Newsletter Week 10 (Recap and NEW Info)!

Scholastic Book Fair will be going on next week!  Our preview day is on Monday.  If you would like to have your child purchase books from the fair, please place money, title of book(s) and an added 6% sale tax inside an envelope with your child’s name labeled on the front.  If you would like to shop with your child, the book fair will be open on Election day November 6th (10am-3pm) and November 8th during parent teacher conferences (3-7pm).  Thank you!

Reading bags are coming home on Monday!  Please take care of these books/bags and make sure to read these books for homework/reading log EACH night.  Please use the handouts in the reading bag, while reading with your child at home!  Make sure the bags come back to school EACH day.  We use the bags during daily 5 and our reading groups.  Thank you!

What we did during our week:

Language Arts: We had a fun week learning about letters H & S  We learned the letter name, words that start with each letter and the sound each letter makes.  Next week we will focus on letters I and R:)

Writing:  We will begin to learn about sentence structure in the classroom.  The students will learn that every sentence starts with an uppercase letter,meatball spaces and a punctuation at the end of each sentence.  Please practice this strategy at home as well with your child. Thank you!

Math:  We worked on lessons 31-33  in the classroom. Next week we will assess students on Module 1.  

Science: For November, we will learn about types of weather.

Social Studies:  For November, we will learn about Needs and Wants.

Scholastic Reading Club:

Class Code – RKYTJ

Order Due Date –  11/26/18

Support Your Child’s Reading Success! 

Dear Families,

Did you know? Kids who read for just 20 minutes a day are more successful in school and life. Ordering from Scholastic Book Clubs is an easy way to find the best books that are just right for your child’s grade and interests.

Here’s how:

Choose books with your child from the paper flyers or online at: scholastic.com/bookclubs.  To order online, use 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. Thank you for your support and happy reading!

Other:

• A field trip permission slip is coming home on Monday, November 5th.  We are having Tumblebus come to the school for the Kindergarten students!  If you would like your child to participate, please fill out the front and back of the permission slip, attach $7 (EXACT cash only) and place inside an envelope labeled with your child’s name on front.  The slip and money is due back no later than Friday, November 9th. Thank you!  Here is a link about what Tumblebus is all about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVcAi80xoF4
• A hat day note will be sent home on Monday about the students being 50 days smarter.  Here is what the note will entail: Hello Families, To celebrate the students being 50 days smarter, we are going to celebrate by having a hat day on Friday, November 9th!  The students can wear their favorite hat to school and keep it on all day.  We are proud of the progress each student has made thus far and look forward to the continued growth they will make by the end of the year.  Hats off to our students!
• Parent Teacher Conference reminders are coming home!  Please keep these reminders handy, so you are aware of your day and time!  Thank you:)
• Reading bags are coming home this week! There will be a note in the bag outlining how these will book bags work. Just to reiterate, these bags come home and come back to school every, single day.  Please keep the books inside the book bag. We use these bags during Daily 5  instruction. Please read these books at home with your child, and have them work on reading the books independently. We are working on one-to-one finger pointing. This mean that they should be pointing to each word as they read it. We are also working on reading words from left to right, using picture clues to help with “unknown” words, spotting sight words easily in text, stretching sounds out when coming to an unknown word and also retelling the story using the retell rope method!  Make sure to jot down your child’s reading in the reading log each night! Thank you:)
• We have officially launched STAR student of the week in Kindergarten!  Each Monday, I will choose one child to be selected for star student. All week long we will talk about the star student, look at his/her poster and also write about that student in class.  At the end of the week, the star student will come home with a published book to keep and read with family! Star student is a great way to highlight all of the amazing kids we have here in Kindergarten!  It’s a feel good activity and makes the kids really excited about writing and learning new things about their friends! We love our star students in Kindergarten!
• Please consider buying something from our Scholastic Book Club at: https://clubs.scholastic.com/  Activation code: RKYTJ.  The November orders are due by November 26th.  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:

• Monday is our library check out date.  I have a handful of students who do not bring in their books, which in turn leaves a very sad child without a new book for the week.  If the book is not returned, there will be a cost the parent will have to pay. Please keep the library book in a safe place at home, or you can leave it in your child’s backpack until the next check out.  Remember: Every Monday is our library check out. Thank you!
• The cold/winter season is upon us, which means cooler temperatures!  With cooler temperatures comes coats, boots, hats, scarves, gloves, etc.  It is important to teach your child how to properly put on a coat, zip up a coat, unzip the coat and take the coat off.  We have a handful of students who constantly need help putting on their coats etc, which means more time is taken away from recess because the teacher is zipping up 24 coats!  Also, please continue to practice tying shoes with your child. It is very hard to tie 2 pair of shoes X 24 students a day! That equals 48 shoes a day I would be tying, which would take up a lot of time during large and small group instruction.  We are encouraging students to become independent learners and with independence takes a lot of dedication and teaching your child at home. Thank you for your cooperation:)
• 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:)
• Great news!  The PTA has a blog for all sorts of fun information going on in the school.  I may not have a lot of opportunities for all families to volunteer in the classroom, but the PTA is ALWAYS looking for extra hands to help in the school.  Please take a look at their blog and sign up for the fun events they may need help with:)  https://parents.dearbornschools.org/haigh/

Upcoming Events:

November 2nd- ½ day for students!  Students dismiss at 11:40pm!

November 5th- Start of Star Student!

November 5th- NO library check out, due to the book fair!

November 6th- NO SCHOOL

November 8th- Parent Teacher Conferences…Remember your time.  Can’t wait to see you!

November 9th- Field trip permission slip and $7 due (more information to follow)!

November 9th- Kindergarten and Young 5’s 50th day of school…Hat Day!

November 12th– Start of Module 2 in Eureka Math!

November 13th- Parent Teacher Conference…Remember your time.  Can’t wait to see you!

November 15th- Parent Teacher Conference…Remember your time.  Can’t wait to see you!

November 21-23– NO SCHOOL.  Thanksgiving Break!

November 30th- PBIS Turkey Bowling!

Reading Buddies: We were not able to meet with our reading buddies due to the half day.  We look forward to seeing our buddies on November 9th:)