Upcoming Dates
Friday, September 19th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Teachers throughout the Cupertino District will be getting trained on our new science kits.
Friday, September 26th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Cupertino Library after lunch. If you have a blue library card already, please remember to send it on Friday morning. If you do not have a library card, your child will be receiving a new one on our first visit. PLEASE practice your child’s 4-digit PIN number (for new students, it is the first 4 digits of their hot lunch number). We will get to check out two books to bring home. Please return the books directly to the Cupertino Library at your convenience (DO NOT return them to Eaton School!)
Monday, October 6th – Tuesday, October 14th: Parent Conferences
We will be notifying you about your 20 minute conference slot in the next few weeks. During conferences, dismissal everyday will be at 1:30PM. Please remember to make arrangements to pick up your child on time!
Wednesday, October 15th: Fairyland Field Trip
Attached to this newsletter is a permission slip for our first field trip. We will be traveling to Oakland on a school bus with all the first grade classes. We can take four parent chaperones who will be taking small groups of children around the park. Please let me know if you can come with us.
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Dear Families,
Today I’d like to go over one of our activities that we are starting next week: Literacy Centers. You will see this packet (with a green cover sheet) almost every week in the Friday Folder. Your child receives 0, 1, 2, or 3 stars each week for finishing all the activities in centers. This is a growing process. Your child may only receive 1 or 2 stars in the beginning of the year, but I hope by the end of the year, they will receive 3 stars in all categories. I have included our literacy center rubric (how I evaluate work) in this newsletter so you can see how to work with your children on improving their scores.
The most difficult center is usually the listening center. This week, we did the listening center together so the students understand how to write the five sentences. This is called a SUMMARY. Please note that sometimes we do SUMMARIES and sometimes we do RETELLS. A SUMMARY is brief and covers the main points, whereas a RETELL is done orally and you repeat all the details of the story as if you were the storyteller. The listening center will be a summary. The five sentences in listening center include:
o This story was about _______. (Who is the character and what is the setting?)
• Example: This story was about three little pigs outside in the forest.
o In the beginning, _________. (Where or what’s happening?)
• Example: In the beginning, the three little pigs build three houses.
o In the middle, ___________. (What is the problem?)
• Example: In the middle, the big bad wolf blows down two of the houses.
o At the end, ______________. (What is the solution?)
• Example: At the end, the third pig tricks the wolf and catches him!
o My favorite part was when _______ or I liked when __________ (Conclusion – What did you think of the story? What was your favorite part?)
• Example: My favorite part was when the wolf couldn’t blow the brick house down!
Please practice summaries and retells with your children when you have time!
Some other highlights this week:
• Assembly: This week the Wildlife Associates came to our school! They showed us real animals from California such as a red fox, red tailed hawk, baby opossum, great horned owl, and a porcupine! It was interesting to learn facts about the animals!
• Computer Lab: On Wednesday, we did an alphabet project in KidPix. Students had to find stamps of different pictures that begin with different letters in the alphabet! Thank you to Seyon’s father and Winny’s mother who will be helping us during computer time!
• PE: We started our PE circuits this week. Mrs. Byers had our class this week and we played games using beanbags. We worked on our catching and throwing skills.
• Circuits: Mrs. Byers also had our class on Tuesday afternoon for our social studies circuit. We learned about maps and grids. We had to create a grid of our school layout.
• Math: We started subtraction this week. We worked on word problems in subtraction and learned some magic words such as: how many LEFT? or reading carefully for words like “takes” or “picks” or “buys.”
• Language Arts: We continued our dictionaries to the letter O this week. We didn’t have much time for Prince or Princesses though, so we only had 2 students this week. We wrote our Journals and some students really enjoy the open-ended writing time. Journals are simply to encourage students to enjoy writing and it is a safe activity. I won’t be correcting any spelling or grammar. I read the journals and ask them a question. Journals are fun because they can keep them and read them when they’re older!
• Writing: Another journal we started today was our Kindness journal. We are learning different ways we can be kind to others. Every week we will talk about a different kind action. Then we will start typing and illustrating them on our website!
I’d like to also thank so many of you for offering to volunteer! We have enough help on Friday afternoons now – thanks to Dodam’s, Maya’s, Kinako’s, and Fuka’s mothers! Also, Terrence’s mother has volunteered to be our room mother. Thank you everyone! We are lucky and thankful to have a supportive group of parents!
It was great to see many of you on Sunday at the Chicken Dance performance! I hope you had fun at the Cupertino Festival! Enjoy your three day weekend! See you on Monday!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
September 12, 2008
Upcoming Dates
Sunday, September 14th: Cupertino Jubilee Chicken Dance @ 1:00pm
(PLEASE PLAN ON ARRIVING NO LATER THAN 12:40PM and BRING YOUR
CHILD’S CHICKEN DANCE HAT!)
Friday, September 19th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Teachers throughout the Cupertino District will be getting trained on our new science kits.
Friday, September 26th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Cupertino Library after lunch. If you have a blue library card already, please remember to send it on Friday morning. If you do not have a library card, your child will be receiving a new one on our first visit. PLEASE practice your child’s 4-digit PIN number (for new students, it is the first 4 digits of their hot lunch number). We will get to check out two books to bring home. Please return the books directly to the Cupertino Library at your convenience (DO NOT return them to Eaton School!)
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Dear Families,
Sharing went very well this week! Thank you for preparing your child’s riddles with at least four clues and bringing a picture or object to show! Next week we are starting our complete homework packet with vocabulary and spelling. Please remember to study the words and be ready for a test on Thursday.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Manners
Song of the Week: Clap Your Name
• Language Arts: We worked on our picture dictionary to the letter L this week. Also, we started our weekend news journals on Monday. Students can write about anything they want in their journals, or they can write about their weekend. Please review the weekend events with your child each Sunday night or Monday morning!
• Math: We finished chapter one this week! It is important that students build a good habit of reading word problems carefully before solving them. We are learning strategies to understand and solve word problems.
• Physical Education: This week, we played Sharks and Minnows on the field. Our PE rotations will start next week where classes will rotate between all the first grade teachers.
• Art: We met our art teacher this week, Mrs. Abada. She did a great lesson on creating distances in pictures (ie. Smaller means far away and larger means closer). We also used crayons and practiced making a crayon rubbing picture by placing shapes behind our paper. We are excited to have our art lessons once a month!
• Music: We also had our first music lesson with Ms. Rachel this week. She let us practice different movements such as walking, marching, and jumping to various songs. We also listened to sounds of different animals and tried to move our bodies like the animals.
• Computer: We had our first computer lab visit this week! We played with the drawing software program: Kidpix. We explored the different features such as drawing lines, boxes, circles, and using tools such as the paint bucket and stamping.
• Social Studies: We learned that it was California’s birthday on the 9th and talked about California’s state flag, flower, tree, and bird. On Thursday, we talked about Patriot Day and how Americans are both same and different.
• Buddies: We saw our buddies again this week and continued our project from before. We shared activities and things that we love and made a heart project with our big buddies.
This week, our classroom behavior was better. We still needed reminders here and there, so please continue to speak with your children about following rules. Also, everyone finished their work! Please encourage your child, especially when you see them at home doing their homework, to finish within a set time free and independently! Most children can do their work if you are sitting next to them, encouraging them to finish. However, they need to build the skill of finishing their work all by themselves. Please help practice this skill at home too! Thank you!
Have a great weekend! Please come early to the Chicken Dance on Sunday! In the past, I have had students come just 5 minutes late, and they miss the whole performance =( Don’t forget your chicken hats too!
Sunday, September 14th: Cupertino Jubilee Chicken Dance @ 1:00pm
(PLEASE PLAN ON ARRIVING NO LATER THAN 12:40PM and BRING YOUR
CHILD’S CHICKEN DANCE HAT!)
Friday, September 19th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Teachers throughout the Cupertino District will be getting trained on our new science kits.
Friday, September 26th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Cupertino Library after lunch. If you have a blue library card already, please remember to send it on Friday morning. If you do not have a library card, your child will be receiving a new one on our first visit. PLEASE practice your child’s 4-digit PIN number (for new students, it is the first 4 digits of their hot lunch number). We will get to check out two books to bring home. Please return the books directly to the Cupertino Library at your convenience (DO NOT return them to Eaton School!)
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Dear Families,
Sharing went very well this week! Thank you for preparing your child’s riddles with at least four clues and bringing a picture or object to show! Next week we are starting our complete homework packet with vocabulary and spelling. Please remember to study the words and be ready for a test on Thursday.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Manners
Song of the Week: Clap Your Name
• Language Arts: We worked on our picture dictionary to the letter L this week. Also, we started our weekend news journals on Monday. Students can write about anything they want in their journals, or they can write about their weekend. Please review the weekend events with your child each Sunday night or Monday morning!
• Math: We finished chapter one this week! It is important that students build a good habit of reading word problems carefully before solving them. We are learning strategies to understand and solve word problems.
• Physical Education: This week, we played Sharks and Minnows on the field. Our PE rotations will start next week where classes will rotate between all the first grade teachers.
• Art: We met our art teacher this week, Mrs. Abada. She did a great lesson on creating distances in pictures (ie. Smaller means far away and larger means closer). We also used crayons and practiced making a crayon rubbing picture by placing shapes behind our paper. We are excited to have our art lessons once a month!
• Music: We also had our first music lesson with Ms. Rachel this week. She let us practice different movements such as walking, marching, and jumping to various songs. We also listened to sounds of different animals and tried to move our bodies like the animals.
• Computer: We had our first computer lab visit this week! We played with the drawing software program: Kidpix. We explored the different features such as drawing lines, boxes, circles, and using tools such as the paint bucket and stamping.
• Social Studies: We learned that it was California’s birthday on the 9th and talked about California’s state flag, flower, tree, and bird. On Thursday, we talked about Patriot Day and how Americans are both same and different.
• Buddies: We saw our buddies again this week and continued our project from before. We shared activities and things that we love and made a heart project with our big buddies.
This week, our classroom behavior was better. We still needed reminders here and there, so please continue to speak with your children about following rules. Also, everyone finished their work! Please encourage your child, especially when you see them at home doing their homework, to finish within a set time free and independently! Most children can do their work if you are sitting next to them, encouraging them to finish. However, they need to build the skill of finishing their work all by themselves. Please help practice this skill at home too! Thank you!
Have a great weekend! Please come early to the Chicken Dance on Sunday! In the past, I have had students come just 5 minutes late, and they miss the whole performance =( Don’t forget your chicken hats too!
Friday, September 05, 2008
September 5, 2008
Upcoming Dates
Monday, September 8th: Scholastic book orders are due
I am extending the deadline to Monday to return book orders. Please look through the book orders and if you are interested in purchasing books, make ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs.
Sunday, September 14th: Cupertino Jubilee Chicken Dance @ 1:00pm
The first graders from Eaton will perform the Chicken Dance at the Cupertino Jubilee which is held at City Hall (next to the library). Please return the permission slip if you have not already done so!
Friday, September 19th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
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Dear Families,
Thank you for coming to Back to School night yesterday! It was really good to officially meet all of you and match my students’ faces with their parents! I know it was a lot of information, so please continue to look through the website and ask questions if you have any. Remember to turn in the following items as soon as possible: $150 classroom donation (made to Eaton Elementary School), website permission slip, book orders, and volunteer form.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: A Circle of Friends
Song of the Week: Clap Your Name
• Language Arts: We continued our picture dictionary to the letter I this week. I am emphasizing neat and proper handwriting. Please encourage the same at home using the handwriting guide I sent home in last night’s packet.
• Reading: This week, we read Rosie’s Walk and talked about important words such as: across, over, around, under, past, and through. We practiced using these words by showing how to go “over the chair” or “across the classroom.” We also made our own story called Pete the Pencil to demonstrate our understanding of these words.
• Writing: We continued our Prince and Princesses this week! Remember you can read about them on the “Classwork” section of the website! We also talked about the 5 parts of writing a friendly letter when we wrote our Back-to-School letters. They are: the date, greeting (dear…), body, salutation (love…), and signature (name). We will be practicing more letters this year.
• Math: We finished half our first chapter on addition facts this week. You will see their math packet in today’s Friday folder. A star means that they got everything right. A circle means that they had made a mistake, but they corrected it (with me or by themselves). We talked about how “in all” in word problems always means to add (Plus).
• Physical Education: This week, we reviewed the rules of running around the track and reviewed some of the playground rules.
• Library: We had our first library visit this morning! We went over the rules and expectations of library time. Each Friday morning, we will listen to a story read-aloud by Mrs. Glass, and then we can check out one book to take home. Please remember to return the library books every Friday or else your child cannot check out another book. Also, if there is no school on Friday, we will skip library that week so you can keep the book at home that week.
• Friday Folders: Remember to get excited about Super Stars and getting all GREEN squares on the Friday Folders! Again, YELLOWS are given if students are not finishing their work on time or if they are not following the classroom rules. Please talk to your children about their behavior, especially sitting nicely on the carpet and listening to others!
Next week, remember sharing will begin! I am excited to hear your children’s sharing and please remember your child must be prepared with at least 4 complete sentences and have an object or picture to show. I have attached the updated schedule!
Also on Monday, we will start our Weekend News journals. These journals are to encourage children to write freely without worrying about spelling or grammatical mistakes. Students usually write about what they did over the weekend, however, if nothing exciting happened, they can write about anything they want. It really helps if you can talk with your child Sunday night or Monday morning to review the weekend events. For example: did you go to a special place? Did they see a friend? What did you do at home? Are they excited about an upcoming event? Etc. Thank you for your help!
Also attached is our class directory! Thank you for turning in the forms to share with the rest of the class!
See you on Monday!
Monday, September 8th: Scholastic book orders are due
I am extending the deadline to Monday to return book orders. Please look through the book orders and if you are interested in purchasing books, make ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs.
Sunday, September 14th: Cupertino Jubilee Chicken Dance @ 1:00pm
The first graders from Eaton will perform the Chicken Dance at the Cupertino Jubilee which is held at City Hall (next to the library). Please return the permission slip if you have not already done so!
Friday, September 19th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
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Dear Families,
Thank you for coming to Back to School night yesterday! It was really good to officially meet all of you and match my students’ faces with their parents! I know it was a lot of information, so please continue to look through the website and ask questions if you have any. Remember to turn in the following items as soon as possible: $150 classroom donation (made to Eaton Elementary School), website permission slip, book orders, and volunteer form.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: A Circle of Friends
Song of the Week: Clap Your Name
• Language Arts: We continued our picture dictionary to the letter I this week. I am emphasizing neat and proper handwriting. Please encourage the same at home using the handwriting guide I sent home in last night’s packet.
• Reading: This week, we read Rosie’s Walk and talked about important words such as: across, over, around, under, past, and through. We practiced using these words by showing how to go “over the chair” or “across the classroom.” We also made our own story called Pete the Pencil to demonstrate our understanding of these words.
• Writing: We continued our Prince and Princesses this week! Remember you can read about them on the “Classwork” section of the website! We also talked about the 5 parts of writing a friendly letter when we wrote our Back-to-School letters. They are: the date, greeting (dear…), body, salutation (love…), and signature (name). We will be practicing more letters this year.
• Math: We finished half our first chapter on addition facts this week. You will see their math packet in today’s Friday folder. A star means that they got everything right. A circle means that they had made a mistake, but they corrected it (with me or by themselves). We talked about how “in all” in word problems always means to add (Plus).
• Physical Education: This week, we reviewed the rules of running around the track and reviewed some of the playground rules.
• Library: We had our first library visit this morning! We went over the rules and expectations of library time. Each Friday morning, we will listen to a story read-aloud by Mrs. Glass, and then we can check out one book to take home. Please remember to return the library books every Friday or else your child cannot check out another book. Also, if there is no school on Friday, we will skip library that week so you can keep the book at home that week.
• Friday Folders: Remember to get excited about Super Stars and getting all GREEN squares on the Friday Folders! Again, YELLOWS are given if students are not finishing their work on time or if they are not following the classroom rules. Please talk to your children about their behavior, especially sitting nicely on the carpet and listening to others!
Next week, remember sharing will begin! I am excited to hear your children’s sharing and please remember your child must be prepared with at least 4 complete sentences and have an object or picture to show. I have attached the updated schedule!
Also on Monday, we will start our Weekend News journals. These journals are to encourage children to write freely without worrying about spelling or grammatical mistakes. Students usually write about what they did over the weekend, however, if nothing exciting happened, they can write about anything they want. It really helps if you can talk with your child Sunday night or Monday morning to review the weekend events. For example: did you go to a special place? Did they see a friend? What did you do at home? Are they excited about an upcoming event? Etc. Thank you for your help!
Also attached is our class directory! Thank you for turning in the forms to share with the rest of the class!
See you on Monday!
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
August 29, 2008
Upcoming Dates
Monday, September 1st: NO SCHOOL – Labor Day
Thursday, September 4th: Back-to-School Night 6:15pm-7:00pm in Room 8
This is a mandatory informational meeting about our classroom procedures and curriculum plan for the year. There will be a PTO meeting in the MP room from 7:00pm-7:15pm afterwards.
Friday, September 5th: Scholastic book orders are due
I am including the September book order with this newsletter. This first order is very important because it gives our classroom free materials depending on the amount ordered. Please look through the book orders and if you are interested in purchasing books, make ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs.
Sunday, September 14th: Cupertino Jubilee Chicken Dance @ 1:00pm
The first graders from Eaton will perform the Chicken Dance at the Cupertino Jubilee which is held at City Hall (next to the library). Plan on coming if you are available that day!
Friday, September 19th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
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Dear Families,
Thank you for those of you who have given generous donations for our classroom! In addition to the first grade supply list, we ask each family to donate $150 (payable to Eaton Elementary School) in order to cover the costs for all the fun assemblies, field trips, projects, and activities we complete all year long. These programs are not possible without your donations. We appreciate your contribution and support! The Eaton PTO (Parent-Teacher Organization) also is asking for a $175 donation (payable to Eaton PTO) to help plan school wide events and fundraisers. Please consider these donation opportunities, as they greatly help our school!
The first few days of school have been focused on class rules and procedures. I am reminding students to be on their best behavior, to try their best, and be a peacebuilder to others. Parent communication is very important to me because I strongly believe we have a huge influence on your child’s academic and social learning. Please be sure to read these weekly newsletters carefully and remind your child to follow directions at Eaton.
Here are some highlights from the week:
• Language Arts: We have begun our phonics and vocabulary lessons by beginning a picture dictionary. I have been emphasizing neatness and proper handwriting in their work. We worked on A, B, C, and D.
• Social Studies: We are learning about ourselves and our families. We made a family portrait to share with the class. Also, we discovered all the countries that our families have come from and drew flags around the world.
• Writing: We have been learning about our classmates. We select a Prince or Princess of the day. The students interview them and then we write a paragraph about that person. Some areas we are beginning to focus on are indenting paragraphs, capital letters in the beginning of sentences, punctuation, and sentence variety.
• Math: We began our first chapter in our textbook on addition facts. We are practicing basic computation and also word problems using addition. Please review the work that gets sent home. Most of the word problems are done as a whole class so some students need more practice doing them independently.
• Physical Education: We began our PE this week. We have PE class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Students have to run around the track once and then we play games afterwards.
• Fire Drill: On Thursday, we practiced our first fire drill. We lined up quietly when the fire bell rang and walked onto the field until we were excused. We did a great job!
• Music: We have started our first grade music program on Wednesdays before lunch and Friday afternoon. We are singing fun songs led by the first grade teachers.
• Nutrition Policy: We are continuing our nutrition program at our school and we are only allowed to have one treat per month. Therefore, if your child has a birthday and you would like to share something with the class, we can only allow items such as pencils, erasers, or stickers.
• Friday Folders: Today you are receiving our weekly Friday Folders. Please review all the work that is sent home with your child and sign the back of the folder. Every week I monitor each child’s behavior using Super Stars. If your child receives green cards all week long, they will take home the Super Star (this week is the yellow bus). Please acknowledge these Super Stars and post them up in your house to remind children of good behavior!!!
We are fortunate to have an ELD aide to help out in our classroom everyday. Her name is Seema Saxena (Mrs. Seema) and she helps in our class for an hour and a half each day. Mrs. Seema is a wonderful help to us! Also, we have an ELD Specialist who will be helping in our classroom every Tuesday morning before recess. Her name is Miss Yeh. Both helpers have already been introduced to our class.
I am looking forward to meeting all of you next Thursday at Back to School Night! If you have not returned the first day forms such as: supplies, health card, library permission slip, directory information, classroom donation, etc., please do so on Tuesday! Have a wonderful weekend!
Monday, September 1st: NO SCHOOL – Labor Day
Thursday, September 4th: Back-to-School Night 6:15pm-7:00pm in Room 8
This is a mandatory informational meeting about our classroom procedures and curriculum plan for the year. There will be a PTO meeting in the MP room from 7:00pm-7:15pm afterwards.
Friday, September 5th: Scholastic book orders are due
I am including the September book order with this newsletter. This first order is very important because it gives our classroom free materials depending on the amount ordered. Please look through the book orders and if you are interested in purchasing books, make ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs.
Sunday, September 14th: Cupertino Jubilee Chicken Dance @ 1:00pm
The first graders from Eaton will perform the Chicken Dance at the Cupertino Jubilee which is held at City Hall (next to the library). Plan on coming if you are available that day!
Friday, September 19th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
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Dear Families,
Thank you for those of you who have given generous donations for our classroom! In addition to the first grade supply list, we ask each family to donate $150 (payable to Eaton Elementary School) in order to cover the costs for all the fun assemblies, field trips, projects, and activities we complete all year long. These programs are not possible without your donations. We appreciate your contribution and support! The Eaton PTO (Parent-Teacher Organization) also is asking for a $175 donation (payable to Eaton PTO) to help plan school wide events and fundraisers. Please consider these donation opportunities, as they greatly help our school!
The first few days of school have been focused on class rules and procedures. I am reminding students to be on their best behavior, to try their best, and be a peacebuilder to others. Parent communication is very important to me because I strongly believe we have a huge influence on your child’s academic and social learning. Please be sure to read these weekly newsletters carefully and remind your child to follow directions at Eaton.
Here are some highlights from the week:
• Language Arts: We have begun our phonics and vocabulary lessons by beginning a picture dictionary. I have been emphasizing neatness and proper handwriting in their work. We worked on A, B, C, and D.
• Social Studies: We are learning about ourselves and our families. We made a family portrait to share with the class. Also, we discovered all the countries that our families have come from and drew flags around the world.
• Writing: We have been learning about our classmates. We select a Prince or Princess of the day. The students interview them and then we write a paragraph about that person. Some areas we are beginning to focus on are indenting paragraphs, capital letters in the beginning of sentences, punctuation, and sentence variety.
• Math: We began our first chapter in our textbook on addition facts. We are practicing basic computation and also word problems using addition. Please review the work that gets sent home. Most of the word problems are done as a whole class so some students need more practice doing them independently.
• Physical Education: We began our PE this week. We have PE class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Students have to run around the track once and then we play games afterwards.
• Fire Drill: On Thursday, we practiced our first fire drill. We lined up quietly when the fire bell rang and walked onto the field until we were excused. We did a great job!
• Music: We have started our first grade music program on Wednesdays before lunch and Friday afternoon. We are singing fun songs led by the first grade teachers.
• Nutrition Policy: We are continuing our nutrition program at our school and we are only allowed to have one treat per month. Therefore, if your child has a birthday and you would like to share something with the class, we can only allow items such as pencils, erasers, or stickers.
• Friday Folders: Today you are receiving our weekly Friday Folders. Please review all the work that is sent home with your child and sign the back of the folder. Every week I monitor each child’s behavior using Super Stars. If your child receives green cards all week long, they will take home the Super Star (this week is the yellow bus). Please acknowledge these Super Stars and post them up in your house to remind children of good behavior!!!
We are fortunate to have an ELD aide to help out in our classroom everyday. Her name is Seema Saxena (Mrs. Seema) and she helps in our class for an hour and a half each day. Mrs. Seema is a wonderful help to us! Also, we have an ELD Specialist who will be helping in our classroom every Tuesday morning before recess. Her name is Miss Yeh. Both helpers have already been introduced to our class.
I am looking forward to meeting all of you next Thursday at Back to School Night! If you have not returned the first day forms such as: supplies, health card, library permission slip, directory information, classroom donation, etc., please do so on Tuesday! Have a wonderful weekend!
Friday, August 15, 2008
Back to School 2008
Dear Families,
Welcome to a new school year at Eaton Elementary! I hope you had a wonderful summer and am as excited to be back as I am. My name is Mrs. Yu and I will be your child’s teacher for the upcoming year. This will be a fun-filled and challenging time for both your child and myself!
I am eager to meet all of you at Back to School Night. Please save the date: Thursday, September 4th. I will hold a mandatory meeting in Room 8 from 6:15pm – 7:00pm and there will be a PTO meeting in the MP room afterwards from 7:00pm – 7:15pm. This will be a very important opportunity for you to learn about our classroom and the procedures for the year.
All students are asked to bring the items below. Please make sure to buy the EXACT brand (such as Dixon-Ticonderoga, Magic Rub, Crayola, Sharpie, etc.). Please purchase these items by Friday, August 29th and bring them in a large paper bag with your child’s name labeled on it. Thank you for your donations.
• 1 box of DIXON-TICONDEROGA #2 pencils
• 2 MAGIC RUB erasers
• 1 box of CRAYOLA CLASSIC color markers
• 6 LARGE glue sticks
• 1 box of 24 CRAYOLA crayons
• 1 fine point and 1 thick point BLACK SHARPIE
• 1 FISKARS FOR KIDS scissors – pointed tip
• 1 box of 24 CRAYOLA colored pencils
• 1 box baby wipes or Clorox wipes
• 1 box of Kleenex
Students with last names beginning with:
A to L – one box of gallon sized ziplock bags
M to R – one bottle of liquid soap (NOT anti-bacterial)
S to Z – one box of aluminum foil
Please remember to send your child to school on time each morning at 9:00am and pick up your child at 3:05pm (except Tuesday dismissal is at 2:30pm). Also, please label all lunch boxes, jackets, hats, sweaters, etc. with your child’s name so that lost items can be returned to you. I am looking forward to working with you and your children!
Welcome to a new school year at Eaton Elementary! I hope you had a wonderful summer and am as excited to be back as I am. My name is Mrs. Yu and I will be your child’s teacher for the upcoming year. This will be a fun-filled and challenging time for both your child and myself!
I am eager to meet all of you at Back to School Night. Please save the date: Thursday, September 4th. I will hold a mandatory meeting in Room 8 from 6:15pm – 7:00pm and there will be a PTO meeting in the MP room afterwards from 7:00pm – 7:15pm. This will be a very important opportunity for you to learn about our classroom and the procedures for the year.
All students are asked to bring the items below. Please make sure to buy the EXACT brand (such as Dixon-Ticonderoga, Magic Rub, Crayola, Sharpie, etc.). Please purchase these items by Friday, August 29th and bring them in a large paper bag with your child’s name labeled on it. Thank you for your donations.
• 1 box of DIXON-TICONDEROGA #2 pencils
• 2 MAGIC RUB erasers
• 1 box of CRAYOLA CLASSIC color markers
• 6 LARGE glue sticks
• 1 box of 24 CRAYOLA crayons
• 1 fine point and 1 thick point BLACK SHARPIE
• 1 FISKARS FOR KIDS scissors – pointed tip
• 1 box of 24 CRAYOLA colored pencils
• 1 box baby wipes or Clorox wipes
• 1 box of Kleenex
Students with last names beginning with:
A to L – one box of gallon sized ziplock bags
M to R – one bottle of liquid soap (NOT anti-bacterial)
S to Z – one box of aluminum foil
Please remember to send your child to school on time each morning at 9:00am and pick up your child at 3:05pm (except Tuesday dismissal is at 2:30pm). Also, please label all lunch boxes, jackets, hats, sweaters, etc. with your child’s name so that lost items can be returned to you. I am looking forward to working with you and your children!
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Last Day!
Dear Families,
I can’t believe the school year is over! Wow! This week, we went to Almaden Lake Park on Monday. The students took the bus to the Children’s Discovery Museum and then we rode the light rail to Almaden. Many students had never been on a train before, so it was a fun experience! We walked to Almaden Lake Park, where they have huge play structures, water play areas, and picnic areas! The students had a great time playing and we even had popsicles! Unfortunately, the bus was 45 minutes late picking us up, so I apologize for any inconvenience that caused!
On Tuesday, we had the Talent Show. Good job to Anna who performed with two other girls a dance from the movie, Hairspray! It was very cute! The teachers also performed a dance medley of High School Musical! In the afternoon, we wrote our last entry in our journals.
Wednesday was our last day to finish our science books on Healthy foods. We learned about all the food groups and what we should be eating every meal. We also cleaned up our classroom and took everything home. I hope you enjoyed all of the projects that your child worked on this year. It was a lot of stuff!
Today was Breakfast and a Book! We had donuts and juice for breakfast, and then we went to different classrooms to read books.
It is always hard to say goodbye to all my students at the end of each year. I have seen your children grow and learn so much over the year and I am so proud of them for their hard work. I would appreciate it if you kept in touch with me from time to time to let me know how your children are doing.
My present to the students is a music CD to remember all of our first grade songs! Enjoy the music! In addition, I would like to especially thank Aiko’s mom, Anna’s mom, Kevin’s mom, and Nasrin’s mom for coming every Friday afternoon for an hour to prepare homework packets, centers folders, spelling, vocabulary, and Friday folders! I would also like to thank Brian’s mom, David’s mom, and Yuna’s mom for coming every Monday afternoon to help in computer lab. Everyone else, thank you for all of your support this year! Many of you came on field trips, gave classroom donations, and provided supplies for our class. I have made a personalized notepad from our classroom for all of you to say thank you for a wonderful year!
I will see some of you at my wedding on June 21st! Yay! If you are traveling and I don’t see you, have a wonderful summer! Please keep in touch!
I can’t believe the school year is over! Wow! This week, we went to Almaden Lake Park on Monday. The students took the bus to the Children’s Discovery Museum and then we rode the light rail to Almaden. Many students had never been on a train before, so it was a fun experience! We walked to Almaden Lake Park, where they have huge play structures, water play areas, and picnic areas! The students had a great time playing and we even had popsicles! Unfortunately, the bus was 45 minutes late picking us up, so I apologize for any inconvenience that caused!
On Tuesday, we had the Talent Show. Good job to Anna who performed with two other girls a dance from the movie, Hairspray! It was very cute! The teachers also performed a dance medley of High School Musical! In the afternoon, we wrote our last entry in our journals.
Wednesday was our last day to finish our science books on Healthy foods. We learned about all the food groups and what we should be eating every meal. We also cleaned up our classroom and took everything home. I hope you enjoyed all of the projects that your child worked on this year. It was a lot of stuff!
Today was Breakfast and a Book! We had donuts and juice for breakfast, and then we went to different classrooms to read books.
It is always hard to say goodbye to all my students at the end of each year. I have seen your children grow and learn so much over the year and I am so proud of them for their hard work. I would appreciate it if you kept in touch with me from time to time to let me know how your children are doing.
My present to the students is a music CD to remember all of our first grade songs! Enjoy the music! In addition, I would like to especially thank Aiko’s mom, Anna’s mom, Kevin’s mom, and Nasrin’s mom for coming every Friday afternoon for an hour to prepare homework packets, centers folders, spelling, vocabulary, and Friday folders! I would also like to thank Brian’s mom, David’s mom, and Yuna’s mom for coming every Monday afternoon to help in computer lab. Everyone else, thank you for all of your support this year! Many of you came on field trips, gave classroom donations, and provided supplies for our class. I have made a personalized notepad from our classroom for all of you to say thank you for a wonderful year!
I will see some of you at my wedding on June 21st! Yay! If you are traveling and I don’t see you, have a wonderful summer! Please keep in touch!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
June 6th
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, June 9th: End of the Year First Grade Trip
We will be going to Almaden Lake Park the whole day. Make sure your child wears sunblock! We will take the light rail and walk to the park from the station. Please remember your child must bring a disposable lunch in a bag LABELED with his/her name! Everything will be thrown away at the park! Thank you to Mrs. Okubo, who will be coming on the bus with us. If you are driving and meeting us at the park, please be sure to get the directions from me on Monday morning. Also, one of the drivers will be transporting our lunches and drinks. Thank you!
* Thursday, June 12th: Last Day of School! Dismissal is at 12:20pm.
Please make sure you pick your child up on time!
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Dear Families,
This was our last “academic” week. We finished our last chapter in math, our last centers rotation, our language arts textbooks, and our solids and liquids science unit! Next week, I will be sending home everything in a bag on Wednesday after school, including all the work your child has done from the year. Please make sure you have a way of bringing home everything (walking may be difficult if it is a long ways away!).
For the last 2 weeks, we are ending the year by reading Frog and Toad stories by Arnold Lobel. His stories are chapter books but are great because it shows good examples of friendship. I hope that in addition to everything your child has learned academically this year, most important is remembering how to treat others with kindness and respect. Frog and Toad show different ways of being good friends to one another.
Also, we are learning about nutrition and healthy eating these last two weeks. We are learning about the food pyramid and practicing food vocabulary in the different groups. Have a wonderful weekend!
* Monday, June 9th: End of the Year First Grade Trip
We will be going to Almaden Lake Park the whole day. Make sure your child wears sunblock! We will take the light rail and walk to the park from the station. Please remember your child must bring a disposable lunch in a bag LABELED with his/her name! Everything will be thrown away at the park! Thank you to Mrs. Okubo, who will be coming on the bus with us. If you are driving and meeting us at the park, please be sure to get the directions from me on Monday morning. Also, one of the drivers will be transporting our lunches and drinks. Thank you!
* Thursday, June 12th: Last Day of School! Dismissal is at 12:20pm.
Please make sure you pick your child up on time!
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Dear Families,
This was our last “academic” week. We finished our last chapter in math, our last centers rotation, our language arts textbooks, and our solids and liquids science unit! Next week, I will be sending home everything in a bag on Wednesday after school, including all the work your child has done from the year. Please make sure you have a way of bringing home everything (walking may be difficult if it is a long ways away!).
For the last 2 weeks, we are ending the year by reading Frog and Toad stories by Arnold Lobel. His stories are chapter books but are great because it shows good examples of friendship. I hope that in addition to everything your child has learned academically this year, most important is remembering how to treat others with kindness and respect. Frog and Toad show different ways of being good friends to one another.
Also, we are learning about nutrition and healthy eating these last two weeks. We are learning about the food pyramid and practicing food vocabulary in the different groups. Have a wonderful weekend!
May 30th
Upcoming Dates
* Friday, May 30th: International Festival
Try to come this afternoon if you are free! The festival will be from 4:30pm-8pm at Eaton School. There will be posters about different countries, games, and performances from Eaton students! Hope you have a great time!
* Monday, June 9th: End of the Year First Grade Trip
We will be going to Almaden Lake Park the whole day. There is a permission slip attached to this newsletter. Please fill it out and return it to me by Wednesday, June 4th! We can take 3 chaperones on the bus, but parents are welcome to drive there if you wish! Please remember your child must bring a lunch in a bag LABELED with his/her name! Everything will be thrown away at the park!
* Thursday, June 12th: Last Day of School! Dismissal is at 12:20pm.
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Dear Families,
This was a short week. I hope you had a nice memorial day weekend. I can’t believe there are only 2 more weeks left! However, we are still working on all our academic subjects next week so I expect all our students to try and still have super star behavior!
This week we have been busy learning about liquids for our last science unit. We are exploring different properties of liquids (such as dishwashing liquid, water, liquid hand soap, cooking oil, etc) and learning how to describe them using vocabulary such as: colored, viscous, transparent, translucent, bubbly, or foamy. This is a fun activity for the kids.
We had a volunteer tea on Thursday, and we invited the volunteers from this year. A big thank you to many of you who have come in every week to volunteer, or even if you just came on one field trip… it really makes a difference and we appreciate you! Thank you so much!!!
* Friday, May 30th: International Festival
Try to come this afternoon if you are free! The festival will be from 4:30pm-8pm at Eaton School. There will be posters about different countries, games, and performances from Eaton students! Hope you have a great time!
* Monday, June 9th: End of the Year First Grade Trip
We will be going to Almaden Lake Park the whole day. There is a permission slip attached to this newsletter. Please fill it out and return it to me by Wednesday, June 4th! We can take 3 chaperones on the bus, but parents are welcome to drive there if you wish! Please remember your child must bring a lunch in a bag LABELED with his/her name! Everything will be thrown away at the park!
* Thursday, June 12th: Last Day of School! Dismissal is at 12:20pm.
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Dear Families,
This was a short week. I hope you had a nice memorial day weekend. I can’t believe there are only 2 more weeks left! However, we are still working on all our academic subjects next week so I expect all our students to try and still have super star behavior!
This week we have been busy learning about liquids for our last science unit. We are exploring different properties of liquids (such as dishwashing liquid, water, liquid hand soap, cooking oil, etc) and learning how to describe them using vocabulary such as: colored, viscous, transparent, translucent, bubbly, or foamy. This is a fun activity for the kids.
We had a volunteer tea on Thursday, and we invited the volunteers from this year. A big thank you to many of you who have come in every week to volunteer, or even if you just came on one field trip… it really makes a difference and we appreciate you! Thank you so much!!!
Friday, May 23, 2008
May 23rd
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, May 26th: NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day
Enjoy your long weekend! Hopefully the Santa Cruz fires will stop soon so that we can all go outside and enjoy fresh air!
* Friday, May 30th: International Festival
The festival will be from 4pm-8pm. There will be posters about different countries, games, and performances from Eaton students!
* Monday, June 9th: End of the Year First Grade Trip
We will be going to Almaden Lake Park the whole day. More information will come later!
* Thursday, June 12th: Last Day of School! Dismissal is at 12:20pm.
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Dear Families,
Thank you for coming to Open House on Tuesday! Your children were very excited to be your tour guides for the afternoon. I hope you enjoyed seeing all the work they have done this year in first grade. They have done so much this year and I am very proud of them! I will be sending home everything the last week of school!
Today the air was really smoky outside, so we had indoor recess, lunch, and PE. Fortunately, we had an assembly by the Silicon Valley Brass Company and we also had our last art class with Mrs. Blakeslee. Also, we have been busy learning about solids for our last science unit. We are exploring different properties of small solids (such as rice, cornmeal, and beans) and learning science vocabulary words such as: soft/hard, transparent/opaque, smooth/rough, and flat/pointed.
The year is quickly coming to an end, but we are still learning and doing many activities. Please remind your children about kind behavior and actions! We have been getting many reminders and warnings for not listening or respecting others. Thank you! Hope you have a wonderful long weekend! See you on Tuesday!
* Monday, May 26th: NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day
Enjoy your long weekend! Hopefully the Santa Cruz fires will stop soon so that we can all go outside and enjoy fresh air!
* Friday, May 30th: International Festival
The festival will be from 4pm-8pm. There will be posters about different countries, games, and performances from Eaton students!
* Monday, June 9th: End of the Year First Grade Trip
We will be going to Almaden Lake Park the whole day. More information will come later!
* Thursday, June 12th: Last Day of School! Dismissal is at 12:20pm.
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Dear Families,
Thank you for coming to Open House on Tuesday! Your children were very excited to be your tour guides for the afternoon. I hope you enjoyed seeing all the work they have done this year in first grade. They have done so much this year and I am very proud of them! I will be sending home everything the last week of school!
Today the air was really smoky outside, so we had indoor recess, lunch, and PE. Fortunately, we had an assembly by the Silicon Valley Brass Company and we also had our last art class with Mrs. Blakeslee. Also, we have been busy learning about solids for our last science unit. We are exploring different properties of small solids (such as rice, cornmeal, and beans) and learning science vocabulary words such as: soft/hard, transparent/opaque, smooth/rough, and flat/pointed.
The year is quickly coming to an end, but we are still learning and doing many activities. Please remind your children about kind behavior and actions! We have been getting many reminders and warnings for not listening or respecting others. Thank you! Hope you have a wonderful long weekend! See you on Tuesday!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
May 16th
Dear Families,
This was a short week since Monday we had no school. We finished many of our projects this week. On Thursday afternoon, we had the Environmental Volunteers come to our classroom to teach about mammals, arthropods, and birds. They brought real animals that have been preserved for the students to see and touch. They will be returning on Monday for one more activity.
The end of the year is coming soon. However, I am disappointed in many behaviors that I have been seeing recently. One incident this week was that somebody broke the leg of a rabbit that the Environmental Volunteers brought. No one would admit to doing it and it was very sad for the volunteers. Also, this week I found a cut-up crayon that was stained on our carpet floor, and no one would tell what happened. In addition, students have been less respectful on the carpet and not being good listeners, or not working when it is work time. Please remind your children everyday to try their best and to remember to make good choices in school. Also, please discuss the importance of telling the truth. Thank you.
Future Dates
* Tuesday, May 20th – Open House from 2:30pm-3:30pm
This year, we will not be having open house in the evening. Instead, it will be right after school. Please save the date and plan on coming to see all of your child’s wonderful work from the school year! This event will be a guided tour of our classroom, and your tour guides are your children! Let them take you around to see everything and have them share/read/explain the different projects! Have fun! I hope to see you all there!
* Monday, May 26th – NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day
Have a great weekend!
Please email me ASAP (if you haven’t already done so) if you plan on attending my wedding on June 21st. I have to plan for the right number of people and want to make sure I accommodate enough for everyone. Thank you!
This was a short week since Monday we had no school. We finished many of our projects this week. On Thursday afternoon, we had the Environmental Volunteers come to our classroom to teach about mammals, arthropods, and birds. They brought real animals that have been preserved for the students to see and touch. They will be returning on Monday for one more activity.
The end of the year is coming soon. However, I am disappointed in many behaviors that I have been seeing recently. One incident this week was that somebody broke the leg of a rabbit that the Environmental Volunteers brought. No one would admit to doing it and it was very sad for the volunteers. Also, this week I found a cut-up crayon that was stained on our carpet floor, and no one would tell what happened. In addition, students have been less respectful on the carpet and not being good listeners, or not working when it is work time. Please remind your children everyday to try their best and to remember to make good choices in school. Also, please discuss the importance of telling the truth. Thank you.
Future Dates
* Tuesday, May 20th – Open House from 2:30pm-3:30pm
This year, we will not be having open house in the evening. Instead, it will be right after school. Please save the date and plan on coming to see all of your child’s wonderful work from the school year! This event will be a guided tour of our classroom, and your tour guides are your children! Let them take you around to see everything and have them share/read/explain the different projects! Have fun! I hope to see you all there!
* Monday, May 26th – NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day
Have a great weekend!
Please email me ASAP (if you haven’t already done so) if you plan on attending my wedding on June 21st. I have to plan for the right number of people and want to make sure I accommodate enough for everyone. Thank you!
May 9th
Wow! This week was so wonderful. Thank you everyone for all the beautiful flowers, cards, books, supplies, and kind words. I was really touched by the surprises each day. It was also very creative and thoughtful to make my door posters the double-happiness wedding symbol! I am so lucky to have supportive and caring students (and families!). Thank you. It really made me smile each day!
This week we have been working on our projects for open house. In social studies, we learned about communities and did an all-day first grade circuit on Wednesday. We learned about different parts of a community such as helpers, buildings, houses, animals/plants, street signs, and transportation. Also, we made poems about ourselves that you will be reading at open house! We have been busy finishing all of our writing pieces. We hope you can come see all of our work at Open House!
Future Dates
* Monday, May 12th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
This is our last teacher learning day. We will be doing some community building activities and looking over our school goals.
* Tuesday, May 20th – Open House from 2:30pm-3:30pm
This year, we will not be having open house in the evening. Instead, it will be right after school. Please save the date and plan on coming to see all of your child’s wonderful work from the school year!
* Monday, May 26th – NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day
Have a great weekend!
Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday! Thank you for all your hard work, patience, and love! Enjoy your special day!
This week we have been working on our projects for open house. In social studies, we learned about communities and did an all-day first grade circuit on Wednesday. We learned about different parts of a community such as helpers, buildings, houses, animals/plants, street signs, and transportation. Also, we made poems about ourselves that you will be reading at open house! We have been busy finishing all of our writing pieces. We hope you can come see all of our work at Open House!
Future Dates
* Monday, May 12th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
This is our last teacher learning day. We will be doing some community building activities and looking over our school goals.
* Tuesday, May 20th – Open House from 2:30pm-3:30pm
This year, we will not be having open house in the evening. Instead, it will be right after school. Please save the date and plan on coming to see all of your child’s wonderful work from the school year!
* Monday, May 26th – NO SCHOOL – Memorial Day
Have a great weekend!
Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday! Thank you for all your hard work, patience, and love! Enjoy your special day!
Thursday, May 08, 2008
May 2nd
I hope you were able to attend the first grade musical today. We worked hard to memorize the poems and songs! I hope you enjoyed it!
Now that it is getting close to the end of the year, students are forgetting some of our school and classroom rules. This week, we had many warnings for poor behavior, specifically with focusing on work (not talking or distracting others), being a good listener (listening to other adults or students), and following directions at recess and lunch (playing tag on the grass and not playing dangerous games).
Please remind your children everyday the importance of following rules and trying their best. We talk about kindness everyday and making good choices, and I hope that we can develop good habits to treat others respectfully.
Future Dates
* Thursday, May 8th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Remember to send your child’s blue library card to school. They will check out two books and you can return them at your convenience.
* Friday, May 9th: Insect Fair Field Trip at Sanborn Park
If you have not signed the permission slip, please remember to fill it out and return it on Monday! Please send a BAG lunch with your child’s name on it – we throw away everything at the park.
* Monday, May 12th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
This is our last teacher learning day. We will be doing some community building activities and looking over our school goals.
* Tuesday, May 20th – Open House from 2:30pm-3:30pm
This year, we will not be having open house in the evening. Instead, it will be right after school. Please save the date and plan on coming to see all of your child’s wonderful work from the school year!
Now that it is getting close to the end of the year, students are forgetting some of our school and classroom rules. This week, we had many warnings for poor behavior, specifically with focusing on work (not talking or distracting others), being a good listener (listening to other adults or students), and following directions at recess and lunch (playing tag on the grass and not playing dangerous games).
Please remind your children everyday the importance of following rules and trying their best. We talk about kindness everyday and making good choices, and I hope that we can develop good habits to treat others respectfully.
Future Dates
* Thursday, May 8th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Remember to send your child’s blue library card to school. They will check out two books and you can return them at your convenience.
* Friday, May 9th: Insect Fair Field Trip at Sanborn Park
If you have not signed the permission slip, please remember to fill it out and return it on Monday! Please send a BAG lunch with your child’s name on it – we throw away everything at the park.
* Monday, May 12th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
This is our last teacher learning day. We will be doing some community building activities and looking over our school goals.
* Tuesday, May 20th – Open House from 2:30pm-3:30pm
This year, we will not be having open house in the evening. Instead, it will be right after school. Please save the date and plan on coming to see all of your child’s wonderful work from the school year!
Friday, April 25, 2008
April 25, 2008
Future Dates
* Monday, April 28th: Turn in your child’s clothes!
Remember to send your child’s bright solid colored shirt and blue jeans in a bag labeled with your child’s name and room number!
* Friday, May 2nd: First Grade Music Performance – 2:00pm @ MP Room
We will be singing songs from the theme, Sesame Street, and sharing poems from the authors Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein. Hope you can attend! Remember that if you are video taping, please stand in the back of the room!
* Friday, May 9th: Insect Fair Field Trip at Sanborn Park
There is a permission slip in today’s Friday Folder! Please fill it out and return it to me as soon as possible. We will be able to take about 2-4 parents on the trip. Remember to bring a bag lunch that can be thrown away at the park.
* Monday, May 12th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
This is our last teacher learning day. We will be doing some community building activities and looking over our school goals.
* Tuesday, May 20th – Open House from 2:30pm-3:30pm
This year, we will not be having open house in the evening. Instead, it will be right after school. Please save the date and plan on coming to see all of your child’s wonderful work from the school year!
I hope all of you had a nice week with your children. I was at home busily preparing for my wedding. I hope all of you received the invitation in the mail! Please RSVP by May 9th to let me know whether your family can make it or not. Thank you!
* Monday, April 28th: Turn in your child’s clothes!
Remember to send your child’s bright solid colored shirt and blue jeans in a bag labeled with your child’s name and room number!
* Friday, May 2nd: First Grade Music Performance – 2:00pm @ MP Room
We will be singing songs from the theme, Sesame Street, and sharing poems from the authors Jack Prelutsky and Shel Silverstein. Hope you can attend! Remember that if you are video taping, please stand in the back of the room!
* Friday, May 9th: Insect Fair Field Trip at Sanborn Park
There is a permission slip in today’s Friday Folder! Please fill it out and return it to me as soon as possible. We will be able to take about 2-4 parents on the trip. Remember to bring a bag lunch that can be thrown away at the park.
* Monday, May 12th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
This is our last teacher learning day. We will be doing some community building activities and looking over our school goals.
* Tuesday, May 20th – Open House from 2:30pm-3:30pm
This year, we will not be having open house in the evening. Instead, it will be right after school. Please save the date and plan on coming to see all of your child’s wonderful work from the school year!
I hope all of you had a nice week with your children. I was at home busily preparing for my wedding. I hope all of you received the invitation in the mail! Please RSVP by May 9th to let me know whether your family can make it or not. Thank you!
Friday, April 11, 2008
April 11, 2008
I’m back! After the craziness of ATA, we finally found a flight back on Tuesday on American Airlines… but if you saw the news, American cancelled their flights that exact day! So I actually was stuck in LA (ahhh!) and got home late that night on a United flight. This trip was an adventure! Hopefully none of you will have traveling problems next week!
It was a short week for me, but I’m glad I finally made it home. Thank you for supporting Mrs. Seema and offering to help her. This week, we also had another teacher aide join our class for one-and-a-half hours everyday. Her name is Mrs. Subha and she will be in our classroom on an alternating schedule with Mrs. Seema.
I received many compliments about the amount of parent volunteers who helped during our traffic duty last week. Thank you again!
Future Dates
* Monday, April 14th – Friday, April 18th: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your spring break!
* Friday, May 2nd: First Grade Music Performance – 2:00pm @ MP Room
There is a paper in today’s Friday Folder about the first grade musical. We will be singing songs from the theme, Sesame Street. Your child is required to bring a solid colored T-shirt and jeans (in a bag labeled with your child’s name) the week after we return from spring break. Hope you can attend!
Have a wonderful spring break! Enjoy the sun and have a great time!
It was a short week for me, but I’m glad I finally made it home. Thank you for supporting Mrs. Seema and offering to help her. This week, we also had another teacher aide join our class for one-and-a-half hours everyday. Her name is Mrs. Subha and she will be in our classroom on an alternating schedule with Mrs. Seema.
I received many compliments about the amount of parent volunteers who helped during our traffic duty last week. Thank you again!
Future Dates
* Monday, April 14th – Friday, April 18th: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your spring break!
* Friday, May 2nd: First Grade Music Performance – 2:00pm @ MP Room
There is a paper in today’s Friday Folder about the first grade musical. We will be singing songs from the theme, Sesame Street. Your child is required to bring a solid colored T-shirt and jeans (in a bag labeled with your child’s name) the week after we return from spring break. Hope you can attend!
Have a wonderful spring break! Enjoy the sun and have a great time!
April 4, 2008
THANK YOU to everyone who volunteered their time this week to do the Suisun traffic duty! Every week, a different class is responsible for keeping kids safe in the parking lot. Our class had many parents help out. Thanks for helping Eaton!
Jump rope for health! We are participating in this fundraiser for the American Heart Association. All of Eaton School will be jump roping together to raise money. If you have donations, please turn them in!
April book orders are attached to this newsletter. If you are interested, please return the order with ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. Please return them by Friday, April 11th and we should be able to get the books by the end of April.
Future Dates
* Thursday, April 10th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Remember to bring your blue library cards on this day. We will be walking to the library in the afternoon. Please memorize your 4-digit PIN number!
* Monday, April 14th – Friday, April 18th: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your spring break!
I hope everyone had a good week! My dance group was invited to perform at a 3-day conference in Hawaii, so that’s why I have been absent. We are lucky to have Mrs. Seema substitute for our class because she already knows all the kids! See you on Monday!
Jump rope for health! We are participating in this fundraiser for the American Heart Association. All of Eaton School will be jump roping together to raise money. If you have donations, please turn them in!
April book orders are attached to this newsletter. If you are interested, please return the order with ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. Please return them by Friday, April 11th and we should be able to get the books by the end of April.
Future Dates
* Thursday, April 10th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Remember to bring your blue library cards on this day. We will be walking to the library in the afternoon. Please memorize your 4-digit PIN number!
* Monday, April 14th – Friday, April 18th: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your spring break!
I hope everyone had a good week! My dance group was invited to perform at a 3-day conference in Hawaii, so that’s why I have been absent. We are lucky to have Mrs. Seema substitute for our class because she already knows all the kids! See you on Monday!
Monday, March 31, 2008
March 28, 2008
Next Week:
Monday, March 31st to Friday, April 4th
* Traffic & Parking Lot Duty
Thank you to many of you for signing up for traffic/parking lot duty. I have attached the schedule. If you have not signed up, please see if you can fill in one of the empty spots. Please sign up to help during one or more of the 20 minute time slots. Remember to check in the office 5 minutes before your shift to receive your orange vest. Thank you for helping our school!
* No Spelling or Vocabulary Homework
During this week, we will not be sending spelling or vocabulary homework. However, your child will still be getting a packet of worksheets to complete. Homework will continue after this week.
* Book-It Reading Program
Turn in your March reading logs on April 1st. The Book-It program ends after March, so you will not receive a reading log anymore, but please keep reading 20 minutes every night!
Future Dates
* Thursday, April 10th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Remember to bring your blue library cards on this day. We will be walking to the library in the afternoon. Please memorize your 4-digit PIN number!
* Monday, April 14th – Friday, April 18th: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your spring break!
Have a wonderful weekend! I will be attending a conference Wednesday through Friday next week, so Mrs. Seema will be the substitute teacher. Please remind your children to be on their best behavior and to try their best!
Monday, March 31st to Friday, April 4th
* Traffic & Parking Lot Duty
Thank you to many of you for signing up for traffic/parking lot duty. I have attached the schedule. If you have not signed up, please see if you can fill in one of the empty spots. Please sign up to help during one or more of the 20 minute time slots. Remember to check in the office 5 minutes before your shift to receive your orange vest. Thank you for helping our school!
* No Spelling or Vocabulary Homework
During this week, we will not be sending spelling or vocabulary homework. However, your child will still be getting a packet of worksheets to complete. Homework will continue after this week.
* Book-It Reading Program
Turn in your March reading logs on April 1st. The Book-It program ends after March, so you will not receive a reading log anymore, but please keep reading 20 minutes every night!
Future Dates
* Thursday, April 10th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Remember to bring your blue library cards on this day. We will be walking to the library in the afternoon. Please memorize your 4-digit PIN number!
* Monday, April 14th – Friday, April 18th: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your spring break!
Have a wonderful weekend! I will be attending a conference Wednesday through Friday next week, so Mrs. Seema will be the substitute teacher. Please remind your children to be on their best behavior and to try their best!
Friday, March 21, 2008
March 21, 2008
Upcoming Week:
Monday, March 31st to Friday, April 4th
* Traffic & Parking Lot Duty
Our class is in charge of traffic/parking lot duty during this week. Please sign up to help during one or more of the 20 minute time slots (before school 8:45-9:05 or after school 3:00-3:20). The sign up list will be outside our classroom door next week! We need help every day! Thank you!
* No Spelling or Vocabulary Homework
During this week, we will not be sending spelling or vocabulary homework. However, your child will still be getting a packet of worksheets to complete. Homework will continue after this week.
* Book-It Reading Program
Turn in your March reading logs on April 1st. The Book-It program ends after March, so you will not receive a reading log anymore, but please keep reading 20 minutes every night!
Future Dates
* Thursday, April 10th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Remember to bring your blue library cards on this day. We will be walking to the library in the afternoon. Please memorize your 4-digit PIN number!
* Monday, April 14th – Friday, April 18th: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your spring break!
Monday, March 31st to Friday, April 4th
* Traffic & Parking Lot Duty
Our class is in charge of traffic/parking lot duty during this week. Please sign up to help during one or more of the 20 minute time slots (before school 8:45-9:05 or after school 3:00-3:20). The sign up list will be outside our classroom door next week! We need help every day! Thank you!
* No Spelling or Vocabulary Homework
During this week, we will not be sending spelling or vocabulary homework. However, your child will still be getting a packet of worksheets to complete. Homework will continue after this week.
* Book-It Reading Program
Turn in your March reading logs on April 1st. The Book-It program ends after March, so you will not receive a reading log anymore, but please keep reading 20 minutes every night!
Future Dates
* Thursday, April 10th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
Remember to bring your blue library cards on this day. We will be walking to the library in the afternoon. Please memorize your 4-digit PIN number!
* Monday, April 14th – Friday, April 18th: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your spring break!
Thursday, March 06, 2008
March 6, 2008
* Friday, March 7th: No School – Staff Learning Day
Teachers will be coming to school to work on writing strategies. In the afternoon, we will be going to Hicklebee Book Store to pick books for our Eaton Library.
* Thursday, March 13th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Cupertino public library in the afternoon. Remember to send your child’s blue library card to school and have him/her remember the 4-digit password. Your child can check out 2 books. Please return them directly to the library on your own.
* Friday, March 21st: Report Cards Go Home
Today is the last day of the second trimester. I have assessed your children in all the subject areas and will be sending home report cards on the 21st.
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Dear Families,
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Amit
Poem of the Week: What the Rain Said
Song of the Week: Penguin Song
Kindness is … trying your best
Story of the Week: Jessie Bear, What Will You Wear?
Vocabulary of the Week: Transportation 1
Word Wall: been, evening, far, forest, goes, hungry, near, soon
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – your favorite book
(at least 4 lines memorized and bring something to show)
• Language Arts: Theme 6: Animal Adventures – Week 3
• Stories: Red Eyed Tree Frog
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Predictions and Inference
• Word Families: -ay
• Sounds: vowel pairs ai and ay
• Grammar: Naming Words for One or More
• Math: We worked mostly this week on addition and subtraction for numbers up to 20. This is slightly more challenging for students because we are in the higher numbers. I am seeing many mistakes and am reminding students to work carefully.
• Writing: Most students have finished writing the sloppy copy for The Mitten story. Some students have finished the final edit and a few students have even finished their illustrations. Great job!
• Science: We are starting a new circuit in first grade. We will be teaching the HLAY – or Here’s Looking at You – program about keeping safe from poisons, drugs, or alcohol. This week we learned more about penguins and how there are many different kinds. We found out some facts about several of the penguins, including African Penguins, Rockhopper Penguins, and Emperor penguins.
• Social Studies: Sunday was Dr. Seuss’ birthday! On Monday we talked about Dr. Seuss and how his stories are unique. On Tuesday, we had a special volunteer from the Cupertino Rotary Club named Ms. Colleen. She read two Dr. Seuss books to our class and even donated Green Eggs and Ham for our classroom! This was a fun treat!
• Music: First graders are continuing to learn all the songs for our end-of-the-year musical. I have been looking for participation levels during music. Each student will be responsible for singing all the songs and performing one dance. Save the date: Friday, May 2nd at 1:30pm.
• Art: This week, we did a lesson on what a landscape is. We learned about warm and cold colors and made a picture of things from nature. We drew mountains using the warm and cold colors and learned how to shade pictures using crayons.
• Computer: We added pictures to our kindness journal. We drew two pictures to add to our February entries. You can see our newly updated journals on our website kindness.pbwiki.com or through our classroom website.
ANTS!!!!! Please wash your child’s lunch bag!!! This week started off with a few ants here and there, and today, ants were all over our lunch basket! Please make sure that all food is closed inside Tupperware or a ziplock bag! Some students had to get hot lunch because there were ants in their food. Yucky! I have cleaned up most of the ants, but let’s try to prevent them from coming back again!
Teachers will be coming to school to work on writing strategies. In the afternoon, we will be going to Hicklebee Book Store to pick books for our Eaton Library.
* Thursday, March 13th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Cupertino public library in the afternoon. Remember to send your child’s blue library card to school and have him/her remember the 4-digit password. Your child can check out 2 books. Please return them directly to the library on your own.
* Friday, March 21st: Report Cards Go Home
Today is the last day of the second trimester. I have assessed your children in all the subject areas and will be sending home report cards on the 21st.
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Dear Families,
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Amit
Poem of the Week: What the Rain Said
Song of the Week: Penguin Song
Kindness is … trying your best
Story of the Week: Jessie Bear, What Will You Wear?
Vocabulary of the Week: Transportation 1
Word Wall: been, evening, far, forest, goes, hungry, near, soon
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – your favorite book
(at least 4 lines memorized and bring something to show)
• Language Arts: Theme 6: Animal Adventures – Week 3
• Stories: Red Eyed Tree Frog
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Predictions and Inference
• Word Families: -ay
• Sounds: vowel pairs ai and ay
• Grammar: Naming Words for One or More
• Math: We worked mostly this week on addition and subtraction for numbers up to 20. This is slightly more challenging for students because we are in the higher numbers. I am seeing many mistakes and am reminding students to work carefully.
• Writing: Most students have finished writing the sloppy copy for The Mitten story. Some students have finished the final edit and a few students have even finished their illustrations. Great job!
• Science: We are starting a new circuit in first grade. We will be teaching the HLAY – or Here’s Looking at You – program about keeping safe from poisons, drugs, or alcohol. This week we learned more about penguins and how there are many different kinds. We found out some facts about several of the penguins, including African Penguins, Rockhopper Penguins, and Emperor penguins.
• Social Studies: Sunday was Dr. Seuss’ birthday! On Monday we talked about Dr. Seuss and how his stories are unique. On Tuesday, we had a special volunteer from the Cupertino Rotary Club named Ms. Colleen. She read two Dr. Seuss books to our class and even donated Green Eggs and Ham for our classroom! This was a fun treat!
• Music: First graders are continuing to learn all the songs for our end-of-the-year musical. I have been looking for participation levels during music. Each student will be responsible for singing all the songs and performing one dance. Save the date: Friday, May 2nd at 1:30pm.
• Art: This week, we did a lesson on what a landscape is. We learned about warm and cold colors and made a picture of things from nature. We drew mountains using the warm and cold colors and learned how to shade pictures using crayons.
• Computer: We added pictures to our kindness journal. We drew two pictures to add to our February entries. You can see our newly updated journals on our website kindness.pbwiki.com or through our classroom website.
ANTS!!!!! Please wash your child’s lunch bag!!! This week started off with a few ants here and there, and today, ants were all over our lunch basket! Please make sure that all food is closed inside Tupperware or a ziplock bag! Some students had to get hot lunch because there were ants in their food. Yucky! I have cleaned up most of the ants, but let’s try to prevent them from coming back again!
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
February 29, 2008
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, March 3rd: February Book-It Reading Logs Due!
Please turn in your February reading logs. I will be sending home March reading logs too.
* Thursday, March 6th: Last Day of Second Trimester
Report cards will be given out on March 21st. Grades will reflect your child’s progress from November to this date.
* Friday, March 7th: No School – Staff Learning Day
Teachers will be coming to school to work on writing strategies.
* Thursday, March 13th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Cupertino public library in the afternoon. Remember to send your child’s blue library card to school and have him/her remember the 4-digit password. Your child can check out 2 books. Please return them directly to the library on your own.
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Dear Families,
I hope everyone had a wonderful vacation last week! I went to San Diego and Mexico on a cruise. It was very relaxing and I ate a lot of food! We visited Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta.
As we return back to school, I have been spending extra time reminding students of the classroom and school rules. I ask students to evaluate themselves for their own behavior to see if they tried their best or not. Please actively continue to have conversations about doing the right things.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Nasrin
Poem of the Week: Plip Plop Raindrop
Song of the Week: Penguin Song
Kindness is … eating healthy for your body
Story of the Week: What is the Sun?
Vocabulary of the Week: House 6
Word Wall: cow, door, house, now, there, though, wall
Next Week’s Sharing: Spring Poem
(at least 4 lines memorized and bring something to show)
• Language Arts: Theme 6: Animal Adventures – Week 2
• Stories: Eek! There’s a Mouse in the House
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Question / Noting Details
• Word Families: -eat
• Sounds: long e, vower pairs ee, ea
• Grammar: Naming Words for Things and Places
• Math: We finished our chapter on Geometry, Fractions, and Probability. This week we have been reviewing everything that we have learned since the beginning of the year including money, graphs, place value, and problem solving.
• Writing: Many students have finished their rough drafts of the Mitten story. Some students are writing their final copies and some students have even begun illustrating their stories. This project encourages students to be independent workers.
• Science: We went to Mrs. Chou’s class on Tuesday for circuits. We talked about wind and the rainbow. We made kites using rainbow colored strips of paper and yarn. This week, we did an activity on nutrition since it was our Kindness Journal topic of the week. We brainstormed different fruits and vegetables that would be healthy for our bodies.
• Social Studies: We are continuing to learn more about penguins. We are reading stories and this week we watched a video about the life of a penguin. We also did an art project of a penguin.
• Music: Mrs. Stauter was sick this week, so we did not get a chance to have
music with her. We are continuing to prepare for our first grade musical. I am looking for participation!
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee is starting an art unit about ink and painting. We started today practicing making different strokes using authentic bamboo brushes. We learned that some pictures have changed from written language and characters.
• Computer: This week we did an activity in KidPix on fractions. Students had to show 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 of circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. They drew the lines and filled in the fractions.
• Assembly: We had an interesting assembly today called Pioneer Living.
We watched an introduction to the assembly video on Thursday afternoon that explained how to complete different activities. For example, there was a station where you could use soap and pretend to shave like the pioneers did. Or another station where you could mine for gold. This was a great hands-on experience for the kids!
• Buddies: Today we saw our buddies and worked on measurement. We made inch rulers and centimeter rulers. Then we started measuring different parts of our bodies or objects around the room. You can keep these rulers because in a few weeks we will be doing measurement in math!
Welcome back and Happy March!
* Monday, March 3rd: February Book-It Reading Logs Due!
Please turn in your February reading logs. I will be sending home March reading logs too.
* Thursday, March 6th: Last Day of Second Trimester
Report cards will be given out on March 21st. Grades will reflect your child’s progress from November to this date.
* Friday, March 7th: No School – Staff Learning Day
Teachers will be coming to school to work on writing strategies.
* Thursday, March 13th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Cupertino public library in the afternoon. Remember to send your child’s blue library card to school and have him/her remember the 4-digit password. Your child can check out 2 books. Please return them directly to the library on your own.
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Dear Families,
I hope everyone had a wonderful vacation last week! I went to San Diego and Mexico on a cruise. It was very relaxing and I ate a lot of food! We visited Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, and Puerto Vallarta.
As we return back to school, I have been spending extra time reminding students of the classroom and school rules. I ask students to evaluate themselves for their own behavior to see if they tried their best or not. Please actively continue to have conversations about doing the right things.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Nasrin
Poem of the Week: Plip Plop Raindrop
Song of the Week: Penguin Song
Kindness is … eating healthy for your body
Story of the Week: What is the Sun?
Vocabulary of the Week: House 6
Word Wall: cow, door, house, now, there, though, wall
Next Week’s Sharing: Spring Poem
(at least 4 lines memorized and bring something to show)
• Language Arts: Theme 6: Animal Adventures – Week 2
• Stories: Eek! There’s a Mouse in the House
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Question / Noting Details
• Word Families: -eat
• Sounds: long e, vower pairs ee, ea
• Grammar: Naming Words for Things and Places
• Math: We finished our chapter on Geometry, Fractions, and Probability. This week we have been reviewing everything that we have learned since the beginning of the year including money, graphs, place value, and problem solving.
• Writing: Many students have finished their rough drafts of the Mitten story. Some students are writing their final copies and some students have even begun illustrating their stories. This project encourages students to be independent workers.
• Science: We went to Mrs. Chou’s class on Tuesday for circuits. We talked about wind and the rainbow. We made kites using rainbow colored strips of paper and yarn. This week, we did an activity on nutrition since it was our Kindness Journal topic of the week. We brainstormed different fruits and vegetables that would be healthy for our bodies.
• Social Studies: We are continuing to learn more about penguins. We are reading stories and this week we watched a video about the life of a penguin. We also did an art project of a penguin.
• Music: Mrs. Stauter was sick this week, so we did not get a chance to have
music with her. We are continuing to prepare for our first grade musical. I am looking for participation!
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee is starting an art unit about ink and painting. We started today practicing making different strokes using authentic bamboo brushes. We learned that some pictures have changed from written language and characters.
• Computer: This week we did an activity in KidPix on fractions. Students had to show 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4 of circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. They drew the lines and filled in the fractions.
• Assembly: We had an interesting assembly today called Pioneer Living.
We watched an introduction to the assembly video on Thursday afternoon that explained how to complete different activities. For example, there was a station where you could use soap and pretend to shave like the pioneers did. Or another station where you could mine for gold. This was a great hands-on experience for the kids!
• Buddies: Today we saw our buddies and worked on measurement. We made inch rulers and centimeter rulers. Then we started measuring different parts of our bodies or objects around the room. You can keep these rulers because in a few weeks we will be doing measurement in math!
Welcome back and Happy March!
Friday, February 15, 2008
Winter Recess!
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, February 18th – Friday, February 22nd: Winter Recess
There will be no school this week. Have a great vacation!
* Monday, March 3rd: February Book-It Reading Logs Due!
Please turn in your February reading logs. I will be sending home March reading logs too.
* Friday, March 7th: No School – Staff Learning Day
Teachers will be coming to school to work on writing strategies.
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Dear Families,
Happy Valentine’s Day! We had a nice party on Thursday and the children enjoyed giving and receiving Valentine cards! Thank you for working with your child and preparing those for the class. Also, tank you so much for the sweet cards and gifts on Valentine’s Day! I am always thankful for the kindness your children and family show to me. It was a very fun day! If your child happened to bring home a brown puppy stuffed animal after our Valentine’s Day party, please return it to school. It is lost!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Aiko
Poem of the Week: Dear Valentine
Song of the Week: Water Cycle
Kindness is … showing others you care.
Story of the Week: The Emperor’s Egg
Vocabulary of the Week: House 5
Word Wall: by, climb, found, morning, out, shout, show
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something healthy
(at least 4 clues memorized and hide something to show)
• Language Arts: Theme 6: Animal Adventures – Week 1
• Stories: The Sleeping Pig
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Summarize / Story Structure
• Word Families: -oke
• Sounds: long o, long u, and final clusters –ft, -nt, -lk
• Grammar: Naming Words for People and Animals
• Math: This week we reviewed our vocabulary words for plane and solid shapes.
We also worked on identifying patterns and talked about symmetry or equal parts. This idea is used to understand fractions and we are learning 1/2 , 1/3 , and 1/4. We also learned about probability and this was a challenging activity. We have to remember how to make tally marks correctly and be able to compare different circle graphs to see the probability of spinning a certain color.
• Writing: We are still working on our rough drafts of the Mitten story. I am reminding students to proofread their work for capitals, periods, and too many “and’s.” Also, I am teaching them to re-read their own work and add more details to their sentences. We will be finishing our Mitten stories after the break.
• Science: We went to Mrs. Barelli’s class on Tuesday and learned about clouds. We read the story, It Looked Like Spilt Milk, and made clouds in different shapes. We have finished our weather book, although there are still a few more activities we will be doing. This week we did an experiment to find out that on a sunny day, it is hotter wearing dark clothes vs. light clothes. Also, we tallied our weather observations for the month of January. Finally, this week we learned how to read the weather page in the newspaper. This involved some social studies skills such as reading a map and finding imformation.
• Social Studies: We read many stories about Valentine’s Day. We made our own Concrete poems describing Valentine’s Day and decorated a craft. Our kindness journals had to do with showing others we care by making Valentine’s for our classmates.
• Music: First graders are busily preparing for our end of the year musical on May 2nd. Our theme this year is Sesame Street so we have been learning many songs from the show. I am watching to see if students are participating and trying their best!
• Computer: This week we used Kidpix to make a heart tree that matched our poem of the week. Students learned how to type using the text tool and how to change the fonts and sizes of text. They also used stamps and drawing tools to make their trees.
Have a wonderful week vacation! I will be going to San Diego and Mexico over the break so I hope the weather stays warm! See you in one week!
* Monday, February 18th – Friday, February 22nd: Winter Recess
There will be no school this week. Have a great vacation!
* Monday, March 3rd: February Book-It Reading Logs Due!
Please turn in your February reading logs. I will be sending home March reading logs too.
* Friday, March 7th: No School – Staff Learning Day
Teachers will be coming to school to work on writing strategies.
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Dear Families,
Happy Valentine’s Day! We had a nice party on Thursday and the children enjoyed giving and receiving Valentine cards! Thank you for working with your child and preparing those for the class. Also, tank you so much for the sweet cards and gifts on Valentine’s Day! I am always thankful for the kindness your children and family show to me. It was a very fun day! If your child happened to bring home a brown puppy stuffed animal after our Valentine’s Day party, please return it to school. It is lost!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Aiko
Poem of the Week: Dear Valentine
Song of the Week: Water Cycle
Kindness is … showing others you care.
Story of the Week: The Emperor’s Egg
Vocabulary of the Week: House 5
Word Wall: by, climb, found, morning, out, shout, show
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something healthy
(at least 4 clues memorized and hide something to show)
• Language Arts: Theme 6: Animal Adventures – Week 1
• Stories: The Sleeping Pig
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Summarize / Story Structure
• Word Families: -oke
• Sounds: long o, long u, and final clusters –ft, -nt, -lk
• Grammar: Naming Words for People and Animals
• Math: This week we reviewed our vocabulary words for plane and solid shapes.
We also worked on identifying patterns and talked about symmetry or equal parts. This idea is used to understand fractions and we are learning 1/2 , 1/3 , and 1/4. We also learned about probability and this was a challenging activity. We have to remember how to make tally marks correctly and be able to compare different circle graphs to see the probability of spinning a certain color.
• Writing: We are still working on our rough drafts of the Mitten story. I am reminding students to proofread their work for capitals, periods, and too many “and’s.” Also, I am teaching them to re-read their own work and add more details to their sentences. We will be finishing our Mitten stories after the break.
• Science: We went to Mrs. Barelli’s class on Tuesday and learned about clouds. We read the story, It Looked Like Spilt Milk, and made clouds in different shapes. We have finished our weather book, although there are still a few more activities we will be doing. This week we did an experiment to find out that on a sunny day, it is hotter wearing dark clothes vs. light clothes. Also, we tallied our weather observations for the month of January. Finally, this week we learned how to read the weather page in the newspaper. This involved some social studies skills such as reading a map and finding imformation.
• Social Studies: We read many stories about Valentine’s Day. We made our own Concrete poems describing Valentine’s Day and decorated a craft. Our kindness journals had to do with showing others we care by making Valentine’s for our classmates.
• Music: First graders are busily preparing for our end of the year musical on May 2nd. Our theme this year is Sesame Street so we have been learning many songs from the show. I am watching to see if students are participating and trying their best!
• Computer: This week we used Kidpix to make a heart tree that matched our poem of the week. Students learned how to type using the text tool and how to change the fonts and sizes of text. They also used stamps and drawing tools to make their trees.
Have a wonderful week vacation! I will be going to San Diego and Mexico over the break so I hope the weather stays warm! See you in one week!
Friday, February 08, 2008
Chinese New Year!
Upcoming Dates
* Thursday, February 14th: Valentine’s Day
We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day in the afternoon by doing some crafts, having a snack, and exchanging cards. Every child must prepare Valentine cards for every student and bring them to school on Valentine’s Day. 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.
Aiko Amit Anna Brian Chris David
Hyunseok Jason Jeffery Justin Kelly Kevin
Kevin L. Kota Michael Nadiya Nasrin Ruth Saketh Yuna Yusuke (21 total students)
* Monday, February 18th – Friday, February 22nd: Winter Recess
There will be no school this week. Have a great vacation!
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Dear Families,
Happy 100th day! On Monday, we celebrated the 100th day of school and had an all day first grade circuit. The students counted to 100 making bead necklaces, hats, and art projects. It was a fun day!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Anna
Poem of the Week: One Hundred Days
Song of the Week: Water Cycle
Kindness is … celebrating special days
Story of the Week: The 100th Day of School
Vocabulary of the Week: House 4
Word Wall: fly, give, good, her, little, our, was
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something you love
(at least 4 clues memorized and hide something to show)
• Language Arts: Theme 5: Home Sweet Home – Week 3
• Stories: The Kite
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Monitor/Clarify
• Word Families: -ite, -ide
• Sounds: long I, contractions
• Grammar: Using I or Me in Sentences
• Math: This week we started our new chapter on Geometry. We have been reviewing plane shapes as well as solid 3-D shapes. Make sure your child can identify all of these. We also talked about how many corners and sides are in each shape.
• Science: We went to Mrs. Burgess’ class on Tuesday and learned about wind. We made pinwheels on pencils to show how wind is measured. We are almost finished with our weather kits!
• Social Studies: We learned about Chinese New Year on Thursday. We read some stories about some of the traditions that take place and made a dragon puppet to celebrate.
• Music: Mrs. Stauter taught us about the difference between rhythm and beat this week. We sang songs and took turns making our own beats using a drum.
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee had us finish our watercolor landscape paintings. The landscape had to have a picture of something from nature (mountains, water, land). Afterwards we started an abstract watercolor painting, which means that it is random colors everywhere.
• Buddies: We made special Chinese New Year lanterns with our big buddies using envelopes. They helped us to staple the pieces together and assemble the lanterns.
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly called “Water Shed Watch” by Zun Zun. They used real instruments to tell a story and it was very entertaining.
On Wednesday this week, we had a Code Red drill. We talked about how we practice for emergencies including fires, earthquakes, and now if there were dangerous strangers at Eaton. Code Red means that we lock our rooms, turn off the lights, and hide inside as quietly as possible. The teachers also have to build barricades against the doors and to hide the children. Mrs. Rowe and a police officer came around to check each classroom and we did a great job.
Take care over the weekend! I was a little sick this past week and lost my voice for a few days, but the kids have been good listeners still. Enjoy the sunshine!
* Thursday, February 14th: Valentine’s Day
We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day in the afternoon by doing some crafts, having a snack, and exchanging cards. Every child must prepare Valentine cards for every student and bring them to school on Valentine’s Day. 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.
Aiko Amit Anna Brian Chris David
Hyunseok Jason Jeffery Justin Kelly Kevin
Kevin L. Kota Michael Nadiya Nasrin Ruth Saketh Yuna Yusuke (21 total students)
* Monday, February 18th – Friday, February 22nd: Winter Recess
There will be no school this week. Have a great vacation!
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Dear Families,
Happy 100th day! On Monday, we celebrated the 100th day of school and had an all day first grade circuit. The students counted to 100 making bead necklaces, hats, and art projects. It was a fun day!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Anna
Poem of the Week: One Hundred Days
Song of the Week: Water Cycle
Kindness is … celebrating special days
Story of the Week: The 100th Day of School
Vocabulary of the Week: House 4
Word Wall: fly, give, good, her, little, our, was
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something you love
(at least 4 clues memorized and hide something to show)
• Language Arts: Theme 5: Home Sweet Home – Week 3
• Stories: The Kite
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Monitor/Clarify
• Word Families: -ite, -ide
• Sounds: long I, contractions
• Grammar: Using I or Me in Sentences
• Math: This week we started our new chapter on Geometry. We have been reviewing plane shapes as well as solid 3-D shapes. Make sure your child can identify all of these. We also talked about how many corners and sides are in each shape.
• Science: We went to Mrs. Burgess’ class on Tuesday and learned about wind. We made pinwheels on pencils to show how wind is measured. We are almost finished with our weather kits!
• Social Studies: We learned about Chinese New Year on Thursday. We read some stories about some of the traditions that take place and made a dragon puppet to celebrate.
• Music: Mrs. Stauter taught us about the difference between rhythm and beat this week. We sang songs and took turns making our own beats using a drum.
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee had us finish our watercolor landscape paintings. The landscape had to have a picture of something from nature (mountains, water, land). Afterwards we started an abstract watercolor painting, which means that it is random colors everywhere.
• Buddies: We made special Chinese New Year lanterns with our big buddies using envelopes. They helped us to staple the pieces together and assemble the lanterns.
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly called “Water Shed Watch” by Zun Zun. They used real instruments to tell a story and it was very entertaining.
On Wednesday this week, we had a Code Red drill. We talked about how we practice for emergencies including fires, earthquakes, and now if there were dangerous strangers at Eaton. Code Red means that we lock our rooms, turn off the lights, and hide inside as quietly as possible. The teachers also have to build barricades against the doors and to hide the children. Mrs. Rowe and a police officer came around to check each classroom and we did a great job.
Take care over the weekend! I was a little sick this past week and lost my voice for a few days, but the kids have been good listeners still. Enjoy the sunshine!
Friday, February 01, 2008
Groundhog Day (almost)
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, February 4th: 100th Day of School
We will be doing an all-day first grade circuit on fun activities to celebrate the 100th day of school! Therefore, we will not be going to our computer lab in the afternoon (volunteers do not need to come that afternoon! Thanks!!)
* Thursday, February 7th: Cupertino Public Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Public library in the afternoon. The librarians will read us some stories and we will check out 2 books. Please remember to bring your blue library cards and memorize your 4-digit PIN number! You can return these books on your own when you finish reading them. Please do not bring them back to Eaton.
* Thursday, February 14th: Valentine’s Day
We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day in the afternoon by doing some crafts, having a snack, and exchanging cards. Every child must prepare Valentine cards for every student and bring them to school on Valentine’s Day. 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.
Aiko Amit Anna Brian Chris David
Hyunseok Jason Jeffery Justin Kelly Kevin
Kevin L. Kota Michael Nadiya Nasrin Ruth Saketh Yuna Yusuke (21 total students)
* Monday, February 18th – Friday, February 22nd: Winter Recess
There will be no school this week. Have a great vacation!
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Dear Families,
Although it has been cloudy each day, we were happy that it didn’t rain too much during the week. Most of the days we went out to play at recess and lunch. However, last weekend was rainy rainy rainy! We left our rain gauges outside over the weekend and we measured about 3-4 inches of rain! We recorded these results in our weather book.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Kevin
Poem of the Week: January Thaw
Song of the Week: Money
Kindness is … taking care of the classroom
Story of the Week: I Like the Rain
Vocabulary of the Week: House 3
Word Wall: could, house, how, over, own, world
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular: something you made using 100 items
(at least 4 sentences memorized and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 5: Home Sweet Home – Week 2
• Stories: Me On The Map
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Summarize
• Word Families: -ate, -ake
• Sounds: long a, final –nd, -ng, -nk
• Grammar: Which Kind of Sentence?
• Math: We finished our chapter on money this week. The Money song we have learned will hopefully be helpful to remember the coins and their values. We spent time solving money word problems together as a class and reviewed counting coins. Next week we are starting a new chapter on geometry, fractions, and probability.
• Science: On Tuesday, we went to Mrs. Tambe’s class for circuits and learned about the water cycle again. On Thursday we used real thermometers and did an experiment on hot, cold, and mixed water. We have been recording the weather and temperature everyday and will be finishing up our science unit in the next 2 weeks.
• Social Studies: We started reading some stories on penguins. We learned a little about the Emperor penguins and their lives in Antarctica. We made a mini-book about them and found out where penguins live in the world map.
• Writing: We are beginning our first narrative writing project. A narrative writing piece means a story (can be fiction), whereas an expository writing piece mean a report (non-fiction usually). We started planning out our own adaptation of The Mitten and began our rough draft. Next week we will continue editing and working on our stories.
• Computer: We illustrated our kindness pictures for the month of January during computer lab. We used KidPix to draw the pictures, and you can see our updated Kindness journals on kindness.pbwiki.com .
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly called “The Living Earth” from the Wildlife Associates. We had a chance to learn about real life animals and see them in person!
If you didn’t turn in your January Book It reading log today, please return it on Monday! A new February reading log is in today’s Friday folder. Please remind your children to follow school rules and be kind friends to one another each day. I have been giving reminders frequently throughout the day for children to treat each other respectfully and to focus on their work.
Thank you.
* Monday, February 4th: 100th Day of School
We will be doing an all-day first grade circuit on fun activities to celebrate the 100th day of school! Therefore, we will not be going to our computer lab in the afternoon (volunteers do not need to come that afternoon! Thanks!!)
* Thursday, February 7th: Cupertino Public Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Public library in the afternoon. The librarians will read us some stories and we will check out 2 books. Please remember to bring your blue library cards and memorize your 4-digit PIN number! You can return these books on your own when you finish reading them. Please do not bring them back to Eaton.
* Thursday, February 14th: Valentine’s Day
We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day in the afternoon by doing some crafts, having a snack, and exchanging cards. Every child must prepare Valentine cards for every student and bring them to school on Valentine’s Day. 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.
Aiko Amit Anna Brian Chris David
Hyunseok Jason Jeffery Justin Kelly Kevin
Kevin L. Kota Michael Nadiya Nasrin Ruth Saketh Yuna Yusuke (21 total students)
* Monday, February 18th – Friday, February 22nd: Winter Recess
There will be no school this week. Have a great vacation!
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Dear Families,
Although it has been cloudy each day, we were happy that it didn’t rain too much during the week. Most of the days we went out to play at recess and lunch. However, last weekend was rainy rainy rainy! We left our rain gauges outside over the weekend and we measured about 3-4 inches of rain! We recorded these results in our weather book.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Kevin
Poem of the Week: January Thaw
Song of the Week: Money
Kindness is … taking care of the classroom
Story of the Week: I Like the Rain
Vocabulary of the Week: House 3
Word Wall: could, house, how, over, own, world
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular: something you made using 100 items
(at least 4 sentences memorized and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 5: Home Sweet Home – Week 2
• Stories: Me On The Map
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Summarize
• Word Families: -ate, -ake
• Sounds: long a, final –nd, -ng, -nk
• Grammar: Which Kind of Sentence?
• Math: We finished our chapter on money this week. The Money song we have learned will hopefully be helpful to remember the coins and their values. We spent time solving money word problems together as a class and reviewed counting coins. Next week we are starting a new chapter on geometry, fractions, and probability.
• Science: On Tuesday, we went to Mrs. Tambe’s class for circuits and learned about the water cycle again. On Thursday we used real thermometers and did an experiment on hot, cold, and mixed water. We have been recording the weather and temperature everyday and will be finishing up our science unit in the next 2 weeks.
• Social Studies: We started reading some stories on penguins. We learned a little about the Emperor penguins and their lives in Antarctica. We made a mini-book about them and found out where penguins live in the world map.
• Writing: We are beginning our first narrative writing project. A narrative writing piece means a story (can be fiction), whereas an expository writing piece mean a report (non-fiction usually). We started planning out our own adaptation of The Mitten and began our rough draft. Next week we will continue editing and working on our stories.
• Computer: We illustrated our kindness pictures for the month of January during computer lab. We used KidPix to draw the pictures, and you can see our updated Kindness journals on kindness.pbwiki.com .
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly called “The Living Earth” from the Wildlife Associates. We had a chance to learn about real life animals and see them in person!
If you didn’t turn in your January Book It reading log today, please return it on Monday! A new February reading log is in today’s Friday folder. Please remind your children to follow school rules and be kind friends to one another each day. I have been giving reminders frequently throughout the day for children to treat each other respectfully and to focus on their work.
Thank you.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Stormy Weather!!
* Friday, February 1st: January Book-It Reading Logs Due!
Please turn in your January reading logs and your child will receive a free personal pizza certificate! I will also be sending home February Book-It reading logs on this day.
* Monday, February 4th: 100th Day of School
We will be doing an all-day first grade circuit on fun activities to celebrate the 100th day of school! Therefore, we will not be going to our computer lab in the afternoon (volunteers do not need to come that afternoon! Thanks!!)
* Thursday, February 7th: Cupertino Public Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Public library in the afternoon. The librarians will read us some stories and we will check out 2 books. Please remember to bring your blue library cards and memorize your 4-digit PIN number! You can return these books on your own when you finish reading them. Please do not bring them back to Eaton.
* Thursday, February 14th: Valentine’s Day
We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day in the afternoon by doing some crafts, having a snack, and exchanging cards. Every child must prepare Valentine cards for every student and bring them to school on Valentine’s Day. 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.
Aiko Amit Anna Brian Chris David
Hyunseok Jason Jeffery Justin Kelly Kevin
Kevin L. Kota Michael Nadiya Nasrin Ruth Saketh Yuna Yusuke (21 total students)
* Monday, February 18th – Friday, February 22nd: Winter Recess
There will be no school this week. Have a great vacation!
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Dear Families,
This was another short week! I would like to welcome another new student into our classroom, Ruth Feng. She joined our class on Wednesday and she is just starting to learn English. We interviewed her as our Princess of the Day on Thursday and found out some things she likes. You can read about Ruth on the Classwork section of our website!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Chris
Poem of the Week: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Song of the Week: Money
Kindness is … following your dreams
Story of the Week: The Hat
Vocabulary of the Week: House 2
Word Wall: grow, light, long, more, other, right, room, these
Next Week’s Sharing: Friendship Poem
(at least 4 sentences memorized and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 5: Home Sweet Home – Week 1
• Stories: Moving Day
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Question, Compare/Contrast
• Word Families: -ash, -ush
• Sounds: digraphs sh, th, wh, ch, tch
• Grammar: Exclamations
• Math: This week we worked on solving word problems with money. These word problems are much trickier than our addition and subtraction questions. We are learning how to read carefully and how to solve these types of questions. Please continue practicing counting and making different combinations using pennies, nickels, dimes, and this week we introduced quarters.
• Science: On Tuesday, we went to Mrs. Nieveen’s classroom and we learned about puddles. This was a good continuation of understanding the water cycle and evaporation. In class, we learned about the different types of thermometers in our world. We made a play thermometer using paper and shoelaces and practiced graphing the temperature.
• Social Studies: We learned all about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this week. We read many stories about his life and why he is famous today in America. We also made a project and learned a poem about his dream of one day everyone being kind to one another.
• Art: Today we finished our complementary colors project using watercolor. Afterwards we started painting a landscape
using watercolors as well!
• Music: We saw Mrs. Stauter this week and she sang some weather songs with us. We sang a song about winter and another about rain.
• Buddies: This week we made giant snowflakes with our big buddies! We are going to hang them on the ceiling!
Today was the last day for the coat drive. Thank you to all of you who donated something! It is so rainy! We are collecting rain for our science unit and we will find out how much rain fell after the weekend! Enjoy your weekend!
Please turn in your January reading logs and your child will receive a free personal pizza certificate! I will also be sending home February Book-It reading logs on this day.
* Monday, February 4th: 100th Day of School
We will be doing an all-day first grade circuit on fun activities to celebrate the 100th day of school! Therefore, we will not be going to our computer lab in the afternoon (volunteers do not need to come that afternoon! Thanks!!)
* Thursday, February 7th: Cupertino Public Library Field Trip
We will be walking to the Public library in the afternoon. The librarians will read us some stories and we will check out 2 books. Please remember to bring your blue library cards and memorize your 4-digit PIN number! You can return these books on your own when you finish reading them. Please do not bring them back to Eaton.
* Thursday, February 14th: Valentine’s Day
We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day in the afternoon by doing some crafts, having a snack, and exchanging cards. Every child must prepare Valentine cards for every student and bring them to school on Valentine’s Day. 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.
Aiko Amit Anna Brian Chris David
Hyunseok Jason Jeffery Justin Kelly Kevin
Kevin L. Kota Michael Nadiya Nasrin Ruth Saketh Yuna Yusuke (21 total students)
* Monday, February 18th – Friday, February 22nd: Winter Recess
There will be no school this week. Have a great vacation!
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Dear Families,
This was another short week! I would like to welcome another new student into our classroom, Ruth Feng. She joined our class on Wednesday and she is just starting to learn English. We interviewed her as our Princess of the Day on Thursday and found out some things she likes. You can read about Ruth on the Classwork section of our website!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Chris
Poem of the Week: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Song of the Week: Money
Kindness is … following your dreams
Story of the Week: The Hat
Vocabulary of the Week: House 2
Word Wall: grow, light, long, more, other, right, room, these
Next Week’s Sharing: Friendship Poem
(at least 4 sentences memorized and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 5: Home Sweet Home – Week 1
• Stories: Moving Day
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Question, Compare/Contrast
• Word Families: -ash, -ush
• Sounds: digraphs sh, th, wh, ch, tch
• Grammar: Exclamations
• Math: This week we worked on solving word problems with money. These word problems are much trickier than our addition and subtraction questions. We are learning how to read carefully and how to solve these types of questions. Please continue practicing counting and making different combinations using pennies, nickels, dimes, and this week we introduced quarters.
• Science: On Tuesday, we went to Mrs. Nieveen’s classroom and we learned about puddles. This was a good continuation of understanding the water cycle and evaporation. In class, we learned about the different types of thermometers in our world. We made a play thermometer using paper and shoelaces and practiced graphing the temperature.
• Social Studies: We learned all about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this week. We read many stories about his life and why he is famous today in America. We also made a project and learned a poem about his dream of one day everyone being kind to one another.
• Art: Today we finished our complementary colors project using watercolor. Afterwards we started painting a landscape
using watercolors as well!
• Music: We saw Mrs. Stauter this week and she sang some weather songs with us. We sang a song about winter and another about rain.
• Buddies: This week we made giant snowflakes with our big buddies! We are going to hang them on the ceiling!
Today was the last day for the coat drive. Thank you to all of you who donated something! It is so rainy! We are collecting rain for our science unit and we will find out how much rain fell after the weekend! Enjoy your weekend!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Long weekend!
Upcoming Dates
* Friday, January 18th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
The teachers will be having a technology training in the morning and will be working on our writing plan for the rest of the year.
* Monday, January 21st: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
We will be learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and his attempts for building peace in the world!
* Friday, January 25th: Snowman Family Project Due
Please decorate the snowman your child is bringing home today. Be as creative as possible and use different materials you might find around the house (but no food please!). Remember, this is a parent-child activity so have fun creating the snowman together!
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Dear Families,
This was a short week! We were happy to see the sun come out after all the rain the past few weeks! We have continued to observe the weather this week and it has been changing everyday!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Yuna
Poem of the Week: Bear-ly Awake
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … building peace around me.
Story of the Week: Little One Inch
Vocabulary of the Week: House 1
Word Wall: car, down, hear, hold, hurt, learn, their, walk, would
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something to keep you warm
(at least 4 clues memorized and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 Family and Friends – Week 3
• Stories: Bud’s Day Out
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Monitor/Clarify, Sequence
• Word Families: -um, -ump
• Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
• Sounds: triple clusters, short u
• Grammar: Asking Sentences
• Writing: We started talking about peace this week and wrote in our Kindness Journals ways we can build peace at home, at school, or in our community.
• Math: We took our chapter test on addition and subtraction facts to 12. We have continued practicing counting dimes, nickels, and pennies. Now we are starting to show different ways to make certain amounts.
• Science: This week we read some Rain poems and made a project using words that described what rain looks or sounds like. Also, we made our own flags so that we can measure the wind! In Circuits, Mrs. Bachelor talked about winter with us and we mad a 3D snowman scene. Today we discussed the Water Cycle and learned about evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. We made a project to show the Water Cycle happening.
• Computer Lab: To continue with weather, we used Graph Club for the first time this week. We graphed our class’ favorite weather by using this software program. First we chose the different weather icons. Then we added a title and put how many students chose each icon. Finally, we chose which graphs we wanted to print!
• Social Studies: We are starting a lesson that will be incorporating a narrative writing piece using the story, The Mitten, by Jan Brett. This week we read the story and made our own mittens. Also, we began retelling the story and remembering all the details.
Thank you for participating in the coat drive. If you have any coats or jackets that you would like to donate that are still in good condition, please bring them to school by Friday. Have a wonderful weekend!
* Friday, January 18th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
The teachers will be having a technology training in the morning and will be working on our writing plan for the rest of the year.
* Monday, January 21st: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
We will be learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and his attempts for building peace in the world!
* Friday, January 25th: Snowman Family Project Due
Please decorate the snowman your child is bringing home today. Be as creative as possible and use different materials you might find around the house (but no food please!). Remember, this is a parent-child activity so have fun creating the snowman together!
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Dear Families,
This was a short week! We were happy to see the sun come out after all the rain the past few weeks! We have continued to observe the weather this week and it has been changing everyday!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Yuna
Poem of the Week: Bear-ly Awake
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … building peace around me.
Story of the Week: Little One Inch
Vocabulary of the Week: House 1
Word Wall: car, down, hear, hold, hurt, learn, their, walk, would
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something to keep you warm
(at least 4 clues memorized and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 Family and Friends – Week 3
• Stories: Bud’s Day Out
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Monitor/Clarify, Sequence
• Word Families: -um, -ump
• Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
• Sounds: triple clusters, short u
• Grammar: Asking Sentences
• Writing: We started talking about peace this week and wrote in our Kindness Journals ways we can build peace at home, at school, or in our community.
• Math: We took our chapter test on addition and subtraction facts to 12. We have continued practicing counting dimes, nickels, and pennies. Now we are starting to show different ways to make certain amounts.
• Science: This week we read some Rain poems and made a project using words that described what rain looks or sounds like. Also, we made our own flags so that we can measure the wind! In Circuits, Mrs. Bachelor talked about winter with us and we mad a 3D snowman scene. Today we discussed the Water Cycle and learned about evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. We made a project to show the Water Cycle happening.
• Computer Lab: To continue with weather, we used Graph Club for the first time this week. We graphed our class’ favorite weather by using this software program. First we chose the different weather icons. Then we added a title and put how many students chose each icon. Finally, we chose which graphs we wanted to print!
• Social Studies: We are starting a lesson that will be incorporating a narrative writing piece using the story, The Mitten, by Jan Brett. This week we read the story and made our own mittens. Also, we began retelling the story and remembering all the details.
Thank you for participating in the coat drive. If you have any coats or jackets that you would like to donate that are still in good condition, please bring them to school by Friday. Have a wonderful weekend!
Friday, January 11, 2008
2008!
Upcoming Dates
* Thursday, January 17th: Book Orders Due
I will be including the January book orders in today’s newsletter. If you would like to purchase books, please write ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs and return to me by next Thursday!
* Friday, January 18th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
The teachers will be having a technology training in the morning and will be working on our writing plan for the rest of the year.
* Monday, January 21st: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
We will be learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and his attempts for building peace in the world!
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Dear Families,
Happy New Year! I heard about some wonderful winter vacations in sharing this week! I hope your families had a nice time over the holidays. I went to Reno and Tahoe in the beginning of vacation and went snowboarding at Northstar. Afterwards, I celebrated Christmas Eve and Christmas with my family and my fiance’s family. It was nice having a few extra days of vacation after the New Year!
On Monday, we had a new student join our classroom! His name is Hyunseok Kim and he speaks Korean and English. He attended kindergarten in New York and they just moved to California last month. We interviewed Hyunseok as our Prince of the Day and learned about his favorite things. You can read about him on the Classwork section of our website!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: David
Poem of the Week: Winter Cheer
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … making New Year resolutions.
Story of the Week: Snowballs
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 7
Word Wall Words: friend, girl, know, play, read, she, sing, write
Next Week’s Sharing: Winter Poem (memorize words! No reading)
(at least 4 complete lines and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 Family and Friends – Week 2
• Stories: The Best Pet
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Evaluate, Compare/Contrast
• Word Families: -ell and –est
• Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
• Sounds: clusters with s, short e, silent letters kn, wr, gn
• Grammar: Telling Sentence
• Writing: We talked about what New Year resolutions mean. We tried to think of four different resolutions, or goals that we will try to do this year in 2008. We wrote them down and decorated a nice project to display each student’s 2008 resolutions. We will be typing these up in the next kindness journal entry.
• Math: We are finishing addition and subtraction to 12. This week we also started talking about pennies, nickels, and dimes. We will be counting money over the next few weeks.
• Science: We are starting our next big science unit on Weather! This week, we started observing the cloud cover, precipitation, wind, and temperature each day. We are recording the weather and temperature and learning how to create our own graphs. Also, we took a survey and found out that in our class, most students like cold weather! Specifically, most students like snow the best! We have been using our senses to observe the weather each day.
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly from Ranka’s Marionette Theater. They used puppets to tell animal stories. It was interesting!
• Computer Lab: Since we are starting weather, this week we made a rain scene. We used some of the drawing tools in KidPix to design our own umbrellas. Then we decorated the rest of the scene to show a rainy day.
• Music: We saw Mrs. Stauter this week! We sang several fun songs including Zip a Dee Doo Dah, The Hello Song, and One Dream. Remember that it is important to be singing and participating in music! First graders are starting to learn their songs for the end of the year musical!
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee taught us about complementary colors today. We made a framed picture using different colors.
• Library: We went to the Cupertino Library on Thursday afternoon. Fortunately, it wasn’t raining! Remember to return Cupertino Library books on your own (please do not bring them back to Eaton!) Thanks!
• Buddies: Today we saw our fourth grade buddies! We did an activity about Abraham Lincoln and how they lived in log cabins!
Have a wonderful weekend!
* Thursday, January 17th: Book Orders Due
I will be including the January book orders in today’s newsletter. If you would like to purchase books, please write ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs and return to me by next Thursday!
* Friday, January 18th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
The teachers will be having a technology training in the morning and will be working on our writing plan for the rest of the year.
* Monday, January 21st: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
We will be learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and his attempts for building peace in the world!
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Dear Families,
Happy New Year! I heard about some wonderful winter vacations in sharing this week! I hope your families had a nice time over the holidays. I went to Reno and Tahoe in the beginning of vacation and went snowboarding at Northstar. Afterwards, I celebrated Christmas Eve and Christmas with my family and my fiance’s family. It was nice having a few extra days of vacation after the New Year!
On Monday, we had a new student join our classroom! His name is Hyunseok Kim and he speaks Korean and English. He attended kindergarten in New York and they just moved to California last month. We interviewed Hyunseok as our Prince of the Day and learned about his favorite things. You can read about him on the Classwork section of our website!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: David
Poem of the Week: Winter Cheer
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … making New Year resolutions.
Story of the Week: Snowballs
Vocabulary of the Week: Body Parts 7
Word Wall Words: friend, girl, know, play, read, she, sing, write
Next Week’s Sharing: Winter Poem (memorize words! No reading)
(at least 4 complete lines and bring object/picture)
• Language Arts: Theme 4 Family and Friends – Week 2
• Stories: The Best Pet
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Evaluate, Compare/Contrast
• Word Families: -ell and –est
• Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
• Sounds: clusters with s, short e, silent letters kn, wr, gn
• Grammar: Telling Sentence
• Writing: We talked about what New Year resolutions mean. We tried to think of four different resolutions, or goals that we will try to do this year in 2008. We wrote them down and decorated a nice project to display each student’s 2008 resolutions. We will be typing these up in the next kindness journal entry.
• Math: We are finishing addition and subtraction to 12. This week we also started talking about pennies, nickels, and dimes. We will be counting money over the next few weeks.
• Science: We are starting our next big science unit on Weather! This week, we started observing the cloud cover, precipitation, wind, and temperature each day. We are recording the weather and temperature and learning how to create our own graphs. Also, we took a survey and found out that in our class, most students like cold weather! Specifically, most students like snow the best! We have been using our senses to observe the weather each day.
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly from Ranka’s Marionette Theater. They used puppets to tell animal stories. It was interesting!
• Computer Lab: Since we are starting weather, this week we made a rain scene. We used some of the drawing tools in KidPix to design our own umbrellas. Then we decorated the rest of the scene to show a rainy day.
• Music: We saw Mrs. Stauter this week! We sang several fun songs including Zip a Dee Doo Dah, The Hello Song, and One Dream. Remember that it is important to be singing and participating in music! First graders are starting to learn their songs for the end of the year musical!
• Art: Mrs. Blakeslee taught us about complementary colors today. We made a framed picture using different colors.
• Library: We went to the Cupertino Library on Thursday afternoon. Fortunately, it wasn’t raining! Remember to return Cupertino Library books on your own (please do not bring them back to Eaton!) Thanks!
• Buddies: Today we saw our fourth grade buddies! We did an activity about Abraham Lincoln and how they lived in log cabins!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Friday, December 21, 2007
Merry Christmas!
We had such a fun week! We finished our holiday studies and learned about many celebrations around the world. Our classroom was decorated this week with all of our beautiful projects from countries and holidays including Germany, Holland, Diwali, China, Christmas, Sweden, Hanukkah, Mexico, and Ireland. We are not returning the projects until later, but their holiday book is coming home today so you can see all the interesting celebrations they have learned!
In addition, we made Santa pop-up cards and a special present for your families! We talked about special celebrations throughout the year and we hope you like our surprise! We also decorated our tree with the pasta ornaments that your child is bringing home.
Today was our Polar Express Day. Our classroom was set up like a train and the students all had train tickets to hear the magical story. Then we received golden bells just like the boy in the story. It was fun to wear our pajamas to school like the children in the story while drinking hot cocoa! We also did a kindness project and brought hot cocoa to all the teachers and staff in their classrooms! The kids did a great job showing kindness! In the afternoon, we watched the movie version of Polar Express.
Thank you for the wonderful cards and presents. I am blessed with a kind class of students and parents. Thank you for your support!
This week, Kevin L. was our Star of the Week. On Monday when we return, we will be getting another new boy in our classroom! You can also return your December reading log when we return. I have included January’s reading log so you can record books for the first week of January.
I hope all of you have a safe and relaxing holiday. I will be in Tahoe this weekend, but will be in the area for the rest of the two weeks. I am looking forward to resting and spending time with friends and family! I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I will see you all on Monday, January 7th and can’t wait to hear about your vacations!!!
In addition, we made Santa pop-up cards and a special present for your families! We talked about special celebrations throughout the year and we hope you like our surprise! We also decorated our tree with the pasta ornaments that your child is bringing home.
Today was our Polar Express Day. Our classroom was set up like a train and the students all had train tickets to hear the magical story. Then we received golden bells just like the boy in the story. It was fun to wear our pajamas to school like the children in the story while drinking hot cocoa! We also did a kindness project and brought hot cocoa to all the teachers and staff in their classrooms! The kids did a great job showing kindness! In the afternoon, we watched the movie version of Polar Express.
Thank you for the wonderful cards and presents. I am blessed with a kind class of students and parents. Thank you for your support!
This week, Kevin L. was our Star of the Week. On Monday when we return, we will be getting another new boy in our classroom! You can also return your December reading log when we return. I have included January’s reading log so you can record books for the first week of January.
I hope all of you have a safe and relaxing holiday. I will be in Tahoe this weekend, but will be in the area for the rest of the two weeks. I am looking forward to resting and spending time with friends and family! I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I will see you all on Monday, January 7th and can’t wait to hear about your vacations!!!
Friday, December 07, 2007
December is here!
Upcoming Dates
* Friday, December 14th: Canned Food Drive
Today your child will be bringing home a brown bag with his or her name on it. This bag describes the different types of food you can donate for the canned food drive. Also, there will be a paper attached to it. Please fill it out and return by next Friday. Bring your bags back with canned foods to donate! Thank you!
* Monday, December 17th – Friday, December 21st: No homework packets
I will not be sending home homework packets the week before Winter Recess, so there will be no spelling or vocabulary test because of the holidays. However, please continue to prepare your child’s sharing and continue reading daily for 15 minutes for the Book-It! Reading Log. Remember the reading logs are due when we come back after Winter Recess. *** Friday parent volunteers: You do not need to come help on Friday, December 21st. Thank you!***
* Friday, December 21st: Polar Express Party
This will be a special day to celebrate the holidays! We will be doing activities and games based off of the story, The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg. It will also be a pajama day (because we are pretending to be the children in the train)! Please send your child to school in their favorite pajamas and they can also bring one stuffed animal or pillow too.
* Monday, December 24th to January 4th: NO SCHOOL – Winter Recess
School will resume on Monday, January 7th.
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Dear Families,
On Monday, we went to Fremont High School and watched the play, The Elves and the Shoemaker. It was about a Shoemaker who did a kind act and freed an elf from an evil man. In return, the elves visited the Shoemaker each night and helped him make many shoes for his business. We learned that when you do nice things for others, others will do nice things for you. It was funny and entertaining to watch. Thank you to Mrs. Yang for coming with us on this field trip!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Kota
Poem of the Week: I Heard a Bird Sing
Song of the Week: Four Seasons
Story of the Week: A Bird Can Fly
Kindness is … seeking wise people.
Vocabulary of the Week: People 5
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – your favorite holiday
(4 clues with object/picture hidden in a bag)
• Language Arts:
o Theme 2: Let’s Look Around - Week 2
o Story Selection: Mr. C’s Dinner
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Making Predictions and Inferences
o High Frequency Words: all, call, eat, every, first, never, paper, shall, why
o Word Families: -ip, -in
o Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
o Sounds: verb endings –s, -ed, -ing, short I, possessives with ‘s
o Grammar: Naming Part of a Sentence
• Math: This week we worked on word problems and reading carefully for too much information. It is important students really understand what is being asked in the questions and not just adding or subtracting numbers. We finished this chapter on number patterns to 100 and took our test yesterday. Please review the the mistakes on your child’s test.
• Writing: Today we wrote letters to Santa about why we have been good this year. Next week we will illustrate our letters!
• Computer Lab: On Monday we started working with a new program called Kidspiration. Kidspiration is a software tool to help with brainstorming and outlining ideas. This week we made an All About Me outline. We chose our favorite colors, animals, shapes, and foods and made a brainstorming map using words and pictures.
• Social Studies: We continued our Holidays Around the World circuit with Holland, Kwanzaa, and Divali. First we learned that kids in Holland place wooden shoes with carrots and hay in their windows for Sinterklaas. Then we went to Mrs. Nieveen’s class to learn about Kwanzaa and made mkeka’s or straw mats. Finally this week, we went to Mrs. Tambe’s class to learn about Divali and holidays in India.
• PE: This week we went with Mrs. Barelli to play cardio games including one called Octopus.
• Library: Our regular Eaton library visit on Friday morning is cancelled because of the book fair. Our next visit will be on Friday, December 14th.
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly called “Light up The Lights.” It was filled with multicultural winter songs from around the world! The singer was Gary Lapow and he was really good at involving the kids.
• Art: Students brought home two of their art projects this week. One was the clay discs that students molded and painted. Another was a lesson on lines and different designs. In our class we have been starting several art projects for the holidays including an ornament and a picture frame. They will bring these home in the last week.
• Book It! Reading Logs: Thank you for reading with your child and completing the Book It! Program each month. Remember that summarizing a story in writing must have the following:
o Who are the characters and where is the setting?
o What happened in the beginning?
o What is the problem in the middle?
o What is the solution at the end?
o Conclusion – This story was great. I liked the part when _____.
A summary can be about 5 sentences.
A retell is similar, however, it is done verbally and more details have to be included in the beginning, middle, and end. A retell means to share the whole story as if you are a storyteller. Please keep practicing!
Report cards are coming out today. Remember that the grades are from August to November 16th. Please keep the report card at home, but return the yellow envelope on Monday. Thanks! Good job so far everyone!
* Friday, December 14th: Canned Food Drive
Today your child will be bringing home a brown bag with his or her name on it. This bag describes the different types of food you can donate for the canned food drive. Also, there will be a paper attached to it. Please fill it out and return by next Friday. Bring your bags back with canned foods to donate! Thank you!
* Monday, December 17th – Friday, December 21st: No homework packets
I will not be sending home homework packets the week before Winter Recess, so there will be no spelling or vocabulary test because of the holidays. However, please continue to prepare your child’s sharing and continue reading daily for 15 minutes for the Book-It! Reading Log. Remember the reading logs are due when we come back after Winter Recess. *** Friday parent volunteers: You do not need to come help on Friday, December 21st. Thank you!***
* Friday, December 21st: Polar Express Party
This will be a special day to celebrate the holidays! We will be doing activities and games based off of the story, The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg. It will also be a pajama day (because we are pretending to be the children in the train)! Please send your child to school in their favorite pajamas and they can also bring one stuffed animal or pillow too.
* Monday, December 24th to January 4th: NO SCHOOL – Winter Recess
School will resume on Monday, January 7th.
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Dear Families,
On Monday, we went to Fremont High School and watched the play, The Elves and the Shoemaker. It was about a Shoemaker who did a kind act and freed an elf from an evil man. In return, the elves visited the Shoemaker each night and helped him make many shoes for his business. We learned that when you do nice things for others, others will do nice things for you. It was funny and entertaining to watch. Thank you to Mrs. Yang for coming with us on this field trip!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Kota
Poem of the Week: I Heard a Bird Sing
Song of the Week: Four Seasons
Story of the Week: A Bird Can Fly
Kindness is … seeking wise people.
Vocabulary of the Week: People 5
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – your favorite holiday
(4 clues with object/picture hidden in a bag)
• Language Arts:
o Theme 2: Let’s Look Around - Week 2
o Story Selection: Mr. C’s Dinner
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Making Predictions and Inferences
o High Frequency Words: all, call, eat, every, first, never, paper, shall, why
o Word Families: -ip, -in
o Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
o Sounds: verb endings –s, -ed, -ing, short I, possessives with ‘s
o Grammar: Naming Part of a Sentence
• Math: This week we worked on word problems and reading carefully for too much information. It is important students really understand what is being asked in the questions and not just adding or subtracting numbers. We finished this chapter on number patterns to 100 and took our test yesterday. Please review the the mistakes on your child’s test.
• Writing: Today we wrote letters to Santa about why we have been good this year. Next week we will illustrate our letters!
• Computer Lab: On Monday we started working with a new program called Kidspiration. Kidspiration is a software tool to help with brainstorming and outlining ideas. This week we made an All About Me outline. We chose our favorite colors, animals, shapes, and foods and made a brainstorming map using words and pictures.
• Social Studies: We continued our Holidays Around the World circuit with Holland, Kwanzaa, and Divali. First we learned that kids in Holland place wooden shoes with carrots and hay in their windows for Sinterklaas. Then we went to Mrs. Nieveen’s class to learn about Kwanzaa and made mkeka’s or straw mats. Finally this week, we went to Mrs. Tambe’s class to learn about Divali and holidays in India.
• PE: This week we went with Mrs. Barelli to play cardio games including one called Octopus.
• Library: Our regular Eaton library visit on Friday morning is cancelled because of the book fair. Our next visit will be on Friday, December 14th.
• Assembly: Today we had an assembly called “Light up The Lights.” It was filled with multicultural winter songs from around the world! The singer was Gary Lapow and he was really good at involving the kids.
• Art: Students brought home two of their art projects this week. One was the clay discs that students molded and painted. Another was a lesson on lines and different designs. In our class we have been starting several art projects for the holidays including an ornament and a picture frame. They will bring these home in the last week.
• Book It! Reading Logs: Thank you for reading with your child and completing the Book It! Program each month. Remember that summarizing a story in writing must have the following:
o Who are the characters and where is the setting?
o What happened in the beginning?
o What is the problem in the middle?
o What is the solution at the end?
o Conclusion – This story was great. I liked the part when _____.
A summary can be about 5 sentences.
A retell is similar, however, it is done verbally and more details have to be included in the beginning, middle, and end. A retell means to share the whole story as if you are a storyteller. Please keep practicing!
Report cards are coming out today. Remember that the grades are from August to November 16th. Please keep the report card at home, but return the yellow envelope on Monday. Thanks! Good job so far everyone!
Friday, November 30, 2007
Almost December!
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, December 3rd: November Book-It Reading Log Due!
Remember to turn in your November reading log! I have included December’s Reading Log in today’s Friday Folder.
* Monday, December 3rd: Elves & The Shoemaker Play Field Trip
Thank you to Mrs. Yang who will be our chaperone for this trip. We will be leaving school at around 10:30am and will return by lunch time.
* Tuesday, December 4th: Book Fair Family Night 6:00-8:00pm
The Eaton library is holding a book fair next week. You can come to the Family night Tuesday or go after school any day next week to look at books for purchase.
* Monday, December 17th – Friday, December 21st: No homework packets
I will not be sending home homework packets the week before Winter Recess, so there will be no spelling or vocabulary test because of the holidays. However, please continue to prepare your child’s sharing and continue reading daily for 15 minutes for the Book-It! Reading Log. Remember the reading logs are due when we come back after Winter Recess. *** Friday parent volunteers: You do not need to come help on Friday, December 21st. Thank you!***
*Friday, December 21st: Polar Express Party
This will be a special day to celebrate the holidays! We will be doing activities and games based off of the story, The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg. It will also be a pajama day (because we are pretending to be the children in the train)! Please send your child to school in their favorite pajamas and they can also bring one stuffed animal or pillow too.
Monday, December 24th to January 4th: NO SCHOOL – Winter Recess
School will resume on Monday, January 7th.
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Dear Families,
I love this time of the year! I hope all of you enjoyed your long Thanksgiving break! I stayed around the area and had a feast with my family! Tuesday before Thanksgiving we finished our Thanksgiving books. I hope you were able to read their books with them! Afterwards, I had students try a pumpkin pie. Almost all the students had never tasted one before and they loved it!
Thank you to all the families who donated books for our Eaton Book Drive. Part of teaching kindness is helping the students understand that we really are so fortunate to have everything we have. Some kids don’t have basic needs such as homes, food, or clothing, so we can show kindness by donating things to people less fortunate than us. Thank you for your participation.
Also, we had a great time on our field trip last week to Natural Bridges State Park! It was an all day adventure. After we rode the bus there, students had time to play in the sand, eat lunch, then play some more. Our butterfly tour started at 1pm. We first looked at real-life stuffed animals like owls, sea otters, and wolves. Then we watched a short instructional video on the monarch butterfly life cycle. Afterwards, we got to hold and feel butterflies whom had died and we learned that we shouldn’t try and touch real butterflies. We also wore glasses that showed us what butterflies see from their compound eyes! Finally, we took a little walk to the butterfly grove and there were hundreds of monarch butterflies in the trees! It was an amazing experience. Thank you to Mrs. Okubo for coming with us that day!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Miss Yu =)
Poem of the Week: You and Me
Song of the Week: Four Seasons
Story of the Week: The Little Ant
Kindness is … using good manners.
Vocabulary of the Week: People 4
Next Week’s Sharing: Family Poem
(at least four lines memorized and a picture to show)
• Language Arts:
o Theme 2: Let’s Look Around - Week 1
o Story Selection: Seasons
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Evaluate and Topic, Main Idea, Summarizing
o High Frequency Words: animal, bird, cold, fall, flower, full, look, of, see
o Word Families: -ack, -ap
o Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
o Sounds: final consonants (-ll), short a, plurals with -s
o Grammar: What is a Sentence?
• Math: This week we practiced estimation and talking about greater than, less than, or equal. This chapter really focuses on knowing numbers to 100 and skip counting. Next week we will take our Chapter Test.
• Computer Lab: This week we finished pictures in Kidpix for our November kindness journals. I have updated all the pictures on our Kindness website so please check it out! (www.geocities.com/missyu_grace - Classwork section)
• Social Studies: For the next four weeks, we are learning about holidays around the world. Our first grade circuits are also on this topic. This week we learned about Germany, Sweden, and Hanukkah. We found out that the Christmas tree idea started in Germany and it is really called a Tannenbaum. In Sweden, we learned that the eldest daughter dresses up to pass out goodies to the family. We also went to Mrs. Bachelor’s classroom to learn about Hanukkah. Also, we learned that there are seven continents and illustrated a world map.
• PE: This week Mrs. Burgess taught us some games such as Dead Bug tag and Roadways. We also used hula hoops to learn skills.
• Library: Our regular Eaton library visit on Friday morning is cancelled because of the book fair. Our next visit will be on Friday, December 14th. Next week you can visit the library after school to see the Book Fair!
Look for the Room 8 Directory in today’s Friday folder! Thank you for returning the information sheet. I hope this comes in handy for play dates after school or just getting in touch with others in the class!
We have a new student! Please welcome Nadiya and her family who just started on Monday in our class. She can speak Russian! We are excited to get to know Nadiya and we are happy to have her! You can read about Nadiya in our Prince and Princess section of the website (also under Classwork).
I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Stay warm!
* Monday, December 3rd: November Book-It Reading Log Due!
Remember to turn in your November reading log! I have included December’s Reading Log in today’s Friday Folder.
* Monday, December 3rd: Elves & The Shoemaker Play Field Trip
Thank you to Mrs. Yang who will be our chaperone for this trip. We will be leaving school at around 10:30am and will return by lunch time.
* Tuesday, December 4th: Book Fair Family Night 6:00-8:00pm
The Eaton library is holding a book fair next week. You can come to the Family night Tuesday or go after school any day next week to look at books for purchase.
* Monday, December 17th – Friday, December 21st: No homework packets
I will not be sending home homework packets the week before Winter Recess, so there will be no spelling or vocabulary test because of the holidays. However, please continue to prepare your child’s sharing and continue reading daily for 15 minutes for the Book-It! Reading Log. Remember the reading logs are due when we come back after Winter Recess. *** Friday parent volunteers: You do not need to come help on Friday, December 21st. Thank you!***
*Friday, December 21st: Polar Express Party
This will be a special day to celebrate the holidays! We will be doing activities and games based off of the story, The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg. It will also be a pajama day (because we are pretending to be the children in the train)! Please send your child to school in their favorite pajamas and they can also bring one stuffed animal or pillow too.
Monday, December 24th to January 4th: NO SCHOOL – Winter Recess
School will resume on Monday, January 7th.
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Dear Families,
I love this time of the year! I hope all of you enjoyed your long Thanksgiving break! I stayed around the area and had a feast with my family! Tuesday before Thanksgiving we finished our Thanksgiving books. I hope you were able to read their books with them! Afterwards, I had students try a pumpkin pie. Almost all the students had never tasted one before and they loved it!
Thank you to all the families who donated books for our Eaton Book Drive. Part of teaching kindness is helping the students understand that we really are so fortunate to have everything we have. Some kids don’t have basic needs such as homes, food, or clothing, so we can show kindness by donating things to people less fortunate than us. Thank you for your participation.
Also, we had a great time on our field trip last week to Natural Bridges State Park! It was an all day adventure. After we rode the bus there, students had time to play in the sand, eat lunch, then play some more. Our butterfly tour started at 1pm. We first looked at real-life stuffed animals like owls, sea otters, and wolves. Then we watched a short instructional video on the monarch butterfly life cycle. Afterwards, we got to hold and feel butterflies whom had died and we learned that we shouldn’t try and touch real butterflies. We also wore glasses that showed us what butterflies see from their compound eyes! Finally, we took a little walk to the butterfly grove and there were hundreds of monarch butterflies in the trees! It was an amazing experience. Thank you to Mrs. Okubo for coming with us that day!
Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Miss Yu =)
Poem of the Week: You and Me
Song of the Week: Four Seasons
Story of the Week: The Little Ant
Kindness is … using good manners.
Vocabulary of the Week: People 4
Next Week’s Sharing: Family Poem
(at least four lines memorized and a picture to show)
• Language Arts:
o Theme 2: Let’s Look Around - Week 1
o Story Selection: Seasons
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Evaluate and Topic, Main Idea, Summarizing
o High Frequency Words: animal, bird, cold, fall, flower, full, look, of, see
o Word Families: -ack, -ap
o Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
o Sounds: final consonants (-ll), short a, plurals with -s
o Grammar: What is a Sentence?
• Math: This week we practiced estimation and talking about greater than, less than, or equal. This chapter really focuses on knowing numbers to 100 and skip counting. Next week we will take our Chapter Test.
• Computer Lab: This week we finished pictures in Kidpix for our November kindness journals. I have updated all the pictures on our Kindness website so please check it out! (www.geocities.com/missyu_grace - Classwork section)
• Social Studies: For the next four weeks, we are learning about holidays around the world. Our first grade circuits are also on this topic. This week we learned about Germany, Sweden, and Hanukkah. We found out that the Christmas tree idea started in Germany and it is really called a Tannenbaum. In Sweden, we learned that the eldest daughter dresses up to pass out goodies to the family. We also went to Mrs. Bachelor’s classroom to learn about Hanukkah. Also, we learned that there are seven continents and illustrated a world map.
• PE: This week Mrs. Burgess taught us some games such as Dead Bug tag and Roadways. We also used hula hoops to learn skills.
• Library: Our regular Eaton library visit on Friday morning is cancelled because of the book fair. Our next visit will be on Friday, December 14th. Next week you can visit the library after school to see the Book Fair!
Look for the Room 8 Directory in today’s Friday folder! Thank you for returning the information sheet. I hope this comes in handy for play dates after school or just getting in touch with others in the class!
We have a new student! Please welcome Nadiya and her family who just started on Monday in our class. She can speak Russian! We are excited to get to know Nadiya and we are happy to have her! You can read about Nadiya in our Prince and Princess section of the website (also under Classwork).
I hope you have a wonderful weekend! Stay warm!
Friday, November 16, 2007
Almost Thanksgiving!
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, November 19th: Natural Bridges Field Trip
We will be taking the bus with Mrs. Okuno’s class and Mrs. Nieveen’s class to Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz to see the monarch butterflies! Please make sure your child dresses warm and send a PAPER BAG lunch that can be thrown away. If you have not turned in your permission slip yet, please do so MONDAY or your child will not be able to come with us! Thank you to Mrs. Okubo who has volunteered to chaperone.
* Tuesday, November 20th: Scholastic Book Orders Due!
I am sending home the last book order forms for 2007. It will have November and December selections. Please make ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs if you are interested in purchasing any books.
* Wednesday, November 21st to Friday, November 23rd – NO SCHOOL
Happy Thanksgiving break!
* Thursday, November 29th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
This will be our last visit to the Cupertino Library for 2007! Please remember to bring your blue library cards to school and practice memorizing your 4-digit PIN number! Please return the books at your own convenience (not at Eaton).
* Monday, December 3rd: Elves & The Shoemaker Play Field Trip
Please return the permission slip if you haven’t already. Thank you to Mrs. Yang who will be our chaperone for this trip.
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Dear Families,
Hope you had a nice long weekend. This was a short week but it felt long! Many people are starting to get sick (including myself) so please take care! On Tuesday, we had a power outage from the beginning of school until about 11:30am. We opened the doors and windows, so were still able to work, but it was a different experience! We couldn’t do centers that morning because the computers and tape players couldn’t work! We made up the centers on Wednesday instead. Today was the last day of the first trimester. Report cards will be going home the second week in December. Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Here is a Turkey
Song of the Week: Skip Counting
Story of the Week: The Best of Friends
Kindness is … giving thanks.
Vocabulary of the Week: People 3
Next Week’s Sharing: NO SHARING – short week!
• Language Arts:
o Theme 2: Surprise! - Week 3
o Story Selection: A Hut for Zig Bug and The Rope Tug
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Summarize and Story Structure
o High Frequency Words: are, away, does, he, live, pull, they, where
o Word Families: -ug, -ut
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: q, j, z, and short u
o Grammar: Action Words
• Math: We have been practicing our numbers to 100 and skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s. This week we also talked about finding numbers 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, or 10 less. Finally, we learned ordinal numbers such as first, second, third, etc. instead of one, two, three.
• Computer Lab: There was no computer lab this week because of Veterans Day and we will also have to skip computer lab next week because of our field trip.
• Social Studies: We talked about Thanksgiving this week and what things we were thankful for. We also made a Thanksgiving pattern book and learned about Pilgrims, Indians, and Thanksgiving dinner.
• PE: This week we were with Mrs. Nieveen. She taught us jump ropes and we practiced jump rope skills.
• Assembly: This week we watched Hawaiian dancers perform hula dancing! It was called “Halau’o Keikiali” and it was lots of fun!
• Buddies: We saw our buddies this week and did an activity with our hands. We traced our hands and wrote down some of our favorite things. Then we thought about ways our hands help others.
• Star of the Week: We will be starting this the week after Thanksgiving. When your child is selected, he/she will bring home a poster on Monday. Please decorate the poster and return it on Friday, ready to share with the class. Then your child will bring Beebear home for the weekend and your child can write and draw what he/she did with Beebear. Please return Beebear on Monday after the weekend. This is a fun and exciting activity for the students!
Some parents have expressed interest in having a class distribution list so that your families can contact each other. I am attaching a page that asks for your permission to share your phone number, address, or email address with other parents in Room 8. Please fill it out and return to school by Tuesday, November 20th if you are interested in participating. Thank you! Next week you will not be receiving Friday folders or homework folders because it is a short week. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday
* Monday, November 19th: Natural Bridges Field Trip
We will be taking the bus with Mrs. Okuno’s class and Mrs. Nieveen’s class to Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz to see the monarch butterflies! Please make sure your child dresses warm and send a PAPER BAG lunch that can be thrown away. If you have not turned in your permission slip yet, please do so MONDAY or your child will not be able to come with us! Thank you to Mrs. Okubo who has volunteered to chaperone.
* Tuesday, November 20th: Scholastic Book Orders Due!
I am sending home the last book order forms for 2007. It will have November and December selections. Please make ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs if you are interested in purchasing any books.
* Wednesday, November 21st to Friday, November 23rd – NO SCHOOL
Happy Thanksgiving break!
* Thursday, November 29th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
This will be our last visit to the Cupertino Library for 2007! Please remember to bring your blue library cards to school and practice memorizing your 4-digit PIN number! Please return the books at your own convenience (not at Eaton).
* Monday, December 3rd: Elves & The Shoemaker Play Field Trip
Please return the permission slip if you haven’t already. Thank you to Mrs. Yang who will be our chaperone for this trip.
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Dear Families,
Hope you had a nice long weekend. This was a short week but it felt long! Many people are starting to get sick (including myself) so please take care! On Tuesday, we had a power outage from the beginning of school until about 11:30am. We opened the doors and windows, so were still able to work, but it was a different experience! We couldn’t do centers that morning because the computers and tape players couldn’t work! We made up the centers on Wednesday instead. Today was the last day of the first trimester. Report cards will be going home the second week in December. Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Here is a Turkey
Song of the Week: Skip Counting
Story of the Week: The Best of Friends
Kindness is … giving thanks.
Vocabulary of the Week: People 3
Next Week’s Sharing: NO SHARING – short week!
• Language Arts:
o Theme 2: Surprise! - Week 3
o Story Selection: A Hut for Zig Bug and The Rope Tug
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Summarize and Story Structure
o High Frequency Words: are, away, does, he, live, pull, they, where
o Word Families: -ug, -ut
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: q, j, z, and short u
o Grammar: Action Words
• Math: We have been practicing our numbers to 100 and skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s. This week we also talked about finding numbers 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, or 10 less. Finally, we learned ordinal numbers such as first, second, third, etc. instead of one, two, three.
• Computer Lab: There was no computer lab this week because of Veterans Day and we will also have to skip computer lab next week because of our field trip.
• Social Studies: We talked about Thanksgiving this week and what things we were thankful for. We also made a Thanksgiving pattern book and learned about Pilgrims, Indians, and Thanksgiving dinner.
• PE: This week we were with Mrs. Nieveen. She taught us jump ropes and we practiced jump rope skills.
• Assembly: This week we watched Hawaiian dancers perform hula dancing! It was called “Halau’o Keikiali” and it was lots of fun!
• Buddies: We saw our buddies this week and did an activity with our hands. We traced our hands and wrote down some of our favorite things. Then we thought about ways our hands help others.
• Star of the Week: We will be starting this the week after Thanksgiving. When your child is selected, he/she will bring home a poster on Monday. Please decorate the poster and return it on Friday, ready to share with the class. Then your child will bring Beebear home for the weekend and your child can write and draw what he/she did with Beebear. Please return Beebear on Monday after the weekend. This is a fun and exciting activity for the students!
Some parents have expressed interest in having a class distribution list so that your families can contact each other. I am attaching a page that asks for your permission to share your phone number, address, or email address with other parents in Room 8. Please fill it out and return to school by Tuesday, November 20th if you are interested in participating. Thank you! Next week you will not be receiving Friday folders or homework folders because it is a short week. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday
Friday, November 09, 2007
Veterans Day Weekend
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, November 12th: NO SCHOOL – Veterans Day
* Friday, November 16th: Turkey Project Due & End of First Trimester
Today there is a Family Turkey Project in the Friday Folder. Please read the instructions and return by next Friday. Report cards will be going home on Friday, December 7th. Grades will be reflected on your child’s progress from the beginning of the year until November 16th.
* Monday, November 19th: Natural Bridges Field Trip
We will be taking the bus with Mrs. Okuno’s class and Mrs. Nieveen’s class to Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz. This field trip allows us to see many monarch butterflies in their natural setting. The field trip permission slip is attached to this newsletter! Please fill it out and return by next Friday, November 16th!
* Wednesday, November 21st to Friday, November 23rd – NO SCHOOL
Happy Thanksgiving break!
* Thursday, November 29th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
This will be our last visit to the Cupertino Library for 2007! Please remember to bring your blue library cards to school and practice memorizing your 4-digit PIN number! Please return the books at your own convenience (not at Eaton).
* Monday, December 3rd: Elves & The Shoemaker Play Field Trip
There is a permission slip for this field trip also attached to today’s newsletter. Please fill it out and also return it by next Friday, November 16th.
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Dear Families,
We are getting near to the holidays! There are so many exciting things to learn about during this time of the year. Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Feelings
Song of the Week: Making Words
Story of the Week: Messy Meals
Kindness is … noticing friends’ feelings
Vocabulary of the Week: People 2
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – something you are thankful for
(at least 4 lines and bring a picture or something to show)
Remember there is no school Monday, so Monday sharers should be prepared on Tuesday!
• Language Arts:
o Theme 2: Surprise! - Week 2
o Story Selection: What Can a Vet Do? And Hot Fox Soup
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Monitor/clarify and Fantasy/Realism
o High Frequency Words: do, I, is, me, my, said, you, for
o Word Families: -et, -en
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: y, k, v and short e
o Grammar: Naming Words
• Math: We finished data and graphs this week! We are now practicing our numbers to 100 by skip counting and identifying the tens place and the ones place.
• Computer Lab: On Monday we counted to 100 by 10’s and used Kidpix stamps to make a 100 table.
• Science: We went to Mrs. Okuno’s class this week for our last insect circuit. She talked about butterflies with us and we made a butterfly using plastic bags!
• Social Studies: This week we started some of our Thanksgiving projects. We talked about things we are thankful for and also started making several turkey projects. Also, we talked about Feelings this week. We chose three feelings and wrote about personal experiences that made us feel that way. Our kindness journal this week was about noticing how others may feel and what we can do to make them feel happy.
• PE: This week we were with Mrs. Bachelor. We worked with balls and practiced our hand/eye coordination skills.
• Music: We finally hired a new music teacher and this was our first week! Mrs. Stauter will be teaching us every other Thursday! We learned some songs and had a great time!
• Art: We saw Mrs. Blakeslee today and finished our clay projects!
This week, our behavior was not good. There were many problems on the playground and with students not being nice to each other. Please remind your children that they always have a choice to be a kind person and can do nice things such as including others in games, treating others with respect, or following Eaton rules. Thank you for helping to make our classroom a safe and kind place.
Enjoy your long weekend! See you on Tuesday!
* Monday, November 12th: NO SCHOOL – Veterans Day
* Friday, November 16th: Turkey Project Due & End of First Trimester
Today there is a Family Turkey Project in the Friday Folder. Please read the instructions and return by next Friday. Report cards will be going home on Friday, December 7th. Grades will be reflected on your child’s progress from the beginning of the year until November 16th.
* Monday, November 19th: Natural Bridges Field Trip
We will be taking the bus with Mrs. Okuno’s class and Mrs. Nieveen’s class to Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz. This field trip allows us to see many monarch butterflies in their natural setting. The field trip permission slip is attached to this newsletter! Please fill it out and return by next Friday, November 16th!
* Wednesday, November 21st to Friday, November 23rd – NO SCHOOL
Happy Thanksgiving break!
* Thursday, November 29th: Cupertino Library Field Trip
This will be our last visit to the Cupertino Library for 2007! Please remember to bring your blue library cards to school and practice memorizing your 4-digit PIN number! Please return the books at your own convenience (not at Eaton).
* Monday, December 3rd: Elves & The Shoemaker Play Field Trip
There is a permission slip for this field trip also attached to today’s newsletter. Please fill it out and also return it by next Friday, November 16th.
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Dear Families,
We are getting near to the holidays! There are so many exciting things to learn about during this time of the year. Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Feelings
Song of the Week: Making Words
Story of the Week: Messy Meals
Kindness is … noticing friends’ feelings
Vocabulary of the Week: People 2
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – something you are thankful for
(at least 4 lines and bring a picture or something to show)
Remember there is no school Monday, so Monday sharers should be prepared on Tuesday!
• Language Arts:
o Theme 2: Surprise! - Week 2
o Story Selection: What Can a Vet Do? And Hot Fox Soup
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Monitor/clarify and Fantasy/Realism
o High Frequency Words: do, I, is, me, my, said, you, for
o Word Families: -et, -en
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: y, k, v and short e
o Grammar: Naming Words
• Math: We finished data and graphs this week! We are now practicing our numbers to 100 by skip counting and identifying the tens place and the ones place.
• Computer Lab: On Monday we counted to 100 by 10’s and used Kidpix stamps to make a 100 table.
• Science: We went to Mrs. Okuno’s class this week for our last insect circuit. She talked about butterflies with us and we made a butterfly using plastic bags!
• Social Studies: This week we started some of our Thanksgiving projects. We talked about things we are thankful for and also started making several turkey projects. Also, we talked about Feelings this week. We chose three feelings and wrote about personal experiences that made us feel that way. Our kindness journal this week was about noticing how others may feel and what we can do to make them feel happy.
• PE: This week we were with Mrs. Bachelor. We worked with balls and practiced our hand/eye coordination skills.
• Music: We finally hired a new music teacher and this was our first week! Mrs. Stauter will be teaching us every other Thursday! We learned some songs and had a great time!
• Art: We saw Mrs. Blakeslee today and finished our clay projects!
This week, our behavior was not good. There were many problems on the playground and with students not being nice to each other. Please remind your children that they always have a choice to be a kind person and can do nice things such as including others in games, treating others with respect, or following Eaton rules. Thank you for helping to make our classroom a safe and kind place.
Enjoy your long weekend! See you on Tuesday!
Monday, November 05, 2007
November is here!
Upcoming Dates
* Monday, November 12th: NO SCHOOL – Veterans Day
* Monday, November 19th: Natural Bridges Field Trip
We will be taking the bus with Mrs. Burgess’ class and Mrs. Nieveen’s class to Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz. This field trip allows us to see many monarch butterflies in their natural setting. More information will come.
* Wednesday, November 21st to Friday, November 23rd – NO SCHOOL
Happy Thanksgiving break!
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Dear Families,
Happy Halloween! I hope you had a great time trick-or-treating on Wednesday night! We had a fun time at our Eaton parade and party! Thanks for all the families who brought snacks for our party and also helped out during the party! Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Pumpkin
Song of the Week: Making Words
Story of the Week: Alice and Greta
Kindness is … saying, “Happy Halloween” when trick-or-treating
Vocabulary of the Week: People 1
Next Week’s Sharing: Food Poem
(at least 4 lines and bring a picture or something to show)
• Language Arts:
o Theme 2: Surprise! - Week 1
o Story Selection: The Box and Wigs in a Box
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Question and Noting Details
o High Frequency Words: two, three, four, five, in, once, upon, what
o Word Families: -ox, -ot
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: d, w, l, x and short o
o Grammar: Capitalizing Names and Word Order in sentences
• Math: We continued with data and graphs this week. We are working on making bar graphs or picture graphs from tally marks or pictures. Continue practicing answering the word problems! We also started talking about numbers to 100 and place value for tens and ones.
• Computer Lab: On Monday we made a Halloween picture using Kidpix. Students learned how to use the different shape tools such as a filled circle, square, or random shape.
• Science: We went to Mrs. Barelli’s class this week for circuits. She taught us about the life cycle of ladybugs.
• Social Studies: We have been doing some Halloween activities this week with haunted houses and monsters! We made up a monster and wrote about what it looks like and what it eats or does. Then we drew the picture of our monster!
• PE: This week we started a new circuit and we did dance! We did the Hokey Pokey and discussed body parts and right vs. left. We also did a fun song called Shake Your Sillies Out and a Freeze Dance!
• Library: We went to the Cupertino Public Library on Thursday. Remember to return the books yourselves and make sure not to mix up Eaton books with Cupertino Library books.
• Buddies: We saw our buddies today! We did an activity with the story, La Luna, which is a Mexican tale about the sun and the moon. We made sun and moon puppets with our big buddies.
• Fire Drill: This week we practiced a fire drill so students know where to line up if we have an emergency. I hope that no more earthquakes will come, but if one does, we are teaching the students what to do to keep themselves safe. Remember to have an emergency plan at home for your family too and discuss things such as: emergency food supply, how to reach each other if the phones aren’t working, or where to wait for each other.
• Book It Reading Logs: Good job reading in the month of October! Students who turned in their reading logs received a Pizza Hut free personal pan pizza certificate in today’s Friday Folder! Remember to read everyday and if you haven’t turned in the October reading log, please do so on Monday! The November reading logs went home on Thursday and should be returned on Monday, December 3rd.
We had to say goodbye to Marie today. She is transferring back to her home school, Nimitz, on Monday. We made drawings and letters for her and put them into a book. We are sad to see another student leave our class!
Don’t forget that Sunday is Daylight Savings Time so change your clocks one hour backwards! Remember: fall back, spring forward! Enjoy your extra hour of sleep and have a great weekend!
* Monday, November 12th: NO SCHOOL – Veterans Day
* Monday, November 19th: Natural Bridges Field Trip
We will be taking the bus with Mrs. Burgess’ class and Mrs. Nieveen’s class to Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz. This field trip allows us to see many monarch butterflies in their natural setting. More information will come.
* Wednesday, November 21st to Friday, November 23rd – NO SCHOOL
Happy Thanksgiving break!
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Dear Families,
Happy Halloween! I hope you had a great time trick-or-treating on Wednesday night! We had a fun time at our Eaton parade and party! Thanks for all the families who brought snacks for our party and also helped out during the party! Here are some highlights from the week:
Poem of the Week: Pumpkin
Song of the Week: Making Words
Story of the Week: Alice and Greta
Kindness is … saying, “Happy Halloween” when trick-or-treating
Vocabulary of the Week: People 1
Next Week’s Sharing: Food Poem
(at least 4 lines and bring a picture or something to show)
• Language Arts:
o Theme 2: Surprise! - Week 1
o Story Selection: The Box and Wigs in a Box
o Strategy and Skill Focus: Question and Noting Details
o High Frequency Words: two, three, four, five, in, once, upon, what
o Word Families: -ox, -ot
o Phonemic Awareness: blending
o Sounds: d, w, l, x and short o
o Grammar: Capitalizing Names and Word Order in sentences
• Math: We continued with data and graphs this week. We are working on making bar graphs or picture graphs from tally marks or pictures. Continue practicing answering the word problems! We also started talking about numbers to 100 and place value for tens and ones.
• Computer Lab: On Monday we made a Halloween picture using Kidpix. Students learned how to use the different shape tools such as a filled circle, square, or random shape.
• Science: We went to Mrs. Barelli’s class this week for circuits. She taught us about the life cycle of ladybugs.
• Social Studies: We have been doing some Halloween activities this week with haunted houses and monsters! We made up a monster and wrote about what it looks like and what it eats or does. Then we drew the picture of our monster!
• PE: This week we started a new circuit and we did dance! We did the Hokey Pokey and discussed body parts and right vs. left. We also did a fun song called Shake Your Sillies Out and a Freeze Dance!
• Library: We went to the Cupertino Public Library on Thursday. Remember to return the books yourselves and make sure not to mix up Eaton books with Cupertino Library books.
• Buddies: We saw our buddies today! We did an activity with the story, La Luna, which is a Mexican tale about the sun and the moon. We made sun and moon puppets with our big buddies.
• Fire Drill: This week we practiced a fire drill so students know where to line up if we have an emergency. I hope that no more earthquakes will come, but if one does, we are teaching the students what to do to keep themselves safe. Remember to have an emergency plan at home for your family too and discuss things such as: emergency food supply, how to reach each other if the phones aren’t working, or where to wait for each other.
• Book It Reading Logs: Good job reading in the month of October! Students who turned in their reading logs received a Pizza Hut free personal pan pizza certificate in today’s Friday Folder! Remember to read everyday and if you haven’t turned in the October reading log, please do so on Monday! The November reading logs went home on Thursday and should be returned on Monday, December 3rd.
We had to say goodbye to Marie today. She is transferring back to her home school, Nimitz, on Monday. We made drawings and letters for her and put them into a book. We are sad to see another student leave our class!
Don’t forget that Sunday is Daylight Savings Time so change your clocks one hour backwards! Remember: fall back, spring forward! Enjoy your extra hour of sleep and have a great weekend!
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