Thank you to all of our helpers!!! Have fun and be safe tonight!!!

Halloween Parade 2019

Dear 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

Halloween is just around the corner! We will be celebrating on Thursday, October 31st.  

Here are a few things you should know:

Costumes: This year we are asking that your child come to school already dressed in their costumes. It takes too long for one teacher to dress every single child in the class. Costumes should be school appropriate. This means that your child should be able to get themselves in and out of their costumes by themselves in order to use the bathroom! We do not want any of the children to have an accident because they cannot undo their costume! Please keep this in mind when selecting a costume to wear to school.  Mr. Short has asked that all accessories to costumes be left at home. These items include, but are not limited to, masks, wands, swords, guns, etc. 

Upcoming Events

10/29 PBIS Party – cider and donuts/

10/31 School Costume Parade/Class Halloween Party

11/1 Half Day – Dismissal at 11:40am

11/5 No School

11/7 Conferences –  A reminder will be coming home 1 week before your conference.

11/11 Book Fair in Library (2:30 -3:00)

11/12 Conferences – A reminder will be coming home 1 week before your conference.

Agenda for the week

Reading/writing  We are learning to write by drawing a picture and labeling it.  We are learning to stretch out our words and write down the sounds we hear. Please help your child to listen for the beginning sounds of the words when they are writing at home. Our letter of the week is M m. We are learning to identify the letter, write it and learn it’s sound. We are learning how to do Daily 5. We are practicing read to self, word work, work on writing, listen to reading and read to someone. Please read to your child everyday. We are learning how to retell a familiar story.

We learned that there are three ways to read a book. 1) read the words 2) read the pictures 3) retell the story using their own words.

We will work in small group instruction during our Daily 5 time.

Math   We are working on numeracy. We are learning about numbers and their value. We are learning about shapes. We are learning how to do math workshop.

Social  Studies  We are building our community. We are learning our school rules and classroom routines.

Science We are learning about push and pull.

Snack

Snacks should be healthy to provide the children with energy for their day. Please send a simple snack such as fruit, vegetables, cheese, and crackers. Please do not send candy as a snack. Juice and milk are not allowed in our classroom. Please do not send any kind of juice box or milk with your child for snack time. The children may have the juice or milk for lunch in the cafeteria.

Home folder

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log each day.

Here is our letter song for the week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QUSDu2JIY0

We will be having our PBIS reward on 10-29-19.

We have 2 gallons of cider, cups and napkins. We still need 15 donuts for the celebration. Please let me know if you are able to donate donuts to our class. Thank you!

Upcoming Events

10/25 Halloween Dance – 6pm

10/29 PBIS Party – cider and donuts/

10/31 School Costume Parade/Class Halloween Party

11/1 Half Day – Dismissal at 11:40am

11/5 No School

11/7 Conferences –  A reminder will be coming home 1 week before your conference.

11/11 Book Fair in Library (2:30 -3:00)

11/12 Conferences – A reminder will be coming home 1 week before your conference.

Agenda for the week

Reading/writing  We are learning to write by drawing a picture and labeling it.  We are learning to stretch out our words and write down the sounds we hear. Please help your child to listen for the beginning sounds of the words when they are writing at home. Our letter of the week is N n. We are learning to identify the letter, write it and learn it’s sound. We are learning how to do Daily 5. We are practicing read to self, word work, work on writing, listen to reading and read to someone. Please read to your child everyday. We are learning how to retell a familiar story.

We learned that there are three ways to read a book. 1) read the words 2) read the pictures 3) retell the story using their own words.

We will work in small group instruction during our Daily 5 time.

Math   We are working on numeracy. We are learning about numbers and their value. We are learning about shapes. We are learning how to do math workshop.

Social  Studies  We are building our community. We are learning our school rules and classroom routines.

Science We are learning about push and pull.

Snack

Snacks should be healthy to provide the children with energy for their day. Please send a simple snack such as fruit, vegetables, cheese, and crackers. Please do not send candy as a snack. Juice and milk are not allowed in our classroom. Please do not send any kind of juice box or milk with your child for snack time. The children may have the juice or milk for lunch in the cafeteria.

Home folder

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log each day.

Here is our letter song for the week:

Please see the following link to a sign up genius for our Halloween party and parade.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0844AEA62CAAFB6-halloween

Haigh Elementary

2019-2020

Winter Reminders

Winter Line up and recess: Please make sure that your students are coming to school with winter coats, hats, and gloves for morning line up and for lunch recess. We follow the protocol below for our students with outdoor lunch recess and morning student lineup:

Thank you for your help with keeping our students safe and warm during these cold winter months 🙂     Mr. Short

ابتدائية هيج

2019-2020

ملاحظات شتوية

الاصطفاف و فترات اللعب و الاستراحة خلال فصل الشتاء يرجى التأكد من حضور الطلاب إلى المدرسة مرتدين المعاطف الشتوية والقبعات والقفازات لارتدائها خلال الاصطفاف الصباحي وفترات الاستراحة بعد الغداء. نحن نتبع البروتوكول أدناه لطلابنا أثناء فترات اللعب في الخارج بعد فترة الغداء واصطفاف الطلاب:

أشكركم على مساعدتكم في الحفاظ على سلامة طلابنا ودفئهم خلال أشهر الشتاء الباردة.

المدير،

السيد شورت

Occupational Therapy

Parent Activity Suggestions; 20+minutes recommended daily. These activities are especially important for children who have fine motor concerns, learning difficulties, attention deficits and language delays. Children who have not spent enough time practicing “developmental movements” (tummy time, playing on belly, rolling, belly crawling and crawling) are likely to struggle with formal learning later on at school. These activities are highly encouraged to improve the foundational skills needed for academic learning. 

1. Weight bearing on the arms; lay and play on tummy
2. Rolling; body completely straight with arms above head and going both directions
3. Army crawling on slick surface with bare feet
4. Crawling on hands and knees (over and under furniture, through an obstacle course, tunnel, doing relay races)
5. Animal walks; crab, bear, turtle, snake slithers, cat stretch, etc
6. Superman; laying on belly and extending arms and legs in the air
7. Hanging and climbing on monkey bars
8. Tactile play; food, finger painting, play-doh, clay, rice, sand, shaving cream while practicing letters, shapes or drawing
9. Swinging and hanging upside down
10. Childrens yoga; down dog, cat stretch, cobra pose, etc
11. Lacing, puzzles, mazes, tracing, beads, pop beads, use tweezers/tongs, opening/closing containers, squeeze a stress ball, cutting cardboard, squeezing glue, etc
12. READ to your child EVERY night

Please email Margaret Medlen at medlenm@dearbornschools.org with comments, questions or concerns. Please visit my iblog <https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/medlenm/> for more suggestions. Thank you and best of luck with your exercises!