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This video I made will be helpful over the next few weeks to continue sight word acquisition. Remember, your child should not only be able to recognize them by sight, but also use them in their writing.

Art activities for Young 5s and Kindergarten students will be posted on Mrs. Buenting’s blog starting tomorrow, March 16.  At the top of her blog page is a tab labeled Kindergarten, this is where you will find activities, videos, and web links.  Please, visit her blog weekly over the next three weeks for activities that can be done with minimum supplies yet keep creative minds working!
https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/buenting/

This packet is free and there is even a coupon code included for $5 off additional items from this website!

Click the link below to access more engaging activities to help your child learn from home:

Remember:

This week your child should be working on math lessons: Module 4 Lessons 31-36

Continue reading each night and working on sight words.

Don’t forget to practice writing! Your child should be sounding out words by themselves and writing down the sounds they hear. If the words have been on a previous spelling test, they should be spelled correctly in their writing.

Please reference the post below for a reminder on what your child should be practicing to keep up their learning over the next few weeks:

Spelling test and lists will be pushed back and will resume in April when we return. In the meantime, please continue working on sight words. We have attached the sight word lists for Kindergarten that need to be mastered before the end of the year. 

• An easy way to practice these words is by writing out flash cards. We recommend you try the 6:4 method (6 words they know and 4 words they do not know) when reviewing. Practice the set of 10 words until they have mastered words and then bring in new words 4 new words and removed 4 they have mastered. 
• Alphabet Chart
• Sight Word Lists ** They need to know these by the end of Kindergarten! (Young 5, focus on the pre-primer list to prepare them for Kinder!) 

Reading

• Please use Raz-Kids and reading eggs to work with your child on maintaining and improving their reading skills. I will be monitoring the online programing from home, please email if you have any questions. Students should listen to the book, read the book, and take the quiz for each book before moving on to the next story or book. My recommendation would be at least 3 books a day (following the listen, read, and quiz pattern) and 20-30 minutes on reading eggs. 
  • Raz Kids
  • Reading Eggs
  • You will need the teacher username for raz-kids, these are posted on individual teacher’s blog but we have also listed them here: 
    • dvensko
    • Chammout
    • mdimitriou
    • afillmore1
• If you are not using online resources (raz-kids), we have attached comprehension pages for you to do with hard copy of books – 1 per day (15 total). 
  • young 5 reading comprehension
  • Kindergarten Reading Comprehension Papers
• Please continue to do the fun activities on the March is Reading Month Log. Don’t forget to log your minutes! 

Writing

• Attached is a template to use each day- 15 total. Students should pick a topic of their choice and write at least 3 complete sentences (Kindergarten) to match the picture they draw. 
  • Young 5 Writing Template – 1 complete sentence 
  • Kindergarten Writing Template – 3 complete sentences 

Math

• Here are the math lessons that should be completed in your child’s Eureka Math Succeed Book. 
  • Week of March 16th: Module 4 Lessons 31-36
  • Week of March 23rd: Module 4 Lessons 37-40
  • Week of March 30th: Module 5 Lessons 1-6
• This is a link to a youtube playlist that has the lessons online for your child to watch. On the right side of the video is the playlist where you can select the appropriate lesson. Module 4 Lessons 31-40

Module 5 Lessons 1-6

• Here is the link to math seeds. Students typically spend 20 minutes on math seeds each day in class. Math Seeds 

Here is a link to resources for helping teach your child at home: 

Teaching your child at home

All resources are linked in this folder so you have access to 1 spot 

Young 5/Kinder Online Learning 

Here is the district online resource page if you would like anything additional to what we have provided you. 

District Remote Learning Resources for all grades

Social Story for Kids about CoronaVirus 

Kid friendly story about what is happening

What should I turn in to the teachers: 

• Please keep math workbook and pages at home, no need to tear these out. 
• Please return the reading log, daily writing page, and reading response if you are not using raz kids where we can track their progress and reading. 

free internet link

Haigh Community, 
In an effort to help us prepare for any contingencies regarding the Coronavirus,  please take a moment to complete the following survey regarding your access to technology at home. This is a school wide survey so we are asking that families with multiple students enrolled only provide the name of their oldest child on this survey. These results are confidential to the school and will be shared with the necessary classroom and resource teachers and administrators only. Please complete this survey as early as possible. Thank you. 

Mr. Short

CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE TECHNOLOGY SURVEY

You can use the link above or go to the Educational Websites tab at the top to access a lot of free resources that you can use at home with your child over the next few weeks to engage them in learning at home.

Spelling test and lists will be pushed back and will resume in April when we return. In the meantime, please continue working on sight words. We have attached the sight word lists for Kindergarten that need to be mastered before the end of the year. 

• An easy way to practice these words is by writing out flash cards. We recommend you try the 6:4 method (6 words they know and 4 words they do not know) when reviewing. Practice the set of 10 words until they have mastered words and then bring in new words 4 new words and removed 4 they have mastered. 
• Alphabet Chart
• Sight Word Lists ** They need to know these by the end of Kindergarten! (Young 5, focus on the pre-primer list to prepare them for Kinder!) 

Reading

• Please use Raz-Kids and reading eggs to work with your child on maintaining and improving their reading skills. I will be monitoring the online programing from home, please email if you have any questions. Students should listen to the book, read the book, and take the quiz for each book before moving on to the next story or book. My recommendation would be at least 3 books a day (following the listen, read, and quiz pattern) and 20-30 minutes on reading eggs. 
  • Raz Kids
  • Reading Eggs
  • You will need the teacher username for raz-kids, these are posted on individual teacher’s blog but we have also listed them here: 
    • dvensko
    • Chammout
    • mdimitriou
    • afillmore1
• If you are not using online resources (raz-kids), we have attached comprehension pages for you to do with hard copy of books – 1 per day (15 total). 
  • young 5 reading comprehension
  • Kindergarten Reading Comprehension Papers
• Please continue to do the fun activities on the March is Reading Month Log. Don’t forget to log your minutes! 

Writing

• Attached is a template to use each day- 15 total. Students should pick a topic of their choice and write at least 3 complete sentences (Kindergarten) to match the picture they draw. 
  • Young 5 Writing Template – 1 complete sentence 
  • Kindergarten Writing Template – 3 complete sentences 

Math

• Here are the math lessons that should be completed in your child’s Eureka Math Succeed Book. 
  • Week of March 16th: Module 4 Lessons 31-36
  • Week of March 23rd: Module 4 Lessons 37-40
  • Week of March 30th: Module 5 Lessons 1-6
• This is a link to a youtube playlist that has the lessons online for your child to watch. On the right side of the video is the playlist where you can select the appropriate lesson. Module 4 Lessons 31-40

Module 5 Lessons 1-6

• Here is the link to math seeds. Students typically spend 20 minutes on math seeds each day in class. Math Seeds 

Here is a link to resources for helping teach your child at home: 

Teaching your child at home

All resources are linked in this folder so you have access to 1 spot 

Young 5/Kinder Online Learning 

Here is the district online resource page if you would like anything additional to what we have provided you. 

District Remote Learning Resources for all grades

Social Story for Kids about CoronaVirus 

Kid friendly story about what is happening

What should I turn in to the teachers: 

• Please keep math workbook and pages at home, no need to tear these out. 
• Please return the reading log, daily writing page, and reading response if you are not using raz kids where we can track their progress and reading. 

 free internet link

If you missed the sign up, here is the link to the original post:

Spots are filling up quickly! If you would like to come in and read to the class, please sign up for a slot.

Please use the link below to sign up for a time to come in and read to the class. If you would like to read to the class, please be sure that you bring in one book from home. All of the time slots are from 3:00 – 3:15. Please sign up for one time slot only!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050B45ABAE29A6FD0-march

The children loved decorating cookies which were homemade to accommodate all of our allergies in our room and enjoyed making their Valentine boxes and passing out their Valentine’s! Thank you for sending in boxes to make this activity a success!

I hope you all enjoy this mid-winter break! See you all in a week!

Upcoming Events

2/17 – 2/21 MID-WINTER BREAK!!!

2/28 Spelling Test #6: like, see, my, if, and, fun, run, bun, sun (And one more cold word belonging to the word family – un. Practice extra -un words with your child such as spun, gun, etc.)

Agenda for the Week

Reading & Writing:  This week we continued working on our reading and writing. We focused on what the setting of the story is, who the characters are, and what happened in the beginning, middle, and end. It is very important to ask questions after reading stories with your child to make sure they understand what is happening in the story. Asking questions such as, “What is your favorite part?” or “Did this story make you think of anything from your own life?” will help your child make connections to the text.

Please continue to have your child practice writing sentences at home by pretending they are holding an imaginary rubberband and stretching it as they slowly say the word they are trying to spell.

Math: We are still working hard to learn about number bonds! We continue to practice story problems and are working on identifying groups (sets, or parts) and finding the whole (how many we have all together). The children had fun this week learning how to add and subtract on a number line!

Science: We continue talking about polar habitats and the animals which live there. We are learning about different animals who live in the cold and how they are able to survive in this habitat.

Social Studies:  We began talking about maps this week. The children watched a gonoodle called, “Never Eat Soggy Waffles.” We learned about a compass and directions. We will continue talking about maps and doing activities with maps over the next month. We will even work with our 2nd grade buddies to create our own city!

Housekeeping Items:

Indoor Lineup

Indoor lineup is now at the 5th grade doors. Remember, even during indoor lineup, no parents are allowed in the building unless you have signed in at the front office.

Winter Apparel

Please practice putting on and taking off coats, boots, shoes, scarves, gloves, etc. As well as buttoning/zipping coats and tying their own shoes. Your child should be able to do all of these things independently!

Folders

Please make sure to empty the folder 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. Please be sure to send the folder to school each day. It is a big part of our arrival and dismissal routines and the folders help the children keep all of their papers organized.