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!