First Grade Newsletter Volume 11
In this edition:
Thanksgiving Feast
Thistledown Farms
West Eugene Wetlands
Pumpkin Decorating Contest Winners
1ST GRADE NEWSLETTER
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11-16-07
z Thanksgiving Feast z
Students will have lunch in their classrooms on Wednesday, 11-21-07. They will be dressed in school
made costumes as Pilgrim or Native American children. We ask that snack families for this week
bring a pumpkin or a fruit pie for us to have as dessert on this Wednesday. We
need napkins and forks
too.
Happy Thanksgiving to
all our families.
THISTLEDOWN
FARMS FIELD
TRIP
Y U J I N G A K U E N J A PA N E S E I M M E R S I O N E L E M E N TA RY S C H O O L VO L . 1 1
Thank you to all our
parent volunteer
drivers. We had a
great tractor ride to the
pumpkin patch where
students selected their pumpkin
to bring back to the classroom.
In class we estimated and
measured the pumpkin’s
height, circumference, and
weight. We made a watercolor
drawing of a side and top view
of the pumpkin. Finally we
decorated the pumpkins and
had
the entire school judge which
were the scariest, funniest, most
creative and most beautiful
pumpkins. At Thistledown
Farms, students tallied the color
of vegetables and fruits they saw
in the store. The hay maze was
fun and the barnyard animals
were very playful.
Pumpkin Decorating
Contest Winners!
Most Creative: Lindy McCool,
Samantha Price
Most Beautiful: Haven Burley
Claire Lin, Sriyani Cunarathne
Funniest: Erhard Nielsen,
Violet Ivy
Scariest: Martha Brasted-
Maki, Caleb Burt and Taishi
Johnson
West Eugene Wetlands
Field Trips
Both field trip days were cold
and brisk. Students were divided
into three groups and hiked for
an hour and a half . We saw lots
of different signs of animals
including tracks, crushed grass
paths, ducks and learned about
the nearby Great Blue Heron
nesting tress.Vegetation we saw
included thistle, Queen Anne’s
Lace,
Himalayan
Blackberries,
willow trees and
cattails. Soil,
water and plants
make a wetland.
Parent Teacher Conferences Nov 1-2
parent teacher
conferences in a few
weeks. We have fifteen
minutes per family, or
seven and a half
minutes per teacher so
we need to be efficient
with our time. It will
help out a lot to make
sure you are ten minutes
early and if you turn in
the blue pre-conference
sheet so we can be
prepared to address you
questions and concerns.
Look for another
opportunity to lets us
know your goals for the
conference o
IMPORTANT
DATES
Car Seats & Booster
Seats needed if you
are less than 4 ‘ 9”
OCT 24
Thistledown
Farms Field
Trip
OCT 25
West Eugene
Wetlands
Speaker
NOV 5
Wetlands
Donguri Trip
w/ lunches
NOV 9
Wetlands
Kabocha Trip
w/ lunches
West Eugene
Wetlands
Donguri 13, 11/5,
Kabocha 12, 11/9
Drivers
Monday 11/5 are: R.
Seno, A. McCool, N.
Lopez, K. Lutje,
H..Hurley, A. Chatwood
Friday, 11/9 are: Y. Wu, J.
Carpenter, G. Nielsen, M.
Bates, M. Perez, A.
Johnson, P. Quan
Lunches Ordered
Monday, 11/5: Calvin,
Ivan, Noelia, Kashi, Keagan
L., Trinaty, Jordin
Friday, 11/9: John, Keagan
J., Sarah, Sriyani,
Claire (2), Evan, Caleb
Burt.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
