Due to the coming snow storm Bingo For Books is being CANCELED. It will put everyone in danger. We will reschedule sometime in January. Stay warm and safe.
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Upcoming Events
12/11 – 12/14 PTA Popcorn Sales (Popcorn delivered on 12/15)
12/12 Family STEM Night from 6-8pm (Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum comes to Haigh)
12/13 Ugly Sweater Bingo for Books (PTA event 6 -7pm)
12/14 Haigh School Store open during lunchtime
12/18 – 12/20 Candy Gram Sales
12/20 Late Start
12/20 Polar Express and Pajama Day (more information coming home soon)
12/21 Winter Party
12/22 PBIS Celebration – Movie Theater (at Haigh)
12/25 – 1/5 Winter Break – No School!!!!
Agenda for the week
The children loved Pete the Cat. We had many discussion about the play and their favorite parts. The were very well behaved both on the bus and in the theater. I am very proud of all of them!!!
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 Ll. We began introducing sight words. We learned the word I and practiced using it in our writer’s workshop writings. Each week we learn a new sight word. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home. We are continuing with writer’s workshop and are learning how to draw a picture and label it or write about it. 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. I will be giving “hoots” to students who do Reading Eggs at home. We are learning about characters and setting in our stories.
Math We are working on sorting and measurement. 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 the difference between goods and services. We turned the kitchen into a restaurant to help understand the concept of a service.
Science We are learning about the 4 seasons. We did a season sort activity and colored a poster to illustrate what the four seasons look like. We will record and graph the weather for the whole month of December.
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!
Snack Please remember to send only healthy snacks like fruit, vegetables, and cheese and crackers.
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Upcoming Events
12-5-17 Pete the Cat field trip (PLEASE PACK A BROWN BAG LUNCH)
12-11-17 Gingerbread Man project due (info coming home today)
12-12-17 Family Stem Night 6:00-8:00
12-13-17 Ugly Sweater Bingo for Books $3.00 per person 6:00-7:00 pm in the cafeteria
12-14-17 Haigh school store during lunch
12-15-17 Popcorn sale
12-18-17 Candy gram sale $1.00
12-20-17 Candy gram sale $1.00
Agenda for the week
Reading/writing We worked on the letter Kk. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home. We are continuing with writer’s workshop and are learning how to draw a picture and label it or write about it. 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. I will be giving “hoots” to students who do Reading Eggs at home. We are learning about characters and setting in our stories. We read several Pete the Cat stories and did some sequencing activities to go along with the story.
Math We are 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 the difference between goods and services.
Science We are learning about different kinds of weather. Next week, we will become weather watchers and forecasters. We will record and graph the weather for the whole month of December.
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!
Snack Please remember to send only healthy snacks like fruit, vegetables, and cheese and crackers.
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I hope everyone enjoyed the Thanksgiving break!!!
Upcoming Events
11/30 PBIS Celebration – Turkey Bowling
Agenda for the week
Reading/writing We worked on the letter Hh. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home. We are continuing with writer’s workshop and are learning how to draw a picture and label it or write about it. 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. I will be testing the students weekly to see how many letters they can identify. In order for your child to be ready for kindergarten they must be able to identify all capital and lowercase letters and make the sound of every letter. DON’T FORGET TO DO READING EGGS AT HOME 3 DAYS A WEEK. I will be giving “hoots” to students who do Reading Eggs at home. We are learning about characters and setting in our stories.
Math We are working on numbers from 0-10. 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 needs and wants.
Science We are learning about different kinds of weather. Next week, we will become weather watchers and forecasters. We will record and graph the weather.
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!
Snack Please remember to send only healthy snacks like fruit, vegetables, and cheese and crackers. PLEASE DO NOT SEND IN CANDY OR CHIPS FOR SNACK.
I will not be sending home a communication log this week.
Book Fair
Our class is scheduled to shop at the book fair on Tuesday, November 14 ,2017 at 2:00 pm.
PLEASE SEND YOUR CHILD’S MONEY IN AN ENVELOPE OR A BAG WITH THEIR NAME ON IT.
Your child is not obligated to buy books from the book fair.
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Upcoming Events
11/13 -11/17 Scholastic book fair at school (Family night 15th and 16th)
11/15 Late Start – arrival at 9:35
11/15 Parent Teacher Conferences
11/16 Parent Teacher Conferences
11/17 No School for Young 5’s
11/21 Up, Up, and Away Assembly
11/22 – 11/26 NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING BREAK
11/30 PBIS Celebration – Turkey Bowling
Agenda for the week
Reading/writing We worked on the letter Mm. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home. We are continuing with writer’s workshop and are learning how to draw a picture and label it or write about it. 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. I will be testing the students weekly to see how many letters they can identify. In order for your child to be ready for kindergarten they must be able to identify all capital and lowercase letters and make the sound of every letter. DON’T FORGET TO DO READING EGGS AT HOME 3 DAYS A WEEK. I will be giving “hoots” to students who do Reading Eggs at home. We are learning about characters and setting in our stories.
Math We are working on numbers from 0-10. 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 needs and wants. We made a turkey to show what we are grateful for this Thanksgiving.
Science We are learning about different kinds of weather. Next week, we will become weather watchers and forecasters.
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!
Snack Please remember to send only healthy snacks like fruit, vegetables, and cheese and crackers. PLEASE DO NOT SEND IN CANDY OR CHIPS FOR SNACK.
News From Mrs. Vensko’s Room
Upcoming Events
11/6 Field trip money and permission slip due
11/6 School Shirt Order Due
11/7 NO SCHOOL! Election Day
11/9 Parent Teacher Conference Day
11/10 Picture Re-take Day
11/13 -11/17 Scholastic book fair at school (Family night 15th and 16th)
11/15 Late Start – arrival at 9:35
11/15 Parent Teacher Conferences
11/16 Parent Teacher Conferences
11/17 No School for Young 5’s
11/21 Up, Up, and Away Assembly
11/22 – 11/26 NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING BREAK
11/30 PBIS Celebration – Turkey Bowling
Agenda for the week
Reading/writing We worked on the letter Nn. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home. We are continuing with writer’s workshop and are learning how to draw a picture and label it or write about it. We are learning to put a finger space between words and we are learning to put a period at the end of our sentence. Keep practicing your letters and sounds. I will be testing the students weekly to see how many letters they can identify. In order for your child to be ready for kindergarten they must be able to identify all capital and lowercase letters and make the sound of every letter. DONT FORGET TO DO READING EGGS AT HOME 3 DAYS A WEEK. I will be giving “hoots” to students who do Reading Eggs at home.
Math We are working on numbers from 0-10. 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.
Social Studies We are learning about needs and wants. We are making charts about what our needs and wants.
Science We learned about forces and push and pull. We did some experiments with cars and blocks to demonstrate forces, push and pull.
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!
Snack Please remember to send only healthy snacks like fruit, vegetables, and cheese and crackers. PLEASE DO NOT SEND IN CANDY OR CHIPS FOR SNACK.
ABC Song
Here is the ABC song we sing everyday. Have fun singing it together at home!!!!!
News From Mrs. Vensko’s Room
Upcoming Events
10/24 PBIS Celebration (school-wide bingo)
10/26 Pumpkin Patch (Thank you PTA)
10/31 Costume Parade (all families welcome to parade at 2:30)
Agenda for the week
Reading/writing We worked on the letter Bb. We are learning to identify the upper and lowercase letter and make the sound of Bb. . Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home. We began writer’s workshop and are learning how to draw a picture and label it or write about it. Students should be practicing identifying the letters of the alphabet. Students should be able to make the sound of each letter. I will be testing the students weekly to see how many letters they can identify. In order for your child to be ready for kindergarten they must be able to identify all capital and lowercase letters and make the sound of every letter. Please have your child work on reading eggs at least 3 days a week. We did a R.A.N strategy. R.A.N stands for reading and analyzing nonfiction. We read nonfiction stories about spiders and picked out key facts about spiders. We wrote an interesting fact and labeled the parts of a spider. DONT FORGET TO DO READING EGGS AT HOME 3 DAYS A WEEK.
Math We continue to work on shapes and numbers 0-5. Your student should be able to identify the number and show me how many for each number 0-5. Please have your child work on Math Seeds 3 days a week.
Social Studies We are learning about how to be a good citizen. We are learning to share and take our turn. We are working on classroom routines and cafeteria behavior.
Science We learned about spiders and watched videos on how they spin a web. Next we will be learning about pumpkins and push and pull.
Folders
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!
Snack Please remember to send only health snacks like fruit, vegetables, and cheese and crackers.
News From Mrs. Vensko’s Room
Upcoming Events
10/17 Costume Bingo for Books by PTA (cafeteria)
10/18 Late Start – arrival 9:35am
10/24 PBIS Celebration (school-wide bingo)
10/26 Pumpkin Patch (Thank you PTA)
10/31 Costume Parade (more information coming home soon)
Agenda for the week
Reading/writing We worked on the letter Pp. We are learning to identify the upper and lowercase letter and make the sound of Pp. We learned a poem about a pig. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home. We began writer’s workshop and are learning how to draw a picture and label it or write about it. Students should be practicing identifying the letters of the alphabet. Students should be able to make the sound of each letter. I will be testing the students weekly to see how many letters they can identify. In order for your child to be ready for kindergarten they must be able to identify all capital and lowercase letters and make the sound of every letter. Please have your child work on reading eggs at least 3 days a week.
Math We continue to work on shapes and numbers 0-5. Your student should be able to identify the number and show me how many for each number 0-5. We will review all the shapes and take a test on Friday, 10-120-17. Please have your child work on Math Seeds 3 days a week.
Social Studies We are learning about how to be a good citizen. We are learning to share and take our turn.
Science We completed our unit on the 5 senses and on apples. Due to technical difficulties we were unable to make applesauce.
Folders
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!
Snack Please remember to send only health snacks like fruit, vegetables, and cheese and crackers.
Fun at the orchard!!!!
News from Mrs. Vensko’s Room
MATH SEEDS
We just received a subscription for math seeds. Access to this program is through readingeggs.com
Login to reading eggs with your child’s same login information as usual and you will see three icons:
Reading Eggs
Reading Eggspress
Math Seeds
Please have your child use Reading Eggs and Math Seeds several times per week. Reading Eggspress is more appropriate for 2nd grade and up.
Math seeds is a wonderful program just like reading eggs that will help your child learn how to count, add, subtract, and much more!
Please integrate reading eggs and math seeds into your nightly routine as a part of your child’s homework!
If you misplaced your child’s reading eggs password, please send me an email and I will be happy to send you that information again.
Upcoming Events
10/6 NO SCHOOL for Kindergarten students
10/6 Outdoor Movie Night 6:00pm
10/6 Popcorn orders come home
10/12 Kindergarten Parent Meeting 8:00 – 8:30 (more information to come)
10/13 Half Day – dismissal 11:40
10/17 Costume Bingo for Books by PTA (cafeteria)
10/18 Late Start – arrival 9:35am
10/24 PBIS Celebration (school-wide bingo)
10/26 Pumpkin Patch (Thank you PTA)
10/27 Costume Parade
Agenda for the week
The children had a great time at the orchard!!! If you have pictures please email them to me at venskod@dearbornschools.org
Reading/writing We are listening to stories and making predictions and asking questions about what will happen next in the story. We worked on the letter Dd. We learned a poem about a dragon. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home. We began writer’s workshop and are learning how to draw a picture and label it or write about it. Students should be practicing identifying the letters of the alphabet. On Monday, I will be sending home flash cards for the capital and lowercase letters. You can use them like flash cards, your child can make their name with the cards or you can have them match the capital letter with the lower case letter. Students should be able to make the sound of each letter. I will be testing the students weekly to see how many letters they can identify. In order for your child to be ready for kindergarten they must be able to identify all capital and lowercase letters and make the sound of every letter. Please have your child work on reading eggs at least 3 days a week.
Math Next week , we will continue to work on shapes and numbers 0-5. We are learning to write and recognize the numbers. Please have your child work on Math Seeds 3 days a week.
Social Studies We are learning about how to be responsible for ourselves at school. We are earning “Hoots” for good behavior.
Science We are continuing our unit on apples. We are going to make apples sauce next week. We learned about what is inside an apple.
Folders
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!
Snack Please remember to send only health snacks like fruit, vegetables, and cheese and crackers.
NO SCHOOL TOMORROW!! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!
News From Mrs. Vensko’s Room September 25th-29th
Upcoming Events
10/2 PBIS Celebration (Float, Fly & Glide — Dress for the weather – Children will be outside for 45 minutes for this activity!)
10/2 – 10/5 School Popcorn Sale
10/3 Field trip to the Apple Orchard
10/6 NO SCHOOL for Kindergarten students
10/6 Outdoor Movie Night 6:00pm
10/6 Popcorn orders come home
10/12 Kindergarten Parent Meeting 8:00 – 8:30 (more information to come)
10/13 Half Day – dismissal 11:40
10/17 Costume Bingo for Books by PTA (cafeteria)
10/18 Late Start – arrival 9:35am
10/24 PBIS Celebration (school-wide bingo)
10/26 Pumpkin Patch (Thank you PTA)
10/27 Costume Parade
Agenda for the week
Reading/writing We are listening to stories and making predictions on what will happen next in the story. We worked on the letter Ee. We learned a poem about Eloise the Elephant. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home. We began writer’s workshop and are learning how to draw a picture and label it or write about it.
Math We began learning about shapes and will continue to work on them next week.
Social Studies We are learning the classroom and school rules and practicing being a good citizen at school.
Science We finished our unit on the 5 senses. We became scientists today. We asked questions, made a hypothesis, and did experiments with apples to test our hypothesis.
Folders
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!
Conference reminder notes are coming home today!!!!
Thank you to the PTA for the pumpkins picked from the Haigh Pumpkin Patch!!!
