Newsletter Week 12 (Recap and NEW Info)!

Coats & boots- As the winter season approaches, more layers are necessary to stay warm!  I am asking for some help from my families to help make this season enjoyable at arrival and dismissal. Parents, please teach your child how to take off and put on their coats independently. If you send them to school with gloves, hat and a scarf, please make sure they know how to put this on before leaving the house. A lot of students don’t know how to put their gloves on LAST, so they are having a difficult time zipping up their coats while wearing gloves.  Please teach them to put their gloves on last because they need their hands to do all the work. Lastly, if your child comes to school with winter boots on, please pack them an extra pair of school shoes to wear in the classroom! We are trying to prevent snow, water and mud from coming into the classroom and making a messy and dangerous situation. Again, your child must know how to take off their boots and put their shoes on independently! I do not have the manpower to help 24 students get ready each and every day. I would have to stop teaching an hour before dismissal to help each child and I personally cannot cut that much instructional time from our day. Thank you for your support and understanding in growing independent children!

Parent Teacher Conferences- If you missed Tuesdays conference due to the snow day, I have sent home a letter explaining the new conference date. If you are unable to make the make-up conference, please email or Remind App me and we can schedule a phone conference. Thank you!

What we did during our week:

Language Arts: This week we learned how to write, recognize and know the sounds of letters J & Q!  Next week, we will focus on letters K & P. 

Writing:   This week we learned how to write letters J & Q inside the lines:). Please make sure your child is practicing at home how to write inside the lines; especially on their homework!   Next week we will focus on letters K & P. We will also start Start Student writing in the classroom.  The students will learn how to write complete sentences with spacing and punctuation at the end. Please practice writing sentences at home with your child! Thank you!

Math: This week we focused on Module 2: Lessons  4-8. Next week we will complete lessons 9-10 (one lesson a day).   You will notice that, we will come to the end of Module 2. I will administer some assessments in the classroom and then start module 3 on December 2nd. Please make sure you are following along in the Eureka math homework book and completing the lessons at home with your child:)  

Science:  For November, we will focus on weather elements.

Social Studies:   For November, will will focus on needs and wants.

GREAT NEWS!  We have a book club online at scholastic.com!  Each month there are awesome deals with latest and the most reasonably priced books online!  All you do is order at the link below, use the code and your books will be sent home to you within 5 days:)  It’s a great way to build your child’s library at home and books also make great gifts as well:) All the information is below!   Happy reading!
Scholastic Reading Club:  Class Code – RKYTJ     Order Due Date – 11/20/19

Dear Families, This is a friendly reminder that your Book Clubs orders are due by 11/20/19. You can place your orders online at scholastic.com/bookclubs using my class activation code: RKYTJ

 Happy Reading, Mrs. Fillmore

https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=611465

Other: 

•  Homework packets will come home on Monday!  Please read over the direction page and complete a half sheet each day.  The packet is due back to school every Friday! If there is no school on Friday, the homework will be due on Thursday.  Remember, reading with your child 15 minutes a night is also a part of our homework! You may use the reading websites (I sent home earlier this week), to complete the reading portion of homework as well:) In November, we will start having a monthly reading log sent home!
• Make sure to go on the learning websites that Haigh has purchased for all of our students! These websites are great extension activities in Math and Reading that are full of fun and learning! Make sure to visit: Raz-Kids, Reading Eggs, Math Seeds and Zearn during the week and weekends!
•  Please consider buying something from our Scholastic Book Club at: https://clubs.scholastic.com/  Activation code: RKYTJ. The November date to order books will be by the 20th.   You will have the chance to buy something from our book order each month:)

Housekeeping items:

• Please make sure to pack a healthy snack each day!  No chips, juice, cookies are to be brought into the classroom.  We are trying to promote healthy eating choices in the classroom!  Even the teachers are eating healthy snacks with the students as well:)
• Make sure you provide your child with a NUT FREE snack.   We are a NUT FREE classroom. Thank you for your cooperation! 
• Please make sure to go through your child’s folder each night, look at  your child’s work (see how they did), look at behavior, read any notes and sign in each day.  Looking at your child’s work and behavior will give you an idea of how your child is doing in class.  If your child is unable to complete any work in class, it will be sent home for homework and expected to be brought back the next day completed.  Thank you for your cooperation!  
• Be on the lookout for volunteer opportunities at Haigh via signupgenius.com.  I’ll post a link to the blog for different opportunities to donate items to the classroom or to come and help out! 
• Every Monday is library check out!  Please make sure your child is returning his/her book so they can check out a new book for the week.  If you misplace this book or lose it, there will be a cost for the missing book!  
• Every Friday will be Kindergarten t-shirt day or Haigh wear day! We love being in the same shirts and showing our Kinder pride at Haigh!  If your child forgets to wear their shirt, it’s ok, this is optional for everyone:)
• Spare change challenge- The PTA has come up with a fun way to collect loose change at school! The intent for the challenge is to raise money to go back to each grade level.  In order to include the specials teachers, we will take a small amount from each grade level and divide that between the specials teachers.  The money raised may be used for whatever the teachers feel they need for their classrooms.
  The contest will continue until the bottles are filled, but the first grade level to fill all of their bottles wins an Ice Cream Social.

Upcoming Events:

November 20th- End of Module 2 testing!

November 26th- November reading logs due!

November 27th-29th– NO SCHOOL…Thanksgiving break! 

December 2nd- Start Module 3 in Eureka Math

December 18th- Late start!  Students arrive an hour later @ 9:35a.m.

December 19th- PJ Day/ Polar Express Day!  More information to come:)

December 23-January 5th- NO School!

January 6th- December reading logs due!

January 6th- School Resumes.  Welcome Back:) 

January 6th- Spelling words start! List 1: the, I, a, cat, bat, rat, mat, sat, fat

January 10th– First spelling test! 

January 23rd– Timeline project due!

January 22nd– Start Module 4 in Eureka Math

Reading buddies: This week our reading buddies created slide show presentations on turkeys for our Kindergartners! The 4th graders gathered facts about turkeys and then taught the facts to the students. It was a great day for non-fiction learning! Thank you buddies! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11KGT6OLrjykhYkW3_3-H_XlS_ynuhDZ8

Picture time: We launched our November review math rotations in the classroom! The students enjoyed the new stations very much…gobble, gobble!