Mrs. Fillmore's Class Blog

We launched our November centers this week: Gobble the Room, Turkey Ten-Frames, matching letters to tepees sounds, Indian number hunt etc.  Enjoy the pictures:)  Gobble, Gobble!

Our 50th day of school was a blast!!!  Here is a picture of all of us in our hats!!!   I am so proud of my students and even more excited to see what happens in the next 50 days:):)

What we did during our week:

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

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 completed  assessments in Module 1.   We are now cruising into Model 2, Lessons 1-5.

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:

• Reading bags have launched in Kindergarten!  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:) Thank you to Ethan for purchasing something from our book club!
• 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 12th– Start of Module 2 in Eureka Math: 2D & 3D shapes!

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 19th- NO Library check out, No Homework.  Please review all letters/sounds learned thus far and counting to 100!

November 21-23– NO SCHOOL.  Thanksgiving Break!

November 30th- PBIS Turkey Bowling!

Reading Buddies: We had a great time reading with our buddies today.  We focused on 3 ways to read a book: read the pictures, read the words and retell the story. 

Please click on the link below, from Mr. Short’s blog post, about giving back to people in need and how you can help!  Thank you:)

https://haigh.dearbornschools.org/2018/11/06/help-haigh-give-back/ 

Hello:)  This is just a reminder that there is no school tomorrow, Tuesday November 6th.  See you back on Wednesday!

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:)

Happy November 1st!:)  I can’t believe we are already into November!  Time flies by when you are having fun I guess:)

Tomorrow will be a half day!  Students will dismiss promptly at 11:40am.  Homework will be due tomorrow, we will eat snack and also is a GYM day!

Star Student poster due tomorrow as well.  If your child does not bring in their completed poster, they will not have the chance to participate in star student.  Please make sure I have your child’s poster:)  There will be no library check out next week due to the book fair, so your child will keep the book for another week.  You are able to shop the book fair during Parent Teacher Conferences:)  Have a great day!

Today, we had so much fun during our Halloween celebration!  The students were immersed in 6 stations, which were ran by our parent volunteers!  I would like to personally thank my 6 parent volunteers today.  They worked together to put this amazing day together for our classroom.  They brainstormed ideas, purchased items for the stations and helped the students during each of their stations.  Days like today aren’t possible without the love and support from my volunteers…thank you again for everything!  In the afternoon, the students participated in our PBIS celebration and then walked around in our Haigh Parade!  Today was another great day in Kindergarten:)  We hope you enjoy the pictures!  Happy Halloween to all of my families!

Happy Halloween from the Kindergarten/

Young 5’s TEAM!  We had fun with these

costumes:)

Remember: There is NO SCHOOL tomorrow!  Have a great weekend! See you back on Monday, Oct. 29th:)

Pumpkin Day 2018 was a BLAST!  The students were able to pick their very own pumpkin, which were donated by the PTA!  Next, Ms. Nikki and Mr. Rob cut out the stems for the students and prepped them for pumpkin cleaning:)  After recess, the students were surprised with a table full of pumpkins and tools to clean the pumpkins.  This day wouldn’t have been possible without the extra hands in my classroom.  Thank you to Ms. Nikki for doing all the shopping for us and the planning/preparing for this day.  Ms. Nikki used the fund money to buy the flowers and supplies, so the donated money is already off to a great start:)  Thank you to Ms. Hanan for taking pictures of all the kids with their pumpkins and also to Ms. Amani, Ms. Salwa for helping with the set up and helping students during the cleaning process!  We hope you enjoy the pictures and the plants that came home today:)  I am sure you will enjoy your child’s recap of our awesome day!

What we did during our week:

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

Writing:  We will begin to learn about sentence structure in the classroom.  The students will learn that every sentence starts with an uppercase letter, finger 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 28-30  in the classroom. Next week we will complete lessons 31-34.

Science: For the reminder of the month, we will talk about positional words.  Here is a video to help your child at home with positional words.

Social Studies:  For October, we will learn what it means to be a responsible citizen in our school/community:)

Halloween Celebration Note:  

Dear Families, Our Halloween celebration will be on Wednesday October 31st,  which means excited kids and parents too:)  With all the excitement, we are listing the expectations for the day.  Since we have seen an influx of food allergies in all the Kindergarten classrooms, we are asking families not to send your child with any treats to pass out to his/her friends.  If by accident, your child sends a treat to school, we will kindly place it back in your child’s backpack to take home.  Students are able to wear costumes for the day…YAY! We just ask that your child does not bring to school any weapons/wands/masks, accessories with the costume.  If these are brought, we will kindly place them back into their backpacks.  We encourage each and every family to practice with your child how to put on and take off your child’s costume since they will be in this costume throughout the duration of the school day.  Make sure your child is in his/her costume at drop off! We will have a jam packed day, so the less disruptions the better:)

The Haigh Halloween parade will take place at 2:30 p.m.  We encourage families to come out and watch the parade that will take place outside.  There is no need to come into the building. We hope we answered some questions for this fun, filled day!  

Thank you, Kindergarten & Young 5’s Team

Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Oh My!  Here are the pumpkin activities we did for the week.  We had a blast during our pumpkin day:)

Scholastic Reading Club:

Class Code – RKYTJ   Order Due Date – 10/29/18

Subject: Scholastic Book Clubs Class Order Due Date is approaching!

Dear Families, This is a friendly reminder that your Book Clubs orders are due by 10/29/18. You can place your orders online at scholastic.com/bookclubs using my class activation code: RKYTJ

Other:

• Parent Teacher Conference reminders will be coming home soon!  Please keep these reminders handy, so you are aware of your day and time!  Thank you:)
• Reading bags will be coming home in the next 2 weeks!  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. We use these 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:)
• Please consider buying something from our Scholastic Book Club at: https://clubs.scholastic.com/  Activation code: RKYTJ.  The October orders are due by October 29th.  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:

October 26th- NO School for Kindergarten and Young 5’s ONLY!

October 29th- Scholastic Book order due

October 29th– Library check out!

October 31st- Halloween Parade/ PBIS Celebration

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

November 5th- Star Student begins this week!

November 5th- Book Fair Preview!

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 this week due to Kindergarten having no school.  We will see our buddies next week:)

Good Morning!

Today, your child will be bringing home a small pumpkin with a flower inside.  The flowers have been watered, so no need to water the flower today when your child brings it home:)

It’s a tiny plant, inside a tiny pumpkin, so it will need a small amount of water to keep the flower alive:)  We don’t want the pumpkin to soften or rot.  The pumpkin planter should last a couple weeks (or more).  We hope you enjoy them!

The students enjoying the leaves at recess:)  Please scroll down and read under “Housekeeping Items” about coats, shoes and other clothing items…thank you!

Don’t forget to log onto Reading Eggs and Math Seeds daily!  It is proven that students who use these programs, outperform their peers by 25%!  Make sure your child is one step ahead of everyone else and not left behind! Also, please practice logging in with your child…your child will have to do this independently in the classroom:)

***Don’t forget: make sure to practice with your child how to put on and pull down their costume!  They will be at school with the costume on all day, so we want to prevent any accidents happening!  Practicing with your child how to independently take care of their needs in their costume, will prepare them for a successful and FUN Halloween.  Thank you!

What we did during our week:

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

Writing:    In writing, we are learning how to label our pictures!  When labeling their pictures, the kids are stretching out the sounds they hear (like a rubber band) in the word parts.  Make sure to practice this at home as well:)  Here are some drawings the students labeled about their family.  Enjoy:)

Math:  We worked on lessons 20-27  in the classroom. Next week we will complete lessons 28-30.

Science: For October, we will learn about push & pull.  This week we completed a C.E.R (Claim/Evidence/ Reasoning) chart and the students discussed and experienced  what force is.  After our lesson, the students completed a Push & Pull sorting sheet.  We have been having fun learning about force!

Social Studies:  For October, we will learn what it means to be a responsible citizen in our school/community:)

Halloween Celebration Note:  

Dear Families, Our Halloween celebration will be on Wednesday October 31st,  which means excited kids and parents too:)  With all the excitement, we are listing the expectations for the day.  Since we have seen an influx of food allergies in all the Kindergarten classrooms, we are asking families not to send your child with any treats to pass out to his/her friends.  If by accident, your child sends a treat to school, we will kindly place it back in your child’s backpack to take home.  Students are able to wear costumes for the day…YAY! We just ask that your child does not bring to school any weapons/wands/masks, accessories with the costume.  If these are brought, we will kindly place them back into their backpacks.  We encourage each and every family to practice with your child how to put on and take off your child’s costume since they will be in this costume throughout the duration of the school day.  Make sure your child is in his/her costume at drop off! We will have a jam packed day, so the less disruptions the better:)

The Haigh Halloween parade will take place at 2:30 p.m.  We encourage families to come out and watch the parade that will take place outside.  There is no need to come into the building. We hope we answered some questions for this fun, filled day!  

Thank you, Kindergarten & Young 5’s Team

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, so I can personally thank them:)  We are going to love them for small group instruction!

Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Oh My!  Here are the pumpkin activities we did for the week.  We are having so much fun learning all about pumpkins!

Thursday, October 25th:  The students will be bringing home a pumpkin, donated by the PTA, on October 25th!  I will have the students clean out the flesh, seeds and plant a flower inside the pumpkin as well:)  Please dress your child for a day full of pumpkin fun; anything they can get dirty and have fun in! Thank you for your cooperation:)

Scholastic Reading Club:

Class Code – RKYTJ

Order Due Date – 10/29/18

Subject: Scholastic Book Clubs Class Order Due Date is approaching!

Dear Families,

This is a friendly reminder that your Book Clubs orders are due by 10/29/18. You can place your orders online at scholastic.com/bookclubs using my class activation code: RKYTJ

Other:

• Parent Teacher Conference reminders will be coming home soon!  Please keep these reminders handy, so you are aware of your day and time!  Thank you:)
• Reading bags will be coming home in the next 2 weeks!  Be on the lookout:)
• Please consider buying something from our Scholastic Book Club at: https://clubs.scholastic.com/  Activation code: RKYTJ.  The October orders are due by October 29th.  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 to pay, if the book is not found. 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!
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• 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 and multiple that by winter boots during our winter months! That equals 48 shoes a day I would be tying, which takes up a lot of time from our learning.  We are encouraging students to become independent learners and with independence takes a lot of time and practice at home. Thank you for your cooperation:)
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• If your child is bringing a home lunch, it is OK to pack a juice for the lunchroom!  Remember to pack a reusable 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:

October 22nd- Savory Sweet Food sale begins.  Ends November 7th

October 22nd– Library check out!

October 25th-  Dress your child appropriately for our pumpkin day:)

October 25th- Bingo for Books…$3 cost for each bingo player!  Wear your costumes, win prizes and books, pizza and other snacks for sale!  6:30-7:30 in the cafeteria!  This is a fun night for all!

October 26th- NO School for Kindergarten and Young 5’s ONLY!

October 29th- October Scholastic Book order due

October 29th– Library check out!

October 31st- Halloween Classroom Celebration/ Halloween Parade/ PBIS Celebration

November 2nd- Half day.  Students dismiss promptly at 11:40 a.m.

November 6th- NO SCHOOL

Reading Buddies:    Today, your child met his/her reading buddy, filled out a “getting to know you” survey, and then ended our meet and greet with a song/dance!  We are so happy to be teamed up with Ms. Cronin’s 4th grade class this year…we are going to have so much fun reading and doing projects!  Here are some pictures from today:)

Hello!  This is a reminder that tomorrow is a LATE start day!  Students will arrive an hour later at 9:40 a.m.  Thank you!