Our class has been enjoying skip counting as a way to master multiplication facts.  During the break, your child can practice their facts with these videos!  Have fun!

Threes

Fours

Fives

Sixes

Sevens

Eights

Nines

Tens

It’s the most wonderful time of the year and the third graders will be celebrating in Room 32.  On Friday, December 21, our class will have a holiday celebration from 9:00-10:30. Students will be served a breakfast of donuts, fruit salad, chocolate milk, and apple juice.  If you would like to help with bringing in breakfast items, please click the link to sign up–

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Students may also dress in their pajamas that morning and bring a pillow and blanket to school. 

On Monday, we will be going on the field trip to LANSING!!

Please make sure your child uses the restroom before leaving home.

Make sure your child eats a hearty breakfast!

Make sure your child packs a lunch in a zip lock bag with his/her name on it.

Make sure your child gets to school ON TIME!

We will be taking attendance and loading the bus ASAP.  We will be leaving Haigh at 8:50.

Thank you to our amazing chaperones for their help!

Students received a copy of the order form yesterday from the PTA for Haigh Spirit Wear.  Here is a color version of the items for sale.  All orders are due Tuesday, December 11.

The First Annual Dearborn Public Schools Turkey Trot will be held tomorrow, November 10!

Location: Ford Field

Time: 9:30

Cost: 15 cans of food OR $15

What: A 1 mile Walk Run/2 mile Run

Pie will be served at the end and the participants with the best costume will win prizes!

Contact 313-827-1628 (Dearborn High) for more information

Often, parents will leave conferences wondering what they can do to support their third grader more at home.  Conferences are meant to identify areas of concerns and areas that are strengths for your child.  They should also serve as a discussion starter with your child about setting new goals for the next marking period. With that in mind, I’ve provided you with some resources that you can use at home to make goal setting and goal reaching fun for your third grader!

Making Goals

Your child completed a Student Reflection form in class.  Read through this with your child at home and talk about 1 or two areas that they would like to work on for the second marking period.  Make it a goal using the following sheet and post it on your refrigerator!  That way, your child has a daily reminder of what he/she is working toward every day when walking out the door for school.

Making A Goal Printable

Resources

Math

We have many resources listed in the links section (located on the right side of the Home Page of this blog) for math.  We have Xtra Math and Freckle.  Your child is very familiar with how to use these links and their accounts are already up and running.  The passwords and usernames are located in the front of your child’s planner.  Spending 15 minutes a day can be very beneficial.  Try not to overload your child with extra work.  Sometimes more is just more.  It’s not really effective to have your child spend more than 30 minutes working on something in one sitting.  We all need breaks and learning should be fun for third graders.

Reading

I want to encourage you to have your child continue to read every day.  It doesn’t matter what they read as long as they follow the I Pick Good Fit books guidelines.

Here are some interesting statistics for the impact that daily reading has on student success:

We will be having our Social Studies Test on Friday.  We rescheduled it due to the day off with elections!

The PTA has listed two opportunities for you and your family to give back to the community with a food drive and a toy drive.  Participating in these events is a wonderful way for you to work with your third grader to develop compassion and empathy for others.  Both of these are character traits that we will be discussing over the course of the year.  Please click on the link for more information about these two drives which will support people in need.

Haigh Gives Back Link

We will be taking a Unit Test on Geography this week on Thursday.  Here is the study guide master for you to review with your third grader:

Study Guide Geography Master

Study Tips

Three-Day Study Plan:

If your child has several days to prepare for a big test, try this simple way to break up the study tasks:

Three days before the test: Have your child reread the  class notes.

Two days before: Ask your child to recite key points out loud — to you, a sibling, or even a favorite toy — without looking at her notes or in her textbook. Have her refer back to them. Did she remember correctly?

The day before: If the teacher provided a practice test or an online study guide, your child should complete it now. On the questions she misses, have her reread key points in the text or her notes.

The day of the test: If your child is game, encourage her to skim her notes over breakfast in the morning. If she’s anxious, skip the last-minute studying and help her relax with deep breaths or tension-breaking jumping jacks. And a “good luck” note in her backpack is always a nice touch.

Studying is only part of the equation. How your kid takes the test counts for a lot, too:

1. Do a “brain dump”. When your child starts a test, encourage him to immediately write in the test margins or on scratch paper any key formulas, dates, or lists he’s worried about forgetting. Unleashing these details on paper frees up his brain to focus on the test, says Laurie Rozakis, Ph.D., Farmingdale, N Y, author of Super Study Skills. The info also helps later if your child blanks out on key facts.
2. Scan and skip. Coach your child to look over the whole test, then start with questions he’s sure of — no matter where they fall on the test. Answering familiar questions first will boost his confidence and save time for tougher questions to come.
3. Manage multiple choice. In general, if your child has four multiple-choice answers from which to choose, he should be able to eliminate two options right away, says Richard Bavaria, Ph.D., of Sylvan Learning Centers. Then he can choose his final answer from the two remaining options.
4. Review and regroup. After a big test — particularly if your child didn’t do as well as expected — review it together. Did he misread the directions? Forget to study an entire section? Get tired toward the end? Ask your child’s teacher for clues, too. “Most teachers are more than happy to look over tests,” says Geisen.
5. Create a “You did it!” tradition. The evening after a big test, go for a bike ride or let him stay up an extra 30 minutes at bed-time — whatever he considers a treat. “This isn’t connected to his grade,” says Rozakis. “It’s about congratulating your child for making it through a tough task, and giving him a positive feeling about future tests.”

If you haven’t yet signed up for the PTA Blog, I’d like to encourage you to do so.  This is a terrific resource for learning about Haigh events and to find opportunities to support our school.  I recently attended one of our PTA meetings. I discovered it’s a wonderful way to connect with other parents and to touch base with some of the leadership that serves our school community.  Click the link to check out the PTA blog and subscribe:  Haigh PTA Blog

I’ve copied the PTA page for November for your convenience.  Please note that the Book Fair for our class visit is scheduled for Monday morning at 10:20.  Students will browse the sale and can make purchases on that day. Students will also be allowed to go to the book fair for purchases only throughout the week.  Browsing will be limited to Monday.  I will make sure students record book wishes in their planners for you to review .