Dear Families,
Thank you for eating out this week to support the CEEF “Great Schools Week” program. I hope you were able to bring the “Golden Ticket” with you to help raise money for next year. If you are free tonight, today is the last day to participate! You can go to www.ceefcares.org/gsw to see which restaurants will be participating today.
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Star of the Week: Last week, we chose Jon as the Star of the Week. This week, Yuko was chosen. You can read about both Jon and Yuko on the “Classwork” section of our website.
• Next Week’s Sharing (after vacation): Something green
Try to be creative and find something unique to share about. Remember to prepare at least 4 complete sentences about the object or sharing (not including the introduction).
• Letter of the Week: Q
(You can see our computer center drawings in the “Classwork” section of our website.)
• Story of the Week: Happy Valentine’s Day Mouse!
• Book Fair: We had a great time visiting the book fair on Wednesday during our regular computer lab time. Students who brought money were able to purchase books to bring home. Other students were able to read and look at all the different books. Thank you for supporting our fifth graders!
• Social Studies: This week we learned about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We learned about qualities that make a good president such as someone who is honest and does good deeds. We talked about how at Eaton, we try to be Peacebuilders too. We want to say nice things to others and help each other whenever we can (i.e. picking up someone’s jacket, pushing in someone’s chair, etc). We made Lincoln’s log cabin today and we saw how different presidents are on different coins.
• Happy Valentine’s Day: On Monday, we learned how to make a concrete shape poem. We brainstormed words that remind us of Valentine’s Day and we wrote them in a heart shape. Afterwards, we used tear art to decorate the hearts. During overlap time, we had a great time passing out our Valentine cards! We enjoyed receiving all of the special cards and candy! Thank you for preparing the cards! Today, we also made a bear heart frame for all the children to take home. We hope you like them!
• Math: We finished our unit on addition and subtraction sentences this week. We took our test today to show if we remember how to solve different math sentences using pictures and objects. This week we also practiced solving missing addend problems such as 4 + ? = 7 and learned how to use pictures to help us figure out the answer.
• Music: Mrs. Disney started by teaching us a “Postman” song. While we sang, some of us received a “letter” in our hands that showed a picture of an instrument. We were able to play that specific instrument and then we would start the song over. We learned how to play the triangle, cymbals, maracas, drums, and many other instruments! Afterwards, we sang and danced our Valentine partner game!
• Buddies: We saw our fourth grade buddies this week and we made heart critters. We used different colored construction paper to make different sizes of hearts. Then we created different insects and animals using only hearts. We had a great time!
• Assembly: Today, we had a special assembly by the Fratello Marionettes. They performed the “Frog Prince” play using their marionettes and classical music.
I hope you all have a safe and wonderful week of vacation. Sometimes vacations are difficult for children because they seem to forget how to come back to school afterwards. Please spend some time Sunday night or Monday morning before we return to school to remind your child of the classroom rules and expectations. We have been in school for over 100 days now and they should be able to follow all of our rules independently! Thank you!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
February 11, 2011
Dear Families,
Thank you thank you thank you! What a special week! I really felt appreciated and was so touched by all the surprises each day. Thank you for thinking of me and being so generous with the flowers, cards, gifts, books, food, etc. I can tell a lot of you put so much thought into your gifts and made it a very personal gesture. Another huge contribution was taking all of the teachers’ recess duties!!! Those extra 20 minutes are incredible, I can’t even explain. Teachers have this strange life where we are ruled by bells and schedules, and even finding time to eat or go to the restroom is a challenge. Thank you for volunteering to cover our recess duties and then providing treats for us each day in the staff room! Also, if you were involved in any of the planning or preparing the lunch for the teachers, thank you for your time and hard work as well! The teachers all feel very special and it really made this week wonderful! So wonderful.
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Next Week’s Sharing: Something that you love.
Try to be creative and find something unique to share about. Remember to prepare at least 4 complete sentences about the object or sharing (not including the introduction).
• Letter of the Week: K
(You can see our computer center drawings in the “Classwork” section of our website.)
• Story of the Week: If You Were a Penguin
• Writing: We wrote in our journals this week about something we wish we had 100 of. Students wrote a sentence and drew a picture to illustrate their thoughts.
• Science: We continued learning more facts about penguins, and we read a National Geographic Kids book about the 17 different kinds of penguins. Then, we learned how to write a short paragraph using three facts we knew about penguins. We learned about a rough draft and a final draft. We put our writing together into a penguin project. Students are remembering to stay in the lines when they write, use spaces between words, and identify sentences by using a capital and period.
• Book Fair next Wednesday: Next week, we will not have computer lab because there is a special 5th grade book fair to raise money for science camp, that we are scheduled to visit at the same time. If you want, your child can bring in a few dollars and buy some books next Wednesday. Please just make sure they have it in a safe place and are responsible to carry the money!
• Computer Lab: Since there is no computer lab next week, this week we illustrated our Valentine poem for February. We made a tree of hearts using stamps in Kidpix, and you can see these projects on our website under “Classwork.”
• Social Studies: Since President’s Day is coming up, we have been continuing to learn about the different presidents. We are learning a song to teach us some of the names of the presidents and we also read more books about the different presidents.
• Math: Now we are mixing up our addition and subtraction problems, and practicing how to show the problems using pictures. Please practice this at home! There is a lot of confusion when we switch back and forth from subtraction and back to addition. We will be taking our test next week.
• Art: We saw Mrs. Abada on Thursday and continued our clay projects from last month. Mrs. Abada put our clay birds and nests into the kiln so that they were hardened. Yesterday, we used glaze to paint our nests brown and our birds yellow or blue. Mrs. Abada will be putting our bird nests into the kiln one more time. Mrs. Abada also let us see the kiln and see how it was different than a regular oven. We are excited to see the final project!
If you haven’t seen the “Photos” section of our website yet, I have posted pictures of our classroom decorations for the month of February. Also, in today’s Friday Folder, there is a “Golden Ticket” for next week’s “Great Schools Week.” Remember this is a huge fundraising opportunity to try and save class sizes, especially for your kids next year in first grade. Last year’s Golden Ticket was very successful and raised a lot of money. Make sure to bring the paper with you to all of the restaurants and services in order to get the donation for Cupertino. Please join us and help to raise money for our kids!
Thank you thank you thank you! What a special week! I really felt appreciated and was so touched by all the surprises each day. Thank you for thinking of me and being so generous with the flowers, cards, gifts, books, food, etc. I can tell a lot of you put so much thought into your gifts and made it a very personal gesture. Another huge contribution was taking all of the teachers’ recess duties!!! Those extra 20 minutes are incredible, I can’t even explain. Teachers have this strange life where we are ruled by bells and schedules, and even finding time to eat or go to the restroom is a challenge. Thank you for volunteering to cover our recess duties and then providing treats for us each day in the staff room! Also, if you were involved in any of the planning or preparing the lunch for the teachers, thank you for your time and hard work as well! The teachers all feel very special and it really made this week wonderful! So wonderful.
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Next Week’s Sharing: Something that you love.
Try to be creative and find something unique to share about. Remember to prepare at least 4 complete sentences about the object or sharing (not including the introduction).
• Letter of the Week: K
(You can see our computer center drawings in the “Classwork” section of our website.)
• Story of the Week: If You Were a Penguin
• Writing: We wrote in our journals this week about something we wish we had 100 of. Students wrote a sentence and drew a picture to illustrate their thoughts.
• Science: We continued learning more facts about penguins, and we read a National Geographic Kids book about the 17 different kinds of penguins. Then, we learned how to write a short paragraph using three facts we knew about penguins. We learned about a rough draft and a final draft. We put our writing together into a penguin project. Students are remembering to stay in the lines when they write, use spaces between words, and identify sentences by using a capital and period.
• Book Fair next Wednesday: Next week, we will not have computer lab because there is a special 5th grade book fair to raise money for science camp, that we are scheduled to visit at the same time. If you want, your child can bring in a few dollars and buy some books next Wednesday. Please just make sure they have it in a safe place and are responsible to carry the money!
• Computer Lab: Since there is no computer lab next week, this week we illustrated our Valentine poem for February. We made a tree of hearts using stamps in Kidpix, and you can see these projects on our website under “Classwork.”
• Social Studies: Since President’s Day is coming up, we have been continuing to learn about the different presidents. We are learning a song to teach us some of the names of the presidents and we also read more books about the different presidents.
• Math: Now we are mixing up our addition and subtraction problems, and practicing how to show the problems using pictures. Please practice this at home! There is a lot of confusion when we switch back and forth from subtraction and back to addition. We will be taking our test next week.
• Art: We saw Mrs. Abada on Thursday and continued our clay projects from last month. Mrs. Abada put our clay birds and nests into the kiln so that they were hardened. Yesterday, we used glaze to paint our nests brown and our birds yellow or blue. Mrs. Abada will be putting our bird nests into the kiln one more time. Mrs. Abada also let us see the kiln and see how it was different than a regular oven. We are excited to see the final project!
If you haven’t seen the “Photos” section of our website yet, I have posted pictures of our classroom decorations for the month of February. Also, in today’s Friday Folder, there is a “Golden Ticket” for next week’s “Great Schools Week.” Remember this is a huge fundraising opportunity to try and save class sizes, especially for your kids next year in first grade. Last year’s Golden Ticket was very successful and raised a lot of money. Make sure to bring the paper with you to all of the restaurants and services in order to get the donation for Cupertino. Please join us and help to raise money for our kids!
Friday, February 04, 2011
February 4, 2011
Dear Families,
Last week or early this week, you received a notice for Fifth’s Disease. Please make sure your child is healthy if he/she comes to school. Usually this means they should be fever and symptom free (throwing up) for at least 24 hours before coming to school. They should not be on any medication either, or else they should be kept at home. Please follow these sickness protocols so we can keep everyone else healthy! Also, take the opportunity to teach your child certain skills such as: covering their mouth when they sneeze, getting a tissue and throwing it away, etc. Thank you!
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Next Week’s Sharing: Something that gets wet
Try to be creative and find something unique to share about. Remember to prepare at least 4 complete sentences about the object or sharing (not including the introduction).
• Star of the Week: Konoka
(On our website under “Curriculum” and “Star of the Week.”)
• Letter of the Week: L
(You can see our computer center drawings in the “Classwork” section of our website.)
• Story of the Week: The 100th Day of School
• Literacy Centers: We had our centers on Tuesday this week since Wednesday was Groundhog’s Day. Keep working on trying to get 4 stars in all the categories!
• Computer Lab: To celebrate the 100th day of school, we used Kidpix stamps to make a 100 picture. We have been practicing how to skip count by 2, 5, and especially by 10. Keep practicing at home! You can see our 100 pictures on the “Classwork” section of our website.
• Social Studies: There have been a lot of special holidays this week! On Wednesday, it was Groundhog’s Day. We learned about the Groundhog and about our shadows, then we made an art project to show what happens if the Groundhog sees or does not see his shadow. On Thursday, it was both the 100th Day of School and Chinese New Year! We celebrated 100th Day by making a necklace using 100 beads. They were supposed to make a pattern using the beads, and it should be symmetric on both sides. Some students had a difficult time so their necklace may not have 100 beads or may not have correct patterns. Those students who had time also finished making a 100 pair of glasses! For Chinese New Year, we learned about some of the traditions, such as passing out red envelopes. We also learned that every year is a different animal, and this is the year of the Rabbit! During centers today, we made lanterns to celebrate!
• Math: We are continuing our math addition and subtraction booklets. We didn’t get to finish our chapter this week because of the other special holidays, but we will continue next week! We are getting better at showing math sentences using numbers, pictures, and words!
• Special Assembly for Kindergarteners: Today, we attended an “in-house” field trip for Kindergarteners during overlap time. We invited a special guest to teach us about an important symbol in America, the Statue of Liberty! On Monday, we also read some stories about the Statue of Liberty and made a project showing what it looks like.
• Music: We did a rhythm song using patterns and tapping. We tried imitating different rhythms that Ms. Disney made. Also, we saw real shells and sang a “Little Shell” song as well as another shell song. Then, we celebrated Chinese New Years by dancing with firework ribbons. We listened to a Chinese song with different tempos and moved our ribbons to match the song. We had a great time!
• Buddies: On Thursday, we also saw our fourth grade buddies for 100th Day. Students chose from different 100-related tasks such as thinking of 100 different foods or drawing 100 hearts. These were all great ways of practicing how to count to 100 in a fun way!
Have a great weekend! Superbowl time!
Last week or early this week, you received a notice for Fifth’s Disease. Please make sure your child is healthy if he/she comes to school. Usually this means they should be fever and symptom free (throwing up) for at least 24 hours before coming to school. They should not be on any medication either, or else they should be kept at home. Please follow these sickness protocols so we can keep everyone else healthy! Also, take the opportunity to teach your child certain skills such as: covering their mouth when they sneeze, getting a tissue and throwing it away, etc. Thank you!
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Next Week’s Sharing: Something that gets wet
Try to be creative and find something unique to share about. Remember to prepare at least 4 complete sentences about the object or sharing (not including the introduction).
• Star of the Week: Konoka
(On our website under “Curriculum” and “Star of the Week.”)
• Letter of the Week: L
(You can see our computer center drawings in the “Classwork” section of our website.)
• Story of the Week: The 100th Day of School
• Literacy Centers: We had our centers on Tuesday this week since Wednesday was Groundhog’s Day. Keep working on trying to get 4 stars in all the categories!
• Computer Lab: To celebrate the 100th day of school, we used Kidpix stamps to make a 100 picture. We have been practicing how to skip count by 2, 5, and especially by 10. Keep practicing at home! You can see our 100 pictures on the “Classwork” section of our website.
• Social Studies: There have been a lot of special holidays this week! On Wednesday, it was Groundhog’s Day. We learned about the Groundhog and about our shadows, then we made an art project to show what happens if the Groundhog sees or does not see his shadow. On Thursday, it was both the 100th Day of School and Chinese New Year! We celebrated 100th Day by making a necklace using 100 beads. They were supposed to make a pattern using the beads, and it should be symmetric on both sides. Some students had a difficult time so their necklace may not have 100 beads or may not have correct patterns. Those students who had time also finished making a 100 pair of glasses! For Chinese New Year, we learned about some of the traditions, such as passing out red envelopes. We also learned that every year is a different animal, and this is the year of the Rabbit! During centers today, we made lanterns to celebrate!
• Math: We are continuing our math addition and subtraction booklets. We didn’t get to finish our chapter this week because of the other special holidays, but we will continue next week! We are getting better at showing math sentences using numbers, pictures, and words!
• Special Assembly for Kindergarteners: Today, we attended an “in-house” field trip for Kindergarteners during overlap time. We invited a special guest to teach us about an important symbol in America, the Statue of Liberty! On Monday, we also read some stories about the Statue of Liberty and made a project showing what it looks like.
• Music: We did a rhythm song using patterns and tapping. We tried imitating different rhythms that Ms. Disney made. Also, we saw real shells and sang a “Little Shell” song as well as another shell song. Then, we celebrated Chinese New Years by dancing with firework ribbons. We listened to a Chinese song with different tempos and moved our ribbons to match the song. We had a great time!
• Buddies: On Thursday, we also saw our fourth grade buddies for 100th Day. Students chose from different 100-related tasks such as thinking of 100 different foods or drawing 100 hearts. These were all great ways of practicing how to count to 100 in a fun way!
Have a great weekend! Superbowl time!
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