Author: Melissa Dimitriou

Dear Families,

On Wednesday, May 31st we will be having a PBIS celebration to recognize your child’s positive behavior. This month’s celebration theme is All School Picnic! We will be having our picnic outside, so let’s hope the weather stays pleasant!

Your child may bring a towel or blanket to sit on during the picnic, and we strongly encourage students bring a brown bag lunch since we will be eating outside. However, lunch will still be available for purchase in the cafeteria.

Thank you,

Haigh PBIS Committee

Reminder: Tomorrow the first choice lunch menu is cheese and crackers instead of blueberry pancakes. This change was made when Field Day was scheduled for tomorrow. Field Day has been cancelled, but the change to the menu remains the same.

There is no school on Friday or Monday.

Due to no school on Friday, our homework packet will be due on Thursday.

This week will be the last homework packet for the year.

Due to no school on Friday, our spelling test and math quiz will be on Thursday this week.

This will be our last spelling test for the year.

There will be two more math quizzes.

Book pouches will no longer be coming home. I am collecting books and pouches and we are taking time to straighten up and inventory our book room.

Yesterday was our last day for book check-out in the library. All library books are due back by May 30th.

Thank you for your diligence in helping your child study for the spelling tests and math quizzes, as well as reading with them nightly from their book pouches!

The reading eggs login will be available all throughout the summer! Please continue to have your child practice on this program! Mathseeds will be available soon as well! These both are wonderful programs to help prevent summer loss! The login and password for each child will remain the same.

All of our testing is finally done!!!

Monday is our last day for book check-out in the media center. Please be sure to send your child’s library book to school with them on Monday, if they have not already brought it back. If they do not have their book turned in, they will miss out on getting a book for our last check-out. All books are due back by May 30^th.

Clean-up parade is on Monday in the afternoon. Please send your child to school in their gym shoes, as we will be walking through the neighborhood. Please no sandals! Mr. Short also asked that everyone try to wear green!

Please continue to put your child on readingeggs.com at home and have them do a couple of lessons each night.  This can count on the reading log in the homework for some of the nightly reading!

Upcoming Events

5/22 Clean-Up Parade at 1:30pm (please wear gym shoes)

5/24 Field Day (See note that came home last week)

5/26 No School!!!!

5/29 No School!!!!

5/31 PBIS Party – School-wide Picnic

6/2 Ocean Animal Project Due (See note that came home)

6/9 Ocean Report Presentation (See note that came home)

6/14 Math Quiz Ice Cream Party

6/15 Kindergarten end-of-the-year Picnic 2 – 3:15pm

6/16 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!! ½ day dismissal – 11:45am

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing:  We continue to learning about ocean animals. We will continue our research over the next few weeks and will be working on our blueprints (graphic organizers) as well as beginning our reports which will be in book form. Please do not send the project to school until June 2^nd. We do not have any room in the class to store projects until the due date! In the past, some families have found cute crafts online (Pinterest, YouTube, etc), and other families have used wood, plaster, recycled materials and made 3D models of the ocean animal. It all depends on how much time you and your child would like to put into the project. The children will present their craft/model and report on their ocean animal to the class and we will be inviting all of you to come in and see the crafts/models and reports!

Please refer to the note that came home for more details!

We completed our lobsters!

Math: We took our -7 math quiz today. Today, I sent home the -8 flashcards for practice. We will take the -8 quiz on Thursday, May 25th.

Science: We explored lots of sea shells and even saw a puffer fish, seahorse, and shark jaw!

Housekeeping Items:

The temperature is rising and the school is heating up! Please remember that we do not have air conditioning at Haigh. It is a good idea to send your child to school in loose fitting, light clothing to help keep them cool.

If you would like your child to wear sunscreen, please apply this to your child before they come to school.

Please do not send toys, fidget spinners, or Pokémon cards to school with your child. These are a huge distraction.

The class as a whole has been super talkative. It is making instruction more and more difficult on a daily basis. Please remind the children that the rules at school and in our classroom have not changed. With the warmer weather, we are all getting restless for summer!

Children need a snack each day! Please do not send candy as a snack. The children need a healthy snack each day such as fruit, crackers, cheese, yogurt, granola bars, etc.  As a reminder, no juice is allowed in class for snack.

I created a mini photo booth as a background for silly photos for the children. The class has been very interested in the ocean zones, particularly the midnight zone. Their favorite sea creature from the midnight zone is the angler fish. We created an angler fish craft (per the children’s request) and used them in our photo booth to pretend that we are being attacked by angler fish, in the midnight zone!

Here is what the photo booth looks like:

Some of the children decided to make scared faces, some pretended that they were dead, and some smiled because they said they are not afraid of anything!

Enjoy!

Sasha

Melina

Lamees

Nate

Zahrae

William

Roqaya

Mahdi

Dunia

Payton

Rayan

Ali

Connor

Julia

Lea

Layan

Gavin

Logan

Jenna

Fatimah

Noah

Amar

Dalal

Maha

We hope you enjoyed all of our photos from our midnight zone photo booth. We had lots of fun taking these pictures and laughing at them together afterwards!

Dear Parents and Guardians,

To help us celebrate another fantastic school year, we will be having Field Day on Wednesday, May 24, 2017.  For this Field Day event students will work through stations with their class to develop skills they have learned in physical education and have tons of fun!  The schedule for the event is as follows:

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd Grades

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM All School Picnic

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM 3rd, 4th and 5th Grades

On May 24, students need to wear clothes that will allow them to be physically active outside, including tennis shoes.  They need to bring a water bottle.  There will be a station to refill bottles if needed.  Students are highly encouraged to bring a bagged lunch to enjoy at the all school picnic.  They are welcome to bring a towel or blanket to sit on as well.  Students will be able to purchase school lunch if necessary.

We are looking for one parent from each classroom to donate a treat for the entire class to enjoy after their session.  Please contact your child’s classroom teacher if you are interested in proving a treat.

Lastly, we need 15 parent volunteers for both sessions to help run stations.  If you are interested in volunteering, fill out the lower portion and return it to Mr. Peecher.  Please, contact Mr. Peecher with any questions.

Thanks!  The PBIS/Field Day Committee  peeches@dearbornschools.org
*We will only be able to accommodate students & parent volunteers for this event.

Two reminders for tomorrow:

1. Tomorrow, May 17, 2017 is a late start day. Late start time 9:40am.
2. The lunch menu has changed for tomorrow. First choice will be blueberry pancakes, turkey sausage, hash browns, and orange juice.

Payton’s mom brought in their family pet fish for the class to enjoy for a few days! We feed the fish in the morning and right before leaving for the day. One of the fish, named Slimer, glows neon green when the lights are out. The ghost shrimp likes to hide, but when he does come out, we can see through his body!

Thank you for sharing your pets with our class during our ocean unit! The children really enjoy watching the fish!

Here are some pictures:

We are quietly watching the fish and are amazed at how bright they glow!

Star of the week, Connor, was the first to help feed the fish!

This is our gathering place at the start and finish of each day to feed the fish!

Thank you again for letting us enjoy the fish for a few days!

Happy Mother’s day to all of you! I hope everyone enjoys the weekend with family and friends. We made a little something for all you moms. We hope you like it!

LAST CALL: This is the last call for scholastic book orders for this year. Our last order for this year will be placed on 5/15. Please be sure to get your orders in by the end of the day on Monday. All orders may be submitted online. Directions on how to do this are under the “Scholastic Reading Club” tab on our blog!

I have a few more DRA tests to complete to determine the children’s reading levels. All of the children, who I have tested so far, have been doing great! I am so proud of the growth every child has displayed this year! Thank you again, for all of your support with their learning and helping them to be ready for first grade!

Please continue to put your child on readingeggs.com at home and have them do a couple of lessons each night.  This login for Reading Eggs is valid through next year! You will have access to your child’s account over the entire summer! Please utilize this amazing resource to help combat some “summer loss.” Summer loss is when children lose a little bit of the growth they had made throughout the school year because they are not using the skills. We all know the saying, “If you do not use it, you lose it.” Help your child keep up their reading skills throughout the summer by having them read books to you and by having them continue to complete lessons on readingeggs.com.

Upcoming Events

5/15 Scholastic Book Order Due (This will be the last order for the year)

5/17 Late Start – arrival 9:35am (Lunch choice was switched to Blueberry Pancakes)

5/22 Clean-Up Parade at 1:30pm

5/23 Treble Makers Spring Musical at Haigh at 7:00pm

5/24 Field Day

5/26 No School!!!!

5/29 No School!!!!

5/31 PBIS Party – School-wide Picnic

6/2 Ocean Animal Project Due (more details coming soon)

6/9 Ocean Report Presentation (more details coming soon)

6/14 Math Quiz Ice Cream Party

6/15 Kindergarten end-of-the-year Picnic 2 – 3:15pm

6/16 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!! ½ day dismissal – 11:45am

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing:  We continue to learning about ocean animals. The children were assigned their ocean animals last week and this week I began helping the children research these animals in class. We will continue our research over the next few weeks and will be working on our blueprints (graphic organizers) as well as beginning our reports which will be in book form. Please do not send the project to school until June 2^nd. We do not have any room in the class to store projects until the due date! In the past, some families have found cute crafts online (pinterest, youtube, etc), and other families have used wood, plaster, recycled materials and made 3D models of the ocean animal. It all depends on how much time you and your child would like to put into the project. The children will present their craft/model and report on their ocean animal to the class and we will be inviting all of you to come in and see the crafts/models and reports!

Please refer to the note that came home for more details!

Math: We took our -6 math quiz today. Today, I sent home the -7 flashcards for practice. We will take the -7 quiz on Friday, May 19th.

Science: The children are very interested in sharks, so we read several books and learned many facts about sharks this week. Ask your child: “Which Shark is the fastest shark?” (Mako Shark) Then ask: “How fast does it swim?” (42mph)

I suggested that the children might be able to ask while you are driving in the car to drive at 42 miles per hour to see how fast a Mako shark can swim! We also learned that a Great White Shark will lazily swim at 2 miles per hour through the ocean when it is not in pursuit of prey. Maybe you could drive the car at 2 miles per hour and show your child how slow the Great White Shark swims when it has nowhere to be!

We also learned that the length of a Megalodon shark was as long as TWO of our classrooms end-to-end!

We focused on our ocean unit and made some crafts to go along with the animals we learned about. This week the children were able to make lobsters! We painted the children’s hands and feet and used our fingers to paint the rest of the body of the lobster! They are drying through the weekend and we will finish these crafts on Monday!

Amar working hard on his lobster!

Lea getting her feet painted!

Maha getting her feet painted!

Noah and Zahrae are hard at work creating their lobsters!

Layan focusing hard on creating her lobster craft!

Someone had ticklish feet! Rayan getting his foot tickled… I mean, painted! He was all laughs while creating his lobster!

They also requested to make angler fish, so I created a fun craft for us to do in order for them to create an angler fish! They turned out great! Now I just have to find a place to put the lobsters and the angler fish! Our ocean (classroom) is getting pretty full!

Here are some other pictures from our ocean classroom:

Our lockers are displaying our sea shell, starfish, and crab crafts!

Our windows have been turned into under water scenes, displaying our sea shell, starfish, crab, and seahorse crafts!

Our classroom has been transformed into an ocean with all of our crafts hanging from the ceiling. We have jellyfish (which we made with our 5th grade buddies from Mrs. Niner’s class), sea turtles, clown fish, sharks, and octopus!

Here is our door! We turned it into a shark!!! We like to pretend that we are learning inside the shark’s belly and that we have been gobbled up by a hungry (megalodon, bull, or Great White — depending on who you ask) shark!

We all are having so much fun learning about ocean animals!

Housekeeping Items:

The class as a whole has been super talkative. It is making instruction more and more difficult on a daily basis. Please remind the children that the rules at school and in our classroom have not changed. With the warmer weather, we are all getting restless for summer!

Children need a snack each day! Please do not send candy as a snack. The children need a healthy snack each day such as fruit, crackers, cheese, yogurt, granola bars, etc.  As a reminder, no juice is allowed in class for snack.

Book Pouches

I pulled new books for all of the children this week, but unfortunately, I have been so busy testing that I did not have a chance to meet with the children and read. We will skip sending the book pouches home for the rest of the week and start fresh on Monday with new books!

Paint

Tomorrow we will be doing a painting craft where the children will have paint on their hands and feet. There is a chance that paint may get on the children’s clothes. I will try my best to prevent this, but sometimes accidents happen. Please try to send your child to school tomorrow in older clothes that you do not care about, in case they get paint on them. The paint is water based and washable, but better to be safe than sorry!