Mrs. Halimi

It’s time for the Penny/Nickel challenge!

This week, we are continuing our endangered animal adoption project. We are reusing milk jugs to collect money for adopting a wolf through the Detroit Zoo, and we need your help!

We are asking for your help with our penny/nickel challenge.

Bring in as many extra pennies or nickels as you can to help fill our jugs! At the end of the week, we’ll count up the totals and announce our winners!

Did you know???

A single wolf can eat up to 20 pounds of food in one sitting!

Today your child will be sent home with a cabbage plant. This cabbage plant is an opportunity for them to nurture a plant in hopes to make it grow very big through the spring and summer months. During the fall when school resumes you can have your child take a picture with the plant and enter it in a contest. Students can win scholarship money by doing this simple at home project. Please visit the website for more information.

Cabbage link

Spring break is OVER! That was a quick break, but a week of FUN in the SUN for my family and I. I hope everyone enjoyed their break.

Reminders for the week:

Friday—BINGO for BOOKS 6-7in the cafeteria; $3 per person

Academic Words:

1. Export- a good that people in one place send out to people in another place when they trade.
2. Prefix- a group of letters added to the BEGINNING of a word to change the meaning.
3. Suffix- a group of letters added to the END of a word to change the meaning.
4. Convince- To try to get someone to like something by using a good persuasive argument.
5. Ecosystem- all of the living things in a given area.

This week in reading we will continue to prep for our upcoming M-Step testing. We will practice passages in our M-step prep folder and focus on understanding what the question is asking us and using strategies that will help us locate the answer back in the text. We will also begin to take a look at poetry since April is celebrated and known as poetry month 🙂

In writing this week we will continue to write an essay from a prompt. Before break we examined pieces that other students have done and graded them based on expectations that M-Step provides. This week we will begin to complete our essay based on the same prompt.

Math continues with fractions as we review and prepare for our unit test. This week we will review and engage in games and small groups to review standards learned before break.

In social studies we will continue to look at Michigan’s economy and how goods are imported and exported from other places.

I am looking forward to seeing my students in the morning. I am also hoping the sun is shining and bringing us some warmer weather 🙂

Today, we had a wonderfully fun and messy celebration at Haigh!  It was Slime Mr. Short Day!  Every single grade in our school was able to meet our NWEA Winter Challenge with our scores.  To celebrate, each class sent 2 representatives to slime Mr. Short.  It was a terrific way to celebrate the work we have done.  We are fortunate to have such a dedicated student body at Haigh!  Enjoy the video of third graders sliming Mr. Short! ( Not pictured is the Teachers sliming Mr. Short!)

Good Morning Haigh Families 🙂

This week looks to be an extremely busy one. We have a lot of events and celebrations going on before we are off for SPRING BREAK! We will NOT be having spelling or academic lists this week due to the short week and the amount of activities going on. We will still have a homework packet due on Thursday.

Reminders for the week:

1. 2nd and 3rd grade SPRING concert is tomorrow evening at BRYANT. Please plan to arrive at 6:15 to enjoy the show. Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend due to a prior commitment. Also, just a reminder that we WILL be walking over to BRYANT tomorrow afternoon for a rehearsal and the forecast is calling for rain. Please send an umbrella with your child to school tomorrow. I have a few permission slips that were not sent back; please send them tomorrow in order for your child to walk over to Bryant for rehearsal.
2. Thursday — PBIS event; students may bring in board games to play. We will also be having our ice-cream social and a “Slime Mr. Short” assembly for students meeting their NWEA goal.
3.  If you have not sent in an envelope with a stamp, please do so ASAP, as I would like to get all restaurant review papers addressed and sent out BEFORE we leave for spring break. I am hoping for some return letters in my mailbox after break 🙂
4. Also, I just wanted to let parents know that the frequency that I meet with reading groups will change a bit over the next few weeks as we switch our focus to M-Step prep. In order to prepare students for the upcoming assessments, we have a more whole group, practice, and review format going on. It is difficult to meet with reading groups as we normally do during this change in the format of instruction. I will try my best to fit in groups when and where I can. You can help support me with this by encouraging students to work on Moby Max, Frontrowed.com, and Prep dog as a way to review at home. These sites can count towards reading log requirements.

Good Evening Haigh families.

Reminders for the week:

• Popcorn sales: Monday through Thursday
• Wednesday: READ-A-THON 3:45-5:00
• Thursday:Rainforest Live Assembly; after school show $5 per person
• Thursday:Spring conferences (Only if you were contacted)

This week we will begin our M-Step prep in reading by working through articles that we have put together that are similar in format to what student can expect to see on the M-Step. These articles will review many of the skills we have learned this year. As we get closer we will do some online practice as well. In writing we will also begin M-Step writing prep and prepare an essay based on a prompt.

We have just completed our restaurant papers and will prepare to send them out this week. Please send in a stamped envelope with your child this week so we can send their GREAT papers ASAP.

In math we will continue to discuss fractions greater than one and begin to learn strategies to compare fractions.

We just finished up our unit on the growth of Michigan last week and this week we will begin to learn about the economy of Michigan.

In science we just started our new unit on animals through time on Friday. We will continue to explore this idea in the next few weeks.

Academic Vocabulary: Please make sure your child is working on these at home. Last weeks test was not successful 🙁

1. habitat- the home to a plant or animal.
2. fossil- the remains of plants and animals that lived long ago.
3. unit fraction-a fraction where the top number is one.
4. scarcity- not having enough of something.
5. root word-a basic word with no prefix or suffix on it.

Looking forward to a great week ahead.

Good morning, I just wanted to remind you all (Since I forgot in my post on Sunday) that the Haigh Read-A-Thon permission slip and payment of $5.00 is due on Friday the 16th.

The event will be on Wednesday the 21st from 3:45-5:00. Students will stay after school for this event and relax, read, and dance!

Hope your child can make it 🙂

Good Morning Haigh Families. I hope you are enjoying the sunshine this weekend. Last week we had a lot of absences due to all of the germs spreading. I am so happy that everyone is beginning to feel better and happy to have the whole class present and ready for instruction. I have managed to get a it of a head cold this weekend, but I will be happy if that is the extent of it!

Reminders for the week:

• SPIRIT WEEK:) Participate in our March is Reading Month spirit week with a $.50 donation a day that will go to support a local animal shelter
  • Monday: Dress like an animal/Tuesday: TWIN day/Wednesday: Hat day/Thursday: Book character/Friday:Crazy hair day and GREEN day in honor of St.Patrick’s day
• Wednesday: Late start
• Thursday/Friday: School store during lunch

Last week we worked hard on adding adjectives. figurative language,and “Razzle-dazzle”phrases into our restaurant writing. This week we will review our writing by editing and revising and work on completing two final copies; one for the classroom and one to send to the restaurant they wrote about. This is so FUN for the students because often times the restaurants write back:)

We will be finishing up our “Growth of Michigan” unit in social studies this week and plan to test on Wednesday or Thursday. A study guide will be sent home with your child to help prepare.

We have been working hard during math as we are learning about fractions. It is such a BIG concepts so we have been really working hard at developing our reasoning and explaining “how” and”why” something is bigger and smaller to one another. We focused on representing fractions on a number line last week and will continue to strengthen our understanding this week through activities and games. For extra practice at home, please consider having your child go on frontrowed.com under the fractions strand.

Academic Vocabulary:

1. Numerator: The top number in a fraction that represents the PART.

2. Denominator: The bottom number in a fraction that represents the WHOLE.

3. Equivalent: Another word for equal

4. Conclude: To figure something out based on the information and evidence provided.

5. Passage: A story or an article for you to read.

Good afternoon Haigh families! I hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend due to the unexpected SNOW DAY! I was so surprised when I woke up Friday morning 🙂

I hope you all got a chance to go over the March is reading month calendar and reading log. Please encourage your child to read and record their minutes on the reading log provided for the month of March.  We had a great kickoff assembly on Thursday afternoon to get the students excited about all of the fun activities we have planned for the month.

Due to the snow day and such an event filled week last week,we will continue with the same academic vocabulary from last week,but we will get a new spelling list. We will have a spelling test tomorrow morning on last weeks words.

BOOK FAIR is at Haigh ALL week! Our class will be visiting tomorrow morning. You may come to the book fair for family night on Wednesday evening from 6-7 🙂

Looking forward to a great week at Haigh:)

Good evening Haigh parents! I hope everyone enjoyed their week off.

Reminders for the week:

Tuesday: Field trip to Ford Community Performing Arts Center in Dearborn 9-11:00

Wednesday: PBIS Celebration: SOLO cup competition

Thursday:March is Reading Month: Kickoff assembly

Academic Words:

1. Manufacturing: The process of making products or goods.

2. Partition: To cut or divide something

3. Infer: Using your schema or background knowledge to determine what is going on in the text.

4. Essay: A writing consisting of several paragraphs based on a particular subject or theme.

5. Cite: Quoting or giving credit to the author of a text in your own writing. Ex. According to the source….

This week in reading we will work on learning to infer ideas about the characters and themes in stories. We will learn how authors give clues to what is going on based on background knowledge. In writing this week we will work on opinion writing. We will be writing about everyone’s favorite topic: FOOD! Students will work on an opinion piece about their favorite restaurant in the Dearborn area. Students will really work on including strong word choice to persuade their readers to try a particular restaurant.

In math this week we will begin our new unit about fraction concepts. This is usually a difficult unit for students since they will be exposed to many new ideas and terms. We will begin with our pre-test tomorrow and work on identifying what a fraction is and what it is not this week.

Looking forward to a great week back. The weather looks to be nice and warm so students can enjoy recess outside 🙂