Upcoming Dates
* Monday, March 2nd: February Book-It Reading Logs Due!
Please turn in your February reading logs. I will be sending home March reading logs in today’s Friday Folder. This will be the last reading log for the Pizza Hut Book-It certificates.
* Friday, March 6th: Last Day of Second Trimester
Report cards will be given out on March 20th. Grades will reflect your child’s progress from November to this date.
* Friday, March 13th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Cupertino public library in the afternoon. Remember to send your child’s blue library card to school and have him/her remember the 4-digit password. Your child can check out 2 books. Please return them directly to the library on your own.
* Monday, March 16th: No School – Staff Learning Day
Teachers will be coming to school to work on writing strategies. We will be using rubrics to look over grade-level writing assessments.
* Friday, March 27th: Summer School Forms Due
In today’s Friday Folder, you will find either a blue or green summer school form. This is a free program offered by our school district, and it is optional. If you are interested in having your child attend summer school, please complete and return the form by March 27th.
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Dear Families,
I hope everyone had a wonderful vacation last week! I absolutely loved Vancouver and Whistler, which are both the locations of next year’s Winter Olympics. We were lucky because the weather was sunny the whole week we were there. In Vancouver, we ate some good food, went shopping, and walked to Stanley Park and visited the aquarium. In Whistler, we spent 2 days snowboarding on the amazing mountains, and also did a zip-line adventure. I had a great time!
As we return back to school, I have been spending extra time reminding students of the classroom and school rules. I ask students to evaluate themselves for their own behavior to see if they tried their best or not. Please actively continue to have conversations about doing the right things.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Naoki
Poem of the Week: Plip Plop Raindrop
Song of the Week: Five senses
Kindness is … keeping your teeth clean.
Story of the Week: I Like the Rain
Vocabulary of the Week: People 1
Word Wall: cow, door, house, now, there, though, wall
Next Week’s Sharing: Spring Poem
(at least 4 lines memorized and bring something to show)
• Language Arts: Theme 6: Animal Adventures – Week 2
• Stories: Eek! There’s a Mouse in the House
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Question / Noting Details
• Word Families: -eat
• Sounds: long e, vowel pairs ee, ea
• Grammar: Naming Words for Things and Places
• Math: We finished our chapter on Geometry, Fractions, and Probability. This week we have been reviewing everything that we have learned since the beginning of the year including money, graphs, place value, and problem solving.
• Writing: We had 3 students finish their mitten stories this week, and students are all working hard. This project really demonstrates who can work independently in class. At the end of the year, students can range from having one published piece to five published pieces, depending on their effort during writing time.
• Science: We finished up our plant kit this week. Our new unit for the next few months will be on weather.
• Social Studies: We are regularly talking about what kindness means and also what a Peacebuilder looks like. This week, we did an activity to show students how to say nice things to others instead of “put downs.”
• Circuits: This week was our last winter circuit. We went to Mrs. Barelli’s class, and she read us the story, The Snowy Day. We made an art project using paint that looks like the cover of the story.
• Music: We saw Miss Rachel this week. We got to choose our own instruments, including cymbals, drums, triangles, etc., to accompany some songs we sang. In first grade music, we are continuing to prepare for our musical in May. I am looking for participation and effort to memorize the songs!
• Art: Mrs. Abada taught us this week. We worked with clay to make pinch pots! We also made a little worm to wrap around our pots. Mrs. Abada will be putting our pots into a kiln to “fire” them.
• Computer: This week we added more pictures to our Kindness website using Kidpix. We talked about what a detailed picture looks like, and adding backgrounds to our pictures.
Welcome back and Happy March!
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