Dear Families,
This week was super busy! On Monday, we went to Almaden Lake Park by bus. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to ride the light rail this year. The students had lunch, played on the play structure, and ate popsicles that day. It was hot!
Then on Tuesday, we had the Talent Show. Catherine and Julia played the piano and some of the students performed the Cha Cha Slide! Even the teachers performed Grease at the end! If you missed the performances, you can go to the PHOTOS section of our classroom website: www.geocities.com/missyu_grace and I have added all the videos there. You can just click on the arrow to watch the performances!
On Wednesday, we prepared for our musical and had a dress rehearsal in front of Kindergarten and Third grade. In the afternoon, we worked on an art project and made a landscape picture.
Thursday was our musical performance! Although it was incredibly hot in the MP room, the students all did a great job singing and dancing A Musical Year! If anyone has a video of the performance, please let me know because I would like to make a copy of it. Thank you to Mrs. Hothan (Michael’s mother) who went to pick up popsicles for the children right after the musical because it was so hot!
Today was Breakfast and a Book! We had donuts and juice for breakfast, and then we went to different classrooms to read books.
It is always hard to say goodbye to all my students at the end of each year. I have seen your children grow and learn so much over the year and I am so proud of them for their hard work. I would appreciate it if you kept in touch with me from time to time to let me know how your children are doing. My address is: 20814 Beauchamps Court, Saratoga, CA 95070. Or you can always send me an email too at yu_grace@cupertino.k12.ca.us or my personal email is gracelingyu@yahoo.com !
My present to the students is a music CD to remember all of our first grade songs! Enjoy the music! In addition, I would like to especially thank Julia’s mom, Catherine’s mom, Yo’s mom, and Mayu’s mom for coming every Friday afternoon for an hour to prepare homework packets, centers folders, spelling, vocabulary, and Friday folders! I would also like to thank Moe’s mom and Hitoharu’s mom for coming every Wednesday afternoon to help in computer lab. Everyone else, thank you for all of your support this year! Many of you came on field trips, gave classroom donations, and provided supplies for our class. I have made a personalized notepad from our classroom for all of you to say thank you for a wonderful year! Miss Yu will miss you!!! =) Have a wonderful summer!
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Friday, June 08, 2007
June 8, 2007
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, June 11th: End of the Year First Grade Trip
We will be taking the bus at 9:15am to Almaden Lake Park and we will return by 2:30pm. Please have your child pack a BAG lunch that can be thrown away at the park. Thank you for all the volunteers. Unfortunately, we can only bring 3 chaperones on the bus: Mrs. Hagiwara (Hitoharu), Mrs. Lee (Jaewoo), and Mrs. Wang (Patricia). Everyone else is welcome to meet us at the park. Attached to this newsletter are the directions. Mrs. Park (Geoffrey) and Mrs. Park (Julia) have offered to transport lunches and drinks. Thank you!
* Tuesday, June 12th: Talent Show
The cha cha slide group will be performing 18th after lunch. If you would like to watch, it would probably be best to come around 1:45pm to the MP room. The dancers that turned in their permission slip are: Anushka, Geoffrey, Hitoharu, Jaewoo, Janani, Jonathan, Lenny, Mayu, Michael, Moe, Patricia, Reva, Sammy, Tomoki, William, and Yo. Please remember to wear a white shirt and blue bottoms (shorts, pants, skirt) to school on this day!
* Thursday, June 14th: First Grade Musical at 1:30pm in MP room
Please plan on attending our musical on this afternoon! Your child will be bringing their costumes home right after the performance.
* Friday, June 15th: Last Day of School! Dismissal is at 12:20pm.
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Dear Families,
We are at the end of the year! I will be sending home everything your child has done in class over the next few days. There is no homework, tests, or sharing next week, so please keep everything at home! Here are some highlights from this week:
• Language Arts: We finished our last literacy centers this week. We read Five Little Sharks Swimming in the Sea and worked on Animal vocabulary 4. I am sending all the vocabulary sheets home that your child completed during the year. I will put them in the back of the Vocabulary Folder for you to review with your child if you want.
• Writing: We are doing such a wonderful job on Writer’s Workshop! The students are busily working on more pieces to finish by the end of the year. They are showing good understanding of the writing process, from prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, to publishing! The favorite part is the Author’s chair because they get to read their published piece to the class!
• Math: Today we finished the last chapter in our math book! We took the test on two-digit addition and subtraction. Most students are doing great with computation, but struggle with understanding two-step word problems.
• Computer Lab: We had our last computer lab this week. Many students finished another Writer’s Workshop cover! Great job!
• Music: We were fortunate to watch two musicals this week! On Thursday, we watched the third graders perform Who Pushed Humpty? Today, we listened to the upper grade chorus sing! Next week will be our turn!!! We had a dress rehearsal on Monday and it went smoothly. We are excited to show all of you our singing and dancing!
• Social Studies: This week we talked about Father’s Day. We made a present that we will give to our Father’s on June 17th.
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly called Around the World songs. Our presenter sang songs and told stories from different countries.
Next week will be very exciting and busy for our class! I am cherishing these last few days being your child’s teacher. I have really enjoyed working with all of them and am starting to get sad to have to say goodbye next week! Have a wonderful weekend!
* Monday, June 11th: End of the Year First Grade Trip
We will be taking the bus at 9:15am to Almaden Lake Park and we will return by 2:30pm. Please have your child pack a BAG lunch that can be thrown away at the park. Thank you for all the volunteers. Unfortunately, we can only bring 3 chaperones on the bus: Mrs. Hagiwara (Hitoharu), Mrs. Lee (Jaewoo), and Mrs. Wang (Patricia). Everyone else is welcome to meet us at the park. Attached to this newsletter are the directions. Mrs. Park (Geoffrey) and Mrs. Park (Julia) have offered to transport lunches and drinks. Thank you!
* Tuesday, June 12th: Talent Show
The cha cha slide group will be performing 18th after lunch. If you would like to watch, it would probably be best to come around 1:45pm to the MP room. The dancers that turned in their permission slip are: Anushka, Geoffrey, Hitoharu, Jaewoo, Janani, Jonathan, Lenny, Mayu, Michael, Moe, Patricia, Reva, Sammy, Tomoki, William, and Yo. Please remember to wear a white shirt and blue bottoms (shorts, pants, skirt) to school on this day!
* Thursday, June 14th: First Grade Musical at 1:30pm in MP room
Please plan on attending our musical on this afternoon! Your child will be bringing their costumes home right after the performance.
* Friday, June 15th: Last Day of School! Dismissal is at 12:20pm.
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Dear Families,
We are at the end of the year! I will be sending home everything your child has done in class over the next few days. There is no homework, tests, or sharing next week, so please keep everything at home! Here are some highlights from this week:
• Language Arts: We finished our last literacy centers this week. We read Five Little Sharks Swimming in the Sea and worked on Animal vocabulary 4. I am sending all the vocabulary sheets home that your child completed during the year. I will put them in the back of the Vocabulary Folder for you to review with your child if you want.
• Writing: We are doing such a wonderful job on Writer’s Workshop! The students are busily working on more pieces to finish by the end of the year. They are showing good understanding of the writing process, from prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, to publishing! The favorite part is the Author’s chair because they get to read their published piece to the class!
• Math: Today we finished the last chapter in our math book! We took the test on two-digit addition and subtraction. Most students are doing great with computation, but struggle with understanding two-step word problems.
• Computer Lab: We had our last computer lab this week. Many students finished another Writer’s Workshop cover! Great job!
• Music: We were fortunate to watch two musicals this week! On Thursday, we watched the third graders perform Who Pushed Humpty? Today, we listened to the upper grade chorus sing! Next week will be our turn!!! We had a dress rehearsal on Monday and it went smoothly. We are excited to show all of you our singing and dancing!
• Social Studies: This week we talked about Father’s Day. We made a present that we will give to our Father’s on June 17th.
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly called Around the World songs. Our presenter sang songs and told stories from different countries.
Next week will be very exciting and busy for our class! I am cherishing these last few days being your child’s teacher. I have really enjoyed working with all of them and am starting to get sad to have to say goodbye next week! Have a wonderful weekend!
June 1, 2007
Upcoming Dates
* Saturday, June 2nd: International Festival 10am – 4pm
Miss Yu will be performing a dance routine at 11:00am. If you are free, come watch and have fun!
* Monday, June 4th: Costumes for the Musical (if you haven’t yet)
We are doing our first dress rehearsal on Monday. If you haven’t already, please bring your child’s costume to school in a bag with his or her name on it, and LABEL each article of clothing with your child’s full name and room number. We will be keeping the costumes at school until June 14th.
* Monday, June 11th: End of the Year First Grade Trip
We are going to the Almaden Lake Park from 9am – 2pm. A permission slip was sent home on Wednesday afternoon. Please return the permission slip as soon as possible. We can only take 3 chaperones on the bus, but as many of you are welcome to drive yourself and meet us at the park. Please have your child pack a BAG lunch that can be thrown away.
* Tuesday, June 12th: Talent Show
15 dancers from Room 8 returned the permission slip and are doing the Cha Cha slide at the Eaton Talent Show. More information about the time of the performance will come later. If your child is a dancer, please have him/her wear a white shirt and blue bottoms (shorts, pants, skirt) to school on this day.
* Thursday, June 14th: First Grade Musical at 1:30pm in MP room
Please plan on attending our musical on this afternoon!
* Friday, June 15th: Last Day of School! Dismissal is at 12:20pm.
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Dear Families,
I can’t believe it’s June! This week was very busy since it was a short week. In addition to our regular schedule, we had an emergency drill on Tuesday between recess and lunch. All the students practiced what they have to do in an earthquake or fire, and all the teachers had to also practice our emergency jobs. It went smoothly but was very hectic! We also had the Volunteer Tea of Wednesday. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped so much in our classroom this year!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Rie
Poem of the Week: Jump or Jiggle
Kindness is … giving presents.
Vocabulary of the Week: Animals 3
WWW: begin, minute, already, above, against, caught
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – Summer plans
(Memorize at least 4 lines and bring picture/object to show)
• Language Arts: We finally had time to finish centers this week! We will have one more week of centers and homework packets.
• Writing: We have been working hard finishing up our final pieces in Writer’s Workshop. We are hoping to finish at least one more before the end of the year.
• Math: This week has been all about two-digit subtraction facts. We have been reviewing how to subtract the ones column first, and then the tens column. However, some students are getting confused when it becomes a problem like 17-8 and they subtract 7-8! We will practice these facts one more week.
• Science: We are saying goodbye to our mealworms this week! They have been fun to observe, but now it is time for them to go home!
• Computer Lab: This week and next week we will be trying to finish up the Writer’s Workshop brainstorm maps in Kidspiration. Students will have one more opportunity to visit the computer lab next Wednesday.
• Music: This was our last session with Mrs. More. We played with Boomwhackers and wooden cylinders to the beats of different songs. It has been a fun year!
• Art: It was also our last session with Mrs. Blakeslee this week. Almost all of us finished our Native American pictures and stories and we shared them to the class.
• Social Studies: This week we went to Miss Salter’s class for Circuits. She talked about the new Food Pyramid and taught us some facts about nutrition and health.
Today we started implementing our new lunch procedures. Next year our school will be growing by several classrooms so all the kids won’t fit on the lunch tables at one time. We are now staggering lunch so that primary grade students eat from 12:25 – 12:40 and then play after, whereas upper grade students will play first and then eat from 12:40-12:55.
I hope to see many of you tomorrow at the International Festival! I will be performing the first act in the morning at 11:00am with a few dancers from my church group, Eight Count. We will be dancing a short hip hop and stomp routine. It should be fun so come and watch if you are free! Remember to fill out the Eaton Survey if you haven’t yet! Thanks!
* Saturday, June 2nd: International Festival 10am – 4pm
Miss Yu will be performing a dance routine at 11:00am. If you are free, come watch and have fun!
* Monday, June 4th: Costumes for the Musical (if you haven’t yet)
We are doing our first dress rehearsal on Monday. If you haven’t already, please bring your child’s costume to school in a bag with his or her name on it, and LABEL each article of clothing with your child’s full name and room number. We will be keeping the costumes at school until June 14th.
* Monday, June 11th: End of the Year First Grade Trip
We are going to the Almaden Lake Park from 9am – 2pm. A permission slip was sent home on Wednesday afternoon. Please return the permission slip as soon as possible. We can only take 3 chaperones on the bus, but as many of you are welcome to drive yourself and meet us at the park. Please have your child pack a BAG lunch that can be thrown away.
* Tuesday, June 12th: Talent Show
15 dancers from Room 8 returned the permission slip and are doing the Cha Cha slide at the Eaton Talent Show. More information about the time of the performance will come later. If your child is a dancer, please have him/her wear a white shirt and blue bottoms (shorts, pants, skirt) to school on this day.
* Thursday, June 14th: First Grade Musical at 1:30pm in MP room
Please plan on attending our musical on this afternoon!
* Friday, June 15th: Last Day of School! Dismissal is at 12:20pm.
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Dear Families,
I can’t believe it’s June! This week was very busy since it was a short week. In addition to our regular schedule, we had an emergency drill on Tuesday between recess and lunch. All the students practiced what they have to do in an earthquake or fire, and all the teachers had to also practice our emergency jobs. It went smoothly but was very hectic! We also had the Volunteer Tea of Wednesday. Thank you to all the volunteers who helped so much in our classroom this year!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Rie
Poem of the Week: Jump or Jiggle
Kindness is … giving presents.
Vocabulary of the Week: Animals 3
WWW: begin, minute, already, above, against, caught
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – Summer plans
(Memorize at least 4 lines and bring picture/object to show)
• Language Arts: We finally had time to finish centers this week! We will have one more week of centers and homework packets.
• Writing: We have been working hard finishing up our final pieces in Writer’s Workshop. We are hoping to finish at least one more before the end of the year.
• Math: This week has been all about two-digit subtraction facts. We have been reviewing how to subtract the ones column first, and then the tens column. However, some students are getting confused when it becomes a problem like 17-8 and they subtract 7-8! We will practice these facts one more week.
• Science: We are saying goodbye to our mealworms this week! They have been fun to observe, but now it is time for them to go home!
• Computer Lab: This week and next week we will be trying to finish up the Writer’s Workshop brainstorm maps in Kidspiration. Students will have one more opportunity to visit the computer lab next Wednesday.
• Music: This was our last session with Mrs. More. We played with Boomwhackers and wooden cylinders to the beats of different songs. It has been a fun year!
• Art: It was also our last session with Mrs. Blakeslee this week. Almost all of us finished our Native American pictures and stories and we shared them to the class.
• Social Studies: This week we went to Miss Salter’s class for Circuits. She talked about the new Food Pyramid and taught us some facts about nutrition and health.
Today we started implementing our new lunch procedures. Next year our school will be growing by several classrooms so all the kids won’t fit on the lunch tables at one time. We are now staggering lunch so that primary grade students eat from 12:25 – 12:40 and then play after, whereas upper grade students will play first and then eat from 12:40-12:55.
I hope to see many of you tomorrow at the International Festival! I will be performing the first act in the morning at 11:00am with a few dancers from my church group, Eight Count. We will be dancing a short hip hop and stomp routine. It should be fun so come and watch if you are free! Remember to fill out the Eaton Survey if you haven’t yet! Thanks!
May 25, 2007
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, May 28th: NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day
Enjoy your long weekend!
* Friday, June 1st: Due Date to Bring Costumes for the Musical!
In today’s Friday Folder, there is an important paper that highlights your child’s costume for the First Grade Musical on June 14th. Please bring your child’s costume to school in a bag with his or her name on it, and LABEL each article of clothing with your child’s full name and room number. We will be keeping the costumes at school until June 14th.
* Monday, June 11th: End of the Year First Grade Trip
More information will come later!
* Thursday, June 14th: First Grade Musical at 1:30pm in MP room
Please plan on attending our musical on this afternoon! Next week we will be sending home costume lists for your children to bring to school.
* Friday, June 15th: Last Day of School! Dismissal is at 12:20pm.
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Dear Families,
Thank you for coming last night to Open House! It was wonderful to see all of your families enjoying the hard work your children have done in first grade this year! I think the students did a great job being your “tour guide” for the evening! All the work you saw will be sent home the last week of school.
I also wanted to thank everyone for making me feel special this week! I was completely surprised to see our door poster with all the kids’ writing on each flower petal. It is so beautiful and I was very touched by it! Also, I want to thank all of you for your special gifts and cards. I am very grateful to have supportive families like you and I am thankful for your kindness. Thank you so much!
Once again, we had a different schedule this week so we did not complete centers! This week we had a special in-class presentation by the Environmental Volunteers. They came on Tuesday and Thursday morning to teach us about Nature in our Neighborhood. On Tuesday, we learned about different bugs, birds, and looked in the dirt to find creatures. We learned that the four things we need to survive are: water, soil, sun, and air, and the six things we need to do to stay alive are: eat, drink, move, breathe, grow, and have babies! On Thursday, we went outside around our school to make a list of all the things we saw that belong to nature. Then we came back to make large posters of everything we saw and shared with the class! This was a great in-class field trip for our class!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Tomoki
Poem of the Week: Green, Green Frog
Kindness is … giving a praise note to someone
Vocabulary of the Week: Animals 2
WWW: began, break, divide, laugh, sure
Next Week’s Sharing: Summer POem
(Memorize at least 4 lines and bring picture/object to show)
• Language Arts: Theme 10 We Can Do It!: Week 1
• Stories: Two Greedy Bears
• Word Families: words that rhyme with more
• Sounds: r controlled vowels or, ore, er, ir, ur
• Grammar: describing what we hear
• Writing: We finished learning about the frog life cycle this week and wrote an expository paragraph about how a tadpole changes to a frog. We also thought about what we liked best about first grade and what we hope to learn next year in second grade.
• Math: We continued two digit addition facts this week. We worked on tables and word problems together. Some students started getting confused with addition and subtraction. Please make sure to look over the math work that goes home today and see if your child made mistakes! Next week we will begin two digit subtraction facts.
• Science: We finally let our butterflies go free today! They were starting to get very sad because they couldn’t fly anywhere, but we let them go today! We are also saying goodbye to our mealworms.
• Computer Lab: This week we worked on our cover page of our memory books. We used Kid Pix and learned how to change text font and size.
• Music: We started practicing our first rehearsal with all the first graders this week. We stood on the risers and danced in front of each other. Today we are sending home a costume list. Please make sure to send in your child’s clothes by next Friday, June 1st!
Thank you again for a wonderful week! I hope you all had a great time last night in our classroom! Have a wonderful 3-day weekend!
* Monday, May 28th: NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day
Enjoy your long weekend!
* Friday, June 1st: Due Date to Bring Costumes for the Musical!
In today’s Friday Folder, there is an important paper that highlights your child’s costume for the First Grade Musical on June 14th. Please bring your child’s costume to school in a bag with his or her name on it, and LABEL each article of clothing with your child’s full name and room number. We will be keeping the costumes at school until June 14th.
* Monday, June 11th: End of the Year First Grade Trip
More information will come later!
* Thursday, June 14th: First Grade Musical at 1:30pm in MP room
Please plan on attending our musical on this afternoon! Next week we will be sending home costume lists for your children to bring to school.
* Friday, June 15th: Last Day of School! Dismissal is at 12:20pm.
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Dear Families,
Thank you for coming last night to Open House! It was wonderful to see all of your families enjoying the hard work your children have done in first grade this year! I think the students did a great job being your “tour guide” for the evening! All the work you saw will be sent home the last week of school.
I also wanted to thank everyone for making me feel special this week! I was completely surprised to see our door poster with all the kids’ writing on each flower petal. It is so beautiful and I was very touched by it! Also, I want to thank all of you for your special gifts and cards. I am very grateful to have supportive families like you and I am thankful for your kindness. Thank you so much!
Once again, we had a different schedule this week so we did not complete centers! This week we had a special in-class presentation by the Environmental Volunteers. They came on Tuesday and Thursday morning to teach us about Nature in our Neighborhood. On Tuesday, we learned about different bugs, birds, and looked in the dirt to find creatures. We learned that the four things we need to survive are: water, soil, sun, and air, and the six things we need to do to stay alive are: eat, drink, move, breathe, grow, and have babies! On Thursday, we went outside around our school to make a list of all the things we saw that belong to nature. Then we came back to make large posters of everything we saw and shared with the class! This was a great in-class field trip for our class!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Tomoki
Poem of the Week: Green, Green Frog
Kindness is … giving a praise note to someone
Vocabulary of the Week: Animals 2
WWW: began, break, divide, laugh, sure
Next Week’s Sharing: Summer POem
(Memorize at least 4 lines and bring picture/object to show)
• Language Arts: Theme 10 We Can Do It!: Week 1
• Stories: Two Greedy Bears
• Word Families: words that rhyme with more
• Sounds: r controlled vowels or, ore, er, ir, ur
• Grammar: describing what we hear
• Writing: We finished learning about the frog life cycle this week and wrote an expository paragraph about how a tadpole changes to a frog. We also thought about what we liked best about first grade and what we hope to learn next year in second grade.
• Math: We continued two digit addition facts this week. We worked on tables and word problems together. Some students started getting confused with addition and subtraction. Please make sure to look over the math work that goes home today and see if your child made mistakes! Next week we will begin two digit subtraction facts.
• Science: We finally let our butterflies go free today! They were starting to get very sad because they couldn’t fly anywhere, but we let them go today! We are also saying goodbye to our mealworms.
• Computer Lab: This week we worked on our cover page of our memory books. We used Kid Pix and learned how to change text font and size.
• Music: We started practicing our first rehearsal with all the first graders this week. We stood on the risers and danced in front of each other. Today we are sending home a costume list. Please make sure to send in your child’s clothes by next Friday, June 1st!
Thank you again for a wonderful week! I hope you all had a great time last night in our classroom! Have a wonderful 3-day weekend!
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