Upcoming Events
1/22 SPIRIT WEEK – Pajama Day
1/23 SPIRIT WEEK – Career Day
1/24 SPIRIT WEEK – Sport/College Wear Day
1/25 SPIRIT WEEK – Crazy Hair Day
1/26 SPIRIT WEEK – Haigh Spirit Wear Day
1/26 Half Day – 11:40am dismissal
1/26 PTA Pizza Kit Delivery Day
1/29 PBIS Celebration – Winter Carnival
1/31 PTA – Magical Wonders of Michigan Assembly
Agenda for the week
The winter weather has arrived. Please label all of your child’s winter clothing. If your child wears boots to school, please send in a pair of dry shoes to wear in the classroom. Please help your child to learn to zip, unzip, put on hats, mittens, coats, boots and snow pants by themselves. Parents will not be allowed in the building to help their child. Remember, we are trying to teach independence.
Reading/writing We worked on the letter Xx. We began introducing sight words. This week we learned the sight word see. We are using I can see a as sentence starter for writer’s workshop. We have learned the following sight words: I, am, can see. Please practice writing sentences at home with the I am and I can and I see a sentence starters. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home. We are learning to stretch our words and write the sounds we here and we are learning to put a period at the end of our sentence. Keep practicing your letters and sounds.DON’T FORGET TO DO READING EGGS AT HOME 3 DAYS A WEEK!
Math We are working on patterns. We are learning to extend a pattern and to create our own AB pattern. We will continue working on numbers from 0-20. Please have your child work on Math Seeds 3 days a week. We are working on counting to 20. We are learning to show the value of a number in different ways. We are using our fingers, ten frames and tally marks to represent a number. We are playing math games in math workshop to help us learn numbers and their values.
Social Studies We are learning about history. We are talking about how things were in the past. We are learning about how life was many years ago.
Science We are learning about the weather and trying to make predictions about the what the weather will be the next day.
Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log and feel free to add any notes to me!