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!