May 11, 2007

Upcoming Dates
* Monday, May 14th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Teachers will be working on writing assessments, Peacebuilders, and evaluating changes for next year.

* Tuesday, May 15th: Insect Fair Field Trip
I am still missing several permission slips. Please sign and return them on TUESDAY or your child will not be able to attend. Remember to send your child with a BAG LUNCH labeled with his/her name on it (everything will be thrown away at the park). Thank you, Mrs. Woo, for volunteering to chaperone on this trip.

* Friday, May 18th: Book Orders Due!
This will be the last chance to order books for May and June. Please write ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs if you would like to purchase any books.

* Thursday, May 24th: Open House 6:30-7:30
Please plan on attending this night to see all the work your child has done this year!

* Friday, May 25th: Last Day at Eaton Library
Please be sure to return Eaton library books no later than this date or you will be fined!

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Dear Families,

The ELD classes throughout the Cupertino District are full! We are only supposed to have 20 students, however, there’s no more room at any school! Therefore, we met our 21st student on Thursday! Her name is Rie and she came here from Japan! You can learn more about her in the Classwork section of our website under Prince and Princess. Please welcome her to Eaton school!

Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Julia
Poem of the Week: Caterpillar Small
Song of the Week: Presidents
Kindness is … stopping germs from spreading
Story of the Week: If You Give a Pig a Pancake
Vocabulary of the Week: Transportation 3
Word Wall: other, before, buy, done, off, pretty, school, wash
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – something you made yourself
(Memorize at least 4 lines and bring picture/object to show)

• Language Arts: Theme 9 Special Friends: Week 2
• Stories: The New Friend
• Word Families: base words with the ending –es
• Sounds: base word/endings –es and –ies, prefixes un-, re-
• Grammar: was vs. were

• Writing: We finished another page in our insect books on mealworms. Congratulations to Catherine who will be sharing her mealworm piece at the Author of the Month assembly next Friday.

• Math: This week we worked on answering word problems with time and calendar. Many of the problems are difficult for the students so we have been completing math as a whole class for several of the pages. Also, we started a new circuit this week, and Mrs. Burgess worked on a pizza project to review different fractions.

• Social Studies: We spent time this week writing a poem about ourselves. This I Am poem will be displayed at Open House.

• Science: Our caterpillars formed a chrysalis this week! We saw them transform by climbing to the top of their containers and hanging like a letter J. Then they formed a cocoon all around them! Now we are waiting for them to emerge as painted lady butterflies. We also continued observing our mealworms. Many are also starting to enter the pupa stage.

• Computer Lab: We continued our The Very Hungry Caterpillar books in Powerpoint. Students who finished continued working on their prewriting mindmaps for Writer’s Workshop. These mindmaps are made using Kidspiration and are on any topic the student chooses.

• Music: Today you are receiving a copy of all the words of the songs that the students will be performing in the first grade musical at the end of the year. Please have your child practice singing the songs and memorizing all the words! Save the date: the performance is on Thursday, June 14th at 1:30pm in the MP Room.

Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday! I hope you enjoyed the card and present that your children made for you! Enjoy the weekend and thank you for all you do!