Upcoming Dates
* 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 20th: Cupertino Library *rescheduled*
Sorry! We were rescheduled to visit the library next Friday instead of today. Please send your child’s blue library card to school again 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.
* Friday, March 27th: Summer School Forms Due
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,
Thank you for the cute birthday cards and wishes this week. I appreciated the kind thoughts and I used this opportunity to write praise notes to many students. I am encouraging students to “surprise” other students with praise notes, by noticing something extra special that happened that day. We have been talking about doing kind things all the time, and not just because they want a praise note, but because they want to be nice. I hope you can also encourage your children to help others at home.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Kinako
Poem of the Week: Cloud Parade
Song of the Week: Spider or Insect
Kindness is … stopping germs from spreading
Story of the Week: Five Little Sharks Swimming in the Sea
Vocabulary of the Week: People 3
Word Wall: again, both, or, gone, want, turn, hard
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something green
(at least 4 sentences memorized and hide object in a bag)
• Language Arts: Theme 7 We Can Work It Out – Week 1
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Summarize / Problem Solving
• Word Families: -ow (long o)
• Sounds: vowel pairs oa and ow
• Grammar: Proper Nouns for People and Animals
• Math: Our measurement chapter is continuing on from length and height to weight. This week we discussed the words “pounds” and “kilograms.” We are comparing objects to see if they weigh more or less than a pound. We also continued reviewing our math facts to 20 and working on reading clues to solve different word problems.
• Writing: Mitten stories are continuing and about half of the class has finished! Writer’s Workshop has also been progressing well. We have been practicing Prewriting and Drafting, and now we are learning how to Revise and Edit our pieces to make them better. It is important we take the time to re-read our stories to look for mistakes with capitals, punctuation, and spelling. We practiced using dictionaries to help us spell difficult words.
• Circuit: For our weather circuit this week, we went to Mrs. Byers’ classroom. She taught us about how rainbows appear and we wrote a few sentences about rainbows. Then we used watercolor to draw a rainbow and decorated it with construction paper.
• Science: We talked about seasons this week and life cycles. Since Spring is starting next week, we read some stories about spring and what we might notice in our environment. We created a spring tree using tissue paper flowers and decorated our drawings. Then, we wrote a Spring poem that describes what Spring means. Also, we are talking about Spring and baby animals. We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, and discussed the lifecycle of a caterpillar. We will be studying different books written by Eric Carle in the next few weeks.
• Social Studies: For our kindness journals this week, we talked a little about proper ways to stop germs from spreading. We talked about washing our hands before we eat and coughing or sneezing using a tissue. For peacebuilders, we have been learning about PeaceTalk, our ways to solve problems with our friends. We are practicing using “I feel ___ because ____.” statements to speak with a person who does something hurtful to us, and we are brainstorming how to solve those problems. This week, we read the story, Amazing Grace, about a girl who overcomes put downs, and learned a song called, Amazing Peace.
• Computer: We practiced fractions in computer lab. We had to make ½, 1/3, and ¼ with different shapes including squares, rectangles, circles, and triangles. The most challenging ones were for the 1/3 fraction.
Have a great 3-day weekend!
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