Dear Room 4 Families, Thank you to the families that donated to the classroom this week! Your contributions were greatly appreciated. This week we had many special days with Chinese New Year on Monday, 100th day of school on Wednesday, and our class Valentine’s Day celebration on Thursday. This week your child learned about Chinese […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 2/4/16
Dear Room 4 Families, We packed in a lot of learning this short week! This week in school, Room 4 students had the opportunity to have a lesson taught to them by Ms. Wendy, the student teacher from Mr. Chen’s room. She taught a Social Studies/English lesson on citizenship and how to be a positive […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 1/29/16
Dear Room 4 Families, Your child had a packed week of learning! Today we switched seats, so your child should have a different elbow partner that they are interacting with. This week in English Language Arts, we are learning how to manage our book bags for our leveled reading time and independently transition into our […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 1/22/16
Dear Room 4 Families, Your child had a busy week learning! This week we have been working hard on our mental math strategies. We have been working with the concept of friendly tens and decomposing numbers. Your child is working on word problems and applying multiple problem solving strategies as well. This week in English, […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 1/15/16
Dear Room 4 Families, Today your child enjoyed a trip from the Hayward Fire Department to learn about their jobs and general fire safety. Your child’s job from the fire department was to pick a safe spot to meet in case of a fire and your family needs to evacuate. This week we started our […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 1/8/16
Dear Room 4 Families, Happy New Year! Your child had a great first week back from Winter Break. We were very productive this week as we wrapped up our All About writing unit and published a poem by going through the editing process and making a final draft to create a book. In English Language […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 12/18/15
Dear Room 4 Families, Thank you for all of your kind gifts for me and for the generous contributions towards our holiday celebration. Your child enjoyed a pizza party, a white elephant book exchange, and got to watch a holiday movie while eating popcorn and coloring some holiday crafts. Yesterday your child should have brought […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 12/11/15
Dear Room 4 Families, We had quite an eventful week this week! Your child participated in the hour of code by using an app called “lightbot” where your child had to program the robot to move and turn on a light. The basic version of this app is free on iOS. There are other hour […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 12/3/15
Dear Room 4 Families, Welcome back from Thanksgiving break! We had such a short week due to Parent-Teacher Conferences. There is no school tomorrow, Friday, December 4th as it is reserved for conferences. School will resume normally next week. This week we have been focusing on wrapping up our geometry unit in math. Your child […]
[Continue reading...]Weekly Newsletter for 11/20/15
Dear Room 4 Families, Your child had a fun week wrapping up our Stone Soup literature study. Your child studied the similarities and differences of Stone Soup in different versions as they traveled through many countries. We celebrated on Thursday with a version of our own Stone Soup and completed our own compare and contrast […]
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