Upcoming Dates
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter N
* Sunday, November 1st: Daylight Savings Time
Don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour!
* Monday, November 2nd: October Homework Due (if you haven’t already turned it in)
Remember to turn in your October Homework. The November monthly homework is in today’s daily folder.
* Sunday, November 8th: November Scholastic Books Due
Please try to order your books online. Our class earns free books with online purchases. Thank you!
1. Go to: www.scholastic.com/bookclubs
2. Class User Name: Beebear
3. Password: MrsYu (no spaces or periods)
4. Browse books and place order using your credit card (no need to send money to school)
5. About 2 weeks after I receive all the orders, your books will be delivered to school!
* Monday, November 9th: Turkey Feathers Due
On Monday, you will be receiving a large posterboard with a drawing of a large feather. Please read the directions that will be attached to the posterboard and decorate the feather as a family project. Please do not use any food! You may use any other types of material – try to be creative! We will combine all the feathers and attach them to our class turkey bulletin board for Thanksgiving! Please return them by Monday, November 9th. Thank you!
* Wednesday, November 11th: NO SCHOOL – Veterans Day
This is a strange day off in the middle of the week! Mark your calendars!
* Wednesday, November 25th to Friday, November 27th: NO SCHOOL
Have a wonderful five-day weekend to celebrate Thanksgiving. Gobble gobble!
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Dear Families,
Happy Halloween! This was a short week filled with lots of activities! On Monday, the teachers all gathered to go over the emergency procedures at Eaton. We talked about how to prepare for different types of emergencies, and how to make our current process even better. We also discussed Language Arts strengths and needs for each grade level.
This week, as a school we celebrated Red Ribbon Week. The theme was Healthy Choices. We talked about eating healthy and exercising to keep our bodies strong. Red Ribbon Week is about leading a drug-free life. For Kindergarteners, we talked mostly about making good choices.
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts:
o Star of the Week: Daniel
o Letter of the Week: B
o Story of the Week: Alice and Greta
o Phonemic Awareness: Blending and Segmenting Letters, Rhymes
o Strategy Focus: Evaluate, Predict, Infer
o Comprehension: Story Structure: Characters / Setting, Drawing Conclusions
o High-Frequency Word: my, like
o Concepts of Print: Capitalize First Word in Sentence, End Punctuation, Return Sweep
• Writing: We practiced writing our B vocabulary words and continued working on our handwriting. We have been getting better at writing a sentence about our favorite part in Listening Center. Remember to add spaces between your words and keep practicing sounding out words and letters!
• Science: This week we talked about Spiders. We learned that spiders have eight legs and compared how people are similar or different than spiders. We also made spider hats on Thursday and learned an Itsy Bitsy Spider poem.
• Math: We are working on writing our numbers from 0-5. We are counting and drawing different objects from 0-5. We are also reading graphs and using sorting to help us count different animals or pictures.
• Computer Lab: We continued our Pumpkin pictures from last week. This time we focused on drawing a background for our pumpkin. We remembered to use at least 5 colors, no white space, and we added details to the background.
• Music: Since it was picture day in the MP room, we had music in Room 8. Ms. Disney taught us a Halloween song and told us a Halloween story using variations of a Halloween song.
• Social Studies: For Red Ribbon week, we created a poster for the school about our Healthy Choices. Students got to pick eight different examples of how they stay healthy, and then illustrated these on a poster. The PTO gave each of the students’ a bookmark to celebrate Red Ribbon Week.
• Buddies: We saw our fourth grade buddies on Tuesday. Since it is Halloween, we completed a dice activity where we drew a monster depending on what number we rolled. Our monsters had different eyes, ears, noses, mouths, and shapes.
• Assembly: We had an assembly today by the Wildlife Associates. They brought real live animals – big and small – to our MP room. They taught us many facts about the lives of these different animals!
• Library: There was no library this week since we didn’t have school on Monday. Therefore, I did not send home the homework packet inside the envelope this week. If you haven’t yet, remember to return your library book on Monday so that you can check out another book! Also, in the future, please always keep your library book, journal, and homework packet together inside the envelope. This helps us to keep track of whose book is whose.
Today was our Halloween party and parade! We drew a self-portrait of ourselves in our Halloween costumes and then took a picture for our memory books. We also completed our 2009 Halloween photo frames with a class picture from last week’s pumpkin patch! We also had a treat to eat and some juice to drink. The classroom was decorated this week with pumpkins, bats, scarecrows, spiders, and spiderwebs! Have a safe time trick-or-treating tomorrow evening!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
October 23, 2009
Upcoming Dates
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter B
* Monday, October 26th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Students do not come to school on this day. The teachers will be gathering to receive professional development in math and writing. If you are a Monday sharer (or you didn’t get to share last Thursday or Friday, please bring your sharing in Tuesday, October 27th. Thank you!
* Thursday, October 29th: Picture Day
Students will all be taking their individual pictures on this day. An envelope will be sent home the day before, and you can choose to buy pictures of your child. Please make sure to return the envelopes Thursday morning!!!
* Friday, October 30th: Halloween Schedule - ALL KINDERS COME 10:55am-3:05pm!
You may send your child to school already wearing their Halloween costumes (that way we don’t have to worry about changing clothes). There will be a parade for the entire school after lunchtime from about 1:30pm-2:15pm, and parents are welcome to come during this time. Afterwards, the students will return to the classroom to finish some Halloween activities and have their treat.
* Sunday, November 1st: Daylight Savings Time
Don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour!
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Dear Families,
I am so happy to see the sun still! On Monday, we had a little bit of rain, but fortunately it was not like the stormy day from last week! I’m happy to see that the kids are slowly all returning back to school and staying healthy. Thank you for all the parents who volunteered this week for Traffic Duty before and after school! We really appreciate the help from parents each week.
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts: This week, I started sending home a Literacy Center evaluation sheet. This will help to let you know whether your child has been completing all of the activities or not.
o Star of the Week: Raphael
o Letter of the Week: T
o Story of the Week: Apples, Apples, Apples
o Phonemic Awareness: Blending and Segmenting Letters, Rhymes
o Strategy Focus: Evaluate
o Comprehension: Story Structure: Characters / Setting
o High-Frequency Word: my
o Concepts of Print: Capitalize First Word in Sentence, End Punctuation, Spacing
• Writing: In our journals this week, we wrote about Pumpkins and drew a picture of pumpkins sitting on a fence. We focused on having a capital letter in the beginning, a period at the end, and two-finger spaces between our words. We also practiced spelling the words see and like.
• Science: We finished our Pumpkin, Pumpkin stories this week. The students enjoyed making and reading their books about a pumpkin’s life cycle!
• Math: We continued reviewing the vocabulary words more and less, fewer, and equal. We practiced comparing objects in two groups and sorting.
• Computer Lab: This week, we started our Pumpkin pictures using Kidpix. We practiced using different drawing tools including the oval, rectangle, and curved line tools. We also practiced typing our name with a capital letter in the beginning.
• Art: We saw Mrs. Abada on Tuesday and she taught us a lesson using pastel chalk. We learned how to draw beautiful pumpkins sitting on the grass at night. She taught us about shading and where to draw darker or lighter. They turned out wonderful!
• Library: Thank you to Edison’s mom, who started coming on Mondays to help during library. As you could tell in the homework envelope, this week was the first week we checked out books! Please read the story to your child and then complete one activity in the Take-Home journal. Return everything on Friday. Next week, there is no library since we don’t have school Monday, so we’ll skip the journals until the following week.
Thursday was Enrichment Day for the school. During the entire day, the PTO found different volunteers to present a session to the different grade levels. Kindergarten participated in the following sessions: a dentist taught us about our teeth and how to keep them healthy, a firefighter showed us what to do during a fire emergency, a doctor taught us about our incredible body, and finally, we learned how to fold origami! This was a fun day to learn about our community.
Today was the Pumpkin Patch! I hope everyone had a good time, and thank you again to all the chaperones: Connor’s mom, Keona’s mom, Kumiko’s mom, Leah’s dad, Matthew C.’s mom, and Matthew N.’s mom. Please remember to get a TB test to the office if you would like to chaperone in the future! Thank you as well to Yash’s family and Kumiko’s family for bringing the raisins and juice boxes for the children’s snack. Also, if your child did not get to paint a red shirt, please have him or her bring one to school next week and we will find time for them to paint theirs! Thanks!
Colleen’s mom and Shaunak’s mom are our room mothers. Colleen’s mom, Sue, has kindly set up a Yahoo Group using all of our emails, so that we can communicate with each other as a whole group. If you have not yet, please make sure to “Accept” her Yahoo Group invitation so that you can be a part of the discussions. This week, I used the Yahoo Group to find volunteers, so that was very helpful. Thank you Sue!
One more thank you to Matthew C.’s family, who donated 2 books from the Book Fair: I’m Your Bus and Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully. Thank you for adding to our classroom library! Also, thank you to Kavya who brought in a small pumpkin to share with the class!
Have a great weekend everyone! Enjoy your 3 day weekend and I will see you on Tuesday! Everyone rest and I hope there will be no more absences! It’s been a long time since all 30 of us have been to school together =( Take care!
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter B
* Monday, October 26th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Students do not come to school on this day. The teachers will be gathering to receive professional development in math and writing. If you are a Monday sharer (or you didn’t get to share last Thursday or Friday, please bring your sharing in Tuesday, October 27th. Thank you!
* Thursday, October 29th: Picture Day
Students will all be taking their individual pictures on this day. An envelope will be sent home the day before, and you can choose to buy pictures of your child. Please make sure to return the envelopes Thursday morning!!!
* Friday, October 30th: Halloween Schedule - ALL KINDERS COME 10:55am-3:05pm!
You may send your child to school already wearing their Halloween costumes (that way we don’t have to worry about changing clothes). There will be a parade for the entire school after lunchtime from about 1:30pm-2:15pm, and parents are welcome to come during this time. Afterwards, the students will return to the classroom to finish some Halloween activities and have their treat.
* Sunday, November 1st: Daylight Savings Time
Don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour!
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Dear Families,
I am so happy to see the sun still! On Monday, we had a little bit of rain, but fortunately it was not like the stormy day from last week! I’m happy to see that the kids are slowly all returning back to school and staying healthy. Thank you for all the parents who volunteered this week for Traffic Duty before and after school! We really appreciate the help from parents each week.
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts: This week, I started sending home a Literacy Center evaluation sheet. This will help to let you know whether your child has been completing all of the activities or not.
o Star of the Week: Raphael
o Letter of the Week: T
o Story of the Week: Apples, Apples, Apples
o Phonemic Awareness: Blending and Segmenting Letters, Rhymes
o Strategy Focus: Evaluate
o Comprehension: Story Structure: Characters / Setting
o High-Frequency Word: my
o Concepts of Print: Capitalize First Word in Sentence, End Punctuation, Spacing
• Writing: In our journals this week, we wrote about Pumpkins and drew a picture of pumpkins sitting on a fence. We focused on having a capital letter in the beginning, a period at the end, and two-finger spaces between our words. We also practiced spelling the words see and like.
• Science: We finished our Pumpkin, Pumpkin stories this week. The students enjoyed making and reading their books about a pumpkin’s life cycle!
• Math: We continued reviewing the vocabulary words more and less, fewer, and equal. We practiced comparing objects in two groups and sorting.
• Computer Lab: This week, we started our Pumpkin pictures using Kidpix. We practiced using different drawing tools including the oval, rectangle, and curved line tools. We also practiced typing our name with a capital letter in the beginning.
• Art: We saw Mrs. Abada on Tuesday and she taught us a lesson using pastel chalk. We learned how to draw beautiful pumpkins sitting on the grass at night. She taught us about shading and where to draw darker or lighter. They turned out wonderful!
• Library: Thank you to Edison’s mom, who started coming on Mondays to help during library. As you could tell in the homework envelope, this week was the first week we checked out books! Please read the story to your child and then complete one activity in the Take-Home journal. Return everything on Friday. Next week, there is no library since we don’t have school Monday, so we’ll skip the journals until the following week.
Thursday was Enrichment Day for the school. During the entire day, the PTO found different volunteers to present a session to the different grade levels. Kindergarten participated in the following sessions: a dentist taught us about our teeth and how to keep them healthy, a firefighter showed us what to do during a fire emergency, a doctor taught us about our incredible body, and finally, we learned how to fold origami! This was a fun day to learn about our community.
Today was the Pumpkin Patch! I hope everyone had a good time, and thank you again to all the chaperones: Connor’s mom, Keona’s mom, Kumiko’s mom, Leah’s dad, Matthew C.’s mom, and Matthew N.’s mom. Please remember to get a TB test to the office if you would like to chaperone in the future! Thank you as well to Yash’s family and Kumiko’s family for bringing the raisins and juice boxes for the children’s snack. Also, if your child did not get to paint a red shirt, please have him or her bring one to school next week and we will find time for them to paint theirs! Thanks!
Colleen’s mom and Shaunak’s mom are our room mothers. Colleen’s mom, Sue, has kindly set up a Yahoo Group using all of our emails, so that we can communicate with each other as a whole group. If you have not yet, please make sure to “Accept” her Yahoo Group invitation so that you can be a part of the discussions. This week, I used the Yahoo Group to find volunteers, so that was very helpful. Thank you Sue!
One more thank you to Matthew C.’s family, who donated 2 books from the Book Fair: I’m Your Bus and Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully. Thank you for adding to our classroom library! Also, thank you to Kavya who brought in a small pumpkin to share with the class!
Have a great weekend everyone! Enjoy your 3 day weekend and I will see you on Tuesday! Everyone rest and I hope there will be no more absences! It’s been a long time since all 30 of us have been to school together =( Take care!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
October 16, 2009
Upcoming Dates
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter T
* Monday, October 19th – Friday, October 23rd: Room 8 Traffic Duty
Thank you for those of you who signed up to help with traffic duty during this week. Please go to the office to check in at the time you signed up for to get an orange traffic vest. Also, I have assigned some of you to the Farallone parking lot, so please make sure you know where to help.
* Thursday, October 22nd: Enrichment Day - ALL KINDERS COME 9:00am-12:20pm!
The PTO will be organizing a special Enrichment Day for the whole school. Different parents and volunteers from the community will present special sessions or lead special activities. All kindergarteners will come to school in the AM session. If you are a Thursday sharer, please prepare your sharing on Wednesday the day before, October 21st.
* Friday, October 23rd: Pumpkin Patch Field Trip – ALL KINDERS COME 9:00am-12:20pm!
A permission slip will be going home about this field trip. Please return it ASAP and note if you are able to chaperone. Please remember to dress your child in the RED shirt that we will be decorating next week.
* Monday, October 26th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Students do not come to school on this day. The teachers will be gathering to receive professional development in math and writing.
* Friday, October 30th: Halloween Schedule - ALL KINDERS COME 10:55am-3:05pm!
You may send your child to school already wearing their Halloween costumes (that way we don’t have to worry about changing clothes). There will be a parade for the entire school after lunchtime from about 1:30pm-2:15pm, and parents are welcome to come during this time.
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Dear Families,
Many of us are sick, sick, sick! Unfortunately, I have had a fever since Wednesday and have been sleeping nonstop (except to write substitute plans). The substitute mentioned there were a lot of absences too, so I hope that all of you are resting and getting better soon. On Tuesday this week, it was not only the first rain of the school year, but it was so windy and stormy! In addition, we had a power outage for most of the day. Next time there is a stormy day, please drop off and pick up your child from the other entrance (in the hallway corridor). When it is stormy, the regular door we use is terrible because it lets in so much wind and rain. Thanks.
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts:
o Star of the Week: Michael
o Letter of the Week: R
o Story of the Week: How the Birds Got Their Colors
o Phonemic Awareness: Beginning Sounds, Words in Oral Sentences
o Strategy Focus: Summarize, Predict /Infer
o Comprehension: Inferences: Making Predictions, Sequence Events
o High-Frequency Word: I, see
o Concepts of Print: Capitalize First Word in Sentence, End Punctuation
• Writing: In our journals this week, we wrote about Fall and drew pictures that reminded us of the Fall season. We focused on having a capital letter in the beginning, a period at the end, and two-finger spaces between our words.
• Science: This week we read a lot of stories about the life cycle of pumpkins. We are making a Pumpkin book that teaches us about how pumpkins grow. Ask your children to tell you how a pumpkin starts growing!
• Math: We talked about the vocabulary words same and equal, more, less and fewer. We compared different groups to see which group had more or less. Also, we practiced identifying and writing the numbers 1-3.
• Computer Lab: This week, those students who did not finish their pattern papers worked on completing theirs. The rest of the class went to Starfall to listen to stories and play games.
Have a great weekend everyone! I hope to see you all on Monday.
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter T
* Monday, October 19th – Friday, October 23rd: Room 8 Traffic Duty
Thank you for those of you who signed up to help with traffic duty during this week. Please go to the office to check in at the time you signed up for to get an orange traffic vest. Also, I have assigned some of you to the Farallone parking lot, so please make sure you know where to help.
* Thursday, October 22nd: Enrichment Day - ALL KINDERS COME 9:00am-12:20pm!
The PTO will be organizing a special Enrichment Day for the whole school. Different parents and volunteers from the community will present special sessions or lead special activities. All kindergarteners will come to school in the AM session. If you are a Thursday sharer, please prepare your sharing on Wednesday the day before, October 21st.
* Friday, October 23rd: Pumpkin Patch Field Trip – ALL KINDERS COME 9:00am-12:20pm!
A permission slip will be going home about this field trip. Please return it ASAP and note if you are able to chaperone. Please remember to dress your child in the RED shirt that we will be decorating next week.
* Monday, October 26th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Students do not come to school on this day. The teachers will be gathering to receive professional development in math and writing.
* Friday, October 30th: Halloween Schedule - ALL KINDERS COME 10:55am-3:05pm!
You may send your child to school already wearing their Halloween costumes (that way we don’t have to worry about changing clothes). There will be a parade for the entire school after lunchtime from about 1:30pm-2:15pm, and parents are welcome to come during this time.
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Dear Families,
Many of us are sick, sick, sick! Unfortunately, I have had a fever since Wednesday and have been sleeping nonstop (except to write substitute plans). The substitute mentioned there were a lot of absences too, so I hope that all of you are resting and getting better soon. On Tuesday this week, it was not only the first rain of the school year, but it was so windy and stormy! In addition, we had a power outage for most of the day. Next time there is a stormy day, please drop off and pick up your child from the other entrance (in the hallway corridor). When it is stormy, the regular door we use is terrible because it lets in so much wind and rain. Thanks.
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts:
o Star of the Week: Michael
o Letter of the Week: R
o Story of the Week: How the Birds Got Their Colors
o Phonemic Awareness: Beginning Sounds, Words in Oral Sentences
o Strategy Focus: Summarize, Predict /Infer
o Comprehension: Inferences: Making Predictions, Sequence Events
o High-Frequency Word: I, see
o Concepts of Print: Capitalize First Word in Sentence, End Punctuation
• Writing: In our journals this week, we wrote about Fall and drew pictures that reminded us of the Fall season. We focused on having a capital letter in the beginning, a period at the end, and two-finger spaces between our words.
• Science: This week we read a lot of stories about the life cycle of pumpkins. We are making a Pumpkin book that teaches us about how pumpkins grow. Ask your children to tell you how a pumpkin starts growing!
• Math: We talked about the vocabulary words same and equal, more, less and fewer. We compared different groups to see which group had more or less. Also, we practiced identifying and writing the numbers 1-3.
• Computer Lab: This week, those students who did not finish their pattern papers worked on completing theirs. The rest of the class went to Starfall to listen to stories and play games.
Have a great weekend everyone! I hope to see you all on Monday.
Friday, October 09, 2009
October 9, 2009
Upcoming Dates
*** Wow! There’s a LOT coming up in the next few weeks…write these dates down!***
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter R
* Tuesday, October 13th: Family Book Fair Night in Library 6:00pm – 8:00pm
The Eaton library will be open this evening for families to come look at different books from Scholastic. You can browse and purchase books that you like.
* Friday, October 16th: Bring a Red T-shirt to School
We will be decorating our Kindergarten Field Trip Red Shirts. Please note: If your child does not bring a shirt on this day, he or she will not be able to make up the activity (he/she will just wear a plain red t-shirt on future trips).
1) Please get a plain, red T-shirt (no words or pictures on the front or back, and make sure it is a regular cotton T-shirt, not a polo or fancy material shirt).
2) Write your child’s name on the tag inside (label, label, label)!
3) Please pre-wash your child’s shirt. It will be easier to decorate on if it has already been through the wash.
* Monday, October 19th – Friday, October 23rd: Room 8 Traffic Duty
Thank you for those of you who signed up to help with traffic duty during this week. Please go to the office to check in at the time noted below to get an orange traffic vest. Also, I have assigned some of you to the Farallone parking lot, so please make sure you know where to help. If you have not signed up for a slot, please let me know if you can help out in any of the open slots!
SUISUN PARKING LOT
Monday 10/19 Tuesday 10/20 Wednesday 10/21 Thursday 10/22 Friday 10/23
8:45am-9:05am Chris’ Father Antoine Raux Shaunak’s Mother Haksoon Lee Anna Lin
2:25pm-2:40pm Jane Lau
3:00pm-3:15pm Sue Ranney
FARALLONE PARKING LOT
Monday 10/19 Tuesday 10/20 Wednesday 10/21 Thursday 10/22 Friday 10/23
8:45am-9:05am Baixin Qian Haksoon Lee Bruno Tourette Aditya’s Mother
2:25pm-2:40pm
3:00pm-3:15pm
* Thursday, October 22nd: Enrichment Day - ALL KINDERS COME 9:00am-12:20pm!
The PTO will be organizing a special Enrichment Day for the whole school. Different parents and volunteers from the community will present special sessions or lead special activities. All kindergarteners will come to school in the AM session. If you are a Thursday sharer, please prepare your sharing on Wednesday the day before, October 21st.
* Friday, October 23rd: Pumpkin Patch Field Trip – ALL KINDERS COME 9:00am-12:20pm!
A permission slip will be going home about this field trip. Please return it ASAP and note if you are able to chaperone. Please remember to dress your child in the RED shirt that we will be decorating next week.
* Monday, October 26th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Students do not come to school on this day. The teachers will be gathering to receive professional development in math and writing.
* Friday, October 30th: Halloween Schedule - ALL KINDERS COME 10:55am-3:05pm!
You may send your child to school already wearing their Halloween costumes (that way we don’t have to worry about changing clothes). There will be a parade for the entire school after lunchtime from about 1:30pm-2:15pm, and parents are welcome to come during this time. Our room parents will be contacting all of you in the next few weeks to ask for donations for our Halloween party.
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Dear Families,
Thank you everyone for coming to your conference appointment this week. I always enjoy speaking with each of you one-on-one and getting to know your child better. I hope that the conference was helpful to let you know how your child is doing in Kindergarten so far. In December, you will receive your child’s first Progress Report, which will record your child’s grades for this first trimester. We are having a great year! I was pleased to read the notes from the substitute. She enjoyed the class very much and even bought 4 books from the Book Fair to donate to our class!
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts:
o Star of the Week: Kavya
o Letter of the Week: M
o Listening Center: A Fine, Fine School
o Story of the Week: In the Big, Blue Sea and Caps of Many Colors
o Phonemic Awareness: Beginning Sounds, Words in Oral Sentences
o Strategy Focus: Summarize
o Comprehension: Inferences: Making Predictions
o High-Frequency Word: I, see
o Concepts of Print: Capitalize First Word in Sentence, End Punctuation
• Science: We continued talking about Fall. This week we learned the five senses: see, hear, touch, feel, and taste. We brainstormed different things in Fall that we can sense. We wrote these ideas on a leaf shaped pattern, and then decorated the writing with fall colored torn paper such as red, yellow, and orange.
• Art: On Friday, we worked with Ms. Shyama on a neat tissue paper apple mosaic. We also completed our October quilt squares using purple and orange AB patterns. We also made orange pumpkins!
• Math: This week we finished up our chapter on patterns and shapes, and started the next chapter. We read the next mini-book story about Animals on the Farm and learned some more vocabulary words such as more, less, fewer, most, etc.
• Computer Lab: We tried a new software program this week called Kidspiration. Kidspiration is usually used for brainstorming maps, but it has nice other features such as picture icons and shapes. This week, we completed a pattern activity where we identified and finished the pattern on the template.
• Buddies: We saw our fourth grade buddies in Ms. Allen’s class on Tuesday during overlap. We finished our books from Me on the Map.
Have a wonderful weekend! Things are getting busy, busy, busy!!! Be sure to check out the “Classwork” section of our website! I have updated 4 different computer projects that we did this past month! Enjoy!!!
*** Wow! There’s a LOT coming up in the next few weeks…write these dates down!***
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter R
* Tuesday, October 13th: Family Book Fair Night in Library 6:00pm – 8:00pm
The Eaton library will be open this evening for families to come look at different books from Scholastic. You can browse and purchase books that you like.
* Friday, October 16th: Bring a Red T-shirt to School
We will be decorating our Kindergarten Field Trip Red Shirts. Please note: If your child does not bring a shirt on this day, he or she will not be able to make up the activity (he/she will just wear a plain red t-shirt on future trips).
1) Please get a plain, red T-shirt (no words or pictures on the front or back, and make sure it is a regular cotton T-shirt, not a polo or fancy material shirt).
2) Write your child’s name on the tag inside (label, label, label)!
3) Please pre-wash your child’s shirt. It will be easier to decorate on if it has already been through the wash.
* Monday, October 19th – Friday, October 23rd: Room 8 Traffic Duty
Thank you for those of you who signed up to help with traffic duty during this week. Please go to the office to check in at the time noted below to get an orange traffic vest. Also, I have assigned some of you to the Farallone parking lot, so please make sure you know where to help. If you have not signed up for a slot, please let me know if you can help out in any of the open slots!
SUISUN PARKING LOT
Monday 10/19 Tuesday 10/20 Wednesday 10/21 Thursday 10/22 Friday 10/23
8:45am-9:05am Chris’ Father Antoine Raux Shaunak’s Mother Haksoon Lee Anna Lin
2:25pm-2:40pm Jane Lau
3:00pm-3:15pm Sue Ranney
FARALLONE PARKING LOT
Monday 10/19 Tuesday 10/20 Wednesday 10/21 Thursday 10/22 Friday 10/23
8:45am-9:05am Baixin Qian Haksoon Lee Bruno Tourette Aditya’s Mother
2:25pm-2:40pm
3:00pm-3:15pm
* Thursday, October 22nd: Enrichment Day - ALL KINDERS COME 9:00am-12:20pm!
The PTO will be organizing a special Enrichment Day for the whole school. Different parents and volunteers from the community will present special sessions or lead special activities. All kindergarteners will come to school in the AM session. If you are a Thursday sharer, please prepare your sharing on Wednesday the day before, October 21st.
* Friday, October 23rd: Pumpkin Patch Field Trip – ALL KINDERS COME 9:00am-12:20pm!
A permission slip will be going home about this field trip. Please return it ASAP and note if you are able to chaperone. Please remember to dress your child in the RED shirt that we will be decorating next week.
* Monday, October 26th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Students do not come to school on this day. The teachers will be gathering to receive professional development in math and writing.
* Friday, October 30th: Halloween Schedule - ALL KINDERS COME 10:55am-3:05pm!
You may send your child to school already wearing their Halloween costumes (that way we don’t have to worry about changing clothes). There will be a parade for the entire school after lunchtime from about 1:30pm-2:15pm, and parents are welcome to come during this time. Our room parents will be contacting all of you in the next few weeks to ask for donations for our Halloween party.
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Dear Families,
Thank you everyone for coming to your conference appointment this week. I always enjoy speaking with each of you one-on-one and getting to know your child better. I hope that the conference was helpful to let you know how your child is doing in Kindergarten so far. In December, you will receive your child’s first Progress Report, which will record your child’s grades for this first trimester. We are having a great year! I was pleased to read the notes from the substitute. She enjoyed the class very much and even bought 4 books from the Book Fair to donate to our class!
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts:
o Star of the Week: Kavya
o Letter of the Week: M
o Listening Center: A Fine, Fine School
o Story of the Week: In the Big, Blue Sea and Caps of Many Colors
o Phonemic Awareness: Beginning Sounds, Words in Oral Sentences
o Strategy Focus: Summarize
o Comprehension: Inferences: Making Predictions
o High-Frequency Word: I, see
o Concepts of Print: Capitalize First Word in Sentence, End Punctuation
• Science: We continued talking about Fall. This week we learned the five senses: see, hear, touch, feel, and taste. We brainstormed different things in Fall that we can sense. We wrote these ideas on a leaf shaped pattern, and then decorated the writing with fall colored torn paper such as red, yellow, and orange.
• Art: On Friday, we worked with Ms. Shyama on a neat tissue paper apple mosaic. We also completed our October quilt squares using purple and orange AB patterns. We also made orange pumpkins!
• Math: This week we finished up our chapter on patterns and shapes, and started the next chapter. We read the next mini-book story about Animals on the Farm and learned some more vocabulary words such as more, less, fewer, most, etc.
• Computer Lab: We tried a new software program this week called Kidspiration. Kidspiration is usually used for brainstorming maps, but it has nice other features such as picture icons and shapes. This week, we completed a pattern activity where we identified and finished the pattern on the template.
• Buddies: We saw our fourth grade buddies in Ms. Allen’s class on Tuesday during overlap. We finished our books from Me on the Map.
Have a wonderful weekend! Things are getting busy, busy, busy!!! Be sure to check out the “Classwork” section of our website! I have updated 4 different computer projects that we did this past month! Enjoy!!!
Friday, October 02, 2009
October 2, 2009
Upcoming Dates
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter M.
* Monday, October 5th: October Book Orders Due
Last week, we sent home the October Book Orders. Please look over the books and if you would like to purchase books, please return the form to me with ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs, or purchase them online at www.scholastic.com/bookclubs (User Name: Beebear, Password: MrsYu – no spaces or period).
* Monday, October 5th – Tuesday, October 13th: Parent Conferences
Please be on time! I only have 20 minutes with each of you, so I will try my best to start and end on time. Please note that I may have to stop in the middle of a conversation if our time is reached. Thank you for your understanding. Remember, I will be meeting with each of you in the UPPER GRADE WING – CONFERENCE ROOM (Next to Room 17). I will keep the door closed while I am conferencing, so please wait outside if you are early. I will open the door when it is your time to meet. Thank you!
* Friday, October 16th: Bring a Red T-shirt to School
We will be decorating our Kindergarten Field Trip Red Shirts. Please note: If your child does not bring a shirt on this day, he or she will not be able to make up the activity (he/she will just wear a plain red t-shirt on future trips).
1) Please get a plain, red T-shirt (no words or pictures on the front or back, and make sure it is a regular cotton T-shirt, not a polo or fancy material shirt).
2) Write your child’s name on the tag inside (label, label, label)!
3) Please pre-wash your child’s shirt. It will be easier to decorate on if it has already been through the wash.
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Dear Families,
I purchased a domain name for my classroom website, so now you can just go to:
WWW.MRSYU.COM (easy to remember!)
Thank you for turning in the large homework envelopes today! Remember homework will go home every Monday and has to be returned inside the envelope on Friday. I apologize that this week, the AM class didn’t take their homework home until Tuesday (Mrs. Yu forgot on Monday!). Usually, it will be sent home Mondays. Also, your child should have brought home the October Homework checklist this week. Please complete the activities with your child sometime during the month. Thank you for turning in the September homework!
Here are some highlights for the week:
o Letter of the Week: S
o Listening Center: Chicka Chicka Boom Book
o Story of the Week: I Went Walking, What’s My Favorite Color?
o Phonemic Awareness: Beginning Sounds, Words in Oral Sentences
o Strategy Focus: Predict and Infer
o Comprehension: Sequence Events
o High-Frequency Word: I
o Concepts of Print: Capitalize First Word in Sentence, End Punctuation
• Language Arts: This week, we started our literacy centers with the first letter of the week, S. Literacy centers include reviewing the S sound, how to write a proper uppercase and lowercase S, vocabulary words starting with S, rhyming words, songs with the sss sound, puzzles, hidden pictures, and illustrating S words on the computer. We also rotate through listening center where we listen to the story of the week and write or draw about our favorite part. Another activity we do is writing journals. The topic for this week was “Your Favorite Color.” Every week, your child will bring home extra pages from our workbook similar to homework pages (these are finished activities). They may or may not be finished, so you can do them at home.
• Science: We continued learning about apples this week. We learned a poem about an apple core, and we made an art project using tearing. This is a good skill, especially for those children who have snacks they need to tear open everyday! Also, we began talking about the seasons. We are learning a song about the seasons, and exploring Fall.
• Math: We continued patterns this week and finished Chapter 6. We also completed a pattern and counting activity during Friday Centers where the students made a colored pattern using apple cut outs. We practiced writing our numbers too.
• Computer Lab: We continued our apple tree illustrations this week. Most students finished their pictures and we were able to print them out. We improved on independently opening up our files from our folders on the computer!
• Music: We saw Ms. Disney again this week! Thank you to Shaunak and Woojin’s mothers, as well as
Leah’s father, who are volunteering to help with management during music time.
• Library: During the next two weeks (Oct. 5 – Oct. 14), we will not have library time because Mrs. Glass will be setting up the library for the Book Fair. You are welcome to stop by the book fair anytime before or after school with your child to browse for books. There will also be a family night on October 13th from 6:00-8:00pm. This is a great opportunity for you to purchase books for your child (especially if you want to look at the books beforehand). On October 19th, we will begin checking out books during our weekly library visits. The library books will be added into your child’s homework envelope, along with their Take Home Journals.
Next week, our substitute teacher will be Mrs. Kotite on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. I am always nervous about being away from the kids, but I am hopeful that they will all be on their best behavior each day. Please remind your children to follow the same classroom rules and to try their best. I will ask Mrs. Kotite to leave a note for me each day about how the day went. Hopefully, it will be all great news! In addition, I will still have her follow my normal routine, but please be aware that she is unfamiliar with our classroom procedures and some evaluations may not be directly from me (i.e. sharing evaluation or classwork). Thank you for your understanding!
PTO is still looking for Enrichment Day volunteers on Thursday, October 22nd from 9:00am-12:25pm. Please contact PTO if you are interested in helping with the Kindergarten activities.
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter M.
* Monday, October 5th: October Book Orders Due
Last week, we sent home the October Book Orders. Please look over the books and if you would like to purchase books, please return the form to me with ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs, or purchase them online at www.scholastic.com/bookclubs (User Name: Beebear, Password: MrsYu – no spaces or period).
* Monday, October 5th – Tuesday, October 13th: Parent Conferences
Please be on time! I only have 20 minutes with each of you, so I will try my best to start and end on time. Please note that I may have to stop in the middle of a conversation if our time is reached. Thank you for your understanding. Remember, I will be meeting with each of you in the UPPER GRADE WING – CONFERENCE ROOM (Next to Room 17). I will keep the door closed while I am conferencing, so please wait outside if you are early. I will open the door when it is your time to meet. Thank you!
* Friday, October 16th: Bring a Red T-shirt to School
We will be decorating our Kindergarten Field Trip Red Shirts. Please note: If your child does not bring a shirt on this day, he or she will not be able to make up the activity (he/she will just wear a plain red t-shirt on future trips).
1) Please get a plain, red T-shirt (no words or pictures on the front or back, and make sure it is a regular cotton T-shirt, not a polo or fancy material shirt).
2) Write your child’s name on the tag inside (label, label, label)!
3) Please pre-wash your child’s shirt. It will be easier to decorate on if it has already been through the wash.
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Dear Families,
I purchased a domain name for my classroom website, so now you can just go to:
WWW.MRSYU.COM (easy to remember!)
Thank you for turning in the large homework envelopes today! Remember homework will go home every Monday and has to be returned inside the envelope on Friday. I apologize that this week, the AM class didn’t take their homework home until Tuesday (Mrs. Yu forgot on Monday!). Usually, it will be sent home Mondays. Also, your child should have brought home the October Homework checklist this week. Please complete the activities with your child sometime during the month. Thank you for turning in the September homework!
Here are some highlights for the week:
o Letter of the Week: S
o Listening Center: Chicka Chicka Boom Book
o Story of the Week: I Went Walking, What’s My Favorite Color?
o Phonemic Awareness: Beginning Sounds, Words in Oral Sentences
o Strategy Focus: Predict and Infer
o Comprehension: Sequence Events
o High-Frequency Word: I
o Concepts of Print: Capitalize First Word in Sentence, End Punctuation
• Language Arts: This week, we started our literacy centers with the first letter of the week, S. Literacy centers include reviewing the S sound, how to write a proper uppercase and lowercase S, vocabulary words starting with S, rhyming words, songs with the sss sound, puzzles, hidden pictures, and illustrating S words on the computer. We also rotate through listening center where we listen to the story of the week and write or draw about our favorite part. Another activity we do is writing journals. The topic for this week was “Your Favorite Color.” Every week, your child will bring home extra pages from our workbook similar to homework pages (these are finished activities). They may or may not be finished, so you can do them at home.
• Science: We continued learning about apples this week. We learned a poem about an apple core, and we made an art project using tearing. This is a good skill, especially for those children who have snacks they need to tear open everyday! Also, we began talking about the seasons. We are learning a song about the seasons, and exploring Fall.
• Math: We continued patterns this week and finished Chapter 6. We also completed a pattern and counting activity during Friday Centers where the students made a colored pattern using apple cut outs. We practiced writing our numbers too.
• Computer Lab: We continued our apple tree illustrations this week. Most students finished their pictures and we were able to print them out. We improved on independently opening up our files from our folders on the computer!
• Music: We saw Ms. Disney again this week! Thank you to Shaunak and Woojin’s mothers, as well as
Leah’s father, who are volunteering to help with management during music time.
• Library: During the next two weeks (Oct. 5 – Oct. 14), we will not have library time because Mrs. Glass will be setting up the library for the Book Fair. You are welcome to stop by the book fair anytime before or after school with your child to browse for books. There will also be a family night on October 13th from 6:00-8:00pm. This is a great opportunity for you to purchase books for your child (especially if you want to look at the books beforehand). On October 19th, we will begin checking out books during our weekly library visits. The library books will be added into your child’s homework envelope, along with their Take Home Journals.
Next week, our substitute teacher will be Mrs. Kotite on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. I am always nervous about being away from the kids, but I am hopeful that they will all be on their best behavior each day. Please remind your children to follow the same classroom rules and to try their best. I will ask Mrs. Kotite to leave a note for me each day about how the day went. Hopefully, it will be all great news! In addition, I will still have her follow my normal routine, but please be aware that she is unfamiliar with our classroom procedures and some evaluations may not be directly from me (i.e. sharing evaluation or classwork). Thank you for your understanding!
PTO is still looking for Enrichment Day volunteers on Thursday, October 22nd from 9:00am-12:25pm. Please contact PTO if you are interested in helping with the Kindergarten activities.
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