Mrs. Halimi

Good Evening Haigh Families 🙂

Thanksgiving week is here! I don’t know about you all….. but I am ready for family time. With the cold weather and all the Christmas decorations up it has really got me in the holiday mood!

As you know, Haigh students participated in a canned food drive to help support those in need. I am so proud of our class for collecting 116 cans! AWESOME! While we did not win the BIG prize, (Congrats to Mrs. Greco’s 4th grade class!) We did an awesome job and our efforts are going to help others have a plentiful Thanksgiving.

Thank you to all the parents for coming out to parent teacher conferences last week. It was great to meet face to face with each of you. It makes me smile to know what great families I get to work with.

This week is extra short and we will be taking our spelling and vocabulary test from last week on Tuesday. We have a fun assembly planned for Tuesday morning thanks to our awesome PTA. The name of the show is “Mad Science: Fire and Ice.” I think it sounds like an interesting show. We will take our pretest for our new unit in Math and play some engaging turkey themed math games to complete our short week.

On Friday, a PINK note went home with students regarding the Haigh school lock in. This event is planned for Friday, December 2nd. The cost for this activity is ten dollars and promises to be loads of FUN! This event is open to the first 200 students who sign up. If you would like your child to attend, please complete the form and return it ASAP to ensure your child gets a spot.

That is all for now 🙂

Orders will be ready for pick-up Thursday, 11-17-16 from 2:30 – 3:30 pm.  Parents can come through the office and the orders will be distributed in the hallway across from the cafeteria. It is important that you pick up your orders promptly as we have a lack of refrigeration.

Thank you for your support!

Hello Haigh Families 🙂

The book fair is here at Haigh! Our students will be visiting the fair tomorrow at 11 am. During this time students can make purchases and create a list for future purchases. The book fair will be open all week.

We have late start on Wednesday. Students start class at 9:35.

Parent/Teacher conferences are after school on Wednesday and Thursday for those parents who I did not meet with last week. I really enjoy the opportunity to meet and talk with each one of you about the progress of your child. Positive parent/teacher commitment is an important part of the success of your child 🙂

Academic Vocabulary:

1. Decade- a period of ten years.
2. Light- Energy that can be seen.
3. Digit- A number.
4. Primary Source- Records made by people who saw or took place in an event.
5. Glossary- An alphabetical list of terms found in the BACK of a nonfiction text.

This week we will continue to learn about nonfiction reading strategies while reading various articles. We will focus on answering extended response questions where we will include a deep reasoning and evidence from the text to support our answers.

We will be finishing up our compare papers of the upper and lower peninsula.

We will be wrapping up our unit in math with learning about patterns and function tables. We will be having our unit 2  math test on Friday. I will be sending home their pretest to study from either Monday or Tuesday. Please review this with them so they are prepared for the test on Friday.

We will begin to learn about the Native Americans in Michigan. This is a fun unit for students to learn about. They will be creating a google slideshow about each of the tribes using google classroom. They will learn how to insert text boxes and paste pictures into their slideshows.

We will begin to learn about light energy. We will focus on light makers and where light comes from this week.

This is sure to be a busy week! I have uploaded the homework onto the blog for those of you who print at home.

Have a great Sunday…..I know I have a lot of raking to do 🙂

Haigh school and Yogurtopia have teamed up with Gleaners food bank to help feed our community. We will be accepting canned food donations until November 18th. The class with the most canned food submissions wins gift cards for the ENTIRE CLASS! Please help if you can by contributing to this wonderful cause. Items that are in high demand are:

• Canned tuna
• fruit
• vegetables
• peanut butter
• macaroni and cheese
• soups

Thank you in advance for  your continued support 🙂

School districts in Wayne County have placed a proposal on the November 8^th ballot to provide added funding for our schools. It is the “Regional Enhancement Millage Proposal.”

If approved by the entire county, the 2 mil proposal will generate approximately $6.2 million from Dearborn but the District will receive $7.8 million in additional funding for our schools.  Money would go to local schools starting this year and the millage expires after six years.  Read the rest of this entry »

School districts in Wayne County have placed a proposal on the November 8^th ballot to provide added funding for our schools. It is the “Regional Enhancement Millage Proposal.”

If approved by the entire county, the 2 mil proposal will generate approximately $6.2 million from Dearborn but the District will receive $7.8 million in additional funding for our schools.  Money would go to local schools starting this year and the millage expires after six years.  Read the rest of this entry »

Good afternoon Haigh families.

The weather is AMAZING! I will make this post quick!

This week we will continue to work on strengthening our skills at reading and understanding non fiction texts. We will pay close attention to the text features and focus on proving our answers by highlighting them in the text.

In writing we will continue to work on compare papers. Last week we compared ourselves to our table partner so students had the chance to really understand the “structure” of our compare papers.This week we will be reading an article about the upper and lower peninsula and focus our paper around this topic.

In Math students will work on subtraction strategies as well as a continued focus on two step word problems.

In social studies we will begin our unit on the history of Michigan.

We will be finishing up our plant/animal brochures by Wednesday and begin to look at our new unit of light and sound.

Academic words ( We will only have 4 this week since it is a short week 🙂 )

1. Caption- A sentence that explains a picture.
2. Difference-The result of a subtraction problem.
3. History- The study of the past.
4. Syllable-A part of a word that is pronounced together.

Reminder that we will have NO SCHOOL ON TUESDAY! Please GET OUT AND VOTE! This is a very important election, and your voice deserves to be heard 🙂

Good Afternoon Haigh Families!

Thank you to everyone who came to our Halloween party on Friday! It sure was a fun an exciting day at Haigh. It looks like tomorrow is going to be perfect weather for trick or treating and for our October PBIS fall festival event. Please remember to send your child with a coat and gym shoes, since this will take place outside.

This week we have a half day on Friday with dismissal at 11:45.

We will continue to work on our compare and contrast informational writing. We will also continue to learn about non fiction text features and how they help us understand nonfiction texts.

In math we will work on addition strategies as well as more word problems.

In science we will work on creating a brochure to save or stop invasive species in Michigan. We will work on this through our Google Classroom page.

Academic Vocabulary Words:

1. Heading-A title at the top of the page or section in a book.
2. Number model-A number sentence with at least two numbers and an operation ( +,-, x, ) 4+5=9 is a number model.
3. Solve-To find the answer.
4. Compare-To look at something closely to see how it is similar and different.
5. Facts-A piece of information that is true.

Looking forward to a great week!

Please click below to view Mr. Shorts letter regarding Halloween celebrations here at Haigh.

https://haigh.dearbornschools.org/2016/10/25/halloween-parade-map-and-information-for-friday-at-930am/

Dear Families,

On Monday, October 31st we will be having our first PBIS celebration of the year. This celebration is to recognize your child’s positive behavior for the month of October. Our theme will be a Fall Festival! This event will take place outside, so let’s hope the weather stays pleasant!

Be sure to check the weather forecast and make sure your child is dressed appropriately.  Students will be outside for 45 minutes, therefore, a scarf, hat or mittens may be good idea.

Thank you,

Haigh PBIS Committee