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!