Class News 2025-2026
Class News
December 1-5
- Welcome back from Thanksgiving Break! I hope everyone had a great time with family. We started decorating our classroom with cute Rudolph writing on why its nose is a different color. Ask your child to share what their story is about.
- Students created measurement Evergreen trees by using their cm ruler. What fun we had measuring our heights and then gathering the data on a line plot.
- Students enjoyed our walking field trip to Diamond Bar High school. What talented students there are at DBHS!
- What's a timeline? Students learned about putting events in chronological order.
- Great news about EPIC online. Students now will have access until 4:00 p.m.
- Students took their math fluency timed test today after 2 weeks of working on our lead measures. I'm so proud of all their growth! You will get a copy of their fluency test as well as their most recent STAR reading test next week.
- Just a reminder-There will be a Parent Night on Wednesday, December 19th from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Learn practical strategies to help your child!
- Our Holiday Party will be on Wednesday, December 17th.
- Secret word-Share a time you practiced Habit-Think Win Win.
November 17-21
- Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! I hope everyone has a restful week enjoying time together. I am so thankful for being a part of your child's life. Thank you all for being so supportive!
- This week students have been reading about our government's laws and other safety rules. We wrote an informative paragraph explaining what we've learned.
- Please look over the Amira reports sent home a couple days ago. This is a new district program that is differentiated for each child.
- What does your child know about Thanksgiving? We've learned some interesting facts today!
- In math we have been learning about shapes and measuring sides. Ask your child what shapes they see all around them.
- Don't forget to turn in the field trip permission slip for our walking field trip to Diamond High School on December 4th from 8:30-10:00 a.m.
- EPIC will be available for your child during school hours next week!
- Secret word-Share what you are thankful for.
November 12-14
- Happy 67th day of school! We had fun celebrating this special day! Students used their creativity and transformed the numbers 6 7 to something else. Ask your child what they created.
- Is a square a rectangle? Students in room 12 know the answer to that as we are starting our unit in geometry. We learned how to measure length using a centimeter ruler and now we are learning about shapes.
- This week the students were introduced to the 4 Disciplines of Execution. Ask your child what WIGs stand for and what our WIG is for the next 10 days. In order for us to reach our goal, we need to have lead measures. We will be working on improving our subtraction fluency daily. If we complete our lead measure consecutively for 10 days, we will have a class celebration by making slime! We talked about the importance of goal setting and also having a plan to meet our goal.
- Secret words-What do words of encouragement sound like?
November 3-7
- Students completed their personal narrative. Ask your child to share what they wrote about.
- We just took our unit 2 test in math. Awareness of coins is still a challenge to many. Continue to give your child money counting opportunities.
- Thank you for sending the Leader in Me certificates at home. Now, your child can earn an extra raffle ticket if you send me a picture on Class Dojo of your child demonstrating the habit. These pictures will be proudly displayed in our class so students see that these habits continue outside our classroom. Thank you for your support at home.
- What is Veterans Day? Students in room 12 can answer that question. We worked on habit 6-synergize as we put together a Veterans Day poster and created a thank you card for veterans.
- We will be starting our Leader in Me notebooks! This is where students will keep track of their academic goals and chart the data. More information will follow on the questions you can ask your child about their leadership notebooks.
- Secret word- Did you finish your turkey disguise? Don't forget it's due on Wednesday, November 12th.
October 27-31
- What's a personal narrative? Students know it's a true story about your life. We are learning the components that make up a narrative story.
- It was so great seeing so many of you at our Halloween parade today! Students enjoyed the costume parade and seeing so many creative costumes. Thank you for all the yummy treats for our party.
- In math students continue to practice counting with coins from pennies to dimes.
- Wow! So many students have already turned in Leader awards from home. Students are working on collecting certificate for each habit. Once all 8 habit certificates have been collected, students may trade them in for a special goodie bag from the treasure chest.
- Please turn in the Proactive Habit at home paper on Monday, November 3rd.
- Secret word- What's your favorite candy?
October 20-24
- We kicked off Red Ribbon Week today by wearing red and participating in our Spirit Assembly. Monday's
activity-Turn your Back on Drugs! Wear your clothes backwards.
- Next week will be our Halloween party. We will have our costume parade on Friday, October 31st from
8:30-9:15 a.m. Our party will be after our last recess-1:35 p..m. If you would like your child to change,
please provide an extra change of clothes in a bag.
- Congratulations to Stella for earning our first SOAR award for the year. Each month I will select one
student who has demonstrated excellent citizenship and work habits in the classroom and outside.
- Your child received our first Habits at Home activity-Habit 1-Be Proactive. Please help your child discuss
one way they can be proactive at home. (something that they have been challenged with) Have your
child return this paper by November 3rd for a special treat! Thank you for your support at home!
- Please look over the blue folder today and celebrate their hard work as well as review a few missed problems.
- Secret word-How are you going to be proactive at home?
October 13-17
- Our performance is coming up! Please save the date, Thursday, October 23rd. Our performance will be starting promptly at 9:00 a.m. and be completed around 9:30 a.m. If you would like to assist students with costumes at 8:00 a.m. on the day of the performance, please message me on Class Dojo. I will need about 3-4 parent volunteers. Thank you.
- Who's Yeh-Shen? Students practiced working with creating a double bubble map as they compared Yeh-Shen to Cinderella. Thank you for participating with this compare/contrast activity as well at home.
- In math students are learning different strategies for adding larger numbers. So far we have learned Proof Drawing and Show All Totals methods.
- Red Ribbon Week is starting on Friday, October 24th. Wear Red on October 24th.
- Secret words: Share how you sharpened your saw this weekend.
October 6-10
- It was so great meeting with all of you during parent conferences! Thank you so much for your continued support at home.
- We had some holiday fun this week by creating our own pumpkin after listening to the story, The Legend of Spookley. We practiced proper nouns as well as compound sentences in our writing. Ask your child how it helped its friends in the story.
- What's a mosaic? Students learned a brief history of it and created their own fall mosaic by synergizing with a classmate. Ask your child what they created.
- Thank you for being a good sport for doing your homework! Students loved giving parents homework to complete. More importantly, I wanted the students to realize that even adults have things that come easy to them and things that are harder. We talked about the Paradigm of Change-Change Starts with Me. Continue to use this language at home and hopefully, it will just become a natural part of their mindset.
- Family Fun Night is on Friday, October 24th. Please turn in your envelope to purchase tickets in advance.
- Just a heads up, I will not be in class on October 13-14. However, feel free to message me if any concerns arise those two days.
- Secret Word- Write down the date of our Halloween performance.
September 26-October 2
- How can it be October already? Students continue to work so hard in class. They took their first Unit math test. Most students practiced the unit test on Think Central.
- What does an Oreo cookie have to do with opinion writing? Students enjoyed an Oreo cookie in class as they wrote an opinion paragraph about The Foolish Milkmaid citing reasons with text evidence as support.
- Your child received a book order for October. If you're interested in ordering, please place your order by next Wednesday, October 8th.
- Parent Conference is next week! I look forward to meeting you all. The meeting will be in Room 12. If the door is closed, that means I am currently in a conference. Thank you!
- Secret Word-What does the O in OREO stand for?
September 22-23
- Students are practicing with various types of problem solving in math. They will be taking their first unit test in math next week.
- This week students are learning about opinion writing. We are learning the format of opinion writing by using the OREO model. Students practiced opinion writing with their favorite place. Ask your child what reasons and examples they wrote about. Next week we will be writing an opinion paragraph of why they think the milkmaid from our reading was foolish by citing evidence from the text.
- Our class won for having the most participants for Spirit Day this month!
- Movie Night is next Friday at Evergreen!
- Secret word-Please look over the papers in the blue folder. Is there a parent signature on the back?
September 15-19
- Happy International Dot Day! Students used their imagination to create a picture from a dot. They also had fun creating a picture using their own watercolors! Ask your child what they created.
- Students wrote an informative paragraph this week about a habitat of their choice. Ask your child what they wrote about.
- We are practicing with making a ten when adding. Did your child show you how to make a ten when adding?
- Students have been getting more SeeSaw homework. Please let me know if you are still having difficulty logging in.
- Secret word of the day: Share someone you would like to meet in person.
September 8-12
- Almost all students have been able to log into Portal at home and complete their SeeSaw assignments at home. Please let me know if you are having any difficulties.
- This week we read about different habitats and practiced thinking about our reading by asking questions before and after reading. These are skills good readers do.
- We went on a virtual field trip to learn about the habitat of bighorn sheep. Ask your child why those animals go to the park in the daytime and then off to the desert at night.
- What creative students we have in Room 12. They all created a picture out of a scribble and wrote a story about it. Ask your child what they wrote about. We practiced identifying subjects and predicates this week.
- Ask your child to share what open and closed syllables are.
- Students will be researching about a habitat as well as writing a report about it.
- Reminders for your parent conference time will be sent out next week.
- Secret word: Complete this: Animals need food, water, air and __________to survive.
September 2-5
- Your child received a blue Returned Paper folder today. Please look over the papers inside and return the blue folder with a parent signature on the back.
- In math we are now learning about using the addition strategies for problem solving by drawing math mountains and writing equations.
- Did your child share the 4 types of sentences we are learning? (declarative, imperative, interrogative and exclamatory)
- Please help your child log-in at home. Directions on how to log-in was sent home on Thursday. Please return the technology check-off paper to school by Monday. Please let me know if you have any concerns.
- We have one more week left of our Community Club Drive. Thank you to all those who have already supported our school!
- Secret word: Complete this sentence: Circle of ___________means things I have control over. Share with your family some things you have control of and some things you don't have control of.
August 25-29
- Students are becoming more familiar with the various online applications. They will be logging in from home starting next week.
- Students read about emperor penguins, took notes using a circle map, and wrote an informative paragraph about emperor penguins. Ask your child what they learned.
- We are learning about different strategies for addition-making a ten, doubles, doubles plus one... Your child can practice with fluency by visiting Fact Monster as well.
- Our class demonstrated great school spirit on Friday by wearing yellow!
- Your child received a community club envelope this Friday. It's our annual fundraiser for Evergreen. The suggested amount per child is $150. Thank you for your continuous support!
- We will be having a walking field trip to Diamond Bar High school on December 5th. Please let me know if you would like to volunteer as there are requirements to become a chaperone that may require some time. However, if you were cleared for level 2 last year, it will be fine for this year as well.
- We discussed Habit 3-Putting First Things First-Work First, Then Play. Ask your child what big rocks mean. Please continue to reinforce this habit at home by using similar language. Ask your child to show you the hand motions for Habit 3.
- Secret word: Share one way you practice Habit 3:Put First Things First.
August 18-22
- We started our first week with students receiving homework daily. Please sign each day after your child finishes his/her homework. Also, please remind your child to writing down the title of the book for their reading log which is on the back of the homework tracker.
- It will continue to be hot next week. Please provide at least one water bottle for your child.
- Please prepare an emergency snack pack for your child. Click here for details.
- Picture Day is August 25th!
- We have been learning about Habit 1-Be Proactive.
- Students have been practicing in class how to access our portal, going onto Google Classroom, RenPlace learning, EPIC and SeeSaw. Next week your child will be receiving some homework to complete online at home. Please let me know if you have any concerns regarding this. Thank you for your support at home.
- Turn in your order for Scholastic Book Order by Monday, August 25th. Click here to order online.
- Secret word: Share one way you can be proactive at school.
August 11-15
- What an eventful week we had! Students participated in various getting to know you activities as well as practiced our school wide and classroom expectations.
- It was great seeing so many of you during Back to School Night. If you did not get to sign-up for a parent conference time, I will be notifying you shortly with a time for parent conference.
- Students took their first STAR reading test which provided your child with a ZPD. Students will be using their ZPD as a guide when selecting books in class during AR time and subsequently taking a quiz after each book. Please look over the STAR reading report that was sent back today.
- Students also take an addition fluency test. Results will be sent home the following Friday.
- We learned about having a growth mindset by watching an episode of Mojo. Click here to watch it with your child and you can discuss answers to the question at the end of the video. Your child wrote about the video making sure to include what happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Two key points-your brain is like a muscle, trying challenging things make your brain stronger.
- Students gained access to EPIC reading, which is website that provides thousands of online books for you child. The class code is: cap3017. Free access is only available on weekdays between the hours of 7am-3pm.
- Please remind your child to bring their black Evergreen Eagle folder back to school every day. Homework trackers (yellow colored) will be passed back on Monday, August 18th. Please sign the homework tracker daily. Remind your child to fill out the Reading Log on the back.
- There isn't a secret word this week. Next week your child will be getting their homework tracker so for next Friday there will be a line for you to write the secret word.
