Goal Setting PTC (Parent Teacher Conference)
Monday, October 14th
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October PTCs are scheduled for Monday, October 14th.
Please take a moment to pick a time that works well with your schedule and sign up using the Google Sheet form above. Your child will need to attend the conference with you. The beginning of the conference will be an opportunity for your child to share their goals and thoughts about school. A form will be sent home next week to help you prepare for our PTC. Thank you!
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If you are interested in being G1A's chaperone for this field trip, please let me know. Thank you!
Shibuya Police Station
G1 students are going to the Shibuya Police Station on Tuesday, October 1st for a morning Social Studies field trip. We will leave UST at 10:30 am. and visit the police station for an hour 11:00 am - 12:00 pm. At 12:00 pm we will return to school. Lunch and recess will be 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm on this day.
During the field trip the students will learn about policeman’s equipment and vehicles (patrol car and police bike). We will also learn more about laws and following rules to stay safe.
Are you ready for the field trip?
Please help your child wear his/her orange UST shirt (P.E. shirt) to school on the day of the field trip. We will eat snack and lunch at school.
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September
Congratulations Stingrays!
International Children's Day
We had a terrific International Children's Day at school on Friday! Students started their day coloring flags, then they participated in a fashion show with G1B and G2B so we could see everyone's costumes. The rest of our day was filled with fun classes and student presentations. Thank you for helping your child prepare at home for their Show & Tell presentation! It was wonderful to hear students teach our class about the people they dressed up as and learn more about different historical figures from around the world.
International Children's Day Classes:
- Russian Culinary School
- Indonesian Culture Class
- Persian Performance
- Polynesian Dance and Music
Reading
Readers Build Good Habits
This week our class continued working on skills that will help them read with a partner while continuing to grow as a reader.
Students learned:
- readers learn more from their books by rereading with a partner
- readers read books with a partner by taking turns
- readers read books by echoing each other
- readers make meaning together by retelling stories to their partners (5 finger rule - first, then, next, after that, finally)
Writing
Sentences and Paragraphs
Everyone showed a lot of great effort during Writing class this week! We have been practicing how to follow the writing process to write a 5 sentence paragraph (prewriting, write, revise, edit, publish). Next week students will finish revising and editing their writing. Once their work is published, each student will read their final piece to the class and we will put their writing on display in the classroom.
Math
Addition Facts to 10
Our new Math chapter focuses on addition. We related number bonds (part, part, whole) to addition (part + part = whole) and learned that one way to add is counting on from the greater number. Students used ten frames, counters, number lines, and connecting cubes to help practice counting on.
Counting On:
5 + 3 = ___
“5…6, 7, 8”
4 + 6 = ___
"6...7, 8, 9, 10"
Math Vocabulary
Add
Plus (+)
Equal to (=)
Addition Sentence
More than
Social Studies
Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship - Why Do Schools Have Rules?
This week our class played a game without rules and the students shared how it made them feel (frustrated, confused), then we played a game with rules and discussed why it is important have rules and how rules can help us. We also looked at different pictures of children at school and talked about what the children were doing in each picture. The students shared where they saw the children being safe/not safe and fair/not fair.
We also talked about why we have rules in our classroom/at school and who makes those rules. We matched rules to the reasons why we have them (Ex. We walk in the halls. ---> Helps us be safe).
Social Studies vocabulary
Rules - Rules tell us how we should act. Rules tell us how to treat others so we can enjoy school.
Fair - We share and we take turns to be fair.
Share - Rules help us be safe so no one gets hurt.
Have a great weekend!
- Ms. Allison