Good evening Haigh families.I hope you had a great time enjoying family time with the refreshing sunny weather we had.
Important dates:
This Thursday, September 29th we will be attending the Dearborn firehouse for a presentation on fire safety from 12:30-2:30. This field trip is provided to us free from the city of Dearborn. Permission slips will be sent home tomorrow, so please sign and return if you would like your child to attend this trip. Also, this field trip will not require any parent volunteers. However, Next week on Tuesday October 4th we will be attending the University of Michigan Dearborn Nature Center. Parents chaperones are encouraged and must drive their child to the field trip. Permission slips will be sent home this week. The cost is $3.00. If you want to chaperone, please make sure you have an updated background check on file through the district. The process to do this is simple and easy and can be done through the Haigh front office. It usually takes about two weeks to clear and is valid for three years.
This week we will continue to complete our NWEA testing in all areas.
Students took their first spelling and academic vocabulary test on Friday. They did a pretty good job for their first academic vocabulary test. Please look for their test in their owl folder tomorrow to check out their grades.
Our new academic vocabulary words are:
- Elapsed time- the difference between the start time and the end time.
- County- a division of a state. Michigan is divided into 83 counties.
- Geography- the study of places.
- Geographer- a person who studies places.
- Moral- a life lesson.
We will continue to work on fables as we review our CAFE strategies this week. We will be looking deeper at the characters in the stories we have read and work on selecting traits to describe our characters based on evidence from the text.
We will focus on elapsed time all week. This is usually a tough concept for students of all ages so your support at home helps tremendously. We will begin our math rotations this week so students can review telling time, addition concepts, and work on elapsed time in small groups. Last week students practiced logging in and taking a pretest for frontrowed.com. This is an excellent website for students to practice math concepts as well as fact fluency practice. Multiplication facts are never to early to begin mastering! Students are able to sign in at home. The class code is: halimp
Thank you for your support. The classroom routines are going smoothly and our daily schedule is working well. This year is looking to be GREAT!
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