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!