Upcoming Dates
* Monday, February 19th – Friday, February 23rd: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your winter recess!
* Thursday, February 22nd: Eaton Fundraiser at Chuck-E-Cheese
Come to Chuck-E-Cheese and they will donate money to Eaton!
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Dear Families,
It has been an exciting week! Our Valentine’s Day party was a wonderful success! We decorated the picture frames of our class during the party, and finished making our Valentine bags. I hope you liked our tree of hearts that we made in computer lab! The Dear Valentine poem on our bags was also the poem of the week. Have your child read it to you!
Thank you for remembering to prepare Valentine cards for everyone in the class. It was so fun to pass out cards to each other and read all the cards! We had a healthy party that included a menu of carrots, apples, juice, and one cookie. I was so touched by all the beautiful cards and presents. Thank you so much!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Jaewoo
Poem of the Week: Dear Valentine
Song of the Week: The Continents and Oceans
Kindness is … celebrating special days.
Story of the Week: Giraffe’s Can’t Dance
Vocabulary of the Week: Food 5
Word Wall Words: morning, found, shout, by, out, show, climb
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – somewhere you have traveled
(at least 4 sentences and bring a picture or drawing)
• Language Arts: Theme 6 Animal Adventures– Week 1
• Stories: The Sleeping Pig
• Word Families: -oke (poke, joke, woke)
• Sounds: long o, long u, and final clusters –ft, -lk, -nt
• Grammar: Naming Words for People and Animals
• Writing: We continued learning more about penguins this week. We did a penguin center where we learned the names of the seventeen penguin species. We wrote a piece on facts we know about penguins. Geoffrey was chosen as our Author of the Month and he shared his penguin writing at the assembly today! Great job!
• Math: Many of the students are flying through Chapter 9 on addition and subtraction facts to 20. We worked mostly on subtraction this week. We will continue with this chapter after vacation.
• Social Studies: We learned about Valentine’s Day this week, as well as President’s Day and Chinese New Year. For President’s Day, we learned about leaders in our country, especially George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. On Friday, we made dragons to celebrate Chinese New Year.
• Science: We went to Mrs. Tambe’s class to continue our unit on weather. We talked about rain and made an umbrella picture.
• Art: We are starting a new activity with Mrs. Blakeslee about Native Americans. We learned how Native Americans use pictures instead of words to tell a story. We are writing our own stories and will be drawing pictures to match our stories in the next art class.
• Music: This week, we celebrated Chinese New Years by playing drums and cymbals with Mrs. More. We also did dragon line dancing using dragon costumes and we took turns parading around the MP room! It was very exciting!
Today was Joseph’s last day in our class =( We are sad that he is moving away to Los Angeles. We will miss him very much! We hope he will be able to come back and visit us!
The weather was great this week! I hope it stays that way during our Winter recess and I hope all of you have a safe vacation next week!
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
100th Day of School!
Upcoming Dates
* 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
* Friday, February 16th: Joseph’s Last Day at Eaton
Joseph and his family will be moving to Los Angeles during Winter Recess. Please make sure to say goodbye before he leaves!
* Monday, February 19th – Friday, February 23rd: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your winter recess!
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Dear Families,
Happy one hundred days of school! Well, today is the one hundredth and third day of school already! Last weekend’s first grade conference was very good. Mrs. Burgess, Mrs. Bachelor, Mrs. Barelli, Mrs. Tambe, Miss Salter, and I went to the conference together on Friday. We drove up to Napa at 5am Friday morning! We took several seminars to help us learn new ways to teach writing, math, and other language arts areas. It was a very well organized and helpful conference!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Anushka
Poem of the Week: One Hundred Days
Song of the Week: The Penguin Song
Kindness is … celebrating special days.
Story of the Week: Shoes, Shoes, Shoes
Vocabulary of the Week: Food 4
Word Wall Words: fly, give, good, little, our, try, was
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something you love
(at least 4 sentences and bring a picture hidden in a bag)
• Language Arts: Theme 5 Home Sweet Home – Week 3
• Stories: The Kite
• Word Families: -ite (kite, white) and –ide (ride, hide)
• Sounds: long i (CVCe) and contractions
• Grammar: Using I or Me in sentences
• Math: We started Chapter 9 this week on addition and subtraction facts to 20. This should be an easier chapter for most students but we still need to make sure we work carefully and check our answers for mistakes!
• Social Studies: On Tuesday, we celebrated the 100th day of school! We made 100 day hats with Mrs. Burgess, 100 hungry ants using our fingerprints with Mrs. Bachelor, 100 around the world with Mrs. Salter, and counting to 100 with Mrs. Tambe. This was a fun day for the kids!
• Science: This week, we continued a few more penguin activities. We are learning the life of an Emperor Penguin in Antarctica. We also made a Penguin Art activity. Next week we will continue to learn about the 17 different kinds of penguins!
Eaton will be having a family science fair on March 8th. If your child is interested in participating, please pick up an information packet in the office. This is an optional activity.
I was not able to come to school these past few days because I had a family trip to attend. I was very pleased last Friday to hear from Mrs. Nevins that the kids were great! I am hoping they have kept up the wonderful behavior these past 3 days! Have a wonderful weekend!
* 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
* Friday, February 16th: Joseph’s Last Day at Eaton
Joseph and his family will be moving to Los Angeles during Winter Recess. Please make sure to say goodbye before he leaves!
* Monday, February 19th – Friday, February 23rd: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your winter recess!
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Dear Families,
Happy one hundred days of school! Well, today is the one hundredth and third day of school already! Last weekend’s first grade conference was very good. Mrs. Burgess, Mrs. Bachelor, Mrs. Barelli, Mrs. Tambe, Miss Salter, and I went to the conference together on Friday. We drove up to Napa at 5am Friday morning! We took several seminars to help us learn new ways to teach writing, math, and other language arts areas. It was a very well organized and helpful conference!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Anushka
Poem of the Week: One Hundred Days
Song of the Week: The Penguin Song
Kindness is … celebrating special days.
Story of the Week: Shoes, Shoes, Shoes
Vocabulary of the Week: Food 4
Word Wall Words: fly, give, good, little, our, try, was
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something you love
(at least 4 sentences and bring a picture hidden in a bag)
• Language Arts: Theme 5 Home Sweet Home – Week 3
• Stories: The Kite
• Word Families: -ite (kite, white) and –ide (ride, hide)
• Sounds: long i (CVCe) and contractions
• Grammar: Using I or Me in sentences
• Math: We started Chapter 9 this week on addition and subtraction facts to 20. This should be an easier chapter for most students but we still need to make sure we work carefully and check our answers for mistakes!
• Social Studies: On Tuesday, we celebrated the 100th day of school! We made 100 day hats with Mrs. Burgess, 100 hungry ants using our fingerprints with Mrs. Bachelor, 100 around the world with Mrs. Salter, and counting to 100 with Mrs. Tambe. This was a fun day for the kids!
• Science: This week, we continued a few more penguin activities. We are learning the life of an Emperor Penguin in Antarctica. We also made a Penguin Art activity. Next week we will continue to learn about the 17 different kinds of penguins!
Eaton will be having a family science fair on March 8th. If your child is interested in participating, please pick up an information packet in the office. This is an optional activity.
I was not able to come to school these past few days because I had a family trip to attend. I was very pleased last Friday to hear from Mrs. Nevins that the kids were great! I am hoping they have kept up the wonderful behavior these past 3 days! Have a wonderful weekend!
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Happy Groundhog's Day!
Upcoming Dates
* 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!
* Wednesday, February 7th: Last Day for Book Donations
Thank you for the generous donations already this week. We are helping out many kids in the hospitals!
* 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,
Happy Groundhog’s Day! Monday was a staff learning day this week. The teachers spent the morning attending a writing training from the district. We will be doing more writing assessments in the upcoming months. In the afternoon, the teachers took a field trip to Hicklebee’s and bought books for our Eaton library!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Akane
Poem of the Week: You and Me
Song of the Week: The Penguin Song
Kindness is … seeking wise people.
Story of the Week: The Emperor’s Egg
Vocabulary of the Week: Food 3
Word Wall Words: could, house, how, over, own, so
Next Week’s Sharing: Friendship Poem
(at least 4 sentences and bring a picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 5 Home Sweet Home – Week 2
• Stories: Me On the map
• Word Families: -ate (date, gate) and –ake (rake, bake)
• Sounds: long a (CVCe) and final sounds –nd, -ng, and -nk
• Grammar: Which Kind of Sentence?
• Math: We took our Money test this week. It was a very hard chapter for many students. Please continue to review money (identifying coins, amounts, and counting) at home. We are skipping Chapter 8 and doing Chapter 9 first on more addition and subtraction facts. We will return to Chapter 8 after a few weeks.
• Social Studies: This week we learned about Groundhog’s Day! We learned that groundhogs come out to look for their shadows. If they see their shadow, that means there’s six more weeks of winter. If they don’t see their shadow, that means spring will arrive sooner! We also started learning a little about penguins. We will be working in a penguin unit the next 2 weeks as well.
• Science: This week in circuits, we went to Miss Salter’s room and talked more about weather.
• Computer Lab: This week we made a Valentine’s heart tree using the program, Kidpix 4. The students will be decorating a bag for Valentine’s Day.
• Art: We saw Mrs. Blakeslee this week! It has been a long time since we had art because Mrs. Blakeslee hurt her knee in December. We finished our flower sketches and will be bringing them home.
• Music: We also saw Mrs. More on Thursday. She sang Chinese New Years songs and had us play drums and cymbals. We also got to wear lion costumes and paraded around the room!
Today, six of us first grade teachers are at a California First Grade conference to learn more strategies on teaching all different curriculum areas. I hope the students had a great day with Mrs. Nevins!
* 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!
* Wednesday, February 7th: Last Day for Book Donations
Thank you for the generous donations already this week. We are helping out many kids in the hospitals!
* 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,
Happy Groundhog’s Day! Monday was a staff learning day this week. The teachers spent the morning attending a writing training from the district. We will be doing more writing assessments in the upcoming months. In the afternoon, the teachers took a field trip to Hicklebee’s and bought books for our Eaton library!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Akane
Poem of the Week: You and Me
Song of the Week: The Penguin Song
Kindness is … seeking wise people.
Story of the Week: The Emperor’s Egg
Vocabulary of the Week: Food 3
Word Wall Words: could, house, how, over, own, so
Next Week’s Sharing: Friendship Poem
(at least 4 sentences and bring a picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 5 Home Sweet Home – Week 2
• Stories: Me On the map
• Word Families: -ate (date, gate) and –ake (rake, bake)
• Sounds: long a (CVCe) and final sounds –nd, -ng, and -nk
• Grammar: Which Kind of Sentence?
• Math: We took our Money test this week. It was a very hard chapter for many students. Please continue to review money (identifying coins, amounts, and counting) at home. We are skipping Chapter 8 and doing Chapter 9 first on more addition and subtraction facts. We will return to Chapter 8 after a few weeks.
• Social Studies: This week we learned about Groundhog’s Day! We learned that groundhogs come out to look for their shadows. If they see their shadow, that means there’s six more weeks of winter. If they don’t see their shadow, that means spring will arrive sooner! We also started learning a little about penguins. We will be working in a penguin unit the next 2 weeks as well.
• Science: This week in circuits, we went to Miss Salter’s room and talked more about weather.
• Computer Lab: This week we made a Valentine’s heart tree using the program, Kidpix 4. The students will be decorating a bag for Valentine’s Day.
• Art: We saw Mrs. Blakeslee this week! It has been a long time since we had art because Mrs. Blakeslee hurt her knee in December. We finished our flower sketches and will be bringing them home.
• Music: We also saw Mrs. More on Thursday. She sang Chinese New Years songs and had us play drums and cymbals. We also got to wear lion costumes and paraded around the room!
Today, six of us first grade teachers are at a California First Grade conference to learn more strategies on teaching all different curriculum areas. I hope the students had a great day with Mrs. Nevins!
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