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The cold weather is upon us and so comes the days of hats, mittens, scarves, boots, and maybe even snow pants. Many of these items can easily become lost throughout the day with them being taken on and off for arrival, recess, lunch, dismissal, etc. Please label your child’s belongings in order to help these items find their way back home in the event that any should be misplaced.

Also, it would be a huge help if you could practice zipping and unzipping coats, putting on and taking off hats, scarves, mittens/gloves, snow boots, shoes, and snow pants. Please consider the time it takes you to get one child ready for the cold weather and multiply that by 24!!!! Help me foster independence in your children by practicing all these skills at home in order to make them self-sufficient at school. 

Additionally, Mr. Short has asked that no parents enter the building unless they have signed in at the office. This means that your child will need to enter the building without you and independently unpack and take off their winter accessories by themselves. This will help your child get ready for First grade! We want to send big, independent children to First grade!

Thank you for all of your help and assistance in helping the children become more independent!

 

PLEASE PUT YOUR CHILD ON READING EGGS AND MATH SEEDS EACH NIGHT!!!!

If you misplaced your child’s login and need the information again, please email me at dimitrm@dearbornschools.org

Upcoming Events

12/11 – 12/14 PTA Popcorn Sales (Popcorn delivered on 12/15)

12/12 Family STEM Night from 6-8pm (Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum comes to Haigh)

12/12 Scholastic Book Orders Due (will be delivered before winter break)

12/13 Ugly Sweater Bingo for Books (PTA event 6 -7pm)

12/14 Haigh School Store open during lunchtime

12/15– Spelling Test

12/15 Spelling Test

12/15 Science Test (seasons)

12/15 Math Quiz +0

12/18 – 12/20 Candy Gram Sales

12/20 Late Start

12/20 Polar Express and Pajama Day (more information coming home soon)

12/21 Winter Party

12/22 PBIS Celebration – Movie Theater (at Haigh)

12/25 – 1/5 Winter Break – No School!!!!

 

Agenda for the Week

Spelling Words for our first spelling test on 12/15: 

I, a, see, cat, bat, mat, rat, hat, sat.

Plus a bonus word which will be one of the following words: flat, chat, fat, or that.

The purpose of the bonus word is to assess whether the children understand the word family pattern of each word ending in the same two letters -at.

These words will be in the homework which will come home on Monday.

Reading and Writing: Please continue to work with your child on our sight words. I will tested list three today. I also went back and tested any words that may have been missed on list one and list two. The children are having fun learning these words in class and love playing our game of “bubble” to help them learn the words. List four will not be assessed at this time, but will appear on future spelling tests. Please continue to review all of these sight words as they show up frequently in our books that we read during reading groups.

Only one more week of letters! We worked on recognizing and writing the letter L and the letter O. We learned the sound of each letter and practiced identifying objects that begin with each letter sound. Please continue to help your child correctly hold a pencil and form each letter.

This week we have been working on text connections. We discussed text-to-text connections, and text-to-self connections. We really focused on text-to-text when we read many different versions of the three little pigs. The children loved comparing the stories and identifying things that were the same from story to story and things that were different. We read versions of The Three Little Pigs where the pigs beat the wolf and lived in a large brick house, we read versions where the Big Bad Wolf ate two of the pigs and the last pig ate the wolf, we read a version told from the wolf’s perspective, we read versions where the pigs were ninjas, we even read a version of this story where the pigs were not pigs at all, but rather they were aliens and the wolf was not a wolf but was the Big Bad Robot. It was exciting to see how involved the children became with learning about different versions of the story rather than all about the same old story they were used to hearing.

 

Next week we will read many different versions of the gingerbread man and compare the stories similarities and differences. The children will also complete several gingerbread activities!

Math: We continued learning about simple addition and practiced identifying the plus sign and the equals sign, as well as what each symbol means. We learned a new video about subitizing, be sure to have your child sing along with the video and show you the hand motions and extra words, we created for the video. Here is the video:

Here are some addition videos:

We are starting math quizzes in a next week! These quizzes will help the children prepare for first grade and get used to taking tests (what the format looks like, how to follow testing procedures, etc). Each week we will have a math quiz, starting with +0, then +1, all the way to 10. Then, we will begin subtraction with -0, then -1, etc. Flash cards came home today for our  +0 math quiz on December 15th. Please cut these up and practice these math facts with your child to prepare them for the quiz. These flashcards are an example of how you could practice math facts each week with your child at home. For the next quiz, you could use counters (or food) for a visual representation of the math equation or make the flashcards (just like the example I sent home) for your child. You can also practice with your child by having them put the big number in their head and the small number on their hands and then count up. Try to make it fun! Thank you for supporting your child with their addition skills!

 

Science: We continue our unit about weather. Now we are learning about snowy weather and concentrating more on the four seasons. We used adjectives to describe each season and drew pictures to match what each season looks like.

Social Studies: We are learning about economic goods and services. This concept is a little difficult for the children to understand as most of them do not go out and pay for things themselves! We have discussed many places you could go and pay for a service such as a restaurant, nail salon, hair salon, etc. We have also discussed buying goods, which is a little easier for the children to understand paying for something and taking it home such as food from the grocery store, toys from the store, etc.

Housekeeping Items:

Parents need to sign in at the office if you want to enter the building with your child. This is for the safety of all children at Haigh Elementary and is a district policy.

 

Cold Weather: The cold weather is upon us and so comes the days of hats, mittens, scarves, boots, and maybe even snow pants. Many of these items can easily become lost throughout the day with them being taken on and off for arrival, recess, lunch, dismissal, etc. Please label your child’s belongings in order to help these items find their way back home in the event that any should be misplaced. Also, it would be a huge help if you could practice zipping and unzipping coats, putting on and taking off hats, scarves, mittens/gloves, snow boots, shoes, and snow pants. Please consider the time it takes you to get one child ready for the cold weather and multiply that by 24!!!! Help me foster independence in your children by practicing all these skills at home in order to make them self-sufficient at school. Thank you!

 

Snack Time

**** Due to a peanut allergy in our room, please do not send in any snacks that contain nuts.*****

Folders

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log and feel free to add any notes to me!

 

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