Newsletter Week 13 (Recap and NEW Info)!

Next week reminders– Next week we only have a 2 day school week. There will be no homework, but your child is expected to read every day and turn in their reading log on Nov. 26th:). Please review all concepts covered at conferences, with your child at home during the week and 5 day break. Thank you!

Seesaw- If you haven’t already, please make sure to connect to your child’s Seesaw account to view their weekly activities! They will have a special message on Seesaw next week:)

Parent Teacher Conferences- I have enjoyed meeting with all 24 families!  It is my pleasure working alongside all of you as we partner up to make this an incredible learning experience for your child.  I enjoyed all of the stories these last 2 weeks and I thank you for supporting your child’s lifelong, academic success! I am thankful for each and every one of you and I hope everyone has a nice break with loved ones:)

What we did during our week:

Language Arts: This week we learned how to write, recognize and know the sounds of letters K & P!  Next week, will be review week. Please work on what we discussed at conferences with your child at home! 

Writing:   This week we learned how to write letters K & P inside the lines:). Please make sure your child is practicing at home how to write inside the lines; especially on their homework!   Next week will be review week. Please work on what we discussed at conferences with your child at home! Every child in our classroom needs help with writing complete sentences with spaces. Thank you for your continued support:)!

Math: This week we focused on Module 2: Lessons  9-10. On December 2nd we will start module 3: Length/Weight/Capacity.  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 – 12/13/19

Dear Families,

 This is a friendly reminder that your Book Clubs orders are due by 12/13/19. 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! 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 December date to order books will be by the 13th.   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 the box 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 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 wins the trophy for the month! Let’s show Haigh 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. Thank you to all of my students who brought in change this week!!! We really are working hard for the ice cream party:)

Upcoming Events:

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 we disguised a turkey with our buddies! It was a lot of fun to see what the groups came up with…we have some creative children at Haigh:) After, we enjoyed eating a small snack with our buddies. We are so thankful for Ms. Cronin and her class<3.

Picture time:  This week we learned about turkeys!  We finished a can/have and are chart, wrote an informational writing piece on turkeys and did a thankful turkey craft. Make sure to ask your turkey expert some facts they learned from the week. Enjoy the pictures:) 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XIC6TmgNE876o0FHdqnzuTO6aa3uKznH