Short Week!

Upcoming Dates

* Friday, September 28th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
All the teachers in the Cupertino Union School District will receive training on our new Social Studies textbooks and curriculum.

* Thursday, October 4th: Cupertino Library Visit
We will be walking to the Cupertino Library after lunch. Please send your child’s blue library card to school in the morning. Review the 4-digit PIN number with your child so they can check out books. Students who do not currently have a library card will be receiving a new one on this day. Their PIN number is the last 4 digits of your home phone number.

* Friday, October 5th: Lawrence Hall of Science Assembly 9:45-10:35am
Thank you to Mr. Shindler who will be volunteering at this special event!

* Monday, October 8th to Tuesday, October 16th: Parent Conferences
During these seven days of school, DISMISSAL IS AT 1:30PM! You will be receiving your conference day and time in today’s Friday Folder. Please confirm that you can make the conference. It is very important that you attend this one-on-one conference about your child’s progress.

* Friday, October 19th: Walk-a-Thon
Today the Walk-a-Thon pledge envelopes are going home. Please sign the envelope to give your child permission to participate. Envelopes are due on October 12th.

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Dear Families,

Happy Fall! This was a short week since we have no school tomorrow and Monday was our Happy Hollow field trip! Thank you again to Mrs. Aloni, Mrs. Shindler, Mrs. Okubo, and Mrs. Okawaki for taking groups of children around the park. First, we went to the zoo and saw all the animals. Then groups went to different play areas before having lunch. Afterwards, we all watched Old King Cole as a puppet show. We had about one hour after that to play some more. It was a busy day!

Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: A Little Red Apple
Song of the Week: Clap Your Name
Kindness is … learning a friend’s language
Vocabulary of the Week: School Words 4
Next Week’s Sharing: Scary Poem (4 lines and a picture to show!)

• Reading & Writing: We continued Dictionary up to the letter S and completed our 17th Prince or Princess!

• Library: We did not have library this week since there is no school tomorrow. We will also be going to the Cupertino Public Library next Thursday and students get to check out 2 books. Please return those books at your own convenience because we don’t want to mix them with Eaton books.

• Math: We finished Chapter 2 on subtraction facts today! Students did well on the test today, however, please make sure to review number words such as one, two, three, etc.

• Computer Lab: We did not get to go this week because of the field trip.

• Science: This week we looked at our mealworms and learned that the next stage in their life cycle is the pupa stage. We also can observe our caterpillars in the pupa stage because they are in their cocoons. In circuits, we went to Mrs. Nieveen’s class and learned about fireflies!

• Assembly: We had an assembly today on the Walk-a-Thon. Fourth and fifth graders acted out good and bad procedures on how to collect pledges and how to behave on the day of the Walk-a-Thon. We are excited to raise money for our school!

• PE: This week we were with Mrs. Nieveen and we worked with bean bags. We tried to practice our balance and coordination.

• Social Studies: We learned about Johnny Appleseed this week because it was his birthday on September 26th! We are finishing up an apple art activity and we learned about how an apple tree changes through the four seasons.

Congratulations! Every student got green cards this week, so everybody took home a Super Star!!! GREAT JOB!!! Keep up the good work! Have a wonderful weekend!