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!