The 100th day of school is a big deal in Kindergarten! We will do many activities that involve the number 100 and of course celebrate being 100 days smarter! Please help us celebrate by completing a 100th day project. This project can be ANYTHING that is a collection of 100 items. Over the years, I have seen this done many different ways – posters with 100 items glued to it, collections of items separated into baggies, etc. Important – please make sure to practice counting the objects with your child! The items on these projects should be grouped by 5’s or by 10’s. Your child will share and count their project with the class! These projects are due on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16th.
The children may also choose to dress up like an “old person.” Sometimes the children come with gray hair, glasses, suspenders, pearls, etc! I love seeing the children’s interpretations of what it looks like and feels like to be old!
If anyone would like any books from our February Scholastic Book order, please submit your orders by the end of the school day. I will submit our class order at the end of the day today. The books should be delivered to school on 2/14 or 2/15 next week.
**** No School for Kindergarten students Friday, February 2nd.
We have completed this round of NWEA testing. We will take the test again in the spring. Please continue to do NWEA practice with your child over the next few months. Not only is it good practice for the test, but these are skills that they will need to know for First grade. This website can help reinforce skills we are learning each day at school. Please find the Prepdog link below:
Coming soon on homework, the math story will include making a number bond. We also call this part, part, whole. For any of you that may not be familiar with this concept, here are a few videos in order to help you support your child’s learning at home:
If you need help on how to support your child in completing the homework packet, please refer to the homework packet instruction video. You can find this video at the top of our blog under the new tab called “How-To Videos.” This is where I will put any videos I have made for the class in order to make it easier to find the videos.
PLEASE PUT YOUR CHILD ON READING EGGS AND MATH SEEDS EACH NIGHT!!!! This is a great way to supplement and support their learning!
If you misplaced your child’s login and need the information again, please email me at dimitrm@dearbornschools.org
Upcoming Events
2/2 No School for Kindergarten students only
2/5 – 2/8 Popcorn Sales (popcorn will be delivered on 2/9)
2/7 Late Start – arrival 9:35am
2/7 Scholastic Book order due (should be delivered by 2/14 or 2/15)
2/13 Valentine celebration (Your child may bring Valentine’s to pass out)
2/13 – 2/14 Valentine Gram Sale (delivered on 2/16)
2/16 Assembly – Journey to the Center of the Earth
2/16 +7 Math Facts Quiz
2/16 Spelling Test: no, he, of, we, men, hen, ten, pen, then, when
2/16 100th Day (Please turn in 100 day projects on this day)
2/19 – 2/23 Mid-Winter Break
2/28 PBIS celebration – Solo Cup Competition
3/1 +8 Math Facts Quiz
3/1 Spelling Test: are, here, was, sit, hit, pit, fit, kit, bit, split
Agenda for the Week
Spelling Words for our next spelling test on 2/9:
me, on, do, she, cap, map, nap, tap, clap,
Plus a bonus word which will be one of the following words: snap, flap, slap, gap, rap, zap
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 -ap.
These words will be in the homework which will come home on Monday!
Please remember the spelling booklet will come home on the Monday after the children take the test and will be expected to be reviewed, signed, and returned to school on Tuesday. This will be the protocol for the test booklets each week. At the end of the year, the test booklets will be sent home for you to keep.
Reading and Writing: This week was a quick week. We continue to practice writing sentences which include uppercase letters to start the sentence, finger spaces between words, and periods at the end of the sentence. We have also been reviewing nouns, verbs, and adjectives and are trying to include those in our writing. We learned about our work on writing journals and began using those during Daily 5. The children choose their own topic and write about it. This is a great time for them to explore writing about a topic they like and try adding details to it to make it at least two sentences long.
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, February 9th.
6+ 0 = __ 6 + 5 = __ 6 + 10=__
6 + 1 = __ 6 + 6 = __
6 + 2 = __ 6 + 7 = __
6 + 3 = __ 6 + 8 = __
6 + 4 = __ 6 + 9 = __
The scope of our math curriculum for the rest of the year will be addition, subtraction, and greater than or less than concepts.
The children continued learning about base 10 blocks and how to count tens and ones to make a number. For example one bunch of 10 and 2 ones makes 12. We included many base 10 activities in our math centers this week.
Here are some addition, subtraction, and greater than/less than videos to support your child’s learning:
Here are some addition videos:
Science: We continued learning about polar habitats! We completed a few more cut and glue activities to label body parts on polar animals and learned facts about the animals. Next week we will learn about penguins and try using our informational blueprint to write an informative piece of writing.
If you missed the post about how arctic animals stay warm, here is the link to the post with pictures of our experiment using the blubber glove:
Social Studies: Next month we will begin learning about maps. This will be a fun unit for the children to begin learning about the world around them!
Housekeeping Items:
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!
**** No School for Kindergarten students Friday, February 2nd.
Due to no school next Friday, we will take our spelling test and math facts quiz on Thursday, February 1st. ****
We have completed this round of NWEA testing. We will take the test again in the spring. Please do some NWEA practice with your child over the next few months. Not only is it good practice for the test, but these are skills that they will need to know for First grade. This website can help reinforce skills we are learning each day at school. Please find the Prepdog link below:
Homework has changed a bit. If you need help on how to support your child in completing the packet, please refer to the homework packet instruction video. You can find this video at the top of our blog under the new tab called “How-To Videos.” This is where I will put any videos I have made for the class in order to make it easier to find the videos.
PLEASE PUT YOUR CHILD ON READING EGGS AND MATH SEEDS EACH NIGHT!!!! This is a great way to supplement and support their learning!
If you misplaced your child’s login and need the information again, please email me at dimitrm@dearbornschools.org
Upcoming Events
1/29 PBIS Celebration – Winter Carnival
1/31 PTA – Magical Wonders of Michigan Assembly
2/1Spelling Test – like, see, my, if, and, fun, run, bun, sun, spun
2/1 +5 Math Facts Quiz
2/2 No School for Kindergarten students only
Agenda for the Week
Spelling Words for our next spelling test on 2/1:
like, see, my, if, and, fun, run, bun, sun,
Plus a bonus word which will be one of the following words: spun, gun, stun
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 -un.
These words will be in the homework which will come home on Monday!
Please remember the spelling booklet will come home on the Monday after the children take the test and will be expected to be reviewed, signed, and returned to school on Tuesday. This will be the protocol for the test booklets each week. At the end of the year, the test booklets will be sent home for you to keep.
Reading and Writing: This week we used an informational writing “blueprint” to write about polar bears. The children will be using similar “blueprint” templates throughout all the grades at Haigh. The blueprint teaches them about the topic of the paper, topic sentence, three facts, and a summary sentence. We came up with the sentences together and completed this activity whole group. The children did well and are beginning to understand what makes a good piece of informational writing and what the purpose of informational writing is (to explain something real).
Math: The children took their +4 math test today! Next week, we will focus on learning +5 math facts. Our test will be on Thursday,February 1st.
5 + 0 = __ 5 + 5 = __ 5 + 10=__
5 + 1 = __ 5 + 6 = __
5 + 2 = __ 5 + 7 = __
5 + 3 = __ 5 + 8 = __
5 + 4 = __ 5 + 9 = __
The scope of our math curriculum for the rest of the year will be addition, subtraction, and greater than or less than concepts.
This week the children learned about base 10 blocks and how to count tens and ones to make a number. For example one bunch of 10 and 2 ones makes 12.
Here are some addition, subtraction, and greater than/less than videos to support your child’s learning:
Here are some addition videos:
Science: We continued learning about polar habitats! We wrote informational pieces of writing about polar bears and learned how arctic animals stay warm in the cold climate.
If you missed the post about how arctic animals stay warm, here is the link to the post with pictures of our experiment using the blubber glove:
Social Studies: This month our focus is history. The children presented their timeline projects to the class and were able to learn about themselves and others through this project. Thank you for helping your child complete this activity.
If you missed the post about our timeline photos, please see the link below:
**** 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!
Tomorrow is a half day. Dismissal is at 11:40am. Please remember to send your child with a snack tomorrow. We also have gym tomorrow, so be sure to send your child with gym shoes!
We shared our timeline projects today and the children had so much fun talking about their lives and sharing pictures from when they were babies!
Thank you for working on this with your child! I hope you had fun talking with your child about their five or six years of life! We had fun learning about each other!
Here are pictures of the children sharing their posters:
We have been learning about the polar climate and the animals that live there. We know that the arctic is a cold climate and we were wondering how the animals stay warm.
We learned that some of the animals have a layer of blubber underneath their skin. The blubber helps to keep the animals warm in the cold temperatures.
We participated in an experiment to better understand how blubber keeps the animals warm. First, we stuck our hands in a bucket of ice cold water. Then we put on a “blubber glove” to see the difference it would make in how the ice water felt.
The blubber glove was made using baggies and shortening.
Here are pictures from this activity:
We all had a great time of learning and exploring how blubber keeps arctic animals warm!
If you are interested in volunteering for the PBIS carnival on 1/29, please read below and email Courtney Otto.
Haigh Families,
On Monday, January 29th, we will be hosting our third annual HAIGH CARNIVAL for our January PBIS celebration. Students who have maintained positive behavior will have the opportunity to attend the carnival and play some awesome games and even win some prizes!
However, the event can only be a success with your help. We are in need of volunteers to help run stations at the carnival. If you are able to volunteer your time, it would also be appreciated. The time slots are as follows:
I missed the children this week with all of the out-of-the-building training I had. I am happy to be back in the classroom all week next week!
Reminders: Timeline project and the Scholastic Book order are both due on Tuesday, January 23rd!
Please do some NWEA practice with your child over the next few weeks. I had posted a few weeks ago some links for practice, but it looks like all of them except for Prepdog are no longer usable. Please find the Prepdog link below:
Homework has changed a bit. If you need help on how to support your child in completing the packet, please refer to the homework packet instruction video at the link below:
PLEASE PUT YOUR CHILD ON READING EGGS AND MATH SEEDS EACH NIGHT!!!! This will be a great way to supplement their learning during the winter break!
If you misplaced your child’s login and need the information again, please email me at dimitrm@dearbornschools.org
Upcoming Events
1/22 SPIRIT WEEK – Pajama Day
1/23 Timeline Project due
1/23 SPIRIT WEEK – Career Day
1/23 Scholastic Book Order Due
1/24 SPIRIT WEEK – Sport/College Wear Day
1/25 SPIRIT WEEK – Crazy Hair Day
1/26 SPIRIT WEEK – Haigh Spirit Wear Day
1/26 Half Day – 11:40am dismissal
1/26 Spelling Test – for, up, look, hop, pop, top, cop, mop, stop
1/26 +4 Math Facts Quiz
1/26 PTA Pizza Kit Delivery Day
1/29 PBIS Celebration – Winter Carnival
1/31 PTA – Magical Wonders of Michigan Assembly
Agenda for the Week
Spelling Words for our next spelling test on 1/26:
for, up, look, hop, pop, top, cop, mop, stop
Plus a bonus word which will be one of the following words: chop, shop
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 -op.
These words will be in the homework which will come home on Monday!
Please remember the spelling booklet will come home on the Monday after the children take the test and will be expected to be reviewed, signed, and returned to school on Tuesday. This will be the protocol for the test booklets each week. At the end of the year, the test booklets will be sent home for you to keep.
Reading and Writing: This week we wrote about the star of the week and practiced using our letter sounds to hear the beginning, middle, and ending sounds in each word. We also practiced using nouns, verbs, and adjectives in our writing.
Math: The children took their +3 math test today! Next week, we will focus on learning +4 math facts. Our test will be on Friday, January 26th.
4 + 0 = __ 4 + 5 = __ 4+10=__
4 + 1 = __ 4 + 6 = __
4 + 2 = __ 4 + 7 = __
4 + 3 = __ 4 + 8 = __
4 + 4 = __ 4 + 9 = __
The scope of our math curriculum for the rest of the year will be addition, subtraction, and greater than or less than concepts.
Here are some addition, subtraction, and greater than/less than videos to support your child’s learning:
Here are some addition videos:
Science: We continued learning about polar habitats! Due to my absence this week, the children completed some cut and glue activities, but did not have an opportunity to really learn about the animals and practice their writing. Next week we will do more with this unit and learn about how arctic animals stay warm in polar climates!
Social Studies: This month our focus is history. The children will present their timeline projects on January 23rd. This is a fun way for them to better understand the past by relating it to their own life and experiences. The children will practice talking about their past through sharing their timeline projects with their peers. Please make sure these projects are turned in on Tuesday (1/23). The class will present these in the afternoon to each other and I want everyone to participate!
Housekeeping Items:
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!
