Happy Thanksgiving!

Upcoming Dates

* Monday, November 20th: De Anza Flint Center Field Trip
We will be traveling by bus to De Anza College to watch the play, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. We will leave around 9:30am and return by 12:00pm. Thank you Mr. Hung (Jonathan’s father) for being our chaperone.

* Wednesday, November 22nd – Friday, November 24th: NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving Break

* Monday, November 27th: Scholastic Book Orders Due!
I have attached the November and December Seesaw and Lucky book orders to today’s newsletter. If you are interested in purchasing books, please fill out the forms and write ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. Please return the forms by the Monday after Thanksgiving.

* Friday, December 1st: Turn in November’s BOOK-IT Reading Log
The December reading log will go home in that Friday Folder

* Friday, December 8th: First Trimester Report Cards go home.
Next Tuesday is the end of the first trimester. The report card will evaluate your child’s progress from the beginning of the year to this point in the year.

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Dear Families,

I hope you enjoyed the long weekend! On Monday, Anushka joined our class. Please welcome her and her family to Eaton. We learned more about Anushka during our Princess of the Day activity. You can read about Anushka on our classroom website!

Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Here is a Turkey
Song of the Week: Seasons
Kindness is … giving thanks.
Story of the Week: Lunch
Vocabulary of the Week: People 3
Word Wall Words: away, does, live, pull, where
Next Week’s Sharing: No sharing! Short week!

• Language Arts: Theme 2 All Together Now – Week 3
• Stories: A Hut for Zig Bug and The Rope Tug
• Word Families: –ug (hug, tug, rug) and -ut (but, hut, cut)
• Sounds: q, j, z and short u
• Grammar: Action Words

• Writing: This week we wrote several things. We discussed what Thanksgiving means and wrote about things we are thankful for. Also, we pretended we were turkeys and did a writing activity from the point of view of a turkey!

• Social Studies: We learned about Thanksgiving and the reason why we celebrate it! The students made a book called The Thanksgiving Story about Pilgrims, Indians, and the Mayflower. I hope you enjoyed reading the book with your child yesterday!

• Science: We are starting a new first grade circuit on Tuesday afternoons. This new circuit is all from a science unit in the district called Here’s Looking At You. This program teaches students how to treat others and that they are special. It also has components about staying away from drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc. This week, we worked with Mrs. Burgess on reasons why we are each special.

• Art: We continued working on our still picture drawings of flowers with Mrs. Blakeslee. This time we worked on our final draft using colors to finish our pictures.

• Music: This week with Mrs. More we sang a fun Fall leaf song where we danced and moved like falling leaves. Also, we learned a hello dance and march. We finished with our metal and wood instruments.

After Thanksgiving, we will be starting Star of the Week. When your child is the Star of the Week, they will bring home a poster on Monday and they have to complete the poster by Friday of the same week. They will need to read and share their poster with the class. Then that weekend, they will take home our class stuffed animal, Beebear. Each student will write and draw what they did with Beebear over the weekend, and return Beebear on Monday. This is a fun activity because students love to share Beebear! Don’t worry, parents, Beebear is machine washable!

Congratulations to Yo, who was our Author of the Month today. He shared a writing we did in October on monsters. Great Job! Next week is very short! Therefore, we will not be doing homework, sharing, and there will not be any Friday Folders. I will be traveling to Asia, specifically Japan and Taiwan, over the holidays because my cousin is getting married. I hope everyone enjoys the long Thanksgiving weekend!