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Dear Families,

On Wednesday, May 30th we will be having a PBIS celebration to recognize your child’s positive behavior. This month’s celebration theme is A Day of Play. We will be having our lunch outside and enjoying outdoor play, so let’s hope the weather stays pleasant!

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

Thank you,

Haigh PBIS Committee

I hope you all enjoy the weekend!

This week will be our last week for book pouches, homework, spelling tests, and math tests.

Upcoming Events

5/24 -8 Math Facts Quiz (This is the last Math Quiz!)

5/24 Spelling Test: king, sing, wing, ring, ding, sting, thing, bring, swing, spring (This is the last spelling test!)

Agenda for the Week

Spelling Words for our next spelling test on 5/24: king, sing, wing, ring, ding, sting, thing, bring, swing, spring 

Reading and Writing: We are working on reading and writing about ocean animals to complete our ocean reports

Math: The children took their – 7 math test today! Next week, we will focus on learning -7 math facts. Our test will be on Thursday, May 24th.

Housekeeping Items:

Money: Please make sure to send money in an envelope or baggie labeled with your child’s name and what the money will be used for. Thank you for your help!

Spelling booklets: Please be sure to return these promptly on Tuesday!

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!

Please get your orders in if you would like to order books. I will submit the order tomorrow. This will be the last book order for this school year.

Thank you for  helping to grow a love of reading in the children with all of the orders that have been placed this year!

We took our reading test yesterday. Some of the children rushed through the test. Please help me by reminding the children to take their time and try their best! Tomorrow we will take our math test.

If you would like your child to do some test prep before tomorrow, you can have them go on prepdog.org.

Thank you for all of your help!

There are two new videos which I will post here, but can also always be found under the “How-To Videos” tab at the top of blog.

Here is a video which will help with addition and subtraction:

Here is a video which will help with reading comprehension:

Remember, I always appreciate feedback and am open to suggestions for more videos in order to help you extend our learning in the classroom to your home!

Monday is the fla-vor-ice pop sale for field day which will be the following Monday.  Children may only purchase one ice pop and it costs 50 cents.

A note about this came home today. If you lose the note, no problem! Simply, place 50 cents in a bag or envelope, labeled with your child’s name and “ice pop” on the front! Thank you for your help in keeping all of this money organized!

During the weekend and throughout next week, please make sure to put your child on prepdog.org . This will help them prepare for the NWEA test that we will be taking the following week. Thank you!

I hope you all enjoy the weekend!

Upcoming Events

5/11 -6 Math Facts Quiz

5/11 Spelling Test: jump, down, her, eat, tag, wag, bag, rag, flag, brag

5/14 Field Day! Send children to school in active wear and gym shoes, with a water bottle!

5/16 Scholastic Book order due (last one for the year)

5/18 -7 Math Facts Quiz

5/18 Spelling Test: first, next, last, will, grin, crab, clip, shark, twig, flat

5/24 -8 Math Facts Quiz (This is the last Math Quiz!)

5/24 Spelling Test: king, sing, wing, ring, ding, sting, thing, bring, swing, spring (This is the last spelling test!)

Agenda for the Week

Spelling Words for our next spelling test on 4/27: jump, down, her, eat, tag, wag, bag, rag, flag

Plus a bonus word which will be one of the following words: brag, sag

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

Reading and Writing: We continue to learn about informational text and text features. We figured out which children were going to do which ocean animal reports and a note with this information will be coming home on Monday!

Math: The children took their – 5 math test today! Next week, we will focus on learning -6 math facts. Our test will be on Friday, May 11th.

Science: We continued our ocean unit. We are learning about parts of ocean animals such as flukes, pectoral fins, and dorsal fins. We have also been talking about what would happen to the ocean if sharks became extinct. Big concept for these little ones, but we had very interesting conversations about it and the children learned words such as disappear, extinct, apex predator, food chain, and more!

Social Studies: We continue to discuss democracy, practice voting, and learning about the presidency.

Housekeeping Items:

Money: Please make sure to send money in an envelope or baggie labeled with your child’s name and what the money will be used for. Thank you for your help!

Spelling booklets: Please be sure to return these promptly on Tuesday!

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!

Dear Parents and Guardians,

To help us celebrate another fantastic school year, we will be having Field Day on Monday, May 14, 2018.  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

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

On May 14, students need to wear clothes that will allow them to be physically active outside, including tennis shoes.  They need to bring a water bottle. Students are highly encouraged to bring a water bottle that can be refilled at the refill station that we will provide.  

We are looking for one parent from each classroom to donate a treat for the entire class to enjoy after their session.  We are also pre-selling Fla-vor-ice as a cool treat for students to enjoy during the activities. The cost for the Fla-vor-ice is $0.50, only one Fla-vor-ice per student please. Fla-vor-ice money is due by Monday, May 7.

Lastly, we need 15 parent volunteers for both sessions to help run stations.  If you are interested in volunteering, please email Mr. Peecher at the email address below. 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.

It’s time for the Quarter challenge!

This is the LAST WEEK for our endangered animal adoption project. We are reusing milk jugs to collect money for adopting a wolf through the Detroit Zoo, and we need your help!

We are asking for your help with our “Coins for a Cause” challenge.

Bring in as many extra quarters as you can to help fill our jugs! At the end of the week, we’ll count up the totals and announce our winners!

Did you know???

Wolves do NOT make good guard dogs because they are naturally afraid of the unfamiliar and will hide from visitors rather than bark at them!

We had such a wonderful time at the farm! We got lucky with beautiful weather!

Upcoming Events

4/30 PBIS Celebration (Art in the Park)

5/4 -5 Math Facts Quiz

5/4 Spelling Test: they, come, his, good, jam, yam, ram, clam, slam, swam

5/11 -6 Math Facts Quiz

5/11 Spelling Test: jump, down, her, eat, tag, wag, bag, rag, flag, brag

5/18 -7 Math Facts Quiz

5/18 Spelling Test: first, next, last, will, grin, crab, clip, shark, twig, flat

5/24 -8 Math Facts Quiz (This is the last Math Quiz!)

5/24 Spelling Test: king, sing, wing, ring, ding, sting, thing, bring, swing, spring (This is the last spelling test!)

Agenda for the Week

Spelling Words for our next spelling test on 4/27: they, come, his, good, jam, yam, ram, clam, slam

Plus a bonus word which will be one of the following words: swam, pam

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

Reading and Writing: This week read lots of books about the ocean and focused on text features such as headings, titles, table of contents, and glossary

Math: The children took their – 4 math test today! Next week, we will focus on learning -5 math facts. Our test will be on Friday, May 4th.

Science: We continued our ocean unit. We are working on many crafts in order to turn our classroom into an ocean.

Social Studies: We continue to discuss democracy, practice voting, and learning about the presidency.

Housekeeping Items:

Money: Please make sure to send money in an envelope or baggie labeled with your child’s name and what the money will be used for. Thank you for your help!

Spelling booklets: Please be sure to return these promptly on Tuesday!

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!

The Earth Day Picnic has been moved to Monday. Your child may bring a small blanket or towel to sit on for the picnic. Please send your child to school with a disposable lunch in order to make clean up easier. If your child will be buying a hot lunch that day, the cafeteria will be serving a Sack ‘n’ go lunch of cheese and crackers.