Newsletter Week 20 (Recap and NEW Info)!

Great NEWS! We won the December trophy for showing the MOST spirit at Haigh! Keep up the good work and make sure your child wears his/her Kindergarten shirt each Friday or any Haigh wear. Thanks again to my families for making us #1 in the school! Let’s continue showing our pride every Friday:)

Testing results: I am almost finished up with testing, we are just finishing up NWEA math with the class. By the first week of February, I will send home your child’s results. I am very proud of the scores I have seen and the improvement my students have made! You should all be very proud of your child as well! Due to all of the testing, I was able to realign all of my reading groups and you will notice new books in your child’s reading bag by the first week of February as well! Thank you for your patience and support during this testing period!

Report cards: Report cards will be coming home on Monday. Please keep your child’s report card at home, sign the envelope and return the envelope to school on Tuesday. Thank you!

100th day donations: I am looking for some donations for our 100th day celebration coming up on February 6th! Here is the link where you can donate: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050a45a8af2ea5f85-100th

What we did during our week:

Language Arts: We have officially learned ALL the letters and sounds of the alphabet!  Now, we will use our sounds to help us with reading and writing new words:)  Next week we will have our 3rd spelling test List #3: it, am, do, jet, met, pet, set, net, vet,  Bonus words to study at home: wet, bet   Make sure to practice all the words and the bonus words (10th word) at home for homework.  Our 3rd spelling test will be on Friday, January 31st.

Writing:   In writing we will focus on writing our spelling words in sentences and Informative Writing.  Please practice this at home as well. Thank you!

Math:  This week we completed Module 4 lessons 1-3. Next week we will focus on Module 4 lessons 4-8.   Please make sure you are following along in the Eureka math homework book and completing the lessons at home with your child:)  

Science:  For January, we will focus on polar climate.

Social Studies:   For January, we will focus on history/timelines. 

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 – 1/27/20

Dear Families,

 This is a friendly reminder that your Book Clubs orders are due by 1/27/20. 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: 

• A homework sheet will come home on Monday!   The sheet 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! Make sure to fill out the monthly reading log each night!  
• 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 January date to order books will be by the 27th.   You will have the chance to buy something from our book order each month:)

Housekeeping items:

• Please provide a healthy snack for your child each day!  No chips, candy, cookies/cupcakes or juice are allowed for snack. Thank you for your cooperation in promoting a healthy lifestyle for your child:). 
• 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.  
• 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/Haigh t-shirt 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, they can wear a Haigh shirt instead (if they have one). The Haigh Owl Pride committee is going around to each classroom each Friday to tally up how many kids are in spirit wear!  The class with the most participants for the month wins a trophy to keep in their room!! Let’s show Haigh that Room 42 has the most spirit! 🙂  
• 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:

January 28th- Field trip to Dearborn Performing Arts Center!  Please make sure your child is on time for school.  The bus is leaving PROMPTLY at 8:45 a.m.

January 31st- January reading logs due!  Please take OUT your child’s reading log and place in their folder!  Thank you:)

January 31st- February reading logs will be coming home:)

January 31st- 3rd spelling test.  List #3. 

February 4th- 100th day donations due!  Thank you for donating:)

February 5th- LATE START!  Students arrive an hour later at 9:35 a.m.

February 6th- 100th day of school celebration and 100th day t-shirts due!  Information came home and is on the blog:)

February 6th- Spelling Test List #4

February 7th- NO SCHOOL for Kindergarten/Young 5’s only! 

February 12th- Valentine’s Day donations due!  Thank you for donating:)

February 14th- Valentine’s Day in the classroom & Spelling test #5

February 17th-21st- Mid-Winter Break!  School resumes on February 24th!

Reading buddies: This week we were not able to meet with our buddies. We hope to meet with them in the upcoming weeks!