First Grade Newsletter, Volume 5
FIRST GRADE
NEWSLETTER
VOLUME 5
Yurie, Marina, Yuko, & Sayaka, pose with our Kabocha first graders.
Sayaka Sensei and Nancy
Sensei are looking for volunteers
from our families and YG
community to take the place of
three full time assistants. We are
depending on both Japanese
speaking parents and English
speaking parents to take things
home to correct as well as to
come in and help during our
afternoon math lessons after
lunch each day. Stuffing
Thursday envelopes and
checking in, correcting and
filling homework folders on
Fridays is also a big job for which
we need a steady cadre of
volunteers. If you have older
children at North Eugene HS who
want community service hours, we
could use helpers at all times of
the
day
to
escort first graders to and from PE
while the teachers remain in the
classroom to instruct their small
groups. ***Families can bring
plates and napkins instead of snack
during their week
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Thank you Interns!
It has been our privilege
to host three interns from
Tokyo Women’s Christian
University these past three
weeks. They arrived the
week before school started
and laminated and cut and
taped all the wonderful things
you see in the classrooms.
Rie, Yurie and Marina took
turns helping Nancy Sensei as
well and were invaluable in
Sayaka Sensei’s classroom.
We are missing you!
Let us know if you want
to be our Room Parents. The
Halloween Party is coming up
KOKESHI
Interns from Tokyo Woman’s
Christian University and Waseda
University with Sayaka Sensei,
Students have completed the
Houghton Mifflin Kindergarten
Review and now we are ready to
start the first grade program. We
have grouped the students into
two groups. There is an anthology
which all the students read. These
are theme based stories which
teach strategies for becoming
fluent readers. Houghton Mifflin
has four strands of instruction.
They are an ELL, or English
Language Learner Strand, Below
Level, On Level and Above Level
Strands. These are the leveled
readers which our instructional
assistants, Jeanne, Ruby and
Marilyn will read each day with
our students. Our small group
reading times are when half of the
students are at Technology or PE.
We will strive to do our best to
meet the rate and level of your
child’s learning.
The Home Reading Program
books are another opportunity to
practice reading fluency. Group 2
takes home phonic and vocabulary
readers each week with HW to
keep and practice reading at
home.
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Calendar
September
M - F: National Food Services Employees Week. We are making
“trays” of our favorite lunches.
Thursday, 9-27: School Pictures - 9:00 and 9:20. Bring money if you
plan on purchasing them.
Thursday, 9-27: Curriculum Night - 6:40 - 7:20. Start in your Monday
a.m. homeroom classroom. Adults only please.
Friday, 9-28: Spirit Day - Wear your YG T-shirt.
October
Tuesday, 10-2: Bus Safety Demonstration
Friday, 10-5: Professional Development Day, 12:10 Early Dismissal.
Friday, 10-12: Statewide Inservice Day - No School.
Tuesday, 10-16: PTO Meeting. Free childcare provided.
Friday, 10-19: Spirit Day - Wear your YG t-shirt.
Wednesday, 10-24: Car Field Trip to Thistledown Farms. Students
need car and booster seats.
Thursday, 10-25: West Eugene Wetlands Speakers: 12:30 - 1:30 and
2:00 - 2:45.
Friday, 10-26: Fall Festival and Spirit Day. Carnival Games sponsored
by the PTO in the evening. Wear your Halloween costumes.
Wednesday, 10-31: Halloween Parade and Party. 1:50 - 2:50.
November
Thursday, Friday 11-1, 11-2: Parent Teacher Conferences. No School
Monday, 11-5: Donguri Group HR 13. West Eugene Wetlands Field
Trip 9:10 - 12:00. Bring lunches and Booster Seats.
Friday, 11-9: Kabocha Group HR 12. West Eugene Wetlands Field
Trip 9:10 - 12:00. Bring lunches and Booster Seats.
Friday, 11-9: Spirit Day - Wear your YG t-shirt.
Monday, 11-12: Veteran’s Day. No School
Friday, 11-16: Spirit Day - Wear your YG t-shirt.
Wednesday, 11-21: Thanksgiving Feast. Students wear costumes
made at school and take on the roles of Pilgrim and Native American
boys and girls during lunch. We serve pies for dessert.
Thursday, Friday 11-22, 23: Thanksgiving Holiday. No School
Friday, 11-30: Spirit Day - Wear your YG t-shirt.
December
Friday, 12-7: Spirit Day - Wear your YG t-shirt
Friday 12-14: Planning Day 12:10 Release and Spirit Day
Friday, 12-21: Spirit Day - Wear your YG t-shirt and last day before
the holidays.
Tuesday, 1-8: School Starts for students
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
