Upcoming Dates
* Friday, January 29th: Children’s Discovery Museum Field Trip – ALL KIDS ATTEND AM!
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 3 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! So far, our chaperones are: Jon, Yoshiko, Jane, Sue, and Haksoon.
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!
* Monday, February 8th: Happy Hollow In-House Field Trip – ALL KIDS ATTEND AM!
All Kinders come from 9:00am – 12:20pm! Please arrange to pick up your child on time after school! For this in-house field trip, we don’t have to go anywhere! Happy Hollow will come to Eaton and do a presentation to our class, where they bring animals for us! Therefore, we won’t need any chaperones and kids won’t need to wear their red shirts. Please still bring your backpacks, snacks, and sharing as usual.
* Friday, February 12th: Valentine’s Day Party
We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day by exchanging cards. Every child must prepare Valentine cards for every student and bring them to school on Friday in a bag. They can be homemade or store-bought cards. Here is a list of all the students' names in our class. Please have your child write: To: (student name) and From: (your child’s name) on each envelope and prepare 28 cards (29 if they want one for themselves). Here are the students’ names in our class:
Aditi Aditya Caroline Chris Colleen Connor
Daniel David Edison Grace Jennifer Jewel
Kavya Keona Kristina Kumiko Lauren Leah
Matthew C. Matthew N. Michael Raphael Sara Sean
Shaunak Tanisha Woojin Yash Yuma
* Monday, February 15th to Friday, February 22nd: No School – Mid-Year Recess
Enjoy your week of vacation!
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Dear Families,
Rain, rain go away! Actually, I can’t complain because I know we badly need the rain, and fortunately, we’ve been really lucky because the rain has actually cleared up during lunchtime on most days. It is just so hard when the kids do not get to go outside and breathe some fresh air! Hopefully the rain will ease up over the weekend. Remember that if it is a really rainy and windy day, I will leave the hallway door open for your child to come in, and I will also excuse children from that same door if necessary. If it is just sprinkling, then I will excuse them from the regular lunch table door. Afternoon class, if you do not see kids playing outside during recess, then that means you can come directly to room 8 when you arrive to school. If there are kids playing outside, then please line up as usual. Hopefully this will help with some of the confusion. Thanks for your patience!
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Star of the Week: Jewel
(On our website under “Curriculum” and “Star of the Week.”)
• Letter of the Week: G
(You can see our computer center drawings in the “Classwork” section of our website.)
• Story of the Week: The Hat
• Language Arts: Our homework cover sheet is practicing our alphabet and numbers again. At this point of the year, students should begin to master their handwriting and really work on not reversing their letters or numbers. We are continuing our study of Jan Brett and this week we read her story, The Hat, which is another hilarious story about animals and winter clothing.
• Social Studies: Most of our week was around the theme of Martin Luther King Jr. We read several stories to learn about what Martin Luther King’s life was like, and learned why we celebrate his birthday every year. We completed different activities including a portrait of him and a friendship circle. We also learned some of his famous quotes and made a poster with different colored hands to show peace.
• Writing: Our journal entry on Monday was to write about our dreams and what we want to be when we grow up so that we can help others. We started with the sentence, I have a dream to be a ____ and students wrote about different community helpers.
• Math: This week is more practice on addition and subtraction sentences. Students have to show their work using drawings or using manipulatives. I am noticing that many students have difficulty showing their work correctly when addition and subtraction problems are mixed together. I am reminding them to always look at the “sign” (plus or minus) to make sure they are adding more or taking away.
• Computer Lab: This week, we did another math extension activity in Kidpix. Students had to demonstrate their understanding of subtraction sentences this time. We used the same format as last week, where students chose stamps to illustrate a subtraction sentence, but this time they had to also “cross out” stamps. They used number stamps to make the subtraction number sentences. You can see these also in our “Classwork” section of the website.
• Art: We saw Ms. Abada this week on Tuesday. She started by reading the story, “White Rabbit’s Color Book,” which is about a rabbit that jumps into different pails of paint. The story teaches about color mixing. We used a rabbit stencil and learned how to do crayon rubbings. We mixed colors like the story, and then afterwards we were able to choose our own stencils and colors to decorate our paper. Students took these drawings home Tuesday.
Thank you to Leah’s family for donating a Lakeshore gift card to our classroom to celebrate Leah’s birthday! Lakeshore is the greatest place for teacher resources and supplies, and we will be able to get more resources for the classroom because of their generosity. Thank you!!!
Also, on Thursday morning, Sahithi’s family told me that it was her last day of school at Eaton!!! They are moving and will be attending school in Fremont. This was a total surprise, and unfortunately, we didn’t get to give Sahithi a proper goodbye. We will miss her and her family, but they have promised to keep in touch! Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
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