Upcoming Dates
* Friday, March 9th: End of Second Trimester & Akane’s Last Day
Akane is moving back to Japan and Friday will be her last day. We will miss her!
* Sunday, March 11th: Daylight Saving
Remember to change your clocks one hour forward!
* Tuesday, March 13th: Kindness Website Presentation @ 6:30pm
We have been asked to share a 5-10 minute presentation to the Cupertino Board of Education about how we use technology in our classroom. We will be talking about our Kindness website, how we use it, and examples of sentences we wrote and pictures we drew. This is an exciting opportunity for our class and I need at least several students to participate and speak in front of an audience. It will be held in the Board Room of the Administrative Offices of the Cupertino Union School District, 10301 Vista Drive, Cupertino, CA. 95014. Please see the attached permission slip to indicate if you would like your child to participate in this special event. Please return permission slips by Friday, March 9th.
* Thursday, March 15th: Cupertino Public Library Field Trip
Please remember to bring your child’s blue library card to school that day. Also, make sure your child has memorized their 4-digit PIN number. I encourage you to frequently visit the library with your child on your own time. Let them learn and practice checking out books by themselves on the checkout machines.
* Friday, March 16th: Bring Leprechaun Traps to School!
This is a take-home project we are doing to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, a holiday that began in Ireland. A few of the symbols attached to St. Patrick’s Day include leprechauns, shamrocks (4-leaf clovers), and rainbows with a pot of gold at the end. We would like students to invent a trap to capture leprechauns. Leprechauns are mythical figures in Irish folklore that trick you and take away your gold or treasure. They are very small and nobody ever sees them (of course!). See attached paper for more information on how to make the traps and have fun making them!
* Thursday, March 22nd: Report Cards Go Home
Students will be receiving the second trimester grades as well as the scores from the CELDT (California English Language Development Test) that was taken in the Fall.
* Friday, March 23rd: No School – Staff Learning Day
The teachers will be working on writing assessments and additional Peacebuilder activities. Since there’s no school Friday, homework and library books need to be brought back on Thursday, March 22nd.
* Thursday, March 29th: Guadalupe River Park and Gardens Field Trip
This field trip will let us explore the river while learning about plants, animals, habitats, and weather. More information will be sent home later.
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Dear Families,
March is a busy month! As you can see from the upcoming dates listed above, we have projects, field trips, assessments, and even a presentation to complete in March!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Ming-Li
Poem of the Week: Rainy Day
Song of the Week: The Continents and Oceans
Kindness is … following your dreams.
Story of the Week: I Like the Rain
Vocabulary of the Week: Food 6
Word Wall Words:cow, door, horse, now, table, there, through, wall
Next Week’s Sharing: Spring Poem
(Find a poem in a book or on the computer that is at least 4 lines.
Remember to bring a picture or drawing that matches the poem.)
• Language Arts: Theme 6 Animal Adventures– Week 2
• Stories: Eek! There’s a Mouse in the House
• Word Families: -eat (beat, meat, wheat)
• Sounds: long e (CV, CVCe), ee (sleep), ea (beat)
• Grammar: Naming Words for Things and Places
• Writing: We finished publishing our final drafts of our Penguin writing pieces. Students will begin Writer’s Workshop next week.
• Math: We finished Chapter 9 on addition and subtraction facts to 20. Students are really mastering computation and that is great! Next week we will go back to Chapter 8 and work on geometry, fractions, and probability.
• Social Studies: On Thursday, we had a special guest reader from the Rotary club to talk about and celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday.
• Science: We began graphing the cloud cover, precipitation, wind, and temperature everyday. We made flags to help us measure the wind, and we also observed the weather using 4 of our senses. In circuits, Mrs. Barelli read us Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and we made a class book with our own fictional sentences and pictures.
• Computer: We used Kidspiration and words and pictures to show the different types of weather we observe.
This week we had an earthquake drill and we practiced what to do if there was an emergency. Also, the students had a hearing test on Thursday. Today’s Friday folder has an important Summer School application that needs to be completed and returned if you would like your child to attend in the summer. It is first-come first-serve, so please return it as soon as possible. Have a great weekend!
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Kindness Website Presentation
Tuesday, March 13th
6:30pm
(Plan to arrive at 6:15pm and should finish by 6:45pm)
Board Room of the Administrative Offices
Cupertino Union School District
10301 Vista Drive, Cupertino, CA. 95014
March 2, 2007
Dear Families,
Our class has been invited to share a 5-10 minute presentation about our use of technology in the classroom to the Cupertino Board of Education. This is a special privilege to show the community our Kindness website and how we have used it in class. Students who can make it on the evening of March 13th will rehearse their speaking parts with me at school and may have something sent home to practice as well.
Please fill out the form below if you would like your child to participate and return it to me by Wednesday, March 7th. You must be able to bring your child to the Board Room (address above) at 6:15pm. The presentation will begin at 6:30pm and is only 5-10 minutes long. Students will be dismissed shortly thereafter.
I look forward to presenting with the kids!
Sincerely,
Miss Yu
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Cut this portion and return by Wednesday, March 7th.
Name of Child: __________________
Check one below:
_____ YES! We plan on attending March 13th between 6:15pm and 6:45pm.
_____ NO. We are not available March 13th.
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