Upcoming Dates
* Wednesday, October 31st: Halloween
We will be having our Halloween parade after lunch on Wednesday. Please send your child’s costume to school in their backpack and they will change after lunch. The parade will be at 1:30pm outside. Parents are welcome to join us for the Halloween parade. Afterwards, we will have a small party. Thank you for signing up to bring items for our party!
* Thursday, November 1st: October Book-It Reading Logs Due
Please return the reading log and 3 story summaries on this day. I will send home November Book-It reading logs home too.
* Thursday, November 1st: Cupertino Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the library after lunch and will return before dismissal. Remember to send your child’s blue library card to school and have them MEMORIZE their 4-digit PIN number. For students who received a new card, remember it is the last 4-digits of your home phone number!
* Monday, November 12th: NO SCHOOL – Veterans Day
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Dear Families,
This week was Red Ribbon Week. We learned about what it means to stay healthy and drug free. We also finished sharing all of our insect projects! Great job to everyone. Each insect was so creative! I hope your family had a fun experience making them. Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: My Nose
Song of the Week: Vowels
Story of the Week: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Kindness is … raising money for our school
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 4
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular (not riddle) – Halloween decorations
(4 sentences and bring a picture or something to show)
• Language Arts:
o Theme 1: All Together Now – Week 3
o Story Selection: The Big Hit and Big Pig
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Evaluate and Cause/Effect
o High Frequency Words: a, find, one, have, to, who
o Word Families: -it, -ig
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: b, r, h, g, and short i
o Grammar: Punctuation
• Math: We worked on Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs this week and counting using tally marks. This chapter is a lot harder for many students because it requires answering more word problems, but we continued to review the magic words that help us solve problems, ie. (+) in all, altogether, join, and (-), how many more, how many fewer, how many less, left, still, or away
• Computer Lab: On Monday everyone completed a KidPix template on a fact family of their choice. Students used number stamps and picture stamps to show the four sentences that are part of a fact family!
• Science: We went to Mrs. Burgess’ class this week for circuits. Her substitute taught us an insect lesson on ants.
• Social Studies: This week we talked about the word respect and what it means to follow the Golden Rule, “do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.”
• Assembly: An officer came to talk to us today about safety. He taught us how to tell the difference between candy and drugs and we practiced saying “No!” to drugs, alcohol, and strangers!
• PE: This week we had Mrs. Okuno and we played a game called Stuck in the Mud tag. We also did some ball tossing to work on throwing and catching.
• Library: We did not get to go to the library this week because the library was being used for testing. We will go next week, or your child can always exchange books during recess or lunch.
• Art: We saw Mrs. Blakeslee today and we started working with clay! We are making circular molds in plastic lids and then carving designs into them.
On Wednesday, we had to say goodbye to Dvir and his family. They moved to Nimitz school. We made a picture book for him and said goodbye. It’s always sad when students have to leave in the middle of the school year. We were sad to see Dvir go!
Enjoy the weekend! I hope the weather will stay nice next week for Halloween and I hope the fires in Southern California will be contained too! See you Monday!
Friday, October 26, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
Walk-a-Thon!
Upcoming Dates
* Wednesday, October 24th: Walk to School Day
* Wednesday, October 31st: Halloween
We will be having our Halloween parade after lunch on Wednesday. Please send your child’s costume to school in their backpack and they will change after lunch. The parade will be at 1:25pm outside. Parents are welcome to join us for the Halloween parade. Afterwards, we will have a small party. Please talk to me after school or through email if you would like to bring something for the party.
* Thursday, November 1st: October Book-It Reading Logs Due
Please return the reading log and 3 story summaries on this day. I will send home November Book-It reading logs home too.
* Thursday, November 1st: Cupertino Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the library after lunch and will return before dismissal. Remember to send your child’s blue library card to school and have them MEMORIZE their 4-digit PIN number. For students who received a new card, remember it is the last 4-digits of your home phone number!
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Dear Families,
This week was an interesting week! Parent conferences ended on Tuesday and we had our Walk-a-Thon today! We were also assigned as the Campus Clean Up group this week, so after lunch we spent time helping our school stay clean by picking up trash and leftovers from lunch. This was also our Kindness sentence of the week and we talked about how important it is to help the school and other places stay clean and beautiful! Here are some highlights:
Poem of the Week: First Book
Song of the Week: Vowels
Story of the Week: Dancing Feet
Kindness is … picking up someone else’s trash
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 3
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – something about night
(4 sentences and bring a picture or something to show)
• Language Arts:
o Theme 1: All Together Now – Week 2
o Story Selection: Nan and Fan, We Can!
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Summarize and Compare/Contrast
o High Frequency Words: and, jump, too, here, not, we
o Word Families: -an
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: n, f, p, and short a
o Grammar: Beginning sentences with Capital Letters
• Math: We finished Chapter 3 this week and many students are carefully working on computation everyday! We also started introducing Chapter 4 which is on data and graphs. There will be many word problems and vocabulary words such as more, fewer, how much, etc?
• Computer Lab: We did not go this week because of the parent conference schedule.
• Science: We did not have science circuits Tuesday again because of the parent conference schedule. We will be saying goodbye to our mealworms and beetles this week! We also talked about the life cycle of a pumpkin and made a project using the book, Pumpkin, Pumpkin. Ask your child about the story and have them retell it to you!
• Social Studies: This week we talked about citizenship, making rules, and voting in America. We learned that we are citizens of America and that we make rules in class and in our community. We also vote in class when we make decisions.
• Assembly: We had an assembly by the Traveling Lantern called, “The Hobbit.”
• PE: This week we had Mrs. Barelli and we worked on our hand/eye coordination by using scoops and balls.
I had to leave early from the Walk-a-thon because I have two weddings to attend this weekend in Los Angeles and one rehearsal dinner today at 6pm! I’m glad that I was able to see the beginning of it and I hope everyone had a great time! It’s one of my favorite days and I was sad to miss it =( I hope you have a great weekend!
* Wednesday, October 24th: Walk to School Day
* Wednesday, October 31st: Halloween
We will be having our Halloween parade after lunch on Wednesday. Please send your child’s costume to school in their backpack and they will change after lunch. The parade will be at 1:25pm outside. Parents are welcome to join us for the Halloween parade. Afterwards, we will have a small party. Please talk to me after school or through email if you would like to bring something for the party.
* Thursday, November 1st: October Book-It Reading Logs Due
Please return the reading log and 3 story summaries on this day. I will send home November Book-It reading logs home too.
* Thursday, November 1st: Cupertino Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the library after lunch and will return before dismissal. Remember to send your child’s blue library card to school and have them MEMORIZE their 4-digit PIN number. For students who received a new card, remember it is the last 4-digits of your home phone number!
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Dear Families,
This week was an interesting week! Parent conferences ended on Tuesday and we had our Walk-a-Thon today! We were also assigned as the Campus Clean Up group this week, so after lunch we spent time helping our school stay clean by picking up trash and leftovers from lunch. This was also our Kindness sentence of the week and we talked about how important it is to help the school and other places stay clean and beautiful! Here are some highlights:
Poem of the Week: First Book
Song of the Week: Vowels
Story of the Week: Dancing Feet
Kindness is … picking up someone else’s trash
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 3
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – something about night
(4 sentences and bring a picture or something to show)
• Language Arts:
o Theme 1: All Together Now – Week 2
o Story Selection: Nan and Fan, We Can!
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Summarize and Compare/Contrast
o High Frequency Words: and, jump, too, here, not, we
o Word Families: -an
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: n, f, p, and short a
o Grammar: Beginning sentences with Capital Letters
• Math: We finished Chapter 3 this week and many students are carefully working on computation everyday! We also started introducing Chapter 4 which is on data and graphs. There will be many word problems and vocabulary words such as more, fewer, how much, etc?
• Computer Lab: We did not go this week because of the parent conference schedule.
• Science: We did not have science circuits Tuesday again because of the parent conference schedule. We will be saying goodbye to our mealworms and beetles this week! We also talked about the life cycle of a pumpkin and made a project using the book, Pumpkin, Pumpkin. Ask your child about the story and have them retell it to you!
• Social Studies: This week we talked about citizenship, making rules, and voting in America. We learned that we are citizens of America and that we make rules in class and in our community. We also vote in class when we make decisions.
• Assembly: We had an assembly by the Traveling Lantern called, “The Hobbit.”
• PE: This week we had Mrs. Barelli and we worked on our hand/eye coordination by using scoops and balls.
I had to leave early from the Walk-a-thon because I have two weddings to attend this weekend in Los Angeles and one rehearsal dinner today at 6pm! I’m glad that I was able to see the beginning of it and I hope everyone had a great time! It’s one of my favorite days and I was sad to miss it =( I hope you have a great weekend!
Friday, October 12, 2007
Rain, Rain, Go Away!
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, October 15th to Tuesday, October 16th: Parent Conferences
We have two more days of conferences. DISMISSAL IS AT 1:30PM! Thank you for coming this past week to talk about your child’s progress!
* Wednesday, October 17th: Book Orders Due
Attached is the October Scholastic Book Orders. If you are interested in purchasing books, please return the order forms with ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs by Wednesday. The books should arrive by the end of the month.
* Friday, October 19th: Walk-a-Thon 1:30-3:05pm
If you did not turn in your pledge form, please do so on MONDAY. Even if you did not collect pledges, you need to sign the envelope in order to give your child permission to participate! Parents may come and watch or volunteer during the event. However, please make sure you encourage your child to keep walking to raise money for the school. You may not pull your child out to feed them with extra snacks. There will be plenty of water available for them to get themselves.
* Wednesday, October 31st: Halloween
We will be having our Halloween parade after lunch on Wednesday. Please send your child’s costume to school in their backpack and they will change after lunch. More information will come later.
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Dear Families,
Thank you for coming to parent conferences this week. I will be sending home copies of our conference notes in the Friday folder. Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Our World
Song of the Week: Hello Around the World
Story of the Week: Here Are My Hands
Kindness is … drawing a picture for someone
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 2
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something liquid (4 clues and bring the
object or picture hidden in a bag)
• Language Arts: We finished our last Prince this week! Remember to read about our classmates on our website under “Classwork.” This week we started our language arts textbooks and will be focusing on specific stories, sounds, and skills each week. We also will be having high frequency words added to our word wall each week. I expect students to be able to read and spell these words correctly in their writing.
o Theme 1: All Together Now – Week 1
o Story Selection: The Cat Sat and The Mat
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Predict/Infer and Sequence
o High Frequency Words: go, the, on
o Word Families: -at
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: m, s, c, t, short a
o Grammar: Capital and lowercase letters
• Math: We are continuing in Chapter 3 with more addition and subtraction facts up to 12. Here are some of our “magic words” to help us with word problems: (+) in all, altogether, join (-) how many more, left, still, away
• Computer Lab: We had a short session this week because of our parent conference schedule. We drew pictures for someone special as part of our Kindness Journal activity for the week.
• Science: We did not have science circuits Tuesday because of the parent conference schedule, however, we spent time observing our mealworms this week in class. We saw one of our mealworms change into the final adult stage! Ask your children what they mealworms turn into!
• Assembly: We had a first grade assembly today called “Otto the Auto.”
• PE: This week we had Mrs. Burgess and she taught us some skills with hula hoops. Also we played a game called Dead Bug tag.
• Art: Thank you to those of you who donated the plastic lids for our art teacher. We saw Mrs. Blakeslee this week and we finished our paintings on abstract lines and shapes using paint.
Don’t forget next Friday is the Walk-a-Thon! It will be lots of fun! We made a poster this week to represent our classroom, and we decorated shoes. On the shoes were shoelaces, and I discovered that MOST of our students do not know how to tie their shoes! Please teach them this skill when you get the chance! I taught them the two bunny ears method, but you can definitely use whichever method is easiest for your child!
Have a wonderful weekend! Rain, rain, go away!
* Monday, October 15th to Tuesday, October 16th: Parent Conferences
We have two more days of conferences. DISMISSAL IS AT 1:30PM! Thank you for coming this past week to talk about your child’s progress!
* Wednesday, October 17th: Book Orders Due
Attached is the October Scholastic Book Orders. If you are interested in purchasing books, please return the order forms with ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs by Wednesday. The books should arrive by the end of the month.
* Friday, October 19th: Walk-a-Thon 1:30-3:05pm
If you did not turn in your pledge form, please do so on MONDAY. Even if you did not collect pledges, you need to sign the envelope in order to give your child permission to participate! Parents may come and watch or volunteer during the event. However, please make sure you encourage your child to keep walking to raise money for the school. You may not pull your child out to feed them with extra snacks. There will be plenty of water available for them to get themselves.
* Wednesday, October 31st: Halloween
We will be having our Halloween parade after lunch on Wednesday. Please send your child’s costume to school in their backpack and they will change after lunch. More information will come later.
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Dear Families,
Thank you for coming to parent conferences this week. I will be sending home copies of our conference notes in the Friday folder. Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Our World
Song of the Week: Hello Around the World
Story of the Week: Here Are My Hands
Kindness is … drawing a picture for someone
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 2
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something liquid (4 clues and bring the
object or picture hidden in a bag)
• Language Arts: We finished our last Prince this week! Remember to read about our classmates on our website under “Classwork.” This week we started our language arts textbooks and will be focusing on specific stories, sounds, and skills each week. We also will be having high frequency words added to our word wall each week. I expect students to be able to read and spell these words correctly in their writing.
o Theme 1: All Together Now – Week 1
o Story Selection: The Cat Sat and The Mat
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Predict/Infer and Sequence
o High Frequency Words: go, the, on
o Word Families: -at
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: m, s, c, t, short a
o Grammar: Capital and lowercase letters
• Math: We are continuing in Chapter 3 with more addition and subtraction facts up to 12. Here are some of our “magic words” to help us with word problems: (+) in all, altogether, join (-) how many more, left, still, away
• Computer Lab: We had a short session this week because of our parent conference schedule. We drew pictures for someone special as part of our Kindness Journal activity for the week.
• Science: We did not have science circuits Tuesday because of the parent conference schedule, however, we spent time observing our mealworms this week in class. We saw one of our mealworms change into the final adult stage! Ask your children what they mealworms turn into!
• Assembly: We had a first grade assembly today called “Otto the Auto.”
• PE: This week we had Mrs. Burgess and she taught us some skills with hula hoops. Also we played a game called Dead Bug tag.
• Art: Thank you to those of you who donated the plastic lids for our art teacher. We saw Mrs. Blakeslee this week and we finished our paintings on abstract lines and shapes using paint.
Don’t forget next Friday is the Walk-a-Thon! It will be lots of fun! We made a poster this week to represent our classroom, and we decorated shoes. On the shoes were shoelaces, and I discovered that MOST of our students do not know how to tie their shoes! Please teach them this skill when you get the chance! I taught them the two bunny ears method, but you can definitely use whichever method is easiest for your child!
Have a wonderful weekend! Rain, rain, go away!
Friday, October 05, 2007
Happy October!
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, October 8th to Tuesday, October 16th: Parent Conferences
During these seven days of school, DISMISSAL IS AT 1:30PM! I look forward to meeting with each of you next week!
* Friday, October 19th: Walk-a-Thon
Please continue getting pledges for the Walk-a-Thon. Pledge forms are due on October 12th.
* Wednesday, October 31st: Halloween
We will be having our Halloween parade after lunch on Wednesday. Please send your child’s costume to school in their backpack and they will change after lunch. More information will come later.
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Dear Families,
Happy October! Please welcome our new student, Kevin, and his family to Eaton! They came from Korea and we are happy Kevin has joined our class! Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Oh Mr. Squirrel
Song of the Week: Hello Around the World
Story of the Week: Apples, Apples, Apples
Kindness is … giving a praise note to someone
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 1
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something solid (4 clues and bring the
object or picture hidden in a bag)
• Reading & Writing: We finished our Dictionary this week! We have been reviewing all the letter sounds and practicing blending words together. Also, we completed two more Prince and Princesses this week. One more to go! Please continue reviewing ideas for the Weekend News journals on Sunday night or Monday morning. I would like students to be able to write their thoughts freely during journal time without fear of mistakes.
• Library: We went to the Cupertino Public Library on Thursday this week. The librarians read several stories and then the students checked out 2 books to bring home. Please remember to return the books at your own convenience. Please do not bring them to Eaton or they will get mixed up with Eaton Library books. Remember we go to the Eaton library every Friday. If your child brought home a new card, their 4-digit PIN number is the last 4 numbers in your home phone number. Please have your child MEMORIZE this PIN number for our next Library visit.
• Math: We are working on Chapter 3 which is more addition and subtraction facts up to 12. Now the word problems are getting trickier since you have to determine if they are asking to add or subtract. We will keep practicing!
• Computer Lab: This week we illustrated our first Kindness picture for our Kindness website. We are typing our kindness journals each week starting this week and we will be illustrating them once a month. You can see our Kindness journals by going to the “Classwork” section in our class website. Some students did not finish their pictures so they are not on the website. Please talk to your child about finishing their work!
• Science: Our caterpillars came out of their cocoons over the weekend and we let them fly away after school on Monday! It was exciting to see them changing and we’re happy they are free now! Also, our mealworms are now pupas and are waiting for their final change! We’ll find out next week what they turn into! This week we also went to Mrs. Tambe’s class for circuits and learned about honeybees.
• Assembly: Thank you to Mr. Shindler for volunteering today at the Lawrence Hall of Science assembly! We had many science stations set up and students did various projects such as making dowels, arch bridges, and building anything using paper, cubes, tangrams, blocks, etc! This was exciting for the students and it was a great hands-on experience!
• PE: This week we were with Mrs. Tambe and we played a game called Three Deep. We are learning to play nicely with others.
• Buddies: We saw our fourth grade buddies today and we read a manners book. We talked about manners and created our own books to show what we can do to be respectful people.
• Art: Our art teacher, Mrs. Blakeslee, is asking for donations of 4-5" diameter plastic lids from sour cream, cottage cheese and large yogurt containers. She needs to collect enough so that every student at Eaton will be able to use one for a project. Please send them in if you have any.
Remember next week is Parent Conferences! Please make arrangements for someone else to watch your child during your conference time. The conference is not a meeting for your child to attend. Also, please be on time when picking up your child at 1:30pm. Thank you and I will see you next week!
* Monday, October 8th to Tuesday, October 16th: Parent Conferences
During these seven days of school, DISMISSAL IS AT 1:30PM! I look forward to meeting with each of you next week!
* Friday, October 19th: Walk-a-Thon
Please continue getting pledges for the Walk-a-Thon. Pledge forms are due on October 12th.
* Wednesday, October 31st: Halloween
We will be having our Halloween parade after lunch on Wednesday. Please send your child’s costume to school in their backpack and they will change after lunch. More information will come later.
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Dear Families,
Happy October! Please welcome our new student, Kevin, and his family to Eaton! They came from Korea and we are happy Kevin has joined our class! Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Oh Mr. Squirrel
Song of the Week: Hello Around the World
Story of the Week: Apples, Apples, Apples
Kindness is … giving a praise note to someone
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 1
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something solid (4 clues and bring the
object or picture hidden in a bag)
• Reading & Writing: We finished our Dictionary this week! We have been reviewing all the letter sounds and practicing blending words together. Also, we completed two more Prince and Princesses this week. One more to go! Please continue reviewing ideas for the Weekend News journals on Sunday night or Monday morning. I would like students to be able to write their thoughts freely during journal time without fear of mistakes.
• Library: We went to the Cupertino Public Library on Thursday this week. The librarians read several stories and then the students checked out 2 books to bring home. Please remember to return the books at your own convenience. Please do not bring them to Eaton or they will get mixed up with Eaton Library books. Remember we go to the Eaton library every Friday. If your child brought home a new card, their 4-digit PIN number is the last 4 numbers in your home phone number. Please have your child MEMORIZE this PIN number for our next Library visit.
• Math: We are working on Chapter 3 which is more addition and subtraction facts up to 12. Now the word problems are getting trickier since you have to determine if they are asking to add or subtract. We will keep practicing!
• Computer Lab: This week we illustrated our first Kindness picture for our Kindness website. We are typing our kindness journals each week starting this week and we will be illustrating them once a month. You can see our Kindness journals by going to the “Classwork” section in our class website. Some students did not finish their pictures so they are not on the website. Please talk to your child about finishing their work!
• Science: Our caterpillars came out of their cocoons over the weekend and we let them fly away after school on Monday! It was exciting to see them changing and we’re happy they are free now! Also, our mealworms are now pupas and are waiting for their final change! We’ll find out next week what they turn into! This week we also went to Mrs. Tambe’s class for circuits and learned about honeybees.
• Assembly: Thank you to Mr. Shindler for volunteering today at the Lawrence Hall of Science assembly! We had many science stations set up and students did various projects such as making dowels, arch bridges, and building anything using paper, cubes, tangrams, blocks, etc! This was exciting for the students and it was a great hands-on experience!
• PE: This week we were with Mrs. Tambe and we played a game called Three Deep. We are learning to play nicely with others.
• Buddies: We saw our fourth grade buddies today and we read a manners book. We talked about manners and created our own books to show what we can do to be respectful people.
• Art: Our art teacher, Mrs. Blakeslee, is asking for donations of 4-5" diameter plastic lids from sour cream, cottage cheese and large yogurt containers. She needs to collect enough so that every student at Eaton will be able to use one for a project. Please send them in if you have any.
Remember next week is Parent Conferences! Please make arrangements for someone else to watch your child during your conference time. The conference is not a meeting for your child to attend. Also, please be on time when picking up your child at 1:30pm. Thank you and I will see you next week!
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