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!