Author: Melissa Dimitriou

Due to the weather, we are cancelling the field trip. We plan to try again later today to see if there is any possible way to reschedule the trip to the orchard for another day. If we cannot reschedule, we will refund everyone’s money. Sorry for any inconvenience.

DON’T FORGET!

FIELD TRIP TOMORROW

Please send a completely disposable sack lunch and drink in a brown bag with your child’s name on it to school tomorrow. All items will be thrown away after lunch.

Please send some sort of bag for your child to carry their pumpkin and apple in. The children will collect these during the morning and it will be much easier for the children to carry them if they have a bag to put them in. I am going to raid my pantry and bring as many grocery bags as I can. The cloth reusable bags would work well too!

Please check the weather and have your child dress appropriately. We will be outside most of the day! Due to busing and scheduling we are unable to reschedule the date.

Thank you!

Haigh Movie Night is coming soon! This event will take place on October 7th. Please vote for the movie you would like to see at the link below:

https://haigh.dearbornschools.org/2016/09/22/haigh-outdoor-movie-night-is-coming-make-your-movie-vote-here/

Can you guess which movie I voted for?

We have book check-out on Friday mornings. Children may keep the books until the following Friday. You may send the books to school any time during the week.

If the children do not have their books returned by Friday, then they will not be able to check out another book until the previous book is returned.

The kindergarten team is asking that each student bring in one apple by Wednesday, September 28th. It does not matter the color or size of the apple!

This coming Friday the students from all of the kindergarten classes will get together and experiment with apples and pumpkins! One group will work on a pumpkin investigation, while the other group makes apple sauce and uses apples to paint a picture! The groups will switch half way through the allotted time in order for all the children to experience both activities.

Please remember to turn in your permission slip and your field trip money by tomorrow!

This year we are pairing up with Mrs. Niner’s 5th grade class. We will get together with our buddies as often as we can. Our 5th grade buddies will help us work on projects, read together, and play.

Last week our friends came in and helped us complete a project to go along with the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes.

Please enjoy these photos of the children working together!

Here are the finished projects:

We look forward to more exciting activities with our 5th grade buddies!

Please remember to submit your book orders online for our monthly Scholastic Reading Club.

Orders should come in about one week after the class order is submitted.

Thank you for helping grow a love for reading in our classroom and at home!

Thank you to all who came to Open House. It was nice to have time to get to know each of you a little bit more.

If you were unable to make it to Open House or forgot to sign up for a conference day, please see me at arrival/dismissal to sign up for a date and time. I will have a clipboard with the sign-up sheet with me, until we get everyone a conference time.

Upcoming Events

9/22 Scholastic Book Order DUE!!!

9/29 Field Trip to Plymouth Orchard (Permission slip coming home Monday)

Agenda for the Week

Letters: This week we focused on the letters Aa and Zz. We talked about the sounds they make, brainstormed things that begin with each letter, and spent time practicing the proper formation of each letter. These letters will show up on next week’s homework for a handwriting review.

Reading: This week we learned more about the concepts of print. We talked more about the parts of the book, front cover, back cover, spine, what the spine of the book does, title, author, illustrator, characters, title page, etc. We began learning about text-to-self and text-to-world connections through our read aloud stories this week. We practiced using our “reading finger” by sliding it under each word that we read together in our paper books.

Math: We focused on representing quantities with dots inside a ten frame. We will use ten frames all year, so it is important for the children to begin using them now. We learned how to properly form the numbers 1, 2, and 3. The children also learned our procedures for math workshop and our number talks. Number talks help us talk about numbers and become better at mental math. Number talks take place for 5 – 10 minutes each day. Ask your child to show you what hand gesture they do when they get an answer, what hand gesture they use when they have the same answer as someone else (we say, “me too”), and the most important thing during number talk is giving our friends “time to think.”

Social Studies: We continued to talk about being a good citizen and friend. We reviewed our rules and talked about ways we can help others to follow the rules. We have been using our read aloud stories to discuss what it means to be a good friend and student. The children are working hard at following the rules and procedures in class, and trying to make good choices.

We also talked about fire safety this week. Today was our first fire drill. All the children did a good job getting in line and out the door quickly.

Science: We discussed what germs are and how to stay healthy in class. We talked about washing our hands and sneezing/coughing into our elbow.  The children watched a short video and song about germs. After watching the video, they all wanted to go wash their hands!

Housekeeping Items:

Many of the children are confusing their snack with their lunch items. Please help your child understand what you have packed for their snack and where to find it (whether it is in their lunch box or their backpack).

As a reminder, please do not send juice to school as part of their snack.

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.

Today we had an assembly about anti-bullying lead by the Detroit Lions mascot Rory! The children did a wonderful job staying seated and being good listeners.  Here are a few pictures from the assembly:

Rory sat with some of the kindergarten students from Ms. Martin’s class!

Some of the children from the older grades were chosen as volunteers to help act out skits which involved social bullying, verbal bullying, and physical bullying. The children were able to watch the skits and talk with the referee about what they should do if they ever feel as though they are being bullied.

At the end of the assembly, my class was lucky enough to get to dance with Rory and give him high-fives! The children were very excited to meet Rory.

The Detroit Lions are offering discounted tickets to families who attend schools participating in their “STAND Proud Like a Lion” Program.

Here is a link to the Haigh blog for more information on tickets:

https://haigh.dearbornschools.org/2016/09/16/detroit-lions-organization-invites-haigh-to-ford-fieldsee-flyer-below/