Newsletter Week 28 (Recap and NEW Info)!

We sure enjoyed the sunshine on Thursday and Friday!  There is nothing like a beautiful, spring day at school! 

What we did during our week:

Language Arts: We worked on -ip  words and onset and rime. We have officially learned all the letters of the alphabet!  Spelling words to study for next week: List 15: little, have, us, dog, log, jog, hog, blog, frog   Please practice the extra cold -og words, as there will be a cold word for number 10 on the test!  Extra words: clog.  Our 15th test will be Friday, April 20th.

Writing:    In writing, we finished our star student book and are doing some informational writing about ocean animals!  Mrs. Nardone is with us during our writers workshop to help us become better and stronger writers! We are so happy to have her with us!

Math:  We will continue to talk about name collections, subtraction/addition and greater than/less than. We have a little bit of everything during our math workshop: greater than/less than, count the room, smash it! subtraction, addition, missing numbers, ones/tens etc.

Math Quizzes: We have a math quiz on Friday, April 20th on math facts -3!  Please make the flashcards at home for your child to help them prepare for their math quiz. For extra practice at home (instead of the flash cards), you could also use counters (or food) for a visual representation of the math equation for your child. You can also practice with your child by having them put the big number in their head and the small number on their hands and then count up. Try to make it fun! Thank you for supporting your child with their addition skills!

Science: For the months of April-June we will move into Ocean Animals!  We completed a RAN and completed a fun ocean activity to go along with our RAN activity.  I will post pictures of our RAN next week:)

Social Studies:  In April we will learn about Civics and Government.  

Scholastic Reading Club:

Class Code – RKYTJ     Order Due Date – 04/20/18

Dear Families,

This is a friendly reminder that your Book Clubs orders are due by 04/20/18. You can place your orders online at scholastic.com/bookclubs using my class activation code: RKYTJ.  The books are very low in price, which is a great way to build your child’s library at home and it’s FREE shipping!

Happy Reading,

Mrs. Fillmore

Other:

• You might have heard about the Penny Challenge!!!  We will be using reused milk jugs to collect money for adopting a wolf from the Detroit Zoo!  Please bring in your spare change to help the Haigh students raise money for the adoption for the whole month of April! Thank you!:) 
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• Our field trip to Domino Farms will be Thursday, April 26th from 9am-2pm.  All students are expected to bring a DISPOSABLE lunch in a brown bag to the farm.  Your child will experience a tractor ride, receive a bag of food to feed the animals and enjoy lunch in the great outdoors!   I have picked the 2 parents who will be chaperoning our trip.  They will be notified today:).  Thank you to the rest of the parents interested in chaperoning our field trip.  I wish I could pick all of you, but 2 is all we can allow on the trip due to limited space.   Thank you for your cooperation in this matter!
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• Out of 22 students today, who took the spelling test, 15 received a 100% and 6 students only missed 1 to 2  words!! This is a TOTAL victory! Way to go to my students and parents who worked so hard to ensure their child was successful for the Friday spelling test!  I will send the booklet home on Monday for you all to see how your child did:). Remember, to look over your child’s spelling test booklet, sign on the line and return the booklet in the green folder the very next day (TUESDAY)!  It is imperative I receive them all back the next day!  Thank you!

• Out of 22 students today, we had 11 students receive a 100% on their math quiz -2!   If your child is not performing at 70% or above, I suggest making flash cards for your child to practice at home with!  Way to go to my 11 students.  I am so proud of you!!
• Please consider buying something from our Scholastic Book Club at: scholastic.com/bookclubs Activation code: RKYTJ.  Our due date for book orders will be Friday, April 20th. There are a lot of great books for your child at a very reasonable price and FREE shipping.  Thank you to Violet’s family for buying something from our book club:)

Housekeeping items:

• • If your child’s green folder is falling apart, please use some packaging tape to put the folder back together, or please purchase another green folder for you child.  Some folders are torn in half and is difficult to place work and or important notes in your child’s folder. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter!
  • On Gym Days (Thursday and Friday), please make sure to send your child to school in Gym Shoes!  Mr. Peecher will have the kids sit on the stage if they are not wearing appropriate gym attire. Your child’s safety is our main priority.  Thank you!
• Parents, I need your help! When you send in money for your child, whether it be for lunch, lunchroom snacks, field trip, please enclose the money in an ENVELOPE with your child’s FIRST and LAST name on the front, indicate what the money is for and write my name as well: Mrs. Fillmore.  This will cause for less confusion for the lunch room and for the classroom. Thank you!
• Please make sure to log onto math seeds and reading eggs when there is downtime at home, especially on the weekends!  I have laminated and attached logins/passwords for EACH child on their communication log this week!  Please keep this in a safe place, so it doesn’t get lost. These programs are free for you to use, how awesome is that?  All you need to do is to show your child how to log in and they can begin learning!  Parents, in the classroom, I am trying to teach each child to login typing their own username and password…independence is the name of the game!   If you could be so kind, to help your child do the same at home, it would help so much! Thank you!
•  April 20th will be our next library check out date!  Enjoy the new book with your child this week:)

Upcoming Events:

April 13th- Permission slip and Money Due for Domino Farms!  $13

April 16th- Picture day!

April 16th- Double Good Gourmet Popcorn sale begins!

April 20th- Homework, spelling test (-og), math test (-3) and book check out!

April 23rd- Animal cracker sale begins until April 25th

April 26th- Domino Farms Field Trip Day!  More information posted in this post under the heading “other.”

April 27th-  Homework, spelling test (-ub), math test (-4) and book check out!

April 27th- Double Good Gourmet Popcorn orders due today!

April 30th- PBIS-Art in the Park!

Reading Buddies:  

We read to our reading buddies today and enjoyed books shared with one another!  Enjoy the pics from today:)