Week 3 Online Learning

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Good afternoon Haigh families! I hope this post finds you and your family well. I loved hearing from many of my students last week. This week I plan to reach out and see their faces via Google Hangouts. I will keep you posted on this….I have missed their faces and voices! Thank you for supporting your child last week with assignments. I hope everyone is doing okay with the fractions on a number line concept. I know this concept is challenging.  Zearn lessons do a great job to help students understand concepts. The Youtube lessons are very helpful as well. Remember Succeed homework help can be found on my blog. A good idea may also be to write out a quiz for your child pertaining to the concepts from last week (Like math quiz Monday). I found this quick, online quiz to do a check in with your child. I hope this is helpful!

Assignments for the week of 3-30-2020:

(Be sure to SUBMIT all assignments when completed on Google Classroom so I can see them.)

  • Reading 
    • Common Core Ready book pages 256-259. Read passages and answer questions. On Google Classroom, complete the questions about the text on the post Night Flying Friends.
    • Readworks–  Complete the 2 Readworks articles and question sets.
    • Scholastic News Learn at home lessons for 20 days. Read the non-fiction articles for days 11-15 . Each day there are 3 articles, pick the most interesting article (1) to WRITE A SUMMARY of what you have read and learned. 
  • Math
    • Watch video for lessons 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 Unit 5 Video Tutorials. Complete one lesson video per day.
    • After watching each day’s lesson video on the link above, complete the matching lesson on Zearn. Complete one lesson per day.
    • Once finished with the Zearn lesson, complete the matching lesson homework in the Succeed Math Book. Be sure to check your answers using the link on my blog.
  • Writing 
    • This is your writing prompt this week: The world can be a little scary right now, so I want to take this week to focus a little bit on what we are feeling.  It’s important to talk about what we are feeling. What makes you feel worried? What makes you feel hopeful? What are you thankful for right now? Please use lots of details and examples to support your answer to each question.
  • You don’t need to use a blueprint, but try to have each question be one paragraph, as well as an introduction paragraph (to hook your reader) and a conclusion paragraph (to sum it up) so in the end you will have 5 paragraphs total.
  • This assignment can be found on Google Classroom under the post Week 3 Writing Prompt.
  • Social Studies
    •  Michigan Studies This week we are starting our new unit about Economics. Read What is Economics? on pages 57-58.Complete Interactive 2.1 on page 58. On Google Classroom, complete the assignment called What is Economics?
  • Art/Music:
    • Make sure you check your Google Classroom page for art and music to complete those assignments
    • Your class code for art/music is qokhu2g
    • Go to your Google Classroom homepage, press the + button, and type in the code to access the page for art/music
  • Check Mr. Peecher’s blog for your Gym tasks: https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/peecher/

Field Trip:

Check this out:

  • Storytime From Space: Listen to astronauts on the International Space Station read stories in outer space

Week 2 Online Learning Assignments

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Assignments for the week of 3-23-2020:

(Be sure to SUBMIT all assignments when completed on Google Classroom so I can see them.)

  • Reading 
    • Common Core Ready book pages 242-247. Read passages and answer questions.
    • Readworks–  Complete the 3 Readworks articles on Google Classroom and answer the questions.
    • Scholastic News Learn at home lessons for 20 days. Complete one reading assignment per day.
  • Math
    • Watch video for lessons 15,16,17, 18, and 19 Unit 5 Video Tutorials. Complete one lesson video per day.
    • After watching each day’s lesson video on the link above, complete the matching lesson on Zearn. Complete one lesson per day.
    • Once finished with the Zearn lesson, complete the matching lesson homework in the Succeed Math Book.
  • Writing 
    • Letter writing- Pick someone you want to talk to and write them a letter. You can type it or hand write it. It’s up to you. Remember to use the letter writing format. Letter Writing Format sample
  • Science
    • Mystery Science– Watch the videos- How does hand sanitizer kill germs? and How many people are in the world?
  • Art
    • Art assignments will be given through google classroom. Classroom.google.com Please make sure you sign up for the “specials” course, EXAMPLE: Lozon Specials 19-20.  
    • The code for each class is available on Mrs. Buenting’s blog. 

https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/buenting/

  • Art assignments will be given once each week on Wednesday. Make sure you are signed up no later than Monday, March 16. Keep those creative minds working!
The Great Wall of China

https://www.thechinaguide.com/destination/great-wall-of-china.

Letter to Families

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Good Morning Haigh Community, 

 The last week has definitely  brought many changes to our home life and your student’s schooling. It has been a large adjustment for all families, students, and teachers. Within the last 24 hours there has been 2 different statements released by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) office and Governor Whitmer. The MDE released a statement saying that online practice or “remote learning” will not count towards instructional time. Later in the evening, Governor Whitmer released the letter below, which states that the MDE’s statement does not mean that work being done during the mandated school closing will not count towards grades, credits, or graduation. See Governor Whitmer’s Letter by clicking here. 

During the next 2 weeks, Haigh’s staff will continue to share out content practice on their classroom blogs, through class Dojo, or via email. Our Specials staff will also be sharing out items for Art, Physical Education, Technology, Media, and Music. These suggested practice items allow your student to build comprehension towards the Common Core standards and help prepare for the next grade level. Your students and our staff have all worked very hard this year and we hope that you can utilize these enrichment activities at home.  As a parent, please do not feel that you have to teach all these items to your students. Our teachers have shared resources that our students have been using all school year and have confidence with: Google Classroom, RAZ Kids, Math Seeds, I-Learn, Eureka Math, and blueprints for writing (depending on the grade level). Please do not hesitate to email your classroom teacher or Specials teacher with any questions that you may have. Our staff is still working the same hours 8:35am-3:30pm each day and are available to answer your questions. Working as a team we can continue to prepare your student for the next level with their education!

Chrome books – the last day for any Haigh student to receive a Chromebook will be Tuesday, March 24th from 9:00am-12:00pm. We can only hand out 1 Chromebook per family. Any family that is interested needs to complete the survey below in order to receive a Chromebook on Tuesday. The deadline to complete this survey is tomorrow(Sunday the 22nd of March at 9:00pm). This survey provides us with the number of Chromebooks that our volunteers will need to clean and prep. We are very pleased to be able to offer this technology for your families! CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE TECHNOLOGY SURVEY

Overall, the most important thing is for our families to stay safe and healthy during this time away from Haigh. Thank you for all that you do for your children! Please let us know if we can help in any way 🙂 

Sincerely,
 Mr. Short

Principal-Haigh School