Upcoming Dates
* Thursday, April 12th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Please remember to send your child’s blue library card to school and review the 4-digit PIN number. Some students still do not know their PIN number when we go each month!
* Friday, April 13th: Enrichment Day
This is a fun day for kids! Organized by the PTO, guests come to Eaton and the whole morning is filled with fun activities and crafts! The afternoon will also be the Author of the Month assembly.
* Monday, April 16th to Friday, April 20th: No School – Spring Break
Enjoy the week of vacation!
* Monday, April 23rd: Weather Presentations
During the past two months, we have learned a lot about weather. As one of our concluding activities for our weather unit, all the students will prepare a weather report and present it to the class on Monday, April 23rd. Please refer to the attached handout for detailed information.
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Dear Families,
Unfortunately, I am still seeing students playing after school on the grass or the play structure. We need to enforce the Eaton school rules, which is not playing until 3:45pm, even if an adult is present. This is due to our school being liable for any injuries that occur from 3:05pm to 3:45pm. Please help remind your children it is not play time.
Also, we are finished with the Book It Reading program! It finished in March, so we will not be sending home reading logs for April, May, or June. However, I highly encourage everyone to continue reading every night!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Mayu
Poem of the Week: Baby Chick
Song of the Week: Insect or Spider?
Kindness is … exploring nature
Story of the Week: The Little Ant
Vocabulary of the Week: House 5
Word Wall: about, draw, happy, part, teacher, tiny
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something shaped like an egg (oval)
(Memorize 4 clues and hide picture/object in a bag)
• Language Arts: Theme 8 We Can Work it Out: Week 1
• Stories: The Forest
• Word Families: adding –s, -ed, and -ing
• Sounds: base words and endings –s, -ed, and -ing
• Grammar: Action Words
• Writing: We have been doing a lot of expository writing. Almost everyone is finished with the first Weather piece and several students are starting their third topic on whatever they choose! We also spent some time writing about our field trip to the Guadalupe River Park and Gardens. We drafted and published these this week. Congratulations to Reva, who will be our Author of the Month next Friday and will share about our field trip to the school!
• Math: This week we moved on from measuring length to measuring weight. We compared objects and used vocabulary words such as heavy versus light and also began talking about different measurements of capacity, specifically cup, pint, quart, and liter. This is a challenging topic for some students. We will continue reviewing different measurements next week.
• Social Studies: We went to Miss Salter’s room and she taught us about the environment. We learned that nature is an important part of our community and made trees and plants to add to our community project. This week we also learned about people in the community who help others. We chose our own community helpers to make as a social studies activity.
• Science: We are almost finished with our Weather unit. This week we illustrated our rain poems and also reviewed the water cycle stages: evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. The last science unit is on Insects. We began learning about the life cycle of a caterpillar using the story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle. We are making our own versions of the story in the computer lab and will be working on our books for the next few weeks.
• Assembly: We had an assembly today called “Solids, Liquids, and Gases” by the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley. This assembly is aligned to the first science unit we completed in the beginning of the year. It was very exciting for the kids to watch live science experiments!
• Art and music were cancelled this week. Instead, we did our own art activity on Spring Blossom trees. The students did a great job making the blossoms beautiful!
Have a wonderful weekend and a beautiful Easter!
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