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!