Upcoming Dates
* Sunday, January 17th: Scholastic Book Orders Due (attached to last week’s newsletter)
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, January 18th: No School – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Enjoy your three-day weekend!
* Friday, January 29th: Children’s Discovery Museum Field Trip
1. All Kinders come from 9:00am – 12:20pm! Please arrange to pick up your child on time after school!
2. Remember to wear your red t-shirt to school (layer underneath, we will be mostly indoors).
3. We still need 6 more chaperones to each take a group of 3-4 children around the Discovery Museum. Chaperones will need to arrange their own transportation to the museum because there is not enough room on the buses. Please let me know if you are interested in being a chaperone!
4. Do not bring your backpacks or snacks that day, just return your Friday homework envelope in the morning.
5. Friday sharers, please prepare your sharing the day before on Thursday, January 28th!
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Dear Families,
Since there is no school on Monday, we will not be visiting the Eaton library and checking out a book that day. Therefore, your child will not be bringing home the large manila homework envelope next week. Homework will be separate and will go home on Tuesday in their daily folders.
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Star of the Week: Kristina
(On our website under “Curriculum” and “Star of the Week.”)
• Letter of the Week: P
(You can see our computer center drawings in the “Classwork” section of our website.)
• Story of the Week: The Mitten
• Language Arts: We read The Mitten this week by Jan Brett and completed an activity to help us orally retell the story to you. We made a mitten like a pocket and added all of the animals from the story inside. Your child should have brought these mittens home on Thursday. Have your child retell the story to you, from beginning to end!
• Science: We continued our Snowman glyphs from last week in Friday centers. We are using different types of winter clothing to decorate our snowman. We also made another snowman using cotton balls, yarn, buttons, pipe cleaners, and glitter, and talked about snowy weather.
• Writing: Our journal entry on Monday was to write about things we see in Winter. We started with the sentence, In winter, I see ____ and students wrote about different winter objects. They illustrated their picture. Our homework has been practicing writing a complete sentence using capitals, periods, and spacing. Students need to remember these whenever they write, especially in our weekly journals! Also, I have noticed some small changes in handwriting since after the winter vacation. Please continue to work on writing the alphabet letters and the numbers with proper handwriting. I will start adding the handwriting pages to our homework packets again for extra practice.
• Math: We continued reviewing the terms, addition and subtraction, as we start our new unit. I taught the children how to show their math sentences using counters and using drawings. Remember, students need to practice explaining their logic and thinking, not just computing answers from math problems.
• Computer Lab: This week, we did a math extension activity in Kidpix. Students had to demonstrate their understanding of addition sentences by using stamps to illustrate a picture, and then showing the math numbers that match. These addition sentences are posted on the “Classwork” section of our website.
• Music: We saw Ms. Disney this week and sang some of our old songs such as Skip to My Lou, but also learned some new pattern songs about the Days of the Week and a rhyming, body movement song. We also went on a bear hunt and went looking for a bear in the forest. This was a fun movement song as well.
• Earthquake Drill: On Monday, we practiced what to do if there was an earthquake. Students know to quickly hide under their desks, covering their head, and ideally grabbing one of the table legs. Then when the shaking stops, they quickly line up to go outside to the field. Eaton practiced this altogether.
We are still spending a lot of time each day going over the school rules. We need to remember to walk quietly from place to place, and keep our hands to ourselves. In the classroom, we have been working on our listening skills and following directions. Many students have needed directions repeated many times or have gotten warnings. Please continue having a conversation with your child everyday to remind them to follow school rules. Thank you for your help.
Have a great three-day weekend!
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