November is here!

Upcoming Dates

* Monday, November 12th: NO SCHOOL – Veterans Day

* Monday, November 19th: Natural Bridges Field Trip
We will be taking the bus with Mrs. Burgess’ class and Mrs. Nieveen’s class to Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz. This field trip allows us to see many monarch butterflies in their natural setting. More information will come.

* Wednesday, November 21st to Friday, November 23rd – NO SCHOOL
Happy Thanksgiving break!


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Dear Families,

Happy Halloween! I hope you had a great time trick-or-treating on Wednesday night! We had a fun time at our Eaton parade and party! Thanks for all the families who brought snacks for our party and also helped out during the party! Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Pumpkin
Song of the Week: Making Words
Story of the Week: Alice and Greta
Kindness is … saying, “Happy Halloween” when trick-or-treating
Vocabulary of the Week: People 1
Next Week’s Sharing: Food Poem
(at least 4 lines and bring a picture or something to show)

• Language Arts:
o Theme 2: Surprise! - Week 1
o Story Selection: The Box and Wigs in a Box
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Question and Noting Details
o High Frequency Words: two, three, four, five, in, once, upon, what
o Word Families: -ox, -ot
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: d, w, l, x and short o
o Grammar: Capitalizing Names and Word Order in sentences

• Math: We continued with data and graphs this week. We are working on making bar graphs or picture graphs from tally marks or pictures. Continue practicing answering the word problems! We also started talking about numbers to 100 and place value for tens and ones.

• Computer Lab: On Monday we made a Halloween picture using Kidpix. Students learned how to use the different shape tools such as a filled circle, square, or random shape.

• Science: We went to Mrs. Barelli’s class this week for circuits. She taught us about the life cycle of ladybugs.

• Social Studies: We have been doing some Halloween activities this week with haunted houses and monsters! We made up a monster and wrote about what it looks like and what it eats or does. Then we drew the picture of our monster!

• PE: This week we started a new circuit and we did dance! We did the Hokey Pokey and discussed body parts and right vs. left. We also did a fun song called Shake Your Sillies Out and a Freeze Dance!

• Library: We went to the Cupertino Public Library on Thursday. Remember to return the books yourselves and make sure not to mix up Eaton books with Cupertino Library books.

• Buddies: We saw our buddies today! We did an activity with the story, La Luna, which is a Mexican tale about the sun and the moon. We made sun and moon puppets with our big buddies.

• Fire Drill: This week we practiced a fire drill so students know where to line up if we have an emergency. I hope that no more earthquakes will come, but if one does, we are teaching the students what to do to keep themselves safe. Remember to have an emergency plan at home for your family too and discuss things such as: emergency food supply, how to reach each other if the phones aren’t working, or where to wait for each other.

• Book It Reading Logs: Good job reading in the month of October! Students who turned in their reading logs received a Pizza Hut free personal pan pizza certificate in today’s Friday Folder! Remember to read everyday and if you haven’t turned in the October reading log, please do so on Monday! The November reading logs went home on Thursday and should be returned on Monday, December 3rd.

We had to say goodbye to Marie today. She is transferring back to her home school, Nimitz, on Monday. We made drawings and letters for her and put them into a book. We are sad to see another student leave our class!

Don’t forget that Sunday is Daylight Savings Time so change your clocks one hour backwards! Remember: fall back, spring forward! Enjoy your extra hour of sleep and have a great weekend!