Red Ribbon Week

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!