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!