October 19 - Otober 23
Students do not have school next week. We will return to school on Monday, October 26.
Fall Break Homework (Seesaw)
Raz-Kids Daily Reading + Show and Tell Presentation
1. Daily Reading
G1 students need to read at least 10 minutes every day during fall break. School books will not be sent home, so please help your child complete this homework on Raz-Kids. Thank you!
2. Show and Tell (Topic: Fall Break)
Show and Tell details have been shared on Seesaw. The writing presentation template (see below) was sent home in your child's homework folder on Friday, Oct. 16.
Halloween
Friday, October 30th - Dress up in a costume!
UST will be celebrating Halloween the week we return from fall break on Friday, October 30th.
Email sent from PTA:
We are so excited to start back after the midterm break with one of our favorite events! On Friday, 30 October all UST classes will celebrate Halloween with a Trick or Treat Parade through the neighborhood.
The children will make six stops on the route, marked on the map attached. We are delighted as the Keay and Tsurusaki families have offered their homes (outside) as two additional stops this year. The children will be handed treats (chocolates, stationary, and candies, NO nuts) from parent volunteers at each trick or treat station.
Children with gluten and dairy food sensitivities will be handed treats in bags with their names labeled at each station. If you have not reported your child’s food sensitivity, please do so right away to your child’s homeroom teacher AND to us on the PTA email. It’s important to us that all kids feel included! We urge parents of children with allergies to take the same precautions as always (communicate with homeroom teachers, your child and the PTA ahead of the event to be safe).
This is a student-only event, and we will not be calling on parent volunteers this year in order to stay within COVID safety measures. But we will be taking lots of pictures and look forward to sharing them with you!
Please have your children come to school dressed in their Halloween costumes. Kids will have regular classes in the morning, so costumes need to be comfortable. Please communicate any questions or requests concerning costumes with your child’s homeroom teacher, so they can be sure that the outfits are in order for the trick or treating event and photos! Also, please make sure that your kids can protect their costumes from any lunchtime mishaps.
Lastly, children will need to bring their own bags (marked with their name) for collecting treats and a water bottle with a strap as you never know what the weather gods will bring- it can be very warm! In case of rain, we will do the parade indoors!
Thursday, October 29th
G1 students are going to Shimotakaido Ozora Park (close to Eifukucho Station) on Thursday, October 29 for a social studies field trip focusing on cooperation and rules. We will leave UST at 9:45 a.m. (1 bus, 1 van) and leave the park to return to school at 1:30 p.m.
Please help your child bring these items to school on the day of the field trip:
- Outdoor clothing (jacket)
- Orange UST shirt (P.E. shirt)
- Regular snack and lunch (We will eat snack and lunch at the park.)
- Picnic blanket
- Water bottle
- Restroom Towel
* Students will bring their backpacks on the field trip. Inside they will have their snack, lunch, water bottle, picnic blanket and restroom towel. All folders will be left at school.
Birthday Celebration - October
Thursday, October 29th
On Thursday, October 29th we will be celebrating grade 1 birthdays for the month of October! Items donated for our party will include store bought juice and treats.
Please let me know if you would like to send in a different snack for your child to eat during the celebration. Thank you!
Reading
Readers Build Good Reading Habits - Making Connections
Our focus during reading this week was making connections to better understand the books we read. Students learned that good readers make connections: text to self, text to text, and text to world.
Writing
Personal Narratives
Our new writing unit is all about narrative writing. This week students learned that when you write a narrative piece, you share a story about something that really happened.
Sentence Starters
One day...
One summer...
One night...
Students will publish their writing when we return from fall break.
Math
Subtraction Facts to 10
This week we practiced solving subtraction story problems and the class was introduced to fact families. We will continue to work on fact families when we return from fall break.
Solving subtraction stories:
1. Understand the story problem - Retell it in your own words
2. Think of a plan - How will I solve this problem?
3. Carry out the plan - create a number bond, use a number line (counting back), draw a picture, use hands-on materials (connecting cubes, ten frames and counters), draw a picture, write a subtraction sentence
4. Answer the question and check your answer
Fact family: Each fact in a fact family has the same parts and whole.
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Social Studies
Who works at your school?
Vocabulary
Job: A job is a task or work that someone does. Each job needs special skills.
Income: People earn income, or money, when they work. (Why is it important to earn income?)
Service: A service is work that someone does for someone else.
This week we learned about four jobs people have at our school: teacher, principal, secretary, custodian.
Students created A4 posters about each job:
Teacher
- draw and write about something...
- a teacher does to teach children
- a teacher does to help families
- a teacher does to help children get along
Principal
- draw and write about something...
- a principal does to help students
- a principal does to help families
- a principal does to help teachers
Secretary
- draw and write about something...
- a secretary does to help a school
Custodian
- draw and write about something...
- a custodian does to help a school
Recess
I hope you have a wonderful Fall Break!
- Ms. Allison