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!