Upcoming Dates
* Monday, November 23rd and Tuesday, November 24th: Short Week of School
Since we only have school for 2 days next week, there will be no sharing, no homework, and no library journals. In fact, your child doesn’t need to bring his or her backpack or his or her daily folder. All they need is their snack or lunch for both days. Thanks!
* Wednesday, November 25th to Friday, November 27th: NO SCHOOL
Have a wonderful five-day weekend to celebrate Thanksgiving. Gobble gobble!
* Monday, November 30th: December Scholastic Book Orders 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!
* Tuesday, December 1st: November Monthly Homework Due
I will send home the December monthly homework in Monday’s homework envelope.
* Friday, December 4th: Report Cards Go Home
I will send home your child’s progress report for the first trimester of school. Please keep the progress report at home and return the envelope to school. Thank you!
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Dear Families,
On Monday, we had a Disaster Drill in the afternoon. We practiced what would happen if there was a big earthquake. We even had scenarios to follow such as injuries, blocked doors, or missing students. I am on the Search and Rescue team, and we practiced searching all the buildings on campus and bringing the “injured” people to First Aid. I had to wear a hard hat, vest, and gloves, and carried a walkie talkie to communicate with the Command Center. This is a great opportunity for the staff and students to review our emergency duties and to rehearse them. The whole drill took about an hour, which the afternoon class participated in.
Remember that in the case of a real emergency, please check your home first before coming to Eaton. When you arrive at Eaton, you must have identification on you (i.e. license) in order to release your child. Also, we can only release students to parents or the emergency contact person you designated on the Health Card from the first day of school. This is obviously for safety and liability reasons. Overall, the drill was stressful and crazy, but a success!
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts:
o Star of the Week: Shaunak
o Letter of the Week: V
o Story of the Week: Where the Wild Things Are
o Phonemic Awareness: Blending and Segmenting Onset and Rime, Blending Phonemes
o Strategy Focus: Predict / Infer
o Comprehension: Cause and Effect
o High-Frequency Word: a, to
o Concepts of Print: Word Spacing, Matching Spoken Words to Print
• Writing: This week we tried to answer a question in our journals all by ourselves. The question was, “What do you like to eat?” Each student was asked to write the answer to the question in a complete sentence. They were allowed to use the Word Wall Words to help them spell words. Afterwards, we came together as a class to see if we answered the question correctly. Many students only wrote “pizza” or “ice cream” or whatever the food they liked was, instead of a complete sentence. Other students forgot the capital letters, spaces, or periods. Some students remembered everything they need in a complete sentence! We worked together on the white board to correctly answer the question with: “I like to eat ___.”
• Math: We continued talking about numbers, specifically 6 and 7 this week. We practiced counting up to 6 and 7 using different number combinations, and we worked on counting forwards and backwards using pictures or words. I also introduced math sentences this week. We learned how math sentences are made up of numbers and symbols such as plus and equals. We practiced different math sentences that equaled 6 or 7.
• Social Studies: This week we learned a lot about the history of Thanksgiving. We read many stories about the Pilgrims and Native Americans. We learned how the Pilgrims came to America in a boat called the Mayflower, and how the Native Americans shared their knowledge of how to grow food and take care of the Earth. We talked about the meaning of Thanksgiving, and how the Pilgrims and Native Americans ate a big feast together. We are still working on our Thanksgiving stories.
• Assembly: We had an assembly today by the Banana Slug Band. The topic of the assembly was Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. They taught us about how we can help to take care of the environment and the Earth using music!
• Art: We saw Ms. Abada on Tuesday this week! She taught a lesson using the book "Where the Wild Things Are". She read the book and talked about opposites. She asked them, "What is the opposite of a scary monster?" Students made pictures using hand torn construction paper. On one side we made a monster and the other side was an "opposite of a monster.”
• Computer Lab: We finished our Turkey drawings in Kidpix that we had started 2 weeks ago. These drawings go with our “Here is a Turkey” poem, about a turkey running away from the farmer. Last time we made the turkey, and this time we learned how to draw a nice background such as a barn and a fence.
Next week is a very short week, so no sharing, homework, or library! Instead of library on Monday during overlap, we will be having our make-up music session with Ms. Disney since she was absent last week. We will also be finishing our Thanksgiving stories, and we will be making a Thanksgiving mat with our buddies! Finally, we will have our November treat, which will be pumpkin pie! Many students have not tasted the traditional dessert for Thanksgiving, and we will each have a slice to taste. Please let me know if your child is allergic or cannot have any. Thank you to the families who are donating the treats for this month. One more donation request: we need more small band-aids (not the regular size). If you find a box somewhere that sells the small size, we would love to have them! Thanks!
Friday, November 20, 2009
Friday, November 13, 2009
November 13, 2009
Upcoming Dates
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter V
* 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,
Our turkey looks beautiful! Thank you for spending time with your child this past week to create unique and colorful feathers for our turkey! I have uploaded the November class decorations on the “Photos” section of our website. Take a look at our class turkey, as well as some of the other projects we have done so far!
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts: We didn’t get to finish our computer dictionary letters this week since we didn’t have school on Wednesday. We will make them up next week.
o Star of the Week: Sean
o Letter of the Week: H
o Story of the Week: The Accidental Zucchini
o Phonemic Awareness: Blending and Segmenting Onset and Rime, Blending Phonemes
o Strategy Focus: Question
o Comprehension: Text Organization and Summarizing
o High-Frequency Word: a
o Concepts of Print: Word Spacing, First Letter in a Written Word
• Writing: In our journals this week, we wrote about how many family members we have. We counted the number of people in our families and talked about the difference between our immediate family and our extended family.
• Math: We practiced our numbers from 0-10. We also took an assessment test on Monday that reviewed everything we’ve learned so far in Kindergarten, including patterns, shapes, sorting, math vocabulary, and graphs.
• Social Studies: In addition to talking about Thanksgiving, we have been focusing on family this week. We read the story, Shoes From Grandpa, and talked about our families. We also talked more about turkeys and learned what Indian corn looks like.
• Assembly: We had an assembly today by the Dairy Council. We met Leona the Cow and learned about nutrition and healthy living.
• Music: The music teacher was sick on Thursday so our music was cancelled.
• Buddies: On Tuesday, we made a turkey using our hands and feet! We traced our feet on brown paper to make the turkey’s body, and then we traced our hands on colorful paper to make the turkey feathers!
• PE: We practiced jumping, hopping, and skipping this week!
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter V
* 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,
Our turkey looks beautiful! Thank you for spending time with your child this past week to create unique and colorful feathers for our turkey! I have uploaded the November class decorations on the “Photos” section of our website. Take a look at our class turkey, as well as some of the other projects we have done so far!
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts: We didn’t get to finish our computer dictionary letters this week since we didn’t have school on Wednesday. We will make them up next week.
o Star of the Week: Sean
o Letter of the Week: H
o Story of the Week: The Accidental Zucchini
o Phonemic Awareness: Blending and Segmenting Onset and Rime, Blending Phonemes
o Strategy Focus: Question
o Comprehension: Text Organization and Summarizing
o High-Frequency Word: a
o Concepts of Print: Word Spacing, First Letter in a Written Word
• Writing: In our journals this week, we wrote about how many family members we have. We counted the number of people in our families and talked about the difference between our immediate family and our extended family.
• Math: We practiced our numbers from 0-10. We also took an assessment test on Monday that reviewed everything we’ve learned so far in Kindergarten, including patterns, shapes, sorting, math vocabulary, and graphs.
• Social Studies: In addition to talking about Thanksgiving, we have been focusing on family this week. We read the story, Shoes From Grandpa, and talked about our families. We also talked more about turkeys and learned what Indian corn looks like.
• Assembly: We had an assembly today by the Dairy Council. We met Leona the Cow and learned about nutrition and healthy living.
• Music: The music teacher was sick on Thursday so our music was cancelled.
• Buddies: On Tuesday, we made a turkey using our hands and feet! We traced our feet on brown paper to make the turkey’s body, and then we traced our hands on colorful paper to make the turkey feathers!
• PE: We practiced jumping, hopping, and skipping this week!
Friday, November 06, 2009
November 6, 2009
Upcoming Dates
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter H
* 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 received a large posterboard with a drawing of a large feather. Please read the directions that were 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! If you are a Wednesday sharer, please share on Tuesday or Thursday next week!
* 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,
I’ve been updating the website every week with our weekly newsletters, random thoughts, computer lab classwork, and photos. If you haven’t been already, please take a look at our website from time to time and check out our latest news! I added “Photos” from our classroom from the month of October, as well as “Classwork” from our letter dictionaries and computer lab projects. Star of the Week is also updated weekly under “Classwork.” Enjoy!
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts:
o Star of the Week: Edison
o Letter of the Week: N
o Story of the Week: Lunch
o Phonemic Awareness: Blending and Segmenting Letters, Rhymes
o Strategy Focus: Evaluate, Summarize
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: In our journals this week, we wrote about things we like in our classroom. We used the high-frequency words we have been learning to help us write our sentences, and we made sure to have good capital letters, spaces, and punctuation in our sentences. This week, we also did a writing activity from a turkey’s point of view. We described ourselves as turkeys and wrote our names, our age, what we liked to eat, play, and the colors of our feathers. Afterwards, we illustrated our turkeys!
• Science: We have been continuing to talk about the seasons. We used fall colors to make a pattern around our November quilt squares. We also are learning about trees and how the trees and leaves are changing.
• Math: We are continuing to work on our numbers from 0 to 5. We reviewed the terms: more than, less than, and equal, and also made ABCD patterns for our quilt squares.
• Computer Lab: We started our November Kidpix pictures this week by learning a poem called, “Here is a Turkey.” Today we worked on the first part of our picture by making the turkey. We talked about the details we have to add to a turkey’s body and a turkey’s face, and we made rainbow feathers.
• Social Studies: During the month of November, we are talking about the meaning of Thanksgiving. We read a story called, “Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks.” It gave different examples of things we should be thankful for everyday. This week, we each took turns to share something that we are thankful for in our lives. We talked about how we take certain things for granted, such as that one day where we had no power at school! We learned how we are actually very lucky to have the simple things in life!
• Assembly: We had an assembly today by the Zun Zun Presenters. They celebrate the environment and culture through music. The topic for today was “Watershed Watch” and we learned about how polluted water is traveling through our drains and to the Bay.
• Library: Remember to turn in your Homework folders every Friday with the library book and journal inside! Students cannot check out a new book if they did not bring their old books back! Thank you!
• Art: We have been reading many stories about scarecrows this week. We took a picture making our scariest face, and then we made our own scarecrows using wallpaper and newspaper. These turned out great!
We are trying to improve our Traffic situation in the Suisun Bus Circle due to a recent accident in our community. All parents need to either park their cars on the street and walk their child on the sidewalk, or drop off your child in the bus circle. If you are walking, please use the sidewalk and do not cross through the middle of the parking lot. If you are driving, please do not leave a parked car or leave your car unattended in the bus circle at any time (this is specifically for AM kids who get picked up at 12:20pm). If you have a child that gets picked up by an after-school program, please pass along this message as well. They cannot park their car in the bus circle because it stops the flow of traffic. Thank you for your help!
Have a wonderful weekend!
* Next Week’s Sharing: Something that starts with the letter H
* 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 received a large posterboard with a drawing of a large feather. Please read the directions that were 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! If you are a Wednesday sharer, please share on Tuesday or Thursday next week!
* 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,
I’ve been updating the website every week with our weekly newsletters, random thoughts, computer lab classwork, and photos. If you haven’t been already, please take a look at our website from time to time and check out our latest news! I added “Photos” from our classroom from the month of October, as well as “Classwork” from our letter dictionaries and computer lab projects. Star of the Week is also updated weekly under “Classwork.” Enjoy!
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Language Arts:
o Star of the Week: Edison
o Letter of the Week: N
o Story of the Week: Lunch
o Phonemic Awareness: Blending and Segmenting Letters, Rhymes
o Strategy Focus: Evaluate, Summarize
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: In our journals this week, we wrote about things we like in our classroom. We used the high-frequency words we have been learning to help us write our sentences, and we made sure to have good capital letters, spaces, and punctuation in our sentences. This week, we also did a writing activity from a turkey’s point of view. We described ourselves as turkeys and wrote our names, our age, what we liked to eat, play, and the colors of our feathers. Afterwards, we illustrated our turkeys!
• Science: We have been continuing to talk about the seasons. We used fall colors to make a pattern around our November quilt squares. We also are learning about trees and how the trees and leaves are changing.
• Math: We are continuing to work on our numbers from 0 to 5. We reviewed the terms: more than, less than, and equal, and also made ABCD patterns for our quilt squares.
• Computer Lab: We started our November Kidpix pictures this week by learning a poem called, “Here is a Turkey.” Today we worked on the first part of our picture by making the turkey. We talked about the details we have to add to a turkey’s body and a turkey’s face, and we made rainbow feathers.
• Social Studies: During the month of November, we are talking about the meaning of Thanksgiving. We read a story called, “Thanksgiving is for Giving Thanks.” It gave different examples of things we should be thankful for everyday. This week, we each took turns to share something that we are thankful for in our lives. We talked about how we take certain things for granted, such as that one day where we had no power at school! We learned how we are actually very lucky to have the simple things in life!
• Assembly: We had an assembly today by the Zun Zun Presenters. They celebrate the environment and culture through music. The topic for today was “Watershed Watch” and we learned about how polluted water is traveling through our drains and to the Bay.
• Library: Remember to turn in your Homework folders every Friday with the library book and journal inside! Students cannot check out a new book if they did not bring their old books back! Thank you!
• Art: We have been reading many stories about scarecrows this week. We took a picture making our scariest face, and then we made our own scarecrows using wallpaper and newspaper. These turned out great!
We are trying to improve our Traffic situation in the Suisun Bus Circle due to a recent accident in our community. All parents need to either park their cars on the street and walk their child on the sidewalk, or drop off your child in the bus circle. If you are walking, please use the sidewalk and do not cross through the middle of the parking lot. If you are driving, please do not leave a parked car or leave your car unattended in the bus circle at any time (this is specifically for AM kids who get picked up at 12:20pm). If you have a child that gets picked up by an after-school program, please pass along this message as well. They cannot park their car in the bus circle because it stops the flow of traffic. Thank you for your help!
Have a wonderful weekend!
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