshine came out for a while. It’s that time of the year when everyone needs to be extra careful about not getting sick! Stay warm and healthy! I wasn’t feeling well earlier in the week, so it’s definitely coming around! Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: My Nose
Song of the Week: The Eaton Song
Kindness is … offering free hugs.
Story of the Week: Lunch
Vocabulary of the Week: People 2
Word Wall Words: brother, do, for, I, said, sister
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – something you are thankful for
(Prepare 5 complete sentences and try to memorize the words.
Bring an object or picture to show while you share).
• Language Arts: Theme 2 All Together Now – Week 2
• Stories: What Can a Vet Do? and Hot Fox Soup
• Word Families: –et (pet, vet, met) and -en (ten, pen, men)
• Sounds: y, k, v, and short e
• Grammar: Naming Words
This week, we started doing many Thanksgiving projects and turkey art. We made a turkey using our hands, we wrote about things we are thankful for on turkey feathers, and we also read a Thanksgiving story about Pilgrims and Indians. November is already flying by really fast!
Friday, November 03, 2006
Start of November
Upcoming Dates
* Thursday, November 9th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Hopefully it will not rain this time! Remember to bring your library cards to school and memorize your 4-digit PIN number. Students who did not have library cards yet will receive new ones on this visit. Students will be checking out 2 books. Please return the books to the Cupertino Library on your own (do not send the books back to Eaton).
* Friday, November 10th: NO SCHOOL – Veteran’s Day
Remember to turn in homework and library books on THURSDAY. Friday sharers should also be ready to present on Thursday. Also, Friday volunteers can come at the same time Thursday afternoon. Thank you.
* Monday, November 20th: De Anza Flint Center Field Trip
We will be traveling by bus to De Anza College to watch the play, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. There is a yellow permission slip in today’s Friday Folder. Please return it by Thursday.
* Wednesday, November 22nd – Friday, November 24th: NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving Break
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Dear Families,
This was an exciting week! I hope all of your families enjoyed our Halloween parade and had a safe time trick-or-treating. All of the children were so adorable in their costumes!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Pumpkin
Song of the Week: The Eaton Song
Kindness is … saying, “Happy Halloween” when trick-or-treating.
Story of the Week: Alice and Greta
Vocabulary of the Week: People 1
Word Wall Words: five, four, in, once, three, two, upon, what
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – an animal (Prepare 4 complete
sentences and try to memorize the words. Bring an object or picture hidden inside a bag).
• Language Arts: Theme 2 All Together Now – Week 1
• Stories: The Box and Wigs in a Box
• Word Families: –ox (fox, lox, box) and -ot (cot, hot, got)
• Sounds: d, w, l, x and short o
• Grammar: capitalizing names and word order in sentences
• Writing: This week we made a Halloween story using our senses. We pretended we were in a haunted house and described things we saw, smelled, touched, and heard. Also, we used descriptive words to write how we felt.
• Math: We are finishing Data and Graphs. We practiced making bar graphs and answering word problems to interpret the graphs. This is a difficult chapter for many students, especially problem solving questions that require students to read clues. Keep practicing!
• Science: We reviewed our Solids and Liquids vocabulary. This week we explored different types of liquids and how liquids look different in various containers. We wrote down our observations.
• Computer Lab: This week we began using another software program called Kidspiration. This program is a tool for brainstorming and making mind maps. We started creating a mind map called All About Me where we showed our favorite colors, animals, foods, and shapes. We will be continuing our project next week.
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee taught us how to do still life drawings of flowers. We also did several drafts in pencil and then in colored pencil to create the final picture.
• Music: Mrs. More taught us about rhythm and beats by playing big and small drums. We also used the wood and metal instruments.
Remember that part of homework is to read 15 minutes everyday and to record it on our monthly reading logs. If you have not turned in your October reading log, please do so. I sent home November’s reading log on Wednesday. Please return it after December 1st. It is important that your child is reading everyday in school and at home with you.
Also, next week is a short week! There is no school on Friday, so please be prepared to turn in everything including library books on Thursday. I had to remind students more frequently this week about following class rules and being nice friends. It is important that students understand that rules have to be followed (for example, red light = stop, and we cannot just do whatever we want). I hope that we can be good role models as adults to show students that we follow rules too.
Congratulations to Lenny who received a certificate for the Room 8 winner of most laps walked during our Walk-a-Thon. Also, congratulations to Julia who received another certificate for the Room 8 winner of most money raised for our Walk-a-Thon. Great job! Have a great weekend! Stay dry!
* Thursday, November 9th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Hopefully it will not rain this time! Remember to bring your library cards to school and memorize your 4-digit PIN number. Students who did not have library cards yet will receive new ones on this visit. Students will be checking out 2 books. Please return the books to the Cupertino Library on your own (do not send the books back to Eaton).
* Friday, November 10th: NO SCHOOL – Veteran’s Day
Remember to turn in homework and library books on THURSDAY. Friday sharers should also be ready to present on Thursday. Also, Friday volunteers can come at the same time Thursday afternoon. Thank you.
* Monday, November 20th: De Anza Flint Center Field Trip
We will be traveling by bus to De Anza College to watch the play, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. There is a yellow permission slip in today’s Friday Folder. Please return it by Thursday.
* Wednesday, November 22nd – Friday, November 24th: NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving Break
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Dear Families,
This was an exciting week! I hope all of your families enjoyed our Halloween parade and had a safe time trick-or-treating. All of the children were so adorable in their costumes!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Pumpkin
Song of the Week: The Eaton Song
Kindness is … saying, “Happy Halloween” when trick-or-treating.
Story of the Week: Alice and Greta
Vocabulary of the Week: People 1
Word Wall Words: five, four, in, once, three, two, upon, what
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – an animal (Prepare 4 complete
sentences and try to memorize the words. Bring an object or picture hidden inside a bag).
• Language Arts: Theme 2 All Together Now – Week 1
• Stories: The Box and Wigs in a Box
• Word Families: –ox (fox, lox, box) and -ot (cot, hot, got)
• Sounds: d, w, l, x and short o
• Grammar: capitalizing names and word order in sentences
• Writing: This week we made a Halloween story using our senses. We pretended we were in a haunted house and described things we saw, smelled, touched, and heard. Also, we used descriptive words to write how we felt.
• Math: We are finishing Data and Graphs. We practiced making bar graphs and answering word problems to interpret the graphs. This is a difficult chapter for many students, especially problem solving questions that require students to read clues. Keep practicing!
• Science: We reviewed our Solids and Liquids vocabulary. This week we explored different types of liquids and how liquids look different in various containers. We wrote down our observations.
• Computer Lab: This week we began using another software program called Kidspiration. This program is a tool for brainstorming and making mind maps. We started creating a mind map called All About Me where we showed our favorite colors, animals, foods, and shapes. We will be continuing our project next week.
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee taught us how to do still life drawings of flowers. We also did several drafts in pencil and then in colored pencil to create the final picture.
• Music: Mrs. More taught us about rhythm and beats by playing big and small drums. We also used the wood and metal instruments.
Remember that part of homework is to read 15 minutes everyday and to record it on our monthly reading logs. If you have not turned in your October reading log, please do so. I sent home November’s reading log on Wednesday. Please return it after December 1st. It is important that your child is reading everyday in school and at home with you.
Also, next week is a short week! There is no school on Friday, so please be prepared to turn in everything including library books on Thursday. I had to remind students more frequently this week about following class rules and being nice friends. It is important that students understand that rules have to be followed (for example, red light = stop, and we cannot just do whatever we want). I hope that we can be good role models as adults to show students that we follow rules too.
Congratulations to Lenny who received a certificate for the Room 8 winner of most laps walked during our Walk-a-Thon. Also, congratulations to Julia who received another certificate for the Room 8 winner of most money raised for our Walk-a-Thon. Great job! Have a great weekend! Stay dry!
Friday, October 27, 2006
Daylight Savings Time!
Upcoming Dates
* Sunday, October 29th: Daylight Savings Time
Change your clocks one hour back!
* Tuesday, October 31st: Halloween
Send your child’s Halloween costume to school in a bag (LABEL YOUR CHILD’S BELONGINGS). Students will change after lunch. All the boys will be changing in Room 10 (Mrs. Byers’ class) and all the girls will be in Room 8 (our class). No students will be changing in the restrooms (please DO NOT take your child away from the classroom). Parents are welcome to attend the parade outside at 1:30-2:15pm.
* Thursday, November 9th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Hopefully it will not rain this time! Remember to bring your library cards to school and memorize your 4-digit PIN number. Students who did not have library cards yet will receive new ones on this visit. Students will be checking out 2 books. Please return the books to the Cupertino Library on your own (do not send the books back to Eaton).
* Friday, November 10th: NO SCHOOL – Veteran’s Day
Dear Families,
Welcome to Jonathan and his family who joined our class on Monday this week. We learned more about Jonathan on Wednesday when he was our Prince of the Day. You can read about him on our class website.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Feelings
Song of the Week: Vowels
Kindness is … sitting next to someone new.
Story of the Week: Olmo and the Blue Butterfly
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 4
Word Wall Words: find, have, one, school, who
Next Week’s Sharing: Food Poem (memorize words! No reading)
(at least 4 complete lines and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 1 All Together Now – Week 3
• Stories: The Big Hit and Big Pig
• Word Families: –it (sit, mit, fit) and –ig (fig, wig, pig)
• Sounds: b, r, h, g and short i
• Grammar: punctuation (periods, question marks, etc)
• Writing: With Halloween coming next week, we wrote about an imaginary monster. Students had to fill in a framed writing template on their monster and then illustrate a picture of their monster.
• Math: We are on Chapter 4 in math. We discussed how to read picture graphs this week. We also practiced making tally marks. Please continue practicing word problem skills with your children. The math packet coming home this week was mostly done as a whole class (not individually) so that students could understand how to read and interpret graphs altogether.
• Science: This week we took a break from our Solids and Liquids unit to study the life cycle of a pumpkin. We read Pumpkin, Pumpkin and we are making our own versions of the story. We learned how a pumpkin grows from a seed!
• Social Studies: This was our last circuit about My World, My Family, and Me. We made beautiful acrostic poems in the shapes of flowers with Mrs. Khan.
• Assembly: Today we had a fun and exciting assembly on Wildlife animals. Some of the animals included an African porcupine, an eagle, and a polar fox! We are lucky to have special assemblies like these to see animals that are normally in the wild.
This week we celebrated Red Ribbon Week to be Drug-Free! Thank you for participating in the various dress-up days and for also walking to school on Wednesday! Two sheriffs came on Monday to give us an assembly on how to say no to drugs, and all of Eaton school made hands and feet to celebrate this week. Thank you to the PTO for organizing this event and for uniting our school!
Have a great weekend, and remember to set your clocks one hour back on Sunday! Also, I hope all of your families have a safe Halloween next Tuesday!
* Sunday, October 29th: Daylight Savings Time
Change your clocks one hour back!
* Tuesday, October 31st: Halloween
Send your child’s Halloween costume to school in a bag (LABEL YOUR CHILD’S BELONGINGS). Students will change after lunch. All the boys will be changing in Room 10 (Mrs. Byers’ class) and all the girls will be in Room 8 (our class). No students will be changing in the restrooms (please DO NOT take your child away from the classroom). Parents are welcome to attend the parade outside at 1:30-2:15pm.
* Thursday, November 9th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Hopefully it will not rain this time! Remember to bring your library cards to school and memorize your 4-digit PIN number. Students who did not have library cards yet will receive new ones on this visit. Students will be checking out 2 books. Please return the books to the Cupertino Library on your own (do not send the books back to Eaton).
* Friday, November 10th: NO SCHOOL – Veteran’s Day
Dear Families,
Welcome to Jonathan and his family who joined our class on Monday this week. We learned more about Jonathan on Wednesday when he was our Prince of the Day. You can read about him on our class website.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Feelings
Song of the Week: Vowels
Kindness is … sitting next to someone new.
Story of the Week: Olmo and the Blue Butterfly
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 4
Word Wall Words: find, have, one, school, who
Next Week’s Sharing: Food Poem (memorize words! No reading)
(at least 4 complete lines and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 1 All Together Now – Week 3
• Stories: The Big Hit and Big Pig
• Word Families: –it (sit, mit, fit) and –ig (fig, wig, pig)
• Sounds: b, r, h, g and short i
• Grammar: punctuation (periods, question marks, etc)
• Writing: With Halloween coming next week, we wrote about an imaginary monster. Students had to fill in a framed writing template on their monster and then illustrate a picture of their monster.
• Math: We are on Chapter 4 in math. We discussed how to read picture graphs this week. We also practiced making tally marks. Please continue practicing word problem skills with your children. The math packet coming home this week was mostly done as a whole class (not individually) so that students could understand how to read and interpret graphs altogether.
• Science: This week we took a break from our Solids and Liquids unit to study the life cycle of a pumpkin. We read Pumpkin, Pumpkin and we are making our own versions of the story. We learned how a pumpkin grows from a seed!
• Social Studies: This was our last circuit about My World, My Family, and Me. We made beautiful acrostic poems in the shapes of flowers with Mrs. Khan.
• Assembly: Today we had a fun and exciting assembly on Wildlife animals. Some of the animals included an African porcupine, an eagle, and a polar fox! We are lucky to have special assemblies like these to see animals that are normally in the wild.
This week we celebrated Red Ribbon Week to be Drug-Free! Thank you for participating in the various dress-up days and for also walking to school on Wednesday! Two sheriffs came on Monday to give us an assembly on how to say no to drugs, and all of Eaton school made hands and feet to celebrate this week. Thank you to the PTO for organizing this event and for uniting our school!
Have a great weekend, and remember to set your clocks one hour back on Sunday! Also, I hope all of your families have a safe Halloween next Tuesday!
Monday, October 23, 2006
Mid-October News
Upcoming Dates
* Thursday, October 26th: Picture Day
Picture envelopes will be coming home next Wednesday. Please return them Thursday morning if you are interested in purchasing Fall pictures.
* Sunday, October 29th: Daylight Savings Time
Change your clocks one hour back!
* Tuesday, October 31st: Halloween
Send your child’s Halloween costume to school in a bag. Students will change after lunch and we will have the school parade at 1:30pm. Parents are welcome to attend the parade or help children change at 1:15pm.
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Dear Families,
Thank you to all the volunteers who went to Happy Hollow with us today! We are lucky to have so many parents supporting our class activities and field trips.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: First Book
Song of the Week: Vowels
Kindness is … using good manners.
Story of the Week: The Earth and I
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 3
Word Wall Words: father, here, jump, mother, not, too
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular Sharing – Halloween decorations
(4 complete sentences and bring decoration to show).
• Language Arts: Theme 1 All Together Now – Week 2
• Stories: Nan and Fan and We Can!
• Word Families: –an (can, fan, ran, man, tan, etc)
• Sounds: n, f, p, and short a
• Grammar: beginning sentences with capital letters.
• Math: We finished Chapter 3 this week on addition and subtraction facts up to 12. Also, we worked more on fact families during computer lab this week. We have been reviewing math vocabulary such as: addition, subtraction, addends, sum, double facts, difference, and more/less. We also started Chapter 4 on data and graphing. This chapter will require students to make graphs and answer word problems about them.
• Writing: Our kindness journals this week were on using good manners. We talked about appropriate times to say kind words such as, “Good morning,” “Please,” “Excuse Me,” “Sorry,” “You’re welcome,” etc. We also wrote an acrostic poem about Witches together.
• Art: We finished our Mexican paintings and started drawing pictures of flowers this week with Mrs. Blakeslee. We looked at real flowers and learned how to draw petals using pointillism (many little dots).
• Music: This week we celebrated with some Halloween songs such as black cats, Frankenstein, and played a monster game too. We also used many different instruments this week including drums, maracas, and triangles, to sing our songs.
• Science: We continued our science unit this week by learning about solids and mixtures – or solids mixed together. We learned that we can separate mixtures using screens. We also started observing different properties of liquids such as: transparent, translucent, colored, viscous, foamy, and bubbly.
• PE: This week we worked on small ball skills such as throwing and catching with Mrs. Bachelor.
• Social Studies: This week we had circuits with Mrs. Barelli. We talked about where we live and our place in the Earth including our home, our school, our city, our country, and our continent.
In today’s Friday Folder, you will find the parent conference notes we discussed. Also, on Monday we will be adding a new student to our class. His name is Jonathan and he came from the Evergreen School District. Please welcome him and his family to Eaton! Enjoy your weekend!
* Thursday, October 26th: Picture Day
Picture envelopes will be coming home next Wednesday. Please return them Thursday morning if you are interested in purchasing Fall pictures.
* Sunday, October 29th: Daylight Savings Time
Change your clocks one hour back!
* Tuesday, October 31st: Halloween
Send your child’s Halloween costume to school in a bag. Students will change after lunch and we will have the school parade at 1:30pm. Parents are welcome to attend the parade or help children change at 1:15pm.
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Dear Families,
Thank you to all the volunteers who went to Happy Hollow with us today! We are lucky to have so many parents supporting our class activities and field trips.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: First Book
Song of the Week: Vowels
Kindness is … using good manners.
Story of the Week: The Earth and I
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 3
Word Wall Words: father, here, jump, mother, not, too
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular Sharing – Halloween decorations
(4 complete sentences and bring decoration to show).
• Language Arts: Theme 1 All Together Now – Week 2
• Stories: Nan and Fan and We Can!
• Word Families: –an (can, fan, ran, man, tan, etc)
• Sounds: n, f, p, and short a
• Grammar: beginning sentences with capital letters.
• Math: We finished Chapter 3 this week on addition and subtraction facts up to 12. Also, we worked more on fact families during computer lab this week. We have been reviewing math vocabulary such as: addition, subtraction, addends, sum, double facts, difference, and more/less. We also started Chapter 4 on data and graphing. This chapter will require students to make graphs and answer word problems about them.
• Writing: Our kindness journals this week were on using good manners. We talked about appropriate times to say kind words such as, “Good morning,” “Please,” “Excuse Me,” “Sorry,” “You’re welcome,” etc. We also wrote an acrostic poem about Witches together.
• Art: We finished our Mexican paintings and started drawing pictures of flowers this week with Mrs. Blakeslee. We looked at real flowers and learned how to draw petals using pointillism (many little dots).
• Music: This week we celebrated with some Halloween songs such as black cats, Frankenstein, and played a monster game too. We also used many different instruments this week including drums, maracas, and triangles, to sing our songs.
• Science: We continued our science unit this week by learning about solids and mixtures – or solids mixed together. We learned that we can separate mixtures using screens. We also started observing different properties of liquids such as: transparent, translucent, colored, viscous, foamy, and bubbly.
• PE: This week we worked on small ball skills such as throwing and catching with Mrs. Bachelor.
• Social Studies: This week we had circuits with Mrs. Barelli. We talked about where we live and our place in the Earth including our home, our school, our city, our country, and our continent.
In today’s Friday Folder, you will find the parent conference notes we discussed. Also, on Monday we will be adding a new student to our class. His name is Jonathan and he came from the Evergreen School District. Please welcome him and his family to Eaton! Enjoy your weekend!
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Conference Time
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, October 16th – Tuesday, October 17th: Parent Conferences
Remember to pick your child up at 1:30 these two days. We will return back to our regular schedule on Wednesday, October 18th.
* Friday, October 20th: Happy Hollow Field Trip
Thank you for returning the permission slips. We have five volunteers who will be riding on the bus with us: Mrs. Saito (Akane’s mother), Mrs. Kim (Catherine’s mother), Mrs. Kim (Julia’s mother), Mrs. Nozaki (Yo’s mother), and Mrs. Park (Young-Jin’s mother). If you are able to meet us at the park, we will be arriving at Happy Hollow around 10:00am. Please make sure your child brings a BROWN BAG lunch that can be thrown away (no lunch boxes that have to brought back) and we will not allow any children or parents to buy souvenirs, so please do not plan on spending money. Three to four students will be assigned to a specific parent for the whole day. Parents: Be sure to wear comfortable shoes!!!
* Thursday, October 26th: Picture Day
More information will come later.
* Sunday, October 29th: Daylight Savings Time
Change your clocks one hour back!
* Tuesday, October 31st: Halloween
Send your child’s Halloween costume to school in a bag. Students will change after lunch and we will have the school parade at 1:30pm. Parents are welcome to attend the parade or help children change at 1:15pm.
Dear Families,
Thank you for attending parent conferences this week. I enjoyed speaking with each of you individually about your child. Due to the minimum days, we did not get to do as much as we usually do.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Our World
Song of the Week: Hello Around the World
Kindness is … sharing with others.
Story of the Week: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 2
Word Wall Words: are, family, go, on, you
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle - something liquid (you can pour)
(4 clues with a picture or object to show in a bag)
• Reading & Writing: We started Theme 1 of the first grade Houghton Mifflin language arts readers. There are 10 themes and each theme takes about 3 weeks to complete.
o Theme 1 – Week 1
• Stories: The Cat Sat and The Mat
• Word Families: –at (rat, sat, that, pat, bat, etc)
• Sounds: m, s, c, t, and short a sounds.
• Grammar: capital and lowercase letters.
We also finished our Prince and Princess activity this week! You can read about Joseph and Young-Jin on the website. We will be starting Star of the Week in the next few weeks.
• Language Arts: We are improving quickly in Literacy Centers each week! Next week, we will be adding another center. Students will be completing a Computer Center, and they will have to type their Kindness Journal entry for that week.
• Math: We continued Chapter 3 this week, mainly on subraction facts and word problems. We also began learning about fact families this week.
• Assembly: Today we had the Dairy Council presentation about eating right and learning nutrition. This went nicely with our Wellness plan. We even saw a real live COW!
• Computer Lab: We worked hard on our Kindness Journals this week! We have added more pictures, and we also drew pictures for community helpers. Specifically, we made drawings for CDC, librarians, and firefighters.
• Social Studies: This week we learned about Columbus Day in our Scholastic News. We compared how ships are different now and a long time ago.
Have a great weekend! I’m excited that we have all been getting green super stars. Let’s keep up the great behavior!
* Monday, October 16th – Tuesday, October 17th: Parent Conferences
Remember to pick your child up at 1:30 these two days. We will return back to our regular schedule on Wednesday, October 18th.
* Friday, October 20th: Happy Hollow Field Trip
Thank you for returning the permission slips. We have five volunteers who will be riding on the bus with us: Mrs. Saito (Akane’s mother), Mrs. Kim (Catherine’s mother), Mrs. Kim (Julia’s mother), Mrs. Nozaki (Yo’s mother), and Mrs. Park (Young-Jin’s mother). If you are able to meet us at the park, we will be arriving at Happy Hollow around 10:00am. Please make sure your child brings a BROWN BAG lunch that can be thrown away (no lunch boxes that have to brought back) and we will not allow any children or parents to buy souvenirs, so please do not plan on spending money. Three to four students will be assigned to a specific parent for the whole day. Parents: Be sure to wear comfortable shoes!!!
* Thursday, October 26th: Picture Day
More information will come later.
* Sunday, October 29th: Daylight Savings Time
Change your clocks one hour back!
* Tuesday, October 31st: Halloween
Send your child’s Halloween costume to school in a bag. Students will change after lunch and we will have the school parade at 1:30pm. Parents are welcome to attend the parade or help children change at 1:15pm.
Dear Families,
Thank you for attending parent conferences this week. I enjoyed speaking with each of you individually about your child. Due to the minimum days, we did not get to do as much as we usually do.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Our World
Song of the Week: Hello Around the World
Kindness is … sharing with others.
Story of the Week: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 2
Word Wall Words: are, family, go, on, you
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle - something liquid (you can pour)
(4 clues with a picture or object to show in a bag)
• Reading & Writing: We started Theme 1 of the first grade Houghton Mifflin language arts readers. There are 10 themes and each theme takes about 3 weeks to complete.
o Theme 1 – Week 1
• Stories: The Cat Sat and The Mat
• Word Families: –at (rat, sat, that, pat, bat, etc)
• Sounds: m, s, c, t, and short a sounds.
• Grammar: capital and lowercase letters.
We also finished our Prince and Princess activity this week! You can read about Joseph and Young-Jin on the website. We will be starting Star of the Week in the next few weeks.
• Language Arts: We are improving quickly in Literacy Centers each week! Next week, we will be adding another center. Students will be completing a Computer Center, and they will have to type their Kindness Journal entry for that week.
• Math: We continued Chapter 3 this week, mainly on subraction facts and word problems. We also began learning about fact families this week.
• Assembly: Today we had the Dairy Council presentation about eating right and learning nutrition. This went nicely with our Wellness plan. We even saw a real live COW!
• Computer Lab: We worked hard on our Kindness Journals this week! We have added more pictures, and we also drew pictures for community helpers. Specifically, we made drawings for CDC, librarians, and firefighters.
• Social Studies: This week we learned about Columbus Day in our Scholastic News. We compared how ships are different now and a long time ago.
Have a great weekend! I’m excited that we have all been getting green super stars. Let’s keep up the great behavior!
Friday, October 06, 2006
Happy October!
Upcoming Dates
Monday, October 9th – Tuesday, October 17th: Parent Conferences
DISMISSAL TIME IS 1:30pm. Please pick up your child on time everyday! I look forward to meeting with each of you next week. Remember to come on time because we only have 20 minutes to discuss everything. Thank you.
Friday, October 20th: Happy Hollow Field Trip
There is a permission slip in today’s Friday Folder. Please return the form as soon as possible. Also, we need four volunteers to chaperone on this trip. Please make sure your child brings a BROWN BAG lunch that can be thrown away (no lunch boxes that have to brought back).
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Dear Families,
What a strange week of rain and sunshine! Unfortunately, due to the rain showers on Thursday, we were unable to walk to the Cupertino Library. Thank you, anyhow, to all the families that remembered to bring your child’s library card to school! We will be going again at the beginning of November and students who needed cards will receive them at that time.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Oh Mr. Squirrel
Song of the Week: Hello Around the World
Kindness is … picking up someone else’s trash.
Story of the Week: Clap Your Hands
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 1
Word Wall Words: and, because, color, the they, this
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle - something solid (you can hold)
(4 clues with a picture or object to show in a brown bag)
• Reading & Writing: We finished our dictionaries this week and our Back-to-School packets! Next week we will be starting on Theme 1 of the first grade Houghton Mifflin language arts readers. We also only had time for one princess this week: Moe!
• Language Arts: We did a much better job this week during literacy centers. Many students tried their best to complete all of the required activities. At home, practice having your child retell you a story after you read it together. They should include the main points of the story and have a beginning, middle, and end. This will help them complete their listening center worksheets.
• Kindness Journal: We picked up trash after lunch this week. We will continue to do so to help make Eaton a clean place! We also drew a picture and wrote a nice compliment to someone who helps us.
• Math: We started Chapter 3 this week on addition and subtraction facts to 10. This week we learned different strategies to do addition. Next week we will focus on subtraction. Continue practicing those math facts!
• Circuits: We had two circuits this week. On Tuesday, we went to Miss Salter’s class and did a project on a family tree. On Wednesday, we went to Mrs. Tambe’s class and made a puzzle about ourselves.
• Science: This week, we learned more about solids by observing very small solids including: rice, mung beans, lima beans, pinto beans, and cornmeal. We rotated to write down observations about these solids and had the opportunity to touch and feel them.
Today is Faith’s last day at Eaton. We will miss her and her family as they move to a new school and home in New York. Please keep in touch!
Thank you for supporting Eaton through the Walk-a-Thon! It is always great fun to watch the whole school walking together! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Monday, October 9th – Tuesday, October 17th: Parent Conferences
DISMISSAL TIME IS 1:30pm. Please pick up your child on time everyday! I look forward to meeting with each of you next week. Remember to come on time because we only have 20 minutes to discuss everything. Thank you.
Friday, October 20th: Happy Hollow Field Trip
There is a permission slip in today’s Friday Folder. Please return the form as soon as possible. Also, we need four volunteers to chaperone on this trip. Please make sure your child brings a BROWN BAG lunch that can be thrown away (no lunch boxes that have to brought back).
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Dear Families,
What a strange week of rain and sunshine! Unfortunately, due to the rain showers on Thursday, we were unable to walk to the Cupertino Library. Thank you, anyhow, to all the families that remembered to bring your child’s library card to school! We will be going again at the beginning of November and students who needed cards will receive them at that time.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Oh Mr. Squirrel
Song of the Week: Hello Around the World
Kindness is … picking up someone else’s trash.
Story of the Week: Clap Your Hands
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 1
Word Wall Words: and, because, color, the they, this
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle - something solid (you can hold)
(4 clues with a picture or object to show in a brown bag)
• Reading & Writing: We finished our dictionaries this week and our Back-to-School packets! Next week we will be starting on Theme 1 of the first grade Houghton Mifflin language arts readers. We also only had time for one princess this week: Moe!
• Language Arts: We did a much better job this week during literacy centers. Many students tried their best to complete all of the required activities. At home, practice having your child retell you a story after you read it together. They should include the main points of the story and have a beginning, middle, and end. This will help them complete their listening center worksheets.
• Kindness Journal: We picked up trash after lunch this week. We will continue to do so to help make Eaton a clean place! We also drew a picture and wrote a nice compliment to someone who helps us.
• Math: We started Chapter 3 this week on addition and subtraction facts to 10. This week we learned different strategies to do addition. Next week we will focus on subtraction. Continue practicing those math facts!
• Circuits: We had two circuits this week. On Tuesday, we went to Miss Salter’s class and did a project on a family tree. On Wednesday, we went to Mrs. Tambe’s class and made a puzzle about ourselves.
• Science: This week, we learned more about solids by observing very small solids including: rice, mung beans, lima beans, pinto beans, and cornmeal. We rotated to write down observations about these solids and had the opportunity to touch and feel them.
Today is Faith’s last day at Eaton. We will miss her and her family as they move to a new school and home in New York. Please keep in touch!
Thank you for supporting Eaton through the Walk-a-Thon! It is always great fun to watch the whole school walking together! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Thursday, September 28, 2006
A Short Week
Upcoming Dates
* Friday, September 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
* Thursday, October 5th: Cupertino Library Field Trip from 1:15-2:30pm
If your child already has a library card, please remember to bring the card on this day. If your child needed a new card, your child will be receiving the card during our visit. Please help your child memorize his or her 4-digit PIN number (for new cards, it is the last 4-digits of your home phone number).
* Friday, October 6th: Eaton’s 3rd annual Walk-a-Thon from 1:15-3:05pm
Also, it will be Faith’s last day with us. Her family will be moving to New York. We will miss her!
* Monday, October 9th – Tuesday, October 17th: Parent Conference DISMISSAL TIME IS 1:30pm. Please pick up your child on time!
Today’s Friday Folder has your 20 minute appointment time. Please confirm if you will be able to come during your conference time and also return the attached Input Form by October 6th.
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Dear Families,
In today’s Friday Folder, there is a BOOK IT reading log for the month of October. Make sure you read 15 minutes with your child every day and then initial each day in the month. Please return this reading log at the start of November. If your child reads 15 minutes everyday for the whole month, they will receive a certificate for a free personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut.
Also, this past Wednesday and Thursday, the students were tested on the CELDT. A representative from the district pulled out the students individually to test them on speaking and listening. The results for this test will return in January or February of next year.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: A Little Red Apple
Song of the Week: Making Words
Kindness is … giving a compliment to somebody.
Story of the Week: Apples, Apples, Apples
Vocabulary of the Week: School Words 4
Word Wall Words: no, to, we, went, with, yes
Next Week’s Sharing: Scary Poem
(4 lines memorized with a picture or object to show)
• Reading & Writing: We worked on our dictionary letters up to U this week. Next week we will be able to finish our dictionaries! We also read about apples and learned the parts of an apple. We have an apple art project that we will be continuing for a few weeks.
• Kindness Journal: We made cards and presents for the teachers and staff at Eaton School. We hope they will appreciate our surprise and visit our website. Also, you can now go to read our Kindness Journals from our website in the Classwork section. There is a link to our online kindness sentences and pictures! Please check it out!
• Language Arts: Many students have been working hard to complete all the activities at each literacy center. Please check your child’s work to see if they finished their work on time. We finished School words in Vocabulary center this past week. Next week, some students will be receiving School 4 for Vocabulary homework. Your child must study SCHOOL 1, 2, 3, and 4 for the test on Thursday (identify 36 words). This is our way of reviewing vocabulary words from the past month. A passing score will be knowing at least 32/36 words, otherwise, your child must study the same School Unit again the following week.
• Math: We have finished Chapter 2 today on subtraction facts! The students have been improving in solving word problems. Good job finding the “magic words!”
• Circuits: We had our third circuit this week. Students went to Mrs. Bachelor’s class and made a picture of their dream house!
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee is doing an art project from each continent, and we continued our first project, a Mexican painting, to represent the Americas. We are using paint and sponges to draw a landscape picture and to make a border around our drawing!
• Music: We saw Mrs. More again today and learned more songs, dances, and used the wooden and metal instruments.
Enjoy your long vacation! We are having a teacher inservice day tomorrow on Peacebuilders, a new conflict resolution program we will be starting this year. Hopefully this program will help our school to be a nicer, safer place!
* Friday, September 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
* Thursday, October 5th: Cupertino Library Field Trip from 1:15-2:30pm
If your child already has a library card, please remember to bring the card on this day. If your child needed a new card, your child will be receiving the card during our visit. Please help your child memorize his or her 4-digit PIN number (for new cards, it is the last 4-digits of your home phone number).
* Friday, October 6th: Eaton’s 3rd annual Walk-a-Thon from 1:15-3:05pm
Also, it will be Faith’s last day with us. Her family will be moving to New York. We will miss her!
* Monday, October 9th – Tuesday, October 17th: Parent Conference DISMISSAL TIME IS 1:30pm. Please pick up your child on time!
Today’s Friday Folder has your 20 minute appointment time. Please confirm if you will be able to come during your conference time and also return the attached Input Form by October 6th.
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Dear Families,
In today’s Friday Folder, there is a BOOK IT reading log for the month of October. Make sure you read 15 minutes with your child every day and then initial each day in the month. Please return this reading log at the start of November. If your child reads 15 minutes everyday for the whole month, they will receive a certificate for a free personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut.
Also, this past Wednesday and Thursday, the students were tested on the CELDT. A representative from the district pulled out the students individually to test them on speaking and listening. The results for this test will return in January or February of next year.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: A Little Red Apple
Song of the Week: Making Words
Kindness is … giving a compliment to somebody.
Story of the Week: Apples, Apples, Apples
Vocabulary of the Week: School Words 4
Word Wall Words: no, to, we, went, with, yes
Next Week’s Sharing: Scary Poem
(4 lines memorized with a picture or object to show)
• Reading & Writing: We worked on our dictionary letters up to U this week. Next week we will be able to finish our dictionaries! We also read about apples and learned the parts of an apple. We have an apple art project that we will be continuing for a few weeks.
• Kindness Journal: We made cards and presents for the teachers and staff at Eaton School. We hope they will appreciate our surprise and visit our website. Also, you can now go to read our Kindness Journals from our website in the Classwork section. There is a link to our online kindness sentences and pictures! Please check it out!
• Language Arts: Many students have been working hard to complete all the activities at each literacy center. Please check your child’s work to see if they finished their work on time. We finished School words in Vocabulary center this past week. Next week, some students will be receiving School 4 for Vocabulary homework. Your child must study SCHOOL 1, 2, 3, and 4 for the test on Thursday (identify 36 words). This is our way of reviewing vocabulary words from the past month. A passing score will be knowing at least 32/36 words, otherwise, your child must study the same School Unit again the following week.
• Math: We have finished Chapter 2 today on subtraction facts! The students have been improving in solving word problems. Good job finding the “magic words!”
• Circuits: We had our third circuit this week. Students went to Mrs. Bachelor’s class and made a picture of their dream house!
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee is doing an art project from each continent, and we continued our first project, a Mexican painting, to represent the Americas. We are using paint and sponges to draw a landscape picture and to make a border around our drawing!
• Music: We saw Mrs. More again today and learned more songs, dances, and used the wooden and metal instruments.
Enjoy your long vacation! We are having a teacher inservice day tomorrow on Peacebuilders, a new conflict resolution program we will be starting this year. Hopefully this program will help our school to be a nicer, safer place!
Friday, September 22, 2006
Fall is Here!
Upcoming Dates
Friday, September 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Since there is no school on Friday, please remember:
• Friday sharers need to share on Thursday
• Homework is turned in on Thursday
• Friday volunteers please come on Thursday from 2-3pm
• Bring library books to school on Thursday
Thursday, October 5th: Cupertino Library Field Trip from 1:15-2:30pm
Friday, October 6th: Eaton’s 3rd annual Walk-a-Thon from 1:15-3:05pm
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Dear Families,
Thank you for coming out to the chicken dance last Sunday! It was fun to see the students dancing and enjoying all the rides and games! I had lunch there and walked around afterwards. It was a great time!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Fall
Song of the Week: Making Words
Kindness is … cheering up a sick friend.
Story of the Week: A Bird Can Fly
Vocabulary of the Week: School Words 3
Word Wall Words: friend, is me, my, play
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – something made from apples
• Reading & Writing: We worked on our dictionary letters up to Q this week. We also had a few more prince and princesses this week, including: Reva, William, Patricia, and Sammy.
• Word Wall Words: You can access all the word wall words on our class website. Click on “Curriculum” and then “Word Wall” to find the list of words your child should be able to read and spell correctly in their daily writing. I encourage students to use the Word Wall in class whenever they need help spelling.
• Sharing: Please remember that in every sharing, your child must also have an object or picture to show while he/she talks. In a RIDDLE, students bring the object in a brown paper bag. In a POEM or REGULAR sharing, your child can bring the object or drawing and hold it as they talk. Please be prepared on your child’s sharing day! Also, if your child is reading off of a paper, they must practice looking up at the class as they talk (their heads shouldn’t be looking down the whole time). Eventually, I hope students can memorize everything!
• Kindness Journal: We learned about a second grade boy who is a friend of a friend that is in the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital for Leukemia. We made cards for him and wishes that he gets better.
• Language Arts: Literacy centers went well this week! Students are working on finishing their work in time and checking their own work. In the listening center, I would like students to use their own words when writing sentences (instead of copying words from the story). Also, we are practicing how to write complete sentences.
• Math: Chapter 2 has been all about subtraction. We are learning the magic words for minus such as: left, takes, gives, picks, eats, how many more, etc. We are trying to be careful to pay attention to plus or minus signs in our computation.
• Science: We started our science unit this week on Solids and Liquids. We explored different examples of solids such as wood, metal, plastic, and cloth, and learned how to compare them using science vocabulary such as: soft vs. hard, flexible vs. rigid, pointed vs. flat, transparent vs. opaque, and smooth vs. rough.
• Circuits: We had our second circuit this week. Students went to Mrs. Burgess’ class and made a family portrait. We also had a surprise fire drill and had to line up on the field and wait for the firemen to give the OK!
• Computer Lab: We started our online kindness journals this week. We started typing our first few kindness entries and learned how to use the website. Thank you to Mrs. Komoto who volunteers during computer lab!
• Assembly: We had a special hands-on assembly this week on Oceans. It was a fabulous assembly and we were able to learn about different sea animals and make several projects. It was exciting!
• Super Stars: Congratulations to everyone for getting green super stars all week long! I have had to give reminders for several students to finish their work on time and not talk to others. Please continue reminding your children at home on good behavior. It is important for students to learn responsibility and to try their best at school.
Happy Birthday to Yo and Patricia this weekend! If you saw the website this past week, then you know I didn’t have a very good weekend last week. Many many things to take care of =( Hopefully it will be better this weekend! See you all on Monday!
Friday, September 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Since there is no school on Friday, please remember:
• Friday sharers need to share on Thursday
• Homework is turned in on Thursday
• Friday volunteers please come on Thursday from 2-3pm
• Bring library books to school on Thursday
Thursday, October 5th: Cupertino Library Field Trip from 1:15-2:30pm
Friday, October 6th: Eaton’s 3rd annual Walk-a-Thon from 1:15-3:05pm
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Dear Families,
Thank you for coming out to the chicken dance last Sunday! It was fun to see the students dancing and enjoying all the rides and games! I had lunch there and walked around afterwards. It was a great time!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Fall
Song of the Week: Making Words
Kindness is … cheering up a sick friend.
Story of the Week: A Bird Can Fly
Vocabulary of the Week: School Words 3
Word Wall Words: friend, is me, my, play
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – something made from apples
• Reading & Writing: We worked on our dictionary letters up to Q this week. We also had a few more prince and princesses this week, including: Reva, William, Patricia, and Sammy.
• Word Wall Words: You can access all the word wall words on our class website. Click on “Curriculum” and then “Word Wall” to find the list of words your child should be able to read and spell correctly in their daily writing. I encourage students to use the Word Wall in class whenever they need help spelling.
• Sharing: Please remember that in every sharing, your child must also have an object or picture to show while he/she talks. In a RIDDLE, students bring the object in a brown paper bag. In a POEM or REGULAR sharing, your child can bring the object or drawing and hold it as they talk. Please be prepared on your child’s sharing day! Also, if your child is reading off of a paper, they must practice looking up at the class as they talk (their heads shouldn’t be looking down the whole time). Eventually, I hope students can memorize everything!
• Kindness Journal: We learned about a second grade boy who is a friend of a friend that is in the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital for Leukemia. We made cards for him and wishes that he gets better.
• Language Arts: Literacy centers went well this week! Students are working on finishing their work in time and checking their own work. In the listening center, I would like students to use their own words when writing sentences (instead of copying words from the story). Also, we are practicing how to write complete sentences.
• Math: Chapter 2 has been all about subtraction. We are learning the magic words for minus such as: left, takes, gives, picks, eats, how many more, etc. We are trying to be careful to pay attention to plus or minus signs in our computation.
• Science: We started our science unit this week on Solids and Liquids. We explored different examples of solids such as wood, metal, plastic, and cloth, and learned how to compare them using science vocabulary such as: soft vs. hard, flexible vs. rigid, pointed vs. flat, transparent vs. opaque, and smooth vs. rough.
• Circuits: We had our second circuit this week. Students went to Mrs. Burgess’ class and made a family portrait. We also had a surprise fire drill and had to line up on the field and wait for the firemen to give the OK!
• Computer Lab: We started our online kindness journals this week. We started typing our first few kindness entries and learned how to use the website. Thank you to Mrs. Komoto who volunteers during computer lab!
• Assembly: We had a special hands-on assembly this week on Oceans. It was a fabulous assembly and we were able to learn about different sea animals and make several projects. It was exciting!
• Super Stars: Congratulations to everyone for getting green super stars all week long! I have had to give reminders for several students to finish their work on time and not talk to others. Please continue reminding your children at home on good behavior. It is important for students to learn responsibility and to try their best at school.
Happy Birthday to Yo and Patricia this weekend! If you saw the website this past week, then you know I didn’t have a very good weekend last week. Many many things to take care of =( Hopefully it will be better this weekend! See you all on Monday!
Friday, September 15, 2006
Chicken Dance Weekend
Upcoming Dates:
* Sunday, September 17th: Cupertino Jubilee Chicken Dance @ 12:20pm
Please plan on arriving at 12:00pm. It takes extra time to park and find the Chicken Dance location. Remember to also bring your chicken hats!
* Friday, September 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
* Thursday, October 5th: Cupertino Library Field Trip from 1:15-2:30pm
* Friday, October 6th: Eaton’s 3rd annual Walk-a-Thon from 1:15-3:05pm
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September 15, 2006
Dear Families,
Our first week of homework and sharing went very well! Everyone passed their vocabulary tests! Also, today’s Friday Folder will have the sharing evaluation form, so you can see which areas your child can work on. Please remember to practice at home and eventually try to have them memorize all the words and sentences. Great start!
We have enough volunteers now! Thank you to Mrs. Nozaki and Mrs. Yokoyama for offering to volunteer on Friday afternoons. We are still hoping to receive more classroom donations for $125 to help pay for many upcoming field trips, activities, and assemblies. Please make your checks out to Eaton School. We are lucky to have supportive families!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: A Circle of Friends
Song of the Week: Clap Your Name
Kindness is … drawing a picture for someone special.
Story of the Week: The Accidental Zucchini
Vocabulary of the Week: School Words 2
Word Wall Words: he, she, her, his, favorite, like (Make sure
your child can read and identify these words).
Next Week’s Sharing: Fall Poem (remember 4 lines memorized)
• Reading & Writing: We worked on our dictionary letters up to L this week. We also read Diary of a Worm and started our Weekend News journals. Please remember to review the weekend events with your child every Sunday night or Monday morning so that they have ideas to write about during journal time. Also, we continued Prince and Princess writing this week with Faith and Julia.
• Library: Remember to bring library books back to school on Friday so your child can check out a new book!
• Assembly: We had a Walk-a-Thon kickoff assembly. Students will be bringing home forms to try and raise money for our school.
• Kindness Journal: I have been hearing nice “Thank You” words all week long! Keep up these great manners. This week we drew pictures for someone special and we learned it’s nice to give others nice surprises.
• Language Arts: We started our literacy centers this week. You will see this packet (with a green cover sheet) almost every week in the Friday Folder. Your child receives 0, 1, 2, or 3 stars each week for finishing all the activities in centers. This is a growing process. Your child may only receive 1 or 2 stars in the beginning of the year, but I hope by the end of the year, they will receive 3 stars in all categories. I have included our literacy center rubric (how I evaluate work) in this newsletter so you can see how to work with your children on improving their scores. The most difficult center is usually the listening center. This week, we did the listening center together so the students understood how to write five sentences. The five sentences in listening center include:
o 1) This story was about _______. (character – who?)
o 2) In the beginning, _________.
o 3) In the middle, ___________.
o 4) In the end, ______________.
o 5) _____________________. (Conclusion - Did you like the story? What was the best part? What do you think?)
• Math: We have finished Chapter 1! We started looking at Chapter 2, which is on subtraction facts. Word problems are tricky for students, and we are learning “magic words” like: in all, altogether, and join all mean PLUS. We still are completing the math word problems in our workbooks together to practice reading and solving problems.
• Circuits: We had our first circuit this week. Students stayed with me and we read a story called The Way I Feel. We explored our feelings and wrote about why we have different feelings.
• Computer Lab: We explored KidPix this week by drawing pictures using the different tools: pencils, markers, stamps, paint bucket, etc. We are also learning how to save our work in our own folders.
• Buddies: We saw our buddies today and we did an activity called With my Hands. We talked about how we help others with our hands.
• Art: We had our first visit with the art teacher, Mrs. Blakeslee this week! She taught us about our primary colors.
• Music: We also had our first visit with our music teacher, Mrs. More! We used instruments and sung high and low songs.
I hope all of you have a wonderful weekend! I will be going on Sunday to the Chicken Dance so I will see you there! We have been practicing with all the other first graders and it should be fun! Happy Friday!
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Literacy Centers Rubric
* Listening Center
3 stars = colored picture AND 5 or more sentences
2 stars = picture and/or 2-4 sentences OR no picture and 5 or more sentences
1 star = no picture and/or 1 sentence or less OR picture and no sentences
0 = no picture or words
Poetry Center
3 stars = 5 or less mistakes (handwriting)
2 stars = more than 5 mistakes (handwriting)
1 star = skipped 1-2 lines or very messy overall
0 = not finished 5 or more lines
Spelling Center
3 stars = ABC and spelling correct, more than 3 sentences
2 stars = ABC or spelling mistakes, OR less than 3 sentences on the back
1 star = ABC or spelling mistakes, and incomplete in Column 3 or no sentences
0 = Column 2 & 3 not finished
Vocabulary Center
3 stars = No mistakes on vocabulary worksheet, Scholastic News and Dictionary words done
2 stars = spelling/handwriting mistakes on vocabulary sheet OR dictionary or Scholastic News not done
1 star = missing 1-2 words in vocab, OR did not do Scholastic News and Dictionary
0 = not finished 8 or more words and did not do Scholastic News/Dictionary
* Sunday, September 17th: Cupertino Jubilee Chicken Dance @ 12:20pm
Please plan on arriving at 12:00pm. It takes extra time to park and find the Chicken Dance location. Remember to also bring your chicken hats!
* Friday, September 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
* Thursday, October 5th: Cupertino Library Field Trip from 1:15-2:30pm
* Friday, October 6th: Eaton’s 3rd annual Walk-a-Thon from 1:15-3:05pm
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September 15, 2006
Dear Families,
Our first week of homework and sharing went very well! Everyone passed their vocabulary tests! Also, today’s Friday Folder will have the sharing evaluation form, so you can see which areas your child can work on. Please remember to practice at home and eventually try to have them memorize all the words and sentences. Great start!
We have enough volunteers now! Thank you to Mrs. Nozaki and Mrs. Yokoyama for offering to volunteer on Friday afternoons. We are still hoping to receive more classroom donations for $125 to help pay for many upcoming field trips, activities, and assemblies. Please make your checks out to Eaton School. We are lucky to have supportive families!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: A Circle of Friends
Song of the Week: Clap Your Name
Kindness is … drawing a picture for someone special.
Story of the Week: The Accidental Zucchini
Vocabulary of the Week: School Words 2
Word Wall Words: he, she, her, his, favorite, like (Make sure
your child can read and identify these words).
Next Week’s Sharing: Fall Poem (remember 4 lines memorized)
• Reading & Writing: We worked on our dictionary letters up to L this week. We also read Diary of a Worm and started our Weekend News journals. Please remember to review the weekend events with your child every Sunday night or Monday morning so that they have ideas to write about during journal time. Also, we continued Prince and Princess writing this week with Faith and Julia.
• Library: Remember to bring library books back to school on Friday so your child can check out a new book!
• Assembly: We had a Walk-a-Thon kickoff assembly. Students will be bringing home forms to try and raise money for our school.
• Kindness Journal: I have been hearing nice “Thank You” words all week long! Keep up these great manners. This week we drew pictures for someone special and we learned it’s nice to give others nice surprises.
• Language Arts: We started our literacy centers this week. You will see this packet (with a green cover sheet) almost every week in the Friday Folder. Your child receives 0, 1, 2, or 3 stars each week for finishing all the activities in centers. This is a growing process. Your child may only receive 1 or 2 stars in the beginning of the year, but I hope by the end of the year, they will receive 3 stars in all categories. I have included our literacy center rubric (how I evaluate work) in this newsletter so you can see how to work with your children on improving their scores. The most difficult center is usually the listening center. This week, we did the listening center together so the students understood how to write five sentences. The five sentences in listening center include:
o 1) This story was about _______. (character – who?)
o 2) In the beginning, _________.
o 3) In the middle, ___________.
o 4) In the end, ______________.
o 5) _____________________. (Conclusion - Did you like the story? What was the best part? What do you think?)
• Math: We have finished Chapter 1! We started looking at Chapter 2, which is on subtraction facts. Word problems are tricky for students, and we are learning “magic words” like: in all, altogether, and join all mean PLUS. We still are completing the math word problems in our workbooks together to practice reading and solving problems.
• Circuits: We had our first circuit this week. Students stayed with me and we read a story called The Way I Feel. We explored our feelings and wrote about why we have different feelings.
• Computer Lab: We explored KidPix this week by drawing pictures using the different tools: pencils, markers, stamps, paint bucket, etc. We are also learning how to save our work in our own folders.
• Buddies: We saw our buddies today and we did an activity called With my Hands. We talked about how we help others with our hands.
• Art: We had our first visit with the art teacher, Mrs. Blakeslee this week! She taught us about our primary colors.
• Music: We also had our first visit with our music teacher, Mrs. More! We used instruments and sung high and low songs.
I hope all of you have a wonderful weekend! I will be going on Sunday to the Chicken Dance so I will see you there! We have been practicing with all the other first graders and it should be fun! Happy Friday!
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Literacy Centers Rubric
* Listening Center
3 stars = colored picture AND 5 or more sentences
2 stars = picture and/or 2-4 sentences OR no picture and 5 or more sentences
1 star = no picture and/or 1 sentence or less OR picture and no sentences
0 = no picture or words
Poetry Center
3 stars = 5 or less mistakes (handwriting)
2 stars = more than 5 mistakes (handwriting)
1 star = skipped 1-2 lines or very messy overall
0 = not finished 5 or more lines
Spelling Center
3 stars = ABC and spelling correct, more than 3 sentences
2 stars = ABC or spelling mistakes, OR less than 3 sentences on the back
1 star = ABC or spelling mistakes, and incomplete in Column 3 or no sentences
0 = Column 2 & 3 not finished
Vocabulary Center
3 stars = No mistakes on vocabulary worksheet, Scholastic News and Dictionary words done
2 stars = spelling/handwriting mistakes on vocabulary sheet OR dictionary or Scholastic News not done
1 star = missing 1-2 words in vocab, OR did not do Scholastic News and Dictionary
0 = not finished 8 or more words and did not do Scholastic News/Dictionary
Friday, September 08, 2006
First Week of September
Upcoming Dates:
* Sunday, September 17th: Cupertino Jubilee Chicken Dance @ 12:20pm
There is a yellow paper in today’s Friday Folder. Please fill out the bottom portion to let me know if your child will or will not participate.
* Friday, September 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
* Friday, October 6th: Eaton’s Walk-a-Thon and Carnival! Save the Date!
September 8, 2006
Dear Families,
Thank you to those of you who were able to attend Back-to-School Night on Wednesday! I hope you found my website informational and helpful to learn about our classroom. Remember to turn in the following items as soon as possible: $125 classroom donation, library permission slip, website permission slip, and volunteer form. Thank you to Mrs. Komoto, Mrs. Na, and Mrs. Kim for generously offering to volunteer every Friday afternoon. I am hoping to find one more parent to help out during the Friday (or Thursday if there is no school on Friday) afternoon time slot (2:00-3:00pm). Thank you!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Manners
Song of the Week: Clap Your Name
Kindness is … saying thank you when somebody helps me.
Word Wall Words: Names of classmates
• Language Arts: We have worked on the alphabet letters up to G. We practice the sounds of each letter and brainstorm words for our Dictionaries. We also started learning about School Words in the vocabulary center.
• Reading: We continued to review the meaning of important words from Rosie’s Walk such as: across, around, over, under, past, and through. We created our own stories called Pete the Pencil to show our understanding of these words. Please read the story they made with your children to help them master the vocabulary.
• Library: We had our first library visit with Mrs. Glass. We went over the rules and expectations of library time. Each Friday, we will listen to a story read-aloud by Mrs. Glass, and then we can check out one book to take home. Please remember to bring back library books every Friday or else your child cannot check out another book.
• Assembly: We had our first assembly today with Gary Lapow. Gary is a songwriter and musician who sings fun songs on his guitar. It was lots of fun!
• Writing: This week we learned the five important parts that make up a friendly letter when we wrote the Back-to-School letters. We will be writing more letters throughout the year. Remember to keep checking the “Classwork” section in our website to read about our Prince and Princesses.
• Kindness Journal: We started our first entry in our Kindness Journal. This is a new project with the students to help them learn (hopefully) to do nice things for others and to have manners. Our first entry was about saying “Thank You.” Please also help to teach your kids to say thank you to you regularly at home. You can say thank you to them also if they help you.
• Math: This week we used cubes to help us with our addition facts. We learned the rule that numbers can be “turned around” in addition. For example: 1+2 = 2+1 because 1+2=3 and 2+1=3. This week I am sending home our first completed math packet. Please remember to review the problems your child missed. Also, word problems are the green/aqua colored pages and we usually do these as a whole class. Please try and have your child practice similar problems at home to see if they can solve the problems by themselves.
Next week, homework packets and sharing will begin. Please have your child ready to be tested in vocabulary and spelling by Thursday, and turn in homework packets on Friday. I am excited to hear your children’s sharing and please remember your child must be prepared with at least 4 complete sentences and have an object or picture to show.
Also on Monday, we will start our Weekend News journals. These journals are to encourage children to write freely without worrying about spelling or grammatical mistakes. Students usually write about what they did over the weekend, however, if nothing exciting happened, they can write about anything they want. It really helps if you can talk with your child Sunday night or Monday morning to review the weekend events. For example: did you go to a special place? Did they see a friend? What did you do at home? Are they excited about an upcoming event? Etc. Thank you for your help!
Please remember your child must be sitting at the table in the mornings. Please don’t have them stand up or walking around. We always line up in order of where they sit at the table, so I’d like kids to stay in line. Thank you. See you on Monday!
* Sunday, September 17th: Cupertino Jubilee Chicken Dance @ 12:20pm
There is a yellow paper in today’s Friday Folder. Please fill out the bottom portion to let me know if your child will or will not participate.
* Friday, September 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
* Friday, October 6th: Eaton’s Walk-a-Thon and Carnival! Save the Date!
September 8, 2006
Dear Families,
Thank you to those of you who were able to attend Back-to-School Night on Wednesday! I hope you found my website informational and helpful to learn about our classroom. Remember to turn in the following items as soon as possible: $125 classroom donation, library permission slip, website permission slip, and volunteer form. Thank you to Mrs. Komoto, Mrs. Na, and Mrs. Kim for generously offering to volunteer every Friday afternoon. I am hoping to find one more parent to help out during the Friday (or Thursday if there is no school on Friday) afternoon time slot (2:00-3:00pm). Thank you!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Manners
Song of the Week: Clap Your Name
Kindness is … saying thank you when somebody helps me.
Word Wall Words: Names of classmates
• Language Arts: We have worked on the alphabet letters up to G. We practice the sounds of each letter and brainstorm words for our Dictionaries. We also started learning about School Words in the vocabulary center.
• Reading: We continued to review the meaning of important words from Rosie’s Walk such as: across, around, over, under, past, and through. We created our own stories called Pete the Pencil to show our understanding of these words. Please read the story they made with your children to help them master the vocabulary.
• Library: We had our first library visit with Mrs. Glass. We went over the rules and expectations of library time. Each Friday, we will listen to a story read-aloud by Mrs. Glass, and then we can check out one book to take home. Please remember to bring back library books every Friday or else your child cannot check out another book.
• Assembly: We had our first assembly today with Gary Lapow. Gary is a songwriter and musician who sings fun songs on his guitar. It was lots of fun!
• Writing: This week we learned the five important parts that make up a friendly letter when we wrote the Back-to-School letters. We will be writing more letters throughout the year. Remember to keep checking the “Classwork” section in our website to read about our Prince and Princesses.
• Kindness Journal: We started our first entry in our Kindness Journal. This is a new project with the students to help them learn (hopefully) to do nice things for others and to have manners. Our first entry was about saying “Thank You.” Please also help to teach your kids to say thank you to you regularly at home. You can say thank you to them also if they help you.
• Math: This week we used cubes to help us with our addition facts. We learned the rule that numbers can be “turned around” in addition. For example: 1+2 = 2+1 because 1+2=3 and 2+1=3. This week I am sending home our first completed math packet. Please remember to review the problems your child missed. Also, word problems are the green/aqua colored pages and we usually do these as a whole class. Please try and have your child practice similar problems at home to see if they can solve the problems by themselves.
Next week, homework packets and sharing will begin. Please have your child ready to be tested in vocabulary and spelling by Thursday, and turn in homework packets on Friday. I am excited to hear your children’s sharing and please remember your child must be prepared with at least 4 complete sentences and have an object or picture to show.
Also on Monday, we will start our Weekend News journals. These journals are to encourage children to write freely without worrying about spelling or grammatical mistakes. Students usually write about what they did over the weekend, however, if nothing exciting happened, they can write about anything they want. It really helps if you can talk with your child Sunday night or Monday morning to review the weekend events. For example: did you go to a special place? Did they see a friend? What did you do at home? Are they excited about an upcoming event? Etc. Thank you for your help!
Please remember your child must be sitting at the table in the mornings. Please don’t have them stand up or walking around. We always line up in order of where they sit at the table, so I’d like kids to stay in line. Thank you. See you on Monday!
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Have a Great Long Weekend!
Upcoming Dates:
* Monday, September 4th: NO SCHOOL – Labor Day
* Wednesday, September 6th: Please complete and return the attached permission slip for our Cupertino Public Library field trips.
* Wednesday, September 6th: Back-to-School Night 6:15-7:00pm in Room 8
Please plan on attending this informational meeting about our classroom procedures and curriculum plan for the year. There will be a PTO meeting from 7:00pm-7:15pm afterwards.
* Sunday, September 17th: Cupertino Jubilee Chicken Dance @ 12:20pm
The first graders from Eaton will perform the Chicken Dance at the Cupertino Jubilee which is held at City Hall (next to the library). Plan on coming if you are available that day!
* Friday, September 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
September 1, 2006
Dear Families,
Thank you for those of you who have given generous donations for our classroom! In addition to the first grade supply list, we ask each family to donate $125 (payable to Eaton Elementary School) in order to cover the costs for all the fun assemblies, field trips, projects, and activities we complete all year long. We appreciate your contribution and support!
The first few days of school have gone by very smoothly. I have been pleased with the student effort during our projects and activities. We have been going over class rules and procedures this week, and reminding students to be on their best behavior. Here are some highlights from the week:
• Language Arts: We have begun our phonics and vocabulary lessons by beginning a picture dictionary. I have been emphasizing neatness and proper handwriting in their work.
• Social Studies: We are learning about ourselves and our families. We made a family portrait to share with the class. Also, we discovered all the countries that our families have come from and drew flags around the world.
• Buddies: We met our fourth grade buddies from Ms. Allen’s class and completed a fun activity using oobleck.
• Writing: We have been learning about our classmates. We select a Prince or Princess of the day. The students interview them and then we write a paragraph about that person. Some areas we are beginning to focus on are indenting paragraphs, capital letters in the beginning of sentences, punctuation, and sentence variety.
• Computer Lab: We learned the computer lab rules and worked on a KidPix alphabet stamp project.
• Math: We began our first chapter in our textbook on addition facts. We are practicing basic computation and also word problems using addition.
• Physical Education: We began our PE this week. We have PE class on Mondays and Tuesdays. Students have to run around the track once and then we play games afterwards.
• Fire Drill: On Wednesday, we practiced our first fire drill. We lined up quietly when the fire bell rang and walked onto the field until we were excused. We did a great job!
• Music: We have started our first grade music program. We are singing fun songs led by the first grade teachers.
• Nutrition Policy: We are starting a nutrition program at our school and we are only allowed to have one treat per month. Therefore, if your child has a birthday and you would like to share something with the class, we can only allow items such as pencils, erasers, or stickers.
• Friday Folders: Today you are receiving our weekly Friday Folders. Please review all the work that is sent home with your child and sign the back of the folder. Every week I monitor each child’s behavior using Super Stars. If your child receives green cards all week long, they will take home the Super Star (this week is the yellow bus). Please acknowledge these Super Stars and post them up in your house to remind children of good behavior!!!
I am including the September book order with this newsletter. This first order is very important because it gives our classroom free materials depending on the amount ordered. Please look through the book orders and if you are interested in purchasing books, make ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. Please return these orders by next Friday, September 8th.
We are fortunate to have an ELD aide to help out in our classroom everyday. Her name is Seema Saxena (Mrs. Seema) and she rotates between Mrs. Tambe’s class and ours from 9:00am – 12:20pm everyday. Mrs. Seema is a wonderful help to us! I am looking forward to meeting all of you next Thursday at Back to School Night! Have a wonderful weekend!
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September 1, 2006
Dear Families,
We will be going to the Cupertino Library after lunch on the following Thursdays this year: October 5th, November 9th, December 14th, January 11th, February 8th, March 15th, April 12th, May 10th, and June 7th. We will walk from the school to the library at 1:15pm and have their story time and book check-out from 1:30-2:15. We will return to school by dismissal time.
On our library day, all students need to bring their library card to school with them. If your child already has a library card, please check the box below and write the 4-digit PIN number. If your child does not have a library card, your child will receive a new library card on our first visit. We will assign the last 4-digits of your phone number as their PIN number.
We allow students to check out 2 books. We ask that children return their books directly to the library. This way the Eaton and Cupertino Library books will not get mixed up. Please complete the permission slip below and return to school by Wednesday, September 6th.
Thank you.
Please contact me if you need the permission slip.
* Monday, September 4th: NO SCHOOL – Labor Day
* Wednesday, September 6th: Please complete and return the attached permission slip for our Cupertino Public Library field trips.
* Wednesday, September 6th: Back-to-School Night 6:15-7:00pm in Room 8
Please plan on attending this informational meeting about our classroom procedures and curriculum plan for the year. There will be a PTO meeting from 7:00pm-7:15pm afterwards.
* Sunday, September 17th: Cupertino Jubilee Chicken Dance @ 12:20pm
The first graders from Eaton will perform the Chicken Dance at the Cupertino Jubilee which is held at City Hall (next to the library). Plan on coming if you are available that day!
* Friday, September 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
September 1, 2006
Dear Families,
Thank you for those of you who have given generous donations for our classroom! In addition to the first grade supply list, we ask each family to donate $125 (payable to Eaton Elementary School) in order to cover the costs for all the fun assemblies, field trips, projects, and activities we complete all year long. We appreciate your contribution and support!
The first few days of school have gone by very smoothly. I have been pleased with the student effort during our projects and activities. We have been going over class rules and procedures this week, and reminding students to be on their best behavior. Here are some highlights from the week:
• Language Arts: We have begun our phonics and vocabulary lessons by beginning a picture dictionary. I have been emphasizing neatness and proper handwriting in their work.
• Social Studies: We are learning about ourselves and our families. We made a family portrait to share with the class. Also, we discovered all the countries that our families have come from and drew flags around the world.
• Buddies: We met our fourth grade buddies from Ms. Allen’s class and completed a fun activity using oobleck.
• Writing: We have been learning about our classmates. We select a Prince or Princess of the day. The students interview them and then we write a paragraph about that person. Some areas we are beginning to focus on are indenting paragraphs, capital letters in the beginning of sentences, punctuation, and sentence variety.
• Computer Lab: We learned the computer lab rules and worked on a KidPix alphabet stamp project.
• Math: We began our first chapter in our textbook on addition facts. We are practicing basic computation and also word problems using addition.
• Physical Education: We began our PE this week. We have PE class on Mondays and Tuesdays. Students have to run around the track once and then we play games afterwards.
• Fire Drill: On Wednesday, we practiced our first fire drill. We lined up quietly when the fire bell rang and walked onto the field until we were excused. We did a great job!
• Music: We have started our first grade music program. We are singing fun songs led by the first grade teachers.
• Nutrition Policy: We are starting a nutrition program at our school and we are only allowed to have one treat per month. Therefore, if your child has a birthday and you would like to share something with the class, we can only allow items such as pencils, erasers, or stickers.
• Friday Folders: Today you are receiving our weekly Friday Folders. Please review all the work that is sent home with your child and sign the back of the folder. Every week I monitor each child’s behavior using Super Stars. If your child receives green cards all week long, they will take home the Super Star (this week is the yellow bus). Please acknowledge these Super Stars and post them up in your house to remind children of good behavior!!!
I am including the September book order with this newsletter. This first order is very important because it gives our classroom free materials depending on the amount ordered. Please look through the book orders and if you are interested in purchasing books, make ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. Please return these orders by next Friday, September 8th.
We are fortunate to have an ELD aide to help out in our classroom everyday. Her name is Seema Saxena (Mrs. Seema) and she rotates between Mrs. Tambe’s class and ours from 9:00am – 12:20pm everyday. Mrs. Seema is a wonderful help to us! I am looking forward to meeting all of you next Thursday at Back to School Night! Have a wonderful weekend!
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September 1, 2006
Dear Families,
We will be going to the Cupertino Library after lunch on the following Thursdays this year: October 5th, November 9th, December 14th, January 11th, February 8th, March 15th, April 12th, May 10th, and June 7th. We will walk from the school to the library at 1:15pm and have their story time and book check-out from 1:30-2:15. We will return to school by dismissal time.
On our library day, all students need to bring their library card to school with them. If your child already has a library card, please check the box below and write the 4-digit PIN number. If your child does not have a library card, your child will receive a new library card on our first visit. We will assign the last 4-digits of your phone number as their PIN number.
We allow students to check out 2 books. We ask that children return their books directly to the library. This way the Eaton and Cupertino Library books will not get mixed up. Please complete the permission slip below and return to school by Wednesday, September 6th.
Thank you.
Please contact me if you need the permission slip.
Monday, August 21, 2006
First Day of School
Dear Families,
Welcome to a new school year at Eaton Elementary! I hope you had a wonderful summer and am as excited to be back as I am. My name is Miss Yu and I will be your child’s teacher for the upcoming year. This will be a fun-filled and challenging time for both your child and myself!
I am eager to meet all of you at Back to School Night. Please save the date: Wednesday, September 6th. I will hold a mandatory meeting in Room 8 from 6:15pm–7:00pm and then there will be a PTO meeting in the MP Room from 7:00pm-7:15pm. This will be a very important opportunity for you to learn about our classroom and the procedures for the year.
All first graders are asked to bring the items below. Please make sure to buy the EXACT brand (such as Dixon-Ticonderoga, Magic Rub, Crayola, Sharpie, etc.). Please purchase these items by Friday, September 1st. Thank you for your donations.
− 1 box of Dixon-Ticonderoga #2 pencils
− 2 Magic Rub erasers
− 1 box of Crayola Classic color markers
− 4 large glue sticks
- 1 box of 24 Crayola crayons
− 1 pack of colored Sharpie pens
− 1 3” by 3” pad of Post-its Notes
− 1 box of Kleenex OR 1 roll of paper towels
− 1 box of any size ziplock bags
− 1 bottle of Instant Hand Sanitizer
Please remember to send your child to school on time each morning at 9:00am and pick up your child at 3:05pm (except Tuesday dismissal is at 2:30pm). Also, please label all lunch boxes, jackets, hats, sweaters, etc. with your child’s name so that lost items can be returned to you. I am looking forward to working with you and your children!
Miss Yu
Yu_grace@cupertino.k12.ca.us
408-255-2848 x208
www.geocities.com/missyu_grace
Welcome to a new school year at Eaton Elementary! I hope you had a wonderful summer and am as excited to be back as I am. My name is Miss Yu and I will be your child’s teacher for the upcoming year. This will be a fun-filled and challenging time for both your child and myself!
I am eager to meet all of you at Back to School Night. Please save the date: Wednesday, September 6th. I will hold a mandatory meeting in Room 8 from 6:15pm–7:00pm and then there will be a PTO meeting in the MP Room from 7:00pm-7:15pm. This will be a very important opportunity for you to learn about our classroom and the procedures for the year.
All first graders are asked to bring the items below. Please make sure to buy the EXACT brand (such as Dixon-Ticonderoga, Magic Rub, Crayola, Sharpie, etc.). Please purchase these items by Friday, September 1st. Thank you for your donations.
− 1 box of Dixon-Ticonderoga #2 pencils
− 2 Magic Rub erasers
− 1 box of Crayola Classic color markers
− 4 large glue sticks
- 1 box of 24 Crayola crayons
− 1 pack of colored Sharpie pens
− 1 3” by 3” pad of Post-its Notes
− 1 box of Kleenex OR 1 roll of paper towels
− 1 box of any size ziplock bags
− 1 bottle of Instant Hand Sanitizer
Please remember to send your child to school on time each morning at 9:00am and pick up your child at 3:05pm (except Tuesday dismissal is at 2:30pm). Also, please label all lunch boxes, jackets, hats, sweaters, etc. with your child’s name so that lost items can be returned to you. I am looking forward to working with you and your children!
Miss Yu
Yu_grace@cupertino.k12.ca.us
408-255-2848 x208
www.geocities.com/missyu_grace
Thursday, June 15, 2006
End of the 2005-2006 School Year
June 16, 2006
Dear Families,
It is always hard to say goodbye to all my students at the end of each year. I have seen your children grow and learn so much over the year and I am so proud of them for their hard work. I would appreciate it if you kept in touch with me from time to time to let me know how your children are doing. Thank you for a great year and have a fabulous summer!
Here are a few of my favorite memories:
Angela: Your beautiful drawings in art class and your love for picking flowers!
Daniel M: Your bravery to not be scared when there’s a fire drill!
Daniel Z: Your courage to eat the BBQ mealworm first at the Insect Fair!
Eri: Your beautiful origami that you gave to me after recess time!
Eric S: Your knowledge of planets in our solar system and other nonfiction facts!
Eric Y: Your marching into the classroom using your lunchbox as your drum!
Geoffrey: Your special poem you wrote for me during Teacher Appreciation Week!
Jasmine: Your organized writing about your sister and all about whales!
Jee Hye: Your sweet smile and visiting my classroom after school!
Jerry: Your wonderful violin performance at the talent show!
Jihyun: Your great sharing every week and weather report presentation!
Ji-Su: Your patience and kindness to make friends with others!
Johnny: Your purple square that the butterfly liked to land nearby!
Jorge: Your excitement to help me clean the white boards!
Matthew: Your fun attitude and wanting to show me around at International Night!
Samuel: Your determination to learn how to fold origami at Enrichment Day!
Soowon: Your graceful fairy dancing in When You Wish Upon a Star!
Toby: Your beautiful handwriting at the end of the year!
You will all be wonderful second graders! Students, enjoy your new music CD! Parents, enjoy your personalized notepad! Miss Yu will miss you!!! =)
Dear Families,
It is always hard to say goodbye to all my students at the end of each year. I have seen your children grow and learn so much over the year and I am so proud of them for their hard work. I would appreciate it if you kept in touch with me from time to time to let me know how your children are doing. Thank you for a great year and have a fabulous summer!
Here are a few of my favorite memories:
Angela: Your beautiful drawings in art class and your love for picking flowers!
Daniel M: Your bravery to not be scared when there’s a fire drill!
Daniel Z: Your courage to eat the BBQ mealworm first at the Insect Fair!
Eri: Your beautiful origami that you gave to me after recess time!
Eric S: Your knowledge of planets in our solar system and other nonfiction facts!
Eric Y: Your marching into the classroom using your lunchbox as your drum!
Geoffrey: Your special poem you wrote for me during Teacher Appreciation Week!
Jasmine: Your organized writing about your sister and all about whales!
Jee Hye: Your sweet smile and visiting my classroom after school!
Jerry: Your wonderful violin performance at the talent show!
Jihyun: Your great sharing every week and weather report presentation!
Ji-Su: Your patience and kindness to make friends with others!
Johnny: Your purple square that the butterfly liked to land nearby!
Jorge: Your excitement to help me clean the white boards!
Matthew: Your fun attitude and wanting to show me around at International Night!
Samuel: Your determination to learn how to fold origami at Enrichment Day!
Soowon: Your graceful fairy dancing in When You Wish Upon a Star!
Toby: Your beautiful handwriting at the end of the year!
You will all be wonderful second graders! Students, enjoy your new music CD! Parents, enjoy your personalized notepad! Miss Yu will miss you!!! =)
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