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This morning Ali’s mom came in to read to the class. She read “Curious George Plants a Seed.” The children always love listening to Curious George books! The children were especially excited about this book because they learned about how seeds grow. We had a captivating discussion about how squirrels hide acorns and sometimes forget where they hide them and then they grow into big trees.

Thank you for reading to us today!

Dear Parents –

The students are very excited about our field trip tomorrow! Please remember to pack them a lunch with a drink because we will most likely not be back to school in time for them to buy a hot lunch.

Thank you!

Lea’s mom read to the class today. She read, “The Happy Birthday Present.” The children had a great discussion about the things they learned from this story! The children learned about money and the value of gift giving!

Thank you for reading to us!

Dalal’s mom read “Where the Wild Things Are” to the class. Some of the children had never heard this story before and it was fun hearing this classic being shared with the children. The ones that had heard this story before, were so excited to hear it again and to talk about the movie as well.

Thank you for reading to the class!

Julia’s mom read two stories to the class. I loved the Dory Story book! It gave a lot of great information about ocean life and in the end, the child was simply playing with his boat in the bath and had used his imagination to go on an adventure under the sea!

Thank you for coming in to read to the class!

Parents,

There are 3 ways to enjoy the Haigh Book Fair next week:

1) Your student may purchase a book during our class visit. Please send money to school with your child in an envelope, labeled with your child’s name.

2) You may shop with your student during our scheduled class visit.  Please sign in at the office and meet us in the media center. Our class will be visiting the book fair on Monday, March 6th from 12:00 – 12:25.

3) You may shop on your own without your child.  The book fair will be open  Wednesday and Thursday from 9:00 – 3:35 and Friday from 9:00 – 2:00. You may sign in at the office and walk down to the media center.

Our class will attend the book fair on Monday, March 6^th from 12:00 – 12:25 pm.

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

3/6 – 3/10 Scholastic Book Fair

3/6 Classroom visit to Scholastic Book Fair at 12;00pm (noon)

3/13 – 3/17 Spirit Week – $1 to participate (see calendar that came home on 3/1)

• Monday 3/13 Dress like a “Happy Camper” Day
• Tuesday 3/14 Backwards Day
• Wednesday 3/15 Wear a Hat Day
• Thursday 3/16 Dress like a “book character” Day
• Friday 3/17 Crazy Hair Day OR Wear GREEN Day

3/14 Kindergarten Round-Up for children entering Kindergarten NEXT year

3/14 Field Trip to Michigan Theater – Pete the Cat

3/15 Late Start – 9:40am

3/16 Literacy Fun Night 5:00 – 6:30pm

3/17 Haigh School Store open during lunchtime

3/21 Scholastic Book Order due

3/20 – 3/24 PTA Popcorn Sales

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

3/30 PBIS Celebration – Game Day (puzzles and board games – no electronics)

3/31 PTA Ice Cream Social

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing:  We wrote several narrative pieces this week. One piece that we wrote used a mentor text called “A Big Orange Splot” by Daniel Manus Pinkwater. The story is about a street that has all of the same houses until a seagull spills orange paint on Mr. Plumbean’s house and he decides to paint the house to reflect his dreams.  Slowly each house on the street is painted and made to look like each owner’s dreams. The class designed a house to match their dreams and wrote about it. Many of the children drew soccer ball homes, castles, and cupcake houses!  We added these writings to our writing binder which holds our informational writing, narrative writing, and opinion writing. Included in the children’s writing binders are resources and tools they use to help them write such as, sight words, color words, writing checklists reminding the children to use finger spaces and end punctuation, etc.

We also read a book called “How to Catch a Leprechaun” by Adam Wallace. The children came up with a topic sentence together. The topic sentence was “I know how to catch a leprechaun.” Then the children came up with their own individual plan on how they would catch a leprechaun and wrote about it using the transition words first, next, then, last. To conclude the paper with a summary sentence, the children told how they felt or how the leprechaun felt in the story. We used our narrative writing rubric to grade our papers together and see if it was a smiley face paper. The children are enjoying using our writing rubrics and you will see these rubrics coming home soon! The leprechaun writing will go up on our bulletin board for the month of March and then come home at the end of the month.

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

Please continue to have your child practice writing at home. Here is what I am looking for in class:

Uppercase to start the sentence

End punctuation (. ! ?)

Finger spaces between words

Does the sentence make sense? Are the words in the correct order?

Does the picture match the words?

Did you stretch your sentence? (Is there a noun, adjective, and verb?)

Math: We took our +8 math quiz. Yesterday, I sent home the +9 flashcards.. We will take the +9 quiz on Friday, March 10th.

This week continued learning about comparing numbers using the greater than, less than, and equal to symbols. The children were able to able to work more with numbers to strengthen their knowledge of greater than, less than, and equal to. The children were supported in this by using counters to show which number was bigger and by finding the numbers on a number line to identify which number was larger.

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).

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.

Thank you for coming in this morning and sharing a story with the class. The children listened to Llama Llama and the Bully Goat and afterwards we discussed what the children should do if they ever feel as though they are being bullied.

We look forward to having more readers come to class!

Attention Parents!

School Fundraiser Information: This semester, our school is participating in a unique fundraising program with Art to Remember that gives you the opportunity to purchase keepsake items with your child’s artwork on them. The best part is that every keepsake order supports our school.

Order forms for Art to Remember will be sent home with students on 3/3/17 and are due back by 3/13/17. To see available keepsake items like coffee mugs, key chains, and necklaces, visit

https://arttoremember.com/fundraising-p…/keepsake-programs/…/

Please check your child’s folder for the March is Reading month calendar and reading log.

There is a note explaining our theme and goals for the month on the back of the white reading log.

The green calendar is suggested activities that you can do with your child at home.

We may be doing some of the activities in class.

SPIRIT WEEK  BEGINS THE WEEK OF MARCH 12TH.

Happy reading!!!!