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!