Mrs. Halimi

Dear Families,

On Tuesday, February 28 we will be having a PBIS celebration to recognize your child’s positive behavior. This month’s celebration theme will be “Beach Fun!” We will turn the gymnasium into an fun indoor beach and enjoying activities that could take place at the beach! Your child may wear sunglasses, and or a fun beach hat to school. Please label everything with your name.

Thank you,

Haigh PBIS Committee

Good afternoon Haigh families!I hope all of you enjoyed the fantastic weather last week, I know I sure did 🙂 So lucky to have the week off and have the sun shining each day. I think the sunshine helped me recharge and prepare for an exciting new month…MARCH is reading month! We have a lot of fun activities planned for March, so be sure to check your child’s backpack for the calendar of events as well as a month long reading log. Students will use the school wide reading log in place of our usual reading log.

This week:

Tuesday 28th: PBIS Beach Fun party

Wednesday 1st: March is reading month kickoff assembly

Friday 3rd- Lions assembly

This week we will focus on finishing our informational paper about SNOW. We have been working hard at learning what a source is, collecting interesting facts about our topic, and organizing the facts we found into categories. In reading we will focus on reviewing concepts such as main idea, inferring, plot, and point of view as we read different passages and use the text to help us prove an confirm our answers.

We will begin our new unit in math with the focus being on geometry. This unit is FULL of new vocabulary. We will do a number of fun activities to help us understand and remember the terms. We will have quizzes throughout the unit to help us as well. Please make sure your child is visiting frontrowed.com and working under the geometry strand. This will allow for extra practice for this unit. We will also continue our multiplication challenge drills. While they may not be as frequent, they will still be happening. Thank you for your support and encouragement to help your child master these facts.

We will continue to learn about force and motion this week as we create marshmallow shooters to test the effect of different forces applied on an object. In social studies we will begin our  unit on public issues.

Academic Vocabulary:

1. Gravity- A force that allows things to fall or stay on the ground.
2. Source- Something that we use to supply us with information on a topic. Ex. – book, website, photograph, museum, person
3. Friction-A force that slows things down.
4. Line segment- A part of line that has two end points and connects two points.
5. Public Issue- An issue or a problem that affects many people.

Homework for this week is now posted. Sorry for the delay! Thank you Patti Martin 🙂

Good afternoon Haigh families 🙂

Just a reminder that we will be having our spelling and vocabulary test on Wednesday(words from last week).

This week we will be learning about point of view. Students will learn how to determine the point of view and practice using a variety of texts. In writing students will continue to collect facts about snow and sort them. From there they will learn how to construct a paragraph including the facts they have found.

In math we will review place value. Students will review all concepts from this unit and take their test on Thursday. I will send home their pretests to study from on Wednesday. Please continue to have your child practice their math facts. They are on a roll and making great progress in our math challenge. A big CONGRATULATIONS to Jena and Jordan for completing the challenge:)

We will also be having our social studies test on Thursday. Look for a study guide to come home on Tuesday 🙂

In science we will investigate balanced and unbalanced forces, as well as investigate gravity.

You should of received a pink letter regrading Valentines day. If not, here is the information:

Next week is Valentine’s Day!  We have 24 students in our class and their first names are included on the back of this sheet.  We will NOT be having a traditional class party like we did for Halloween or Christmas. We WILL have a short celebration at the end of the day and engage in Valentine friendship activities during regular classroom instruction.

Here are the fast facts:

• The celebration will be from 2:30-3:30.
• Each child is encouraged (but not required) to bring valentines.  If you bring valentines, you must bring one for each student in the class—no one is left out!
• Everyone will need to bring a plain brown paper grocery bag (like what you get from Kroger).  If you want to bring in an extra bag, just in case someone forgets, that would be great!
• We will be having pizza around 11:15 provided by Mr. Cheese Pizza. Students will go to regular lunch time at 12:45, so they may just need to pack a snack instead of a whole lunch.

Report card_Mr. Short

Good Afternoon Haigh Families 🙂

This week we will continue to read realistic fiction and focus on making inferences within a text. We will share our informational books this week. Your child has worked extremly hard on these books and I can’t wait to see and hear their final products. We will also look at our NWEA scores and write new goals for the spring, as well as new behavioral and personal goals.

In math we will touch on decimals and review place value of large numbers. We will continue with our multiplication timed tests. Thank you for your support at home as you help and encourage them to really “know” their facts. A strong knowledge of multiplication facts really helps them with other math concepts as they continue this year and beyond.

In social studies we will continue to learn about the three branches of government and their functions. In science we will begin our unit on force and motion.

Academic Vocabulary:

1. Conflict- The problem in the story.
2. Force-A push or a pull.
3. Infer-Figuring out something that wasn’t completely explained in the story.
4. Equation- A math sentence that has two numbers followed by an equal sign. (4+2=6)
5. Motion- The action of moving or changing position.

Enjoy the SUPERBOWL! May the BEST team win 🙂 I don’t have a favorite, I watch it more for the funny commercials and the half time show!