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!