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NWEA testing is done! All of the children tried their best and did well! Now on to assessing their reading levels!

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

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

5/17 Late Start – arrival 9:35am

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 watch videos and read lots of books about ocean animals. The children love learning new facts about ocean animals. We are reading articles and answering questions about key details in the text. This week the children were assigned a specific ocean animal to learn about. I will help them in class to research this animal and write a report about it. I sent a note home today with the animal each child is researching and I am asking that you help them create that animal at home! 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 to see the crafts/models and reports!

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

Math: We took our -5 math quiz today. Today, I sent home the -6 flashcards for practice. We will take the -6 quiz on Friday, May 12th.

Science: We continue to learn about how we can better take care of the earth as the children are excited about this topic and keep asking more questions about how we can reuse items, recycle, and reduce!

We also focused on our ocean unit and made some crafts to go along with the animals we learned about. This week the children made starfish, sea shells, clown fish, sharks, and jellyfish! We were busy this week!

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.

NWEA testing is under way. Almost all of the children have been tested on reading. Today we began the math test. We will continue this portion of the test next week.

Next week I will also begin DRA testing the children. This test is used to determine the children’s reading levels.

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!

The end of the year is quickly approaching! Please take a look and make note of the upcoming events for May and June! The PTA calendar with most of these events listed came home this week in your child’s green folder.

Upcoming Events

5/1 – 5/5 Final week for Double Good Popcorn sales (no late order accepted)

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

5/17 Late Start – arrival 9:35am

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 have been watching lots of videos and reading lots of books about ocean animals. The children love learning new facts about ocean animals. We are reading articles and answering questions about key details in the text. Next week the children will be assigned with a specific ocean animal to learn about. I will help them in class to research this animal and write a report about it. I will be sending a note home with the animal each child is researching and I am asking that you help them create that animal at home! 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 even invite all of you to come in and see the crafts/models and reports! There will be a note with more details about this coming home soon!

Math: We took our -4 math quiz today. Today, I sent home the -5 flashcards for practice. We will take the -5 quiz on Friday, May 5th.

This week in math we reviewed for the NWEA test.

Science: We talked more about earth day and ways we can help the earth by recycling, reusing, and reducing.

We also focused on our ocean unit and made some crafts to go along with the animals we learned about. This week the children made sea turtles, seahorses, and crabs.

Here is a picture of our paper plate sea turtles, paper plate seahorses, and hand print crabs!

Social Studies: We continued to look at the globe and talk about the oceans. We talked about where each of us has family living or where we may be originally from around the world. While learning about certain ocean animals this week, we learned which oceans they live in and we looked at the glob to reinforce where these animals are in the world.

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.

We have been so busy with our ocean unit, that the homework got lost under a stack of crafts! The homework packet will come home today. I am sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Here are just a few pictures of some of the things we have been doing already this week:

The children were wondering about how waves are formed, so we got a big tub of water and we all took turns trying to make waves with the wind from our mouths!

We also have been busy learning about how to keep the ocean clean and why that is important. We have learned about the ocean habitat and which animals live in the ocean. We have learned new ocean vocabulary. We have made graphs about which of us have swam in the ocean before and about what ocean animal is our favorite. We have read articles and highlighted the important information, as well as watched videos to help us build our background knowledge.

We also have spent a lot of time learning all about the ocean zones and which ocean animals live in each zone. We completed a R.A.N strategy (Reading and Analyzing Non-Fiction Text) and a craft about the ocean zones.

As you can see, we have been very busy!

Any orders for April for our scholastic book club are due tomorrow by the end of the school day. I will submit the order at the end of the day tomorrow and the books should arrive at Haigh the following Tuesday.

Thank you for your support in fostering a love of reading in the children this year!

We will have ONE more book order in May and that will conclude our orders with Scholastic for the year.

A word about spelling tests:

Thank you so much for all of your hard work this year with the children at home and helping them to learn their spelling words. This group of children has consistently done really well on their tests throughout the last several months. I have noticed a few words that the children as a whole group are struggling with and wanted to note it for all of you in order to reinforce this skill at home as well. The spelling words the children have recently been struggling with are as follows: of, have, with, was, from

NWEA testing will begin next week. We will start with reading and then move on to math the following week. Please make sure you are getting the children to bed early in order for them to be well rested for this assessment.

Here is a link to an older post which includes NWEA practice websites:

NWEA MAP Testing PRACTICE!!!!

Please 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

4/25 Scholastic Book Order Due

4/26 PBIS Celebration

4/27 Coffee with the Superintendent 5:30 (parents welcome to attend)

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing:  We are back to informational writing and linking our science, reading, and writing together to complete reports about ocean animals. First, we began learning about the different ocean zones and which animals live in each zone. We will be learning about sharks, fish, dolphins, crabs, sea horses, and sea turtles. We will read articles about the animals and write reports about them as well as complete many crafts. We will use our crafts to turn our classroom into an ocean!

We created a bulletin board with our pictures of the children scuba diving and each child wrote about which ocean animal they would like to be and why!

Math: We took our -3 math quiz today. Today, I sent home the -4 flashcards for practice. We will take the -4 quiz on Friday, April 28th.

This week in math we focused on telling time. We learned to tell time on the hour and half hour, even though we did practice counting by 5’s around the clock to total 60 minutes in one hour. We also discussed there being 60 seconds in 1 minute. The children practiced labeling clocks, learned the difference between analog and digital clocks, as well as created their own wrist watches!

Here are a few videos we watched on telling time:

Science: We talked about earth day and ways we can help the earth by recycling, reusing, and reducing. We had a great assembly today about how we can “Think Green!”

Social Studies: We are still learning about maps. We reviewed compasses. Tying in our ocean theme, we looked a globe this week and discussed the difference between the green parts and the blue parts. The children were amazed to learn that the earth is mostly covered in water! The children learned a few facts about oceans from our ocean unit: 1)There are 5 oceans in the world 2) The largest ocean is the pacific ocean

Housekeeping Items:

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.

Please 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

4/14 No School!

4/17 Picture Day

4/18 K-2 Family Make and Take Night

4/20 Haigh Family BBQ 5:30 – 7:30

4/21 Haigh School Store OPEN!

4/25 Scholastic Book Order Due

4/26 PBIS Celebration

4/27 Coffee with the Superintendent 5:30

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing:  We are transitioning back to informational writing and linking our science, reading, and writing together to complete reports about ocean animals. We will be learning about sharks, fish, dolphins, crabs, sea horses, and sea turtles. We will read articles about the animals and write reports about them as well as complete many crafts. We will use our crafts to turn our classroom into an ocean!

Math: We took our -2 math quiz today. Thank you to all of you who are working at home on the flashcards and helping the children to be successful on these quizzes. All of the children are doing really well with this material and will be ready for test taking in First grade.Today, I sent home the -3 flashcards for practice. We will take the -3 quiz on Friday, April 21st.

Science: We are beginning to learn about how to take care of the earth. We are talking about earth day and ways we can help the earth by recyling, reusing, and reducing.

Social Studies: We are still learning about maps. We completed a few activities about maps and learned about compasses. The children are really enjoying learning about maps and talking about countries around the world. We will continue talking about “my earth” for the rest of the year.

Housekeeping Items:

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.

We have late start on Wednesday. School will begin at 9:40am.

There is no school on Friday, April 14th.

Homework packets are due on Thursday, April 13th.

This week the spelling test and math quiz will be on Thursday, April 13th.

As a reminder, the spelling words are had, mad, rad, dad, with, this. Review more word family words like sad, Chad, pad, Brad.

As a reminder, the math quiz will be on the – 2 fact family.

2-1=1

4-2=2

3-2=1

2-2=0

10-2=8

9-2=7

6-2=4

7-2=5

5-2=3

8-2=6

Thank you for all your help and support at home in creating learners who are ready for First grade!

I hope everyone enjoys time with family and friends during this break! If you are traveling, I wish you safe travels and a relaxing vacation!

There is a homework packet coming home for spring break. It will review some of our old spelling words.

Please 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

4/1 – 4/9 SPRING BREAK!!!!

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing:  We finally completed the blueprint (graphic organizer) on camping for narrative writing. I am still hoping to get the children to turn the blueprints into books, but with spring break next week, they may not remember what they wrote by the time we come back!

In April we will be transitioning back to informational writing and linking our science, reading, and writing together to complete reports about ocean animals.

Spelling words for the week we come back are as follows: had, mad, rad, dad, with, this

These words will be assessed on Thursday, April 13^th.

Math: We took our -1 math quiz today. The children did quite well! Today, I sent home the -2 flashcards for practice over spring break. We will take the -2 quiz on Thursday, April 13th.

Please continue to practice counting by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s to 100 with your child at home. Also practice counting to 30 by 2’s (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20…..).  Other activities you can practice at home are using tally marks to count objects, identifying 2D/3D shapes around the house of community, and really making sure your child has good one-to-one correspondence when counting (this means that they touch each object as they are counting and count all objects correctly).

Science: We are still learning about the basic needs of living things. This week we continued comparing living and nonliving things. Soon we will begin learning about ocean animals and their needs! This is a fun unit that the children always enjoy!

Social Studies: We are still learning about maps. We completed a few activities about maps (how to get to school from home, following directions on a map using steps and north, south east, west). The children are really enjoying learning about maps and talking about countries around the world. We will continue talking about “my earth” for the rest of the year. We will discuss recycling in April and learn about how to take care of our world!

Housekeeping Items:

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.

Dear Families,

On March 29 we will be having a PBIS celebration to recognize your child’s positive behavior. This month’s celebration theme will be GAMES! Your child may bring board games to school.

Please label everything with your name. This celebration is an opportunity for students to have fun and play games with each other. However, if you are concerned about an item being shared with other students we recommend that it stays at home.

Thank you,

Haigh PBIS Committee

This week was a busy week for all of us. I had a writing professional development meeting and was out of school one of the days this week, as well as being out of the classroom to help screen incoming kindergarten children for next year. I missed the kids this week as much as they missed me! They did well with their substitutes and made me proud!

Please 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

3/29 Conferences (Only for families contacted by teacher)

3/29 PBIS Celebration – Game Day (puzzles and board games – no electronics)

3/31 PTA Ice Cream Social

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing:  We are still working on narrative writing. The children are learning about camping and practicing using transition words (first, next, then, last) to sequence events that happen when one goes camping.  We are still working on completing the blueprint (graphic organizer). Next week, we will use these blueprints to help us complete our own books about camping. The children will be the author and the illustrator of their books! They will create the cover, title, write a introduction, tell the events as they happened (in order), and conclude the story. I am so excited to see how the children’s stories will turn out!

Spelling words for next week will be in the homework packet coming home on Monday.

Math: We took our -0 math quiz today. Today, I sent home the -1 flashcards for practice. We will take the -1 quiz on Friday, March 31st.

Please continue to practice counting by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s to 100 with your child at home. Also practice counting to 30 by 2’s (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20…..).  Other activities you can practice at home are using tally marks to count objects, identifying 2D/3D shapes around the house of community, and really making sure your child has good one-to-one correspondence when counting (this means that they touch each object as they are counting and count all objects correctly).

Science: We are still learning about the basic needs of living things. This week we began comparing living and nonliving things.

Social Studies: We are still learning about maps. We completed a few activities about maps (how to get to school from home, following directions on a map using steps and north, south east, west). The children are really enjoying learning about maps and talking about countries around the world.

Housekeeping Items:

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.