March 11, 2020

Afternoon Haigh Community:

 I am writing today to provide you with background on how our district is handling the Corona-Virus(Covid 19). Dearborn Public Schools is taking this very seriously and has continued to update their website with information and resources. Below is the link that shows the precautions our school district is taking. I have also attached some resources that can be used at your homes. As more information is shared I will continue to update our blog and send these items home with your students. Thank you for your understanding and support as we work together for our students and staff.

Sincerely, 

Mr. Short

Principal-Haigh School 

https://dearbornschools.org/services/coronavirus-covid-19-information/

What you need to know about the Coronavirus

When to keep your student home

Michigan Department of Health Letter

stopping the spreading of germs

Home information #1

Home Information #2

DISTRICT INFORMATION AND PARENT RESOURCES FOR COVID-19(CLICK HERE)

Dear families,

Haigh is excited to collaborate with Wayne State University to begin our D-SHINES program this spring. D-SHINES will convert part of the large field behind our school into a full garden, complete with massive garden beds, shed, picnic tables and benches for an outdoor classroom. The focus of this program is to promote healthy lifestyle choices, proper nutrition and the importance of physical activity. 

Before we begin this program, the D-SHINES program coordinator from WSU would like to collect information from our families to develop a program that is best suited for our students and our families. The survey takes approximately six minutes. Please take the time to complete this survey (only one survey per family is needed). 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DSHINES2ParentT1

Thanks so much for your help and support as we begin this awesome program! 

D-SHINES Haigh Representatives 

Courtney Otto and Sara Sarafa (Garden Champions)

Kristy Lozon (Physical Activity Champion)

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 next week will be A a. 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 about fiction and nonfiction stories.

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 and Math workshop.

Math   We are learning about greater than and less than.

Social  Studies  We are learning about maps.

Science We are learning about weather and climates and how animals live in the different climates. We learned about tree frogs in the rainforest.

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.

Letter A a song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beT_KcblaBI

3-5-20

Dear Haigh students and families,
Thank you everyone that applied for student participation in our Haigh PE Club. The amount of interest in club has been incredible! Unfortunately, we were only able to select 25 students in grades K-2 and 25 students from grades 3-5. All students that were selected for this club have been notified. On Friday, students that were selected for this club were given acceptance notes. If your child was not one of those selected, don’t worry! Any students not selected have been added to a waiting list and will be contacted as spaces become available.
Thank you again for all of your support,
Mrs. Lozon

PE Club Teacher

Upcoming events

MARCH IS READING MONTH A note will be coming home on Monday.

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 next week will be G g. 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 about fiction and nonfiction stories.

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 and Math workshop.

Math   We are learning about greater than and less than.

Social  Studies  We are learning about maps.

Science We are learning about weather and climates and how animals live in the different climates.

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 letter S s

Guest Readers For March Is Reading Month

Upcoming events

NO SCHOOL FROM FEBRUARY 15-23

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 next week will be G g. 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 about fiction and nonfiction stories.

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 and Math workshop.

Math   We are working on subtraction using pictures and counters.

Social  Studies  We are learning about what history means and how things happened long ago.

Science We are learning about weather and climates and how animals live in the different climates.

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 letter G g

Dear Parents,

If you would like to send in Valentine’s with your child to pass out to the class, please be aware of the following:

1. Valentine’s should be prepared at home with the “To:” left blank and the “From:” filled in with your child’s name. It takes far too long for your child to try to read each child’s name and pass it out to them, which is why I ask that you leave the “To:” blank.
2. There are 17 students in class. Please make sure to send one valentine for each child!
3. Please do not create boy valentine’s and girl valentine’s as it complicates the process of passing all of them out!

Thank you for your assistance in helping our Valentine activities run smoothly!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0844aea62caafb6-march