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!
Friday, October 27, 2006
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!
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