Good evening Haigh families. I hope you have enjoyed the weekend with your family.
Reminders for the week:
- Book fair starts tomorrow and we will be visiting as a class in the morning. Students may bring money or browse. Book fair will be open all week and in the evening on both Wednesday and Thursday.
- Wednesday: Late start, school begins at 9:35
- Thursday: Savory foods fundraiser pickup at Haigh between 2:30-5:00
- Parent teacher conferences on Wednesday and Thursday after school; reminders have been sent out.
This week we will continue to talk about non-fiction text features and begin learning about how to find the main idea in a non-fiction text. In writing we will work on comparing the upper and lower peninsula and composing our 5 paragraph essay.
In math we will continue to focus on multiplication fluency and strategies. We will begin our week with a quiz on multiplication/division word problems and focus on in/out charts and word problems. Please encourage your child to practice for their math fact fluency tests that we take each afternoon. Ask your child what fact they are on.
In social studies we will begin our unit on the history of Michigan.
In science we will continue to work on magnets.
Academic Vocabulary:
- Conclusion- The end of a story or a writing.
- Heading- A title at the top of a text that tells what you will be reading about.
- History-The study of past events.
- Equation-A mathematical statement that has an equal sign. ex: 3 x 4 = 12
- Magnet-A piece of material that is able to attract certain metals.
Looking forward to meeting with many of you on Wednesday and Thursday evening to discuss your child’s progress.
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