Dear Parents,
On the day of the rehearsal, June 27, G1-G6 students will have lunch at the concert hall (K students will return to school before lunch).
Please pack for them an easy-to-eat lunch for June 27 and cancel Luka Deli lunch if you have already ordered it. They also need to bring snack and water bottle as usual.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Ms. Yukiko
UST Summer Reading Challenge
Lower Elementary Students G1-G2
July 1st - August 25th
During summer break UST will be encouraging reading with a Summer Reading Challenge! This is a fun way to help prevent the effects of the summer slide—the learning losses that can occur during the summer months. According to the Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report™: 7th Edition, 77% of kids ages 6–17 and 94% of parents believe reading books over the summer helps kids during the school year.
This reading challenge is optional for lower elementary students (students starting grades 1 - 2 in August 2019). Students that participate will celebrate their efforts by earning raffle tickets to win some great prizes! The raffle will take place at the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year.
If your child reaches the Summer Reading Challenge goal (360 minutes) they will receive one ticket for the raffle. Students will receive an extra raffle ticket for every 30 minutes they read beyond 360 minutes.
SUMMER READING CHALLENGE GOAL
360 minutes (45 minutes a week x 8 weeks)
1 Raffle Ticket for reading 360 minutes
+1 Raffle Ticket for every extra 30 minutes a child reads beyond 360 minutes
(Example: 360 minutes + 30 minutes + 30 minutes = 3 raffle tickets)
The reading log and reading goal sheet will be sent home in your child's backpack on Monday, June 24th. If your child wants to participate in this fun event, please help them fill out the reading goal sheet and return it to their homeroom teacher by Thursday, June 27th.
Please keep reading logs at home to complete during the summer holiday. Reading logs will be due the first week back to school (week of August 26th).
Happy Reading!
- UST Teachers
Scholastic Book Recommendation List
Students can read Raz-Kids books and other books at home as part of the Summer Reading Challenge.
Science Field Trip
Inokashira Park and Zoo
Tuesday, June 18th
Recess
Reading
Reading Across Genres to Learn About a Topic
Students have been working hard to learn more about a topic they are interested in (dinosaurs, cats, birds, grasshoppers, etc.). This week students practiced coming up with big ideas about their topic by gathering information from a variety of texts (fiction, nonfiction). We also learned that readers increase their vocabulary by collecting words about a topic. We said, "Good readers are word collectors!" While reading, students wrote down new words from their books, then used the glossary and dictionary to look up the meaning of the words. They also drew pictures to show understanding of the new words they collected.
Math
Subtraction (with and without regrouping) using numbers beyond 40
This week we practice subtraction with and without subtracting, reviewing the strategies we learned earlier in the term.
Writing
Report Writing
Students published and presented their final animal reports this week.
All writing pieces written this year, including their reports, will be sent home next week in your child's backpack to prepare for the end of the school year.
Social Studies
What do families need and want?
This week our class learned about goods and services.
Social Studies Vocabulary
Good - A good is something grown or made that you can use.
Service: - A service is work that others do for you.
We brainstormed a list of goods and services in our community and created a T-chart to organize our ideas. We discussed that a family cannot create all the goods and services it needs to live, so people with special jobs help provide goods and services. Students worked in small groups to created a mini-book to tell a story about a good and how it gets to a family (ex. farm ---> a family's home).
Needs and Wants Triarama:
Have a good weekend!
- Ms. Allison