* Friday, February 1st: January Book-It Reading Logs Due!
Please turn in your January reading logs and your child will receive a free personal pizza certificate! I will also be sending home February Book-It reading logs on this day.
* Monday, February 4th: 100th Day of School
We will be doing an all-day first grade circuit on fun activities to celebrate the 100th day of school! Therefore, we will not be going to our computer lab in the afternoon (volunteers do not need to come that afternoon! Thanks!!)
* Thursday, February 7th: Cupertino Public Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Public library in the afternoon. The librarians will read us some stories and we will check out 2 books. Please remember to bring your blue library cards and memorize your 4-digit PIN number! You can return these books on your own when you finish reading them. Please do not bring them back to Eaton.
* Thursday, February 14th: Valentine’s Day
We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day in the afternoon by doing some crafts, having a snack, and exchanging cards. Every child must prepare Valentine cards for every student and bring them to school on Valentine’s Day. They can be homemade or store-bought cards. Here is a list of all the students' names in our class. Please have your child write: To: (student name) and From: (your child’s name) on each envelope.
Aiko Amit Anna Brian Chris David
Hyunseok Jason Jeffery Justin Kelly Kevin
Kevin L. Kota Michael Nadiya Nasrin Ruth Saketh Yuna Yusuke (21 total students)
* Monday, February 18th – Friday, February 22nd: Winter Recess
There will be no school this week. Have a great vacation!
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Dear Families,
This was another short week! I would like to welcome another new student into our classroom, Ruth Feng. She joined our class on Wednesday and she is just starting to learn English. We interviewed her as our Princess of the Day on Thursday and found out some things she likes. You can read about Ruth on the Classwork section of our website!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Chris
Poem of the Week: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Song of the Week: Money
Kindness is … following your dreams
Story of the Week: The Hat
Vocabulary of the Week: House 2
Word Wall: grow, light, long, more, other, right, room, these
Next Week’s Sharing: Friendship Poem
(at least 4 sentences memorized and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 5: Home Sweet Home – Week 1
• Stories: Moving Day
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Question, Compare/Contrast
• Word Families: -ash, -ush
• Sounds: digraphs sh, th, wh, ch, tch
• Grammar: Exclamations
• Math: This week we worked on solving word problems with money. These word problems are much trickier than our addition and subtraction questions. We are learning how to read carefully and how to solve these types of questions. Please continue practicing counting and making different combinations using pennies, nickels, dimes, and this week we introduced quarters.
• Science: On Tuesday, we went to Mrs. Nieveen’s classroom and we learned about puddles. This was a good continuation of understanding the water cycle and evaporation. In class, we learned about the different types of thermometers in our world. We made a play thermometer using paper and shoelaces and practiced graphing the temperature.
• Social Studies: We learned all about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this week. We read many stories about his life and why he is famous today in America. We also made a project and learned a poem about his dream of one day everyone being kind to one another.
• Art: Today we finished our complementary colors project using watercolor. Afterwards we started painting a landscape
using watercolors as well!
• Music: We saw Mrs. Stauter this week and she sang some weather songs with us. We sang a song about winter and another about rain.
• Buddies: This week we made giant snowflakes with our big buddies! We are going to hang them on the ceiling!
Today was the last day for the coat drive. Thank you to all of you who donated something! It is so rainy! We are collecting rain for our science unit and we will find out how much rain fell after the weekend! Enjoy your weekend!
Monday, January 28, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Long weekend!
Upcoming Dates
* Friday, January 18th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
The teachers will be having a technology training in the morning and will be working on our writing plan for the rest of the year.
* Monday, January 21st: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
We will be learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and his attempts for building peace in the world!
* Friday, January 25th: Snowman Family Project Due
Please decorate the snowman your child is bringing home today. Be as creative as possible and use different materials you might find around the house (but no food please!). Remember, this is a parent-child activity so have fun creating the snowman together!
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Dear Families,
This was a short week! We were happy to see the sun come out after all the rain the past few weeks! We have continued to observe the weather this week and it has been changing everyday!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Yuna
Poem of the Week: Bear-ly Awake
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … building peace around me.
Story of the Week: Little One Inch
Vocabulary of the Week: House 1
Word Wall: car, down, hear, hold, hurt, learn, their, walk, would
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something to keep you warm
(at least 4 clues memorized and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 Family and Friends – Week 3
• Stories: Bud’s Day Out
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Monitor/Clarify, Sequence
• Word Families: -um, -ump
• Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
• Sounds: triple clusters, short u
• Grammar: Asking Sentences
• Writing: We started talking about peace this week and wrote in our Kindness Journals ways we can build peace at home, at school, or in our community.
• Math: We took our chapter test on addition and subtraction facts to 12. We have continued practicing counting dimes, nickels, and pennies. Now we are starting to show different ways to make certain amounts.
• Science: This week we read some Rain poems and made a project using words that described what rain looks or sounds like. Also, we made our own flags so that we can measure the wind! In Circuits, Mrs. Bachelor talked about winter with us and we mad a 3D snowman scene. Today we discussed the Water Cycle and learned about evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. We made a project to show the Water Cycle happening.
• Computer Lab: To continue with weather, we used Graph Club for the first time this week. We graphed our class’ favorite weather by using this software program. First we chose the different weather icons. Then we added a title and put how many students chose each icon. Finally, we chose which graphs we wanted to print!
• Social Studies: We are starting a lesson that will be incorporating a narrative writing piece using the story, The Mitten, by Jan Brett. This week we read the story and made our own mittens. Also, we began retelling the story and remembering all the details.
Thank you for participating in the coat drive. If you have any coats or jackets that you would like to donate that are still in good condition, please bring them to school by Friday. Have a wonderful weekend!
* Friday, January 18th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
The teachers will be having a technology training in the morning and will be working on our writing plan for the rest of the year.
* Monday, January 21st: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
We will be learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and his attempts for building peace in the world!
* Friday, January 25th: Snowman Family Project Due
Please decorate the snowman your child is bringing home today. Be as creative as possible and use different materials you might find around the house (but no food please!). Remember, this is a parent-child activity so have fun creating the snowman together!
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Dear Families,
This was a short week! We were happy to see the sun come out after all the rain the past few weeks! We have continued to observe the weather this week and it has been changing everyday!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Yuna
Poem of the Week: Bear-ly Awake
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … building peace around me.
Story of the Week: Little One Inch
Vocabulary of the Week: House 1
Word Wall: car, down, hear, hold, hurt, learn, their, walk, would
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something to keep you warm
(at least 4 clues memorized and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 Family and Friends – Week 3
• Stories: Bud’s Day Out
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Monitor/Clarify, Sequence
• Word Families: -um, -ump
• Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
• Sounds: triple clusters, short u
• Grammar: Asking Sentences
• Writing: We started talking about peace this week and wrote in our Kindness Journals ways we can build peace at home, at school, or in our community.
• Math: We took our chapter test on addition and subtraction facts to 12. We have continued practicing counting dimes, nickels, and pennies. Now we are starting to show different ways to make certain amounts.
• Science: This week we read some Rain poems and made a project using words that described what rain looks or sounds like. Also, we made our own flags so that we can measure the wind! In Circuits, Mrs. Bachelor talked about winter with us and we mad a 3D snowman scene. Today we discussed the Water Cycle and learned about evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. We made a project to show the Water Cycle happening.
• Computer Lab: To continue with weather, we used Graph Club for the first time this week. We graphed our class’ favorite weather by using this software program. First we chose the different weather icons. Then we added a title and put how many students chose each icon. Finally, we chose which graphs we wanted to print!
• Social Studies: We are starting a lesson that will be incorporating a narrative writing piece using the story, The Mitten, by Jan Brett. This week we read the story and made our own mittens. Also, we began retelling the story and remembering all the details.
Thank you for participating in the coat drive. If you have any coats or jackets that you would like to donate that are still in good condition, please bring them to school by Friday. Have a wonderful weekend!
Friday, January 11, 2008
2008!
Upcoming Dates
* Thursday, January 17th: Book Orders Due
I will be including the January book orders in today’s newsletter. If you would like to purchase books, please write ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs and return to me by next Thursday!
* Friday, January 18th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
The teachers will be having a technology training in the morning and will be working on our writing plan for the rest of the year.
* Monday, January 21st: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
We will be learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and his attempts for building peace in the world!
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Dear Families,
Happy New Year! I heard about some wonderful winter vacations in sharing this week! I hope your families had a nice time over the holidays. I went to Reno and Tahoe in the beginning of vacation and went snowboarding at Northstar. Afterwards, I celebrated Christmas Eve and Christmas with my family and my fiance’s family. It was nice having a few extra days of vacation after the New Year!
On Monday, we had a new student join our classroom! His name is Hyunseok Kim and he speaks Korean and English. He attended kindergarten in New York and they just moved to California last month. We interviewed Hyunseok as our Prince of the Day and learned about his favorite things. You can read about him on the Classwork section of our website!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: David
Poem of the Week: Winter Cheer
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … making New Year resolutions.
Story of the Week: Snowballs
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 7
Word Wall Words: friend, girl, know, play, read, she, sing, write
Next Week’s Sharing: Winter Poem (memorize words! No reading)
(at least 4 complete lines and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 Family and Friends – Week 2
• Stories: The Best Pet
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Evaluate, Compare/Contrast
• Word Families: -ell and –est
• Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
• Sounds: clusters with s, short e, silent letters kn, wr, gn
• Grammar: Telling Sentence
• Writing: We talked about what New Year resolutions mean. We tried to think of four different resolutions, or goals that we will try to do this year in 2008. We wrote them down and decorated a nice project to display each student’s 2008 resolutions. We will be typing these up in the next kindness journal entry.
• Math: We are finishing addition and subtraction to 12. This week we also started talking about pennies, nickels, and dimes. We will be counting money over the next few weeks.
• Science: We are starting our next big science unit on Weather! This week, we started observing the cloud cover, precipitation, wind, and temperature each day. We are recording the weather and temperature and learning how to create our own graphs. Also, we took a survey and found out that in our class, most students like cold weather! Specifically, most students like snow the best! We have been using our senses to observe the weather each day.
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly from Ranka’s Marionette Theater. They used puppets to tell animal stories. It was interesting!
• Computer Lab: Since we are starting weather, this week we made a rain scene. We used some of the drawing tools in KidPix to design our own umbrellas. Then we decorated the rest of the scene to show a rainy day.
• Music: We saw Mrs. Stauter this week! We sang several fun songs including Zip a Dee Doo Dah, The Hello Song, and One Dream. Remember that it is important to be singing and participating in music! First graders are starting to learn their songs for the end of the year musical!
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee taught us about complementary colors today. We made a framed picture using different colors.
• Library: We went to the Cupertino Library on Thursday afternoon. Fortunately, it wasn’t raining! Remember to return Cupertino Library books on your own (please do not bring them back to Eaton!) Thanks!
• Buddies: Today we saw our fourth grade buddies! We did an activity about Abraham Lincoln and how they lived in log cabins!
Have a wonderful weekend!
* Thursday, January 17th: Book Orders Due
I will be including the January book orders in today’s newsletter. If you would like to purchase books, please write ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs and return to me by next Thursday!
* Friday, January 18th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
The teachers will be having a technology training in the morning and will be working on our writing plan for the rest of the year.
* Monday, January 21st: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
We will be learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and his attempts for building peace in the world!
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Dear Families,
Happy New Year! I heard about some wonderful winter vacations in sharing this week! I hope your families had a nice time over the holidays. I went to Reno and Tahoe in the beginning of vacation and went snowboarding at Northstar. Afterwards, I celebrated Christmas Eve and Christmas with my family and my fiance’s family. It was nice having a few extra days of vacation after the New Year!
On Monday, we had a new student join our classroom! His name is Hyunseok Kim and he speaks Korean and English. He attended kindergarten in New York and they just moved to California last month. We interviewed Hyunseok as our Prince of the Day and learned about his favorite things. You can read about him on the Classwork section of our website!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: David
Poem of the Week: Winter Cheer
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … making New Year resolutions.
Story of the Week: Snowballs
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 7
Word Wall Words: friend, girl, know, play, read, she, sing, write
Next Week’s Sharing: Winter Poem (memorize words! No reading)
(at least 4 complete lines and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 Family and Friends – Week 2
• Stories: The Best Pet
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Evaluate, Compare/Contrast
• Word Families: -ell and –est
• Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
• Sounds: clusters with s, short e, silent letters kn, wr, gn
• Grammar: Telling Sentence
• Writing: We talked about what New Year resolutions mean. We tried to think of four different resolutions, or goals that we will try to do this year in 2008. We wrote them down and decorated a nice project to display each student’s 2008 resolutions. We will be typing these up in the next kindness journal entry.
• Math: We are finishing addition and subtraction to 12. This week we also started talking about pennies, nickels, and dimes. We will be counting money over the next few weeks.
• Science: We are starting our next big science unit on Weather! This week, we started observing the cloud cover, precipitation, wind, and temperature each day. We are recording the weather and temperature and learning how to create our own graphs. Also, we took a survey and found out that in our class, most students like cold weather! Specifically, most students like snow the best! We have been using our senses to observe the weather each day.
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly from Ranka’s Marionette Theater. They used puppets to tell animal stories. It was interesting!
• Computer Lab: Since we are starting weather, this week we made a rain scene. We used some of the drawing tools in KidPix to design our own umbrellas. Then we decorated the rest of the scene to show a rainy day.
• Music: We saw Mrs. Stauter this week! We sang several fun songs including Zip a Dee Doo Dah, The Hello Song, and One Dream. Remember that it is important to be singing and participating in music! First graders are starting to learn their songs for the end of the year musical!
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee taught us about complementary colors today. We made a framed picture using different colors.
• Library: We went to the Cupertino Library on Thursday afternoon. Fortunately, it wasn’t raining! Remember to return Cupertino Library books on your own (please do not bring them back to Eaton!) Thanks!
• Buddies: Today we saw our fourth grade buddies! We did an activity about Abraham Lincoln and how they lived in log cabins!
Have a wonderful weekend!
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