Mrs. Halimi

Good afternoon Haigh families. I hope you are enjoying your weekend and your child’s Halloween candy 🙂 Thanks again to our fabulous room moms for helping with our Halloween party on Thursday.

Reminders for the week:

• No school Tuesday; election day—-VOTE 🙂
• Math quiz will be on Wednesday
• Thursday–Parent teacher conferences after school (I will send out reminders of your time and date tomorrow)
• Please return October reading log tomorrow
• 3rd grade chip sale on Friday at dismissal

In reading this week we will look at finding the central message in a story by using character clues to decide what the author is trying to tell us through the actions of the characters. In writing we will be working on opinion pieces and focusing on the main idea or “meat” paragraphs and using a text source to support our reasons.

In math we will focus on finding the elapsed time by reading an analog and digital clock and solving time problems on an open number line. Please review telling time on an analog clock with your child, some are still getting mixed up when solving time to the nearest minute. Later in the week we will look at measuring weight and liquid volume in Metric units.

In social studies we will look be studying the regions that Michigan is divided into and understand the commonalities that each region has.

In science students will explore the properties of magnets.

Academic Vocabulary:

1. Digital Clock- A clock that uses numbers to show the time.
2. Analog Clock- a clock that has hands that represent the minute and the hour to tell the time.
3. Recount- to retell a story in sequence from the beginning, middle, and end.
4. Natural Resource- something that is found in nature and can be used by people.
5. Friction- a force that slows things down.

Looking forward to a great week ahead 🙂

Evening Haigh Community,

 Each year the Halloween Parade is one of my favorite events at our building. It is soo much fun to see our students and staff dressed up in their costumes! We also enjoy the large crowd that comes to this event to support our students and the smiles that we see on everyone’s face. 

Unfortunately, this year we will have to move the parade inside due to the expected cold temperatures and large amounts of rain. I tried to wait as long as possible to see if the weather was going to change for tomorrow, but it is not looking good. The parade tomorrow will also need to be for students and staff only. Due to our large population at the building, we will not be able to fit families, students, and staff into the hallways at Haigh. Safety is always on my mind and I want to make sure that we are keeping all students and families safe. I also chose to move the parade inside to keep everyone’s costumes in good shape for the evening “trick or treating” and to help keep our students from getting sick. Over the last few weeks we have had “Bingo for Books-Halloween Edition”, the “Halloween Dance”, Donuts and Cider, and class parties all to celebrate the holiday. Although we will not have the outdoor parade tomorrow, I believe our students and staff have had a great time celebrating this holiday. Throughout the year we will continue to have events at our building where our families will be able to come in and join us at the building. Another favorite, “Family Game Night” is coming up at the beginning of December in our Gym and cafeteria. This event is put on by “Learning Gizmo’s” and has been a huge hit in the past! Overall, we hope that everyone has a great evening tomorrow “trick or treating” and that the rain will come to an end soon. Thank you so much for your time,

Sincerely,

Mr. Short

Good afternoon Haigh families! I hope you are enjoying the weekend. Go Lions and Go BLUE!

This week is a busy week with Halloween, PBIS celebrations, and a half day on Friday. Because of this we will NOT have any academic words for the week. We will still have a spelling test.

Reminders for the week:

• PBIS is Tuesday
• Halloween party on Thursday 1:30-2:30; you are all welcome to stop in and say hello 🙂 PLEASE sign in at the office.
• Halloween Parade 2:50-3:15
• Friday; half day
• Friday—3rd grade chip sale to support our Lansing field trip
• Please be sure to sign and return unit 1 math tests in your child’s folder by tomorrow. If they have a grade less than 80% they may complete the attached correction sheet for more credit. PLEASE DO NOT erase original answers or additional points will not be added. Please only use the correction sheet.
• If your child is now in Ms. Sellers class, please note they will be dismissed at the 4th grade doors off of Coburn.

A note about Halloween was sent out last week, however here are a few reminders:

• Students may wear costumes to school (no weapons or masks, please)
• Please DO NOT send in any snacks, candy bags, or goodie bags.
• Party– 1:30-2:30 we will be rotating through our room, Joachim, and Lozon’s room for fun games. No help is required, but parents are welcome to sign in at the office and pop in 🙂
• Parade will begin around 2:50. Please be sure to get a good spot around the perimeter of the building to take some good photos.

This week we will begin our new unit in math titled place value and problem solving with units of measure. Our first topic we will begin with is time measurement and problem solving.

In reading we will continue to familiarize ourselves with our new common core workbook. We have begun learning about CER (Claim, evidence, reasoning) questions to help us support our answers with evidence from the text and students have done really well. We will also look at recounting stories from the beginning, middle, and end to ensure comprehension.

In writing we will begin opinion writing. Students will start off with a fun prompt of what they think their teacher should be for Halloween. We will work on supporting our reasoning with details. We will progress next week with writing an opinion piece using evidence from a real text to support our reasoning.

I am looking forward to a great, FUN, SpOoKy week! Class size is now 23 and I am confident it will be a great week of learning! Enjoy the rest of your Sunny Sunday!

Good afternoon Haigh families! I hope you get a chance to enjoy this beautiful afternoon.

Reminders for the week:

• Wednesday OR Thursday —Unit 1 math test (study guide will be sent home tomorrow or Tuesday)
• Friday—Halloween dance 6pm

Academic Vocabulary:

1. Myth- a fictional story that explains why something is the way it is.
2. Climate- the weather in a certain place over a long period of time.
3. Precipitation- rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
4. Revise- to add or delete words or ideas from your writing.
5. Edit- to fix up grammar and punctuation in your writing.

This week in reading we will begin the week with taking another look at myths and learn how to make a claim about a character and support it with evidence and reasoning (CER) from the text. Students will be getting a Common Core reading workbook in which we will begin to use to support our reading instruction. We will familiarize ourselves with these new books this week by reading different fables and myths and answering part a and b questions. In writing this week we will be working on Halloween themed writing with an emphasis on using good “show not tell” description. We brainstormed on Friday all things spooky, so I am sure our writing will be extra exciting this week:)

In math this week we will be preparing for our unit 1 test. We will be working through a study guide and plan to take the test Wednesday or Thursday of this week (depending on how much we get through Monday and Tuesday). The study guide will be sent home tomorrow or the latest on Tuesday.

In social studies we will be finishing up our slides about Michigan land forms and bodies of water.

In science this week we will begin working through our next mystery science lesson and learning about friction as a force that slows things down.

Enjoy the rest of your sunny Sunday!

Good afternoon Haigh families. It seems that fall has officially arrived. I hope you are enjoying this beautiful weekend.

Reminders for the week:

• Tuesday— Costume BINGO for books 6:30-7:30
• Wednesday– Late start
• Friday– School store during lunch
• Class party donations will be accepted until the 25th. Thank you to those that have already donated 🙂 We will begin planning our 1st party soon!

Academic Vocabulary:

1. Fable- A short stories with animals as the characters that teaches a moral.
2. Moral- a life lesson that the author wants the reader to learn.
3. Adjective- a word that describes a noun.
4. Island- a piece of land surrounded by water on all sides.
5. Division- Taking a large number and splitting it into groups.

Last week in reading we explored and read fables. This week the students will be introduced to the genre of myths. We will read a number of Greek myths and discuss characters and plot. In writing we will work on our final copy of our personal narratives. We will also begin a fun haunted house writing where students will continue to practice “show not tell” descriptions as well as the use of red flag transition words to describe their experience in a haunted house. We did a short example of this with our pumpkin patch stories that we hung in the hallway on Friday.

In math this week we will continue to work on the distributive property and number bonds to solve larger multiplication facts. This property helps students with larger problems and will help them tremendously as they apply it to even larger facts in the upper grades. We will have a quick math quiz tomorrow on multiplication tape diagrams.

In social studies this week we will human and natural characteristics of Michigan. We will be reading a story about the construction of the Mackinaw bridge and explore the different points of view that people had surrounding it’s construction. We will also work on our land forms and bodies of water slides.

In science this week we will explore the design of 3 different style of bridges and learn how these bridges create a balance of force so large cars and trucks can move across them. We will design our own bridges and test them using pennies to see how much they can hold.

Looks to be a chilly fall week so please remember to send along a light jacket with your child.

Looking forward to a great week!

Good evening Haigh families.

Reminders for the week:

• Friday 1/2 day; dismissal is at 11:45
• Please be sure to sign and return mid-module math test

Academic Vocabulary:

1. Peninsula- a piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides.
2. Bay- a body of water that is partly surrounded by land.
3. Fiction- a book that is made up of imaginary events and people.
4. Author- the person who writes a story.
5. Distributive Property- a strategy used to multiply where you break up the factors into 2 smaller problems.

This week in reading we will be learning about fables. We will read several short fables and discuss the qualities of a fable. In writing this week we will continue to work on our personal narratives. We have started our drafts and are working on including “show don’t tell” vocabulary and red flag transition words.

In math last week we worked on solving division word problems by drawing a tape diagram. This week we will continue to work on tape diagrams with multiplication word problems.

In social studies we will work on land forms and bodies of water in Michigan. We will use our desk maps to locate various land forms and of course our 5 great lakes. To demonstrate our learning, students will create google slides to showcase the unique land forms and bodies of water in Michigan.

I am looking forward to a great week 🙂

Good afternoon Haigh families. I hope you are enjoying cozy times inside on this chilly rainy day. My youngest son had his first hockey game of the season this morning and scored 2 goals!! Now they are snuggled up on the couch rooting for the Lions! Go Lions!!

Reminders for the week:

• Library is tomorrow; please make sure your child has their library book
• Tuesday–mid-module unit 1 math assessment
• Thursday– Ottis Spunkmeyer assembly
• Friday–Picture day; information will be sent home on Monday
• The weather is HOT on Monday and Tuesday. Please make sure students are dressed for a hot day and have water to sip on.
• Tuesday is October 1st and our new habit is “Take Responsibility” Talk to your child at home about this habit and how it relates to homework, studying, being on time to sports practice etc.

Last week was a busy week but I am happy to say we have completed ALL NWEA assessments and are finishing up working on our DRA reading assessments.

This week in reading we will continue to take a look at characters in a story and pay attention to how the illustrations, characters actions, and thoughts help set the mood of the story. We will also continue to track character traits and pay attention to how characters change throughout the story. In writing we will plan out our personal narrative story on our blueprints and learn how to include “Show not tell” descriptions to tell the details of their story.

In math this week we will be learning a problem solving strategy using a tape diagram. The tape diagram is just a picture that allows students to notice what information is known in the problem and what they need to find out. We will also be doing our mid-module assessment on Tuesday. Please make sure your child studies and understands the study guide we did in class. This sheet mirrors our test.

In science this week we will be creating “hopper poppers” to model force on an object.

In social studies we will be practicing map skills and learning the difference between absolute and relative location. We will also begin to explore different land forms in our state.

Academic Vocabulary:

1. Plot- the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
2. Compass- a tool used to tell the direction; north, east, south, west.
3. Lead- the first line in an essay that captures the readers attention.
4. Absolute location- The exact location of a place. Example–an address
5. Relative location- where a place is located relative to another place. Example—Livonia is north west of Dearborn. Haigh is across the street from Levagood park.

Looking forward to a successful week:)

Hello! We will be having our Unit 1, Mid-Module Assessment on Tuesday the 1st. Students will be coming home with a completed study guide from class today. I am also going to attach an additional study guide of skills from this half of the unit that you are free to print off and use. Another good studying tool is your child’s homework book. All of the lessons we have done so far will be covered on the assessment on Tuesday.

Please note that the study guide that I am sending home today from class says that the test will be on Monday…however, due to all of the additional activities we have had this week, we will be pushing it until Tuesday.

Extra math study guide for mid module 1

Thank you for your support 🙂

Good afternoon Haigh families! I hope you are enjoying this last day of summer with family. Unfortunately I have been fighting the back to school germs and surviving the weekend on lots and lots of cold medicine!

I wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU to all the chaperones who helped out on Thursday. Your help and support go a long way in making sure our students are safe, smiling, and learning.

Reminders for the week:

• Wednesday is LATE START; school begins at 9:35. It is also COUNT DAY, make sure your child is in school 🙂
• Short field trip to the fire house is also on Wednesday at 12:30
• Firefighters visit Haigh on Thursday to talk about fire safety to all 3rd graders
• Thursday is our first PBIS party. Students who met the behavior requirement will be enjoying yard games outside.
• Please consider purchasing a Haigh 3rd grade t shirt from the link in the previous post to support our trip to Lansing

This week we will work on finishing up our NWEA testing and I will work through testing each students DRA reading level. We will be discussing the plot in a story and discuss how characters change from the beginning to the end of the story. In writing we will begin our personal narratives. Students will learn how to focus their personal narrative writing into “seed stories” and begin their “blueprint” or narrative plan about an event in their life. Students will be learning how to begin with a lead and include “show not tell” descriptions in their plot.

In Math we will be learning about the distributive property of multiplication. We will have our math quiz on Tuesday rather than on Monday this week due to our trip to the circus last week.

In science we began our first science mystery last week and the students were all really excited, I hope to finish our first mystery and make “hopper poppers” to demonstrate force and motion.

Academic Vocabulary:

1. Setting- where a story takes place.
2. Force- a push or a pull.
3. Motion- a change in position.
4. Trait- what a character is like on the inside; their personality.
5. Quotient- the answer to a division problem.

***Please make sure your child is STUDYING the spelling and the definition for each word. Test is always on Friday. In class we break the word apart by syllables to help us spell larger words. Some students do well with making flash cards to help prepare for their test on Friday.

Looking forward to a great week!

Our students are going on a wonderful trip to Lansing. In order to help fund the trip, we are selling third grade t-shirts that are available in adult sizes (for parents or grandparents who would like to chaperone, for example) as well as a variety of sizes for youth! You are also able to donate money specifically to the cause and your donation will go toward funding our trip.

Please click on the link below to donate and/or order a third grade shirt!

Third grade Lansing Fundraiser