Week 4 Newsletter (Recap and New Info)!
Today we had a school wide assembly with the Detroit Red Wings assembly program! Make sure to ask your child all about it:)
What we did during our week:
Language Arts: We had a fun week learning about letters B & Y. Next week we will focus on letters C and X:)
Writing: In writing, we are learning how to write our names correctly inside the lines and also writing letters correctly inside the lines. Please practice with your child how to write their name with the first letter being Uppercase and the remaining letters all lowercase.
Math: We worked on lessons 5-9 in the classroom. Next week we will complete lessons 10-13.
Science: We are learning about our 5 senses: sight, touch, smell, taste and hear.
Social Studies: We will continue to go over our classroom rules each day: Looking eyes, hands to self, inside voices, listening ears and walking feet:) Here are some videos for you and your child to watch at home together:)
Homework: Every Monday, your child will come home with a homework packet. Your child will have a reading log to complete each night, a language art worksheet to complete each night and a homework assignment in their Eureka Math Succeed workbook each night as well. Every Friday, your child’s homework packet is due, but they will keep their SUCCEED book at home with them. You will not bring the succeed workbook back to school. It will stay at home throughout the whole school year. Dearborn Public Schools purchased a new math curriculum this year, so this will be a learning experience for all of us:) Again, please keep the math book at home. Thank you!
Kindergarten Parent Meeting: Kindergarten will be holding our parent meeting on Tuesday, October 2nd from 8:00 – 8:30am. Please enter through the front doors and walk down to the Media Center. Mrs. Venkso and Mrs. Fillmore will present our grade level procedures and expectation. Mrs. Dimitriou and Mrs. Sarafa will present on Young 5 and Kindergarten homework. Come to the meeting and find out how you can help support your child’s learning at home!
Donors Choose Project: Our wobble stools are here and ready for us to use. I am still looking for the parent(s) who purchased these wobble stools for $374, so I can personally thank them:) We are going to love them for small group instruction!
Classroom Celebration Fund: Dear Parents,Hello from Kindergarten! We have a lot of fun things coming up in Room 42! With that, we are asking each family to contribute $10 (or more if you would like) to the Classroom Celebration Fund. This one-time donation will help cover the minimal costs of treats, activity/craft supplies, paper goods, etc.
Your donation will be utilized for the following celebrations in Mrs. Fillmore’s Room:
- Halloween
- Winter/Holiday
- Valentine’s Day
- 100th Day of School
- End of School Year Picnic
Please return an attached envelope to school ($10 donation enclosed) in your child’s Everyday Folder by Friday, October 5th. Thank you in advance for your contribution and assistance in making the 2018-19 school-year a fun-filled and memorable one for our Kindergarteners! If you have any fun ideas you would like to share or would like to help for one of our upcoming parties, please email myself or Ms. Hanan. Thank you to the following families for already bringing in their classroom donation: Issa, Jude, Ave, Isra, Yusuf, Thomas, Ryan, Hassan, Noor S. and Jenin!
Scholastic Reading Club:
Class Code – RKYTJ
Order Due Date – 09/24/18
Subject: Scholastic Book Clubs Class Order Due Date is approaching!
Dear Families,
Our September order is due this Monday! Get your orders in by this weekend:) Thank you to Noor S. for purchasing books through our book club! To order online at https://clubs.scholastic.com/ connect to our class using our Class Code (RKYTJ) Bonus: This month, you can pick a FREE Book (up to $5) when you place an online order of $25 or more! As soon as your order is delivered to our classroom, I will send it home with your child.Plus every order you place earns FREE Books for our class to share.
Happy Reading, Mrs. Fillmore
Other:
- Please consider buying something from our Scholastic Book Club at: https://clubs.scholastic.com/ Activation code: RKYTJ. The September orders are due by September 24th. There are a lot of great books for your child at a very reasonable price and FREE shipping. Books make for a great gift or even for a family story night:)
- Please make sure you are reviewing your child’s classwork each night. Monitoring your child’s classwork is a great indicator of how your child is doing in the class. If for some reason your child doesn’t finish his/her classwork in class, I will send it home for homework to be completed at home and returned the next day. Thank you for your support!
- Please make sure you are logging onto Reading Eggs/ RAZ Kids & Mathseeds frequently. Please teach your child how to independently log onto these sites on their own. They will learn how to type their username/password in the classroom, so if you could help me out at home with using the same method, I would greatly appreciate it! We are super lucky that our school has purchased these learning programs for our students at Haigh. I hope every family utilizes these sites often:)
- Please make sure to sign up for the Remind App for up to date texts from the classroom:) Here is how you sign up: Remind App. Here is the link and information needed to receive text messages straight from the classroom:) https://www.remind.com/join/mfillm
Housekeeping items:
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- If you send money in for your child’s school lunch, please place his/her money in an envelope, label your child’s first and last name on the envelope, my name (Mrs. Fillmore) and what the money’s for. The lunch ladies have a lot of money to go through on a daily basis, so using this easy method will help with any confusion. We will also you this method for any field trips we may have during the school year.
- If your child is bringing a home lunch, it is OK to pack a juice for the lunchroom! Remember to pack a water bottle each day for the classroom:)
- Please pack your child’s snack SEPARATELY from your child’s home lunch. This will help your child become less confused about what is for lunch and what is for snack. Thank you:)
- Please read my blog post about tying shoes. Thank you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdK0kAtq_Og&t=3s
Upcoming Events:
September 24th- First library check out! Please make sure to read this book throughout the week (you can even use the book for the homework reading log:)) and place in your child’s backpack Monday morning for a new book from the library!
September 27th- Homework packet due
September 28th- NO SCHOOL for Kindergarten and Young 5’s only!
October 2nd- Kindergarten parent meeting (please read above)
October 5th- Classroom fund money due! Thank you for your support:)
October 12th- Half day for students. Students dismiss promptly at 11:40 a.m!
Daily 5 Update: We had our first “Read to Self” this week and the students did great! They read up to 6 minutes quietly, but we will continue to build our stamina each day to read longer than 6 minutes! Our goal is to read up to 20 minutes daily:) During read to self, the students used 3 ways to read a book strategy that we will use in the classroom: Read the pictures, read the words, and retell the story. Please use the “three ways to read a book” at home with your child as well! Enjoy our pictures from “read to self!”
