Upcoming Dates
* Monday, January 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
I apologize for any confusion with the wrong information on the Sharing List!
* Tuesday, February 6th: 100th Day of School!
All the first graders will be doing a special all day long circuit to celebrate the 100th Day of School! Activities will involve various subjects such as math, language arts, science, and art!
* Thursday, February 8th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the library again this afternoon. Please remember to send your child’s blue library card with them to school. Also, please review their 4-digit PIN numbers!
* Wednesday, February 14th: Valentine’s Day
We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day in the afternoon by doing some crafts, having a snack, and exchanging cards. Every child must prepare Valentine cards for every student and bring them to school on Valentine’s Day. They can be homemade or store-bought cards. Here is a list of all the students' names in our class. Please have your child write: To: (student name) and From: (your child’s name) on each envelope.
Akane Anushka Catherine Geoffrey
Hitoharu Jaewoo Jonathan Joseph
Julia Lenny Mayu Michael
Ming-Li Moe Oscar Patricia
Reva Sammy William Yo
* Monday, February 19th – Friday, February 23rd: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your winter recess!
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Dear Families,
Thank you for returning the permission slips this week from PBwiki to allow them to possibly videotape our classroom using their website. I have to receive approval still from the Cupertino Union School District. I will let you know if and when this happens.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Lenny
Poem of the Week: January Thaw
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … forgiving mistakes.
Story of the Week: Antarctica
Vocabulary of the Week: Food 2
Word Wall Words: grow, light, long, more, other, right, room, small, these
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – something you made using 100 Objects (at least 4 sentences and bring the picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 5 Home Sweet Home – Week 1
• Stories: Moving Day
• Word Families: -ash (rash, dash) and –ush (hush, bush)
• Sounds: digraphs (sh, th, wh, ch, tch)
• Grammar: Exclamations !!!
• Math: This chapter has been very difficult for many students. We began working on some of the math pages as a whole group instead of individually. Please make sure to continue reviewing the problems that come home in today’s Friday Folder and make sure your child understands how to count, create, and solve money problems. We are working hard on money everyday!
• Social Studies: We have finished our Calendar project! This week, we talked about the rest of the months and holidays of the year. I am sure you will enjoy using this personalized Calendar for 2007!
• Science: This week in circuits, we went to Mrs. Bachelor’s room and talked about Winter. Students brainstormed words that described winter and also made a class poster to decorate our classroom!
• Computer Lab: This week we drew pictures for our January Kindness journals. Most students were able to complete two pictures using Kidpix for their journals (see Classwork section in class website).
• Buddies: We met our 4th grade buddies in Ms. Allen’s class today. We played relay races and games on the field with our buddies.
Eaton is doing a fundraiser for patients who are in hospitals. They are asking for book donations, if you have any books that you do not want any more (not ripped or scribbled on). Students will be bringing home a plastic bag for this fundraiser. Please turn in the books by February 7th.
Over the next few weeks, I will be absent a few days. Next Friday, all of the first grade teachers will be attending a first grade conference. The following week, I will be going out of town three days for a family obligation. Mrs. Nevins will be the substitute. She has substituted for me several times before and she used to be a teacher for many years. She is very experienced and knows my teaching style. I hope to hear only wonderful comments about our class from her! Please remind your children to be on their best behavior everyday!
Friday, January 26, 2007
Friday, January 19, 2007
Peace-filled Week
Upcoming Dates
* Friday, January 26th: Book Orders Due
Attached to this newsletter are the Scholastic Book Orders. Please cut out the order form on the back of each catalog and list the items you would like to purchase. Write ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. The books will arrive before our February Mid-Year Recess.
* Monday, January 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Remember Monday sharers will share on Tuesday instead.
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Dear Families,
This was a short week! Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Geoffrey
Poem of the Week: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … building peace around me.
Story of the Week: I Am Freedom’s Child
Vocabulary of the Week: Food 1
Word Wall: car, down, hear, hold, hurt, learn, their, walk, would
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something to keep you warm
(Try to memorize words, develop at least 4 complete clues, and hide object/picture in a bag)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 All Together Now – Week 3
• Stories: Bud’s Day Out
• Word Families: -um (gum, sum) and –ump (bump, dump)
• Sounds: triple clusters and short u (bug, hut)
• Grammar: Asking sentences (How? Why? Who? What? Etc)
• Writing: This week we went to Mrs. Burgess’ class for Science circuits. We learned many facts about weather through The Magic School Bus and wrote a paragraph with three weather facts of our choice.
• Social Studies: This week, we learned mostly about Martin Luther King Jr. We read stories about his life and what he did to change unfair laws. One project we created was to show that all kinds of people can live peacefully together. Another activity was a group project where we illustrated important events in Martin Luther King Jr.’s life. We also continued our Calendar project and completed May and June. I am hoping students will be able to finish the Calendar by next week and bring it home to share with your families!
• Math: We are in Chapter 7 about money. Please review counting by 5’s and 10’s. That will make counting nickels and dimes easier! We are working on identifying and counting pennies, nickels, and dimes. This concept is best reviewed at home if you use real coins and count them.
• Computer Lab: We finished our Kidspiration projects about the seasons and months of the year. These will be used as the cover of our Calendars.
• Assembly: We had an Author of the Month assembly today. Congratulations to Lenny who wrote about four of his 2007 New Year’s Resolutions. Great Job!
Most of you are familiar with our Kindness Journals we have been writing each week (under “Classwork” in our website). Our journals are hosted by a website called www.pbwiki.com. The founders of PBwiki would like more teachers to use their site, and so they are interested in coming into our classroom to videotape some of the students during Computer center as they type their Kindness Journals and illustrate pictures. Attached to this newsletter is a letter from Ramit Sethi, one of the co-founders of the website requesting your permission to videotape your children in class. Please complete the form and return it to me on Monday in the Friday Folder. Thank you! Have an excellent weekend!
* Friday, January 26th: Book Orders Due
Attached to this newsletter are the Scholastic Book Orders. Please cut out the order form on the back of each catalog and list the items you would like to purchase. Write ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. The books will arrive before our February Mid-Year Recess.
* Monday, January 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Remember Monday sharers will share on Tuesday instead.
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Dear Families,
This was a short week! Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Geoffrey
Poem of the Week: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … building peace around me.
Story of the Week: I Am Freedom’s Child
Vocabulary of the Week: Food 1
Word Wall: car, down, hear, hold, hurt, learn, their, walk, would
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something to keep you warm
(Try to memorize words, develop at least 4 complete clues, and hide object/picture in a bag)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 All Together Now – Week 3
• Stories: Bud’s Day Out
• Word Families: -um (gum, sum) and –ump (bump, dump)
• Sounds: triple clusters and short u (bug, hut)
• Grammar: Asking sentences (How? Why? Who? What? Etc)
• Writing: This week we went to Mrs. Burgess’ class for Science circuits. We learned many facts about weather through The Magic School Bus and wrote a paragraph with three weather facts of our choice.
• Social Studies: This week, we learned mostly about Martin Luther King Jr. We read stories about his life and what he did to change unfair laws. One project we created was to show that all kinds of people can live peacefully together. Another activity was a group project where we illustrated important events in Martin Luther King Jr.’s life. We also continued our Calendar project and completed May and June. I am hoping students will be able to finish the Calendar by next week and bring it home to share with your families!
• Math: We are in Chapter 7 about money. Please review counting by 5’s and 10’s. That will make counting nickels and dimes easier! We are working on identifying and counting pennies, nickels, and dimes. This concept is best reviewed at home if you use real coins and count them.
• Computer Lab: We finished our Kidspiration projects about the seasons and months of the year. These will be used as the cover of our Calendars.
• Assembly: We had an Author of the Month assembly today. Congratulations to Lenny who wrote about four of his 2007 New Year’s Resolutions. Great Job!
Most of you are familiar with our Kindness Journals we have been writing each week (under “Classwork” in our website). Our journals are hosted by a website called www.pbwiki.com. The founders of PBwiki would like more teachers to use their site, and so they are interested in coming into our classroom to videotape some of the students during Computer center as they type their Kindness Journals and illustrate pictures. Attached to this newsletter is a letter from Ramit Sethi, one of the co-founders of the website requesting your permission to videotape your children in class. Please complete the form and return it to me on Monday in the Friday Folder. Thank you! Have an excellent weekend!
Friday, January 12, 2007
Building Peace
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, January 15th: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Remember Monday sharers will share on Tuesday instead.
* Monday, January 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Teachers will still be going to school on this day. We will be working on Peacebuilders on this day.
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Dear Families,
We have reached our maximum capacity! This week, we gained three new students! Our first student was Oscar, who just moved from Spain. He speaks Spanish at home and is just beginning to learn English. Next, we met Michael, who speaks French at home but knows some English because he went to school in Texas. Last, we met Jaewoo who just moved from Korea and is also new to speaking English. We are excited to have these new students! You can read more about them in our Prince and Princess activity on the website (under “Classwork”). Please say hello to their families and welcome them to our class!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Moe
Poem of the Week: Bear-ly Awake
Song of the Week: Peacebuilder Pledge
Kindness is … learning a friend’s language.
Story of the Week: The Hat
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 7
Word Wall Words: girl, know, read, sing, write
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something healthy (try to memorize)
(at least 4 complete clues and hide object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 All Together Now – Week 2
• Stories: The Best Pet
• Word Families: -ell (tell, sell) and –est (best, test)
• Sounds: clusters with s (sw-, sl-, sp-), short e, silent letters kn, wr, gn
• Grammar: Telling Sentence
• Writing: This week, most of our writing was during Prince and Princess after we interviewed our new students. We are starting to compare the difference between Expository writing (writing a paragraph to tell something) and Narrative writing (writing a story).
• Reading: In addition to reading The Hat during Listening Center, we read another book by the same author (Jan Brett) called The Mitten. We read this story several times and also took turns telling the story orally in readers’ theater. We also made our own mittens and animals.
• Math: We are finishing addition and subtraction facts to 12 this week. Keep practicing word problems and remembering our “magic words.”
o Addition: in all, altogether
o Subtraction: how many more, less, away, still
Next week we are starting a chapter on money with pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.
• Social Studies: We continued our calendar project this week and completed February, March, and April. We are learning about different holidays and important dates in each of these months. We also began to learn about Martin Luther King Jr. and will continue to read more about him next week.
• Science: Weather is our unit for the next few months. This week we made snowflakes with our big buddies to hang in the classroom. We also talked about clothing and what you wear in the wintertime.
• Library: Remember to return the Cupertino Public Library books on your own whenever your child is finished with them. We do not want to mix them up with Eaton Library books which are checked out usually on Fridays.
• Computer Lab: We continued our Calendar map this week using Kidspiration. Many students finished adding words and pictures to their calendars and it looks great!
• Assembly: We had a fun performance to watch from Young Audiences. It was a group of 3 people performing funny Japanese drama!
Please continue to talk with your children about classroom rules. Overall, we are a very well-behaved group of students! However, I have to remind students to sit quietly on the carpet and not talk to other students or move around. Also, I have to give reminders while students are working to stay focused and finish their work instead of talking. Green super stars reflect that students have been trying their best in school each day. I hope to give all green super stars! Have a wonderful 3-day weekend!
* Monday, January 15th: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Remember Monday sharers will share on Tuesday instead.
* Monday, January 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Teachers will still be going to school on this day. We will be working on Peacebuilders on this day.
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Dear Families,
We have reached our maximum capacity! This week, we gained three new students! Our first student was Oscar, who just moved from Spain. He speaks Spanish at home and is just beginning to learn English. Next, we met Michael, who speaks French at home but knows some English because he went to school in Texas. Last, we met Jaewoo who just moved from Korea and is also new to speaking English. We are excited to have these new students! You can read more about them in our Prince and Princess activity on the website (under “Classwork”). Please say hello to their families and welcome them to our class!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Moe
Poem of the Week: Bear-ly Awake
Song of the Week: Peacebuilder Pledge
Kindness is … learning a friend’s language.
Story of the Week: The Hat
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 7
Word Wall Words: girl, know, read, sing, write
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something healthy (try to memorize)
(at least 4 complete clues and hide object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 All Together Now – Week 2
• Stories: The Best Pet
• Word Families: -ell (tell, sell) and –est (best, test)
• Sounds: clusters with s (sw-, sl-, sp-), short e, silent letters kn, wr, gn
• Grammar: Telling Sentence
• Writing: This week, most of our writing was during Prince and Princess after we interviewed our new students. We are starting to compare the difference between Expository writing (writing a paragraph to tell something) and Narrative writing (writing a story).
• Reading: In addition to reading The Hat during Listening Center, we read another book by the same author (Jan Brett) called The Mitten. We read this story several times and also took turns telling the story orally in readers’ theater. We also made our own mittens and animals.
• Math: We are finishing addition and subtraction facts to 12 this week. Keep practicing word problems and remembering our “magic words.”
o Addition: in all, altogether
o Subtraction: how many more, less, away, still
Next week we are starting a chapter on money with pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters.
• Social Studies: We continued our calendar project this week and completed February, March, and April. We are learning about different holidays and important dates in each of these months. We also began to learn about Martin Luther King Jr. and will continue to read more about him next week.
• Science: Weather is our unit for the next few months. This week we made snowflakes with our big buddies to hang in the classroom. We also talked about clothing and what you wear in the wintertime.
• Library: Remember to return the Cupertino Public Library books on your own whenever your child is finished with them. We do not want to mix them up with Eaton Library books which are checked out usually on Fridays.
• Computer Lab: We continued our Calendar map this week using Kidspiration. Many students finished adding words and pictures to their calendars and it looks great!
• Assembly: We had a fun performance to watch from Young Audiences. It was a group of 3 people performing funny Japanese drama!
Please continue to talk with your children about classroom rules. Overall, we are a very well-behaved group of students! However, I have to remind students to sit quietly on the carpet and not talk to other students or move around. Also, I have to give reminders while students are working to stay focused and finish their work instead of talking. Green super stars reflect that students have been trying their best in school each day. I hope to give all green super stars! Have a wonderful 3-day weekend!
Friday, January 05, 2007
Happy New Year!!!
Upcoming Dates
* Thursday, January 11th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Hopefully it will not rain next week! Remember to bring your library cards to school and memorize your 4-digit PIN number. 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).
* Monday, January 15th: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Remember Monday sharers will share on Tuesday instead.
* Monday, January 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Teachers will still be going to school on this day. We will be working on Peacebuilders on this day.
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Dear Families,
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season! It has been exciting listening to everyone’s sharing! Also, students wrote in their Weekend News journals about their vacation. We had many travelers in our class! I stayed home most of the time and spent the days with my family, except for a very short trip to Tahoe for snowboarding! It was so nice and relaxing, except for the fact that I came back to school and my computer wasn’t working anymore!!! Some files are lost, so the website may not be updated. I am working on getting everything back to normal.
On Monday, we will be getting a new student named Michael! He is moving to California from Texas, however, he speaks French! Please welcome him and his family to our class!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Joseph
Poem of the Week: Winter Cheer
Song of the Week: Peacebuilder Pledge
Kindness is … making New Year resolutions.
Story of the Week: Snowballs
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 6
Word Wall Words: children, come, love, people, picture, your
Next Week’s Sharing: Winter Poem (memorize words! No reading)
(at least 4 complete lines and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 All Together Now – Week 1
• Stories: Who’s in a Family?
• Word Families: -ock (clock, sock) and -op (hop, top)
• Sounds: clusters with l (pl-, fl-, gl) and short o
• Grammar: Is it a Sentence?
• Writing: We talked about what New Year resolutions mean. We tried to think of four different resolutions, or goals that we will try to do this year in 2007. We wrote them down and decorated a nice project to display each student’s 2007 resolutions.
• Math: We are continuing addition and subtraction facts to 12. The students are getting very good at fact families!
• Social Studies: We are starting a January project on seasons, holidays, and important dates on the calendar. We will be learning about each month of the year and will make a fun art project for each month too!
• Science Circuit: This was our last circuit with the district’s Here’s Looking at You program to teach students about making right decisions and staying away from drugs. Next week we will start a new circuit on Weather, which is the next Science unit we will be learning about from now until April.
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly called Stranger Danger. A police officer came to teach us about strangers and what we should do to stay safe from strangers.
• Computer Lab: We are starting a project using Kidspiration that also relates to what we are learning in Social Studies. Students are finding pictures and writing words for each month in the year. We will be continuing this activity next week as well.
• Music: We saw Mrs. More this week and started practicing lion dancing using cymbals! We each had the chance to be the leader and we also danced with long red ribbons. We also visited our xylophones and metal instruments.
It was hard to wake up early again on Tuesday after two weeks of sleeping in, but once I saw all the kids Tuesday morning, I was reminded why I love being a teacher! Your children are all so adorable and I am happy to work with them! Happy 2007! I hope many blessings will come to your family this year!
* Thursday, January 11th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Hopefully it will not rain next week! Remember to bring your library cards to school and memorize your 4-digit PIN number. 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).
* Monday, January 15th: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Remember Monday sharers will share on Tuesday instead.
* Monday, January 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Teachers will still be going to school on this day. We will be working on Peacebuilders on this day.
_____________________________________________
Dear Families,
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season! It has been exciting listening to everyone’s sharing! Also, students wrote in their Weekend News journals about their vacation. We had many travelers in our class! I stayed home most of the time and spent the days with my family, except for a very short trip to Tahoe for snowboarding! It was so nice and relaxing, except for the fact that I came back to school and my computer wasn’t working anymore!!! Some files are lost, so the website may not be updated. I am working on getting everything back to normal.
On Monday, we will be getting a new student named Michael! He is moving to California from Texas, however, he speaks French! Please welcome him and his family to our class!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Joseph
Poem of the Week: Winter Cheer
Song of the Week: Peacebuilder Pledge
Kindness is … making New Year resolutions.
Story of the Week: Snowballs
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 6
Word Wall Words: children, come, love, people, picture, your
Next Week’s Sharing: Winter Poem (memorize words! No reading)
(at least 4 complete lines and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 All Together Now – Week 1
• Stories: Who’s in a Family?
• Word Families: -ock (clock, sock) and -op (hop, top)
• Sounds: clusters with l (pl-, fl-, gl) and short o
• Grammar: Is it a Sentence?
• Writing: We talked about what New Year resolutions mean. We tried to think of four different resolutions, or goals that we will try to do this year in 2007. We wrote them down and decorated a nice project to display each student’s 2007 resolutions.
• Math: We are continuing addition and subtraction facts to 12. The students are getting very good at fact families!
• Social Studies: We are starting a January project on seasons, holidays, and important dates on the calendar. We will be learning about each month of the year and will make a fun art project for each month too!
• Science Circuit: This was our last circuit with the district’s Here’s Looking at You program to teach students about making right decisions and staying away from drugs. Next week we will start a new circuit on Weather, which is the next Science unit we will be learning about from now until April.
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly called Stranger Danger. A police officer came to teach us about strangers and what we should do to stay safe from strangers.
• Computer Lab: We are starting a project using Kidspiration that also relates to what we are learning in Social Studies. Students are finding pictures and writing words for each month in the year. We will be continuing this activity next week as well.
• Music: We saw Mrs. More this week and started practicing lion dancing using cymbals! We each had the chance to be the leader and we also danced with long red ribbons. We also visited our xylophones and metal instruments.
It was hard to wake up early again on Tuesday after two weeks of sleeping in, but once I saw all the kids Tuesday morning, I was reminded why I love being a teacher! Your children are all so adorable and I am happy to work with them! Happy 2007! I hope many blessings will come to your family this year!
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