Dear Parents,

The students are very excited about our field trip tomorrow!!

Please remember to pack them a lunch and a drink because we will most likely not be back in time for them to buy a hot lunch.

Red folders will only be sent home on Friday if your child has flipped their card during the week.

If you child did not flip their card during the week you will not receive the red folder on Friday.

Please put your child on readingeggs.com at home and have them do a couple of lessons each night.  This can count on the reading log in the homework for some of the nightly reading!

Upcoming Events

3/6 – 3/10 Scholastic Book Fair

3/7 Classroom visit to Scholastic Book Fair at 9:30 AM

3/13 – 3/17 Spirit Week – $1 to participate (see calendar that came home on 3/1)

–      Monday 3/13 Dress like a “Happy Camper” Day

–      Tuesday 3/14 Backwards Day

–      Wednesday 3/15 Wear a Hat Day

–      Thursday 3/16 Dress like a “book character” Day

–      Friday 3/17 Crazy Hair Day OR Wear GREEN Day

3/14 Kindergarten Round-Up for children entering Kindergarten NEXT year

3/14 Field Trip to Michigan Theater – Pete the Cat  

3/15 Late Start – 9:40am

3/16 Literacy Fun Night 5:00 – 6:30pm

3/17 Haigh School Store open during lunchtime

3/20 – 3/24 PTA Popcorn Sales

3/29 Conferences (Only for families contacted by teacher)

3/30 PBIS Celebration – Game Day (puzzles and board games – no electronics)

3/31 PTA Ice Cream Social

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing: 

We read a book called “How to Catch a Leprechaun” by Adam Wallace. The children came up with a topic sentence together. The topic sentence was “I know how to catch a leprechaun.” Then the children came up with their own individual plan on how they would catch a leprechaun and wrote about it using the transition words first, next, then, last. To conclude the paper with a summary sentence, the children told how they felt or how the leprechaun felt in the story. We used our narrative writing rubric to grade our papers together and see if it was a smiley face paper. The children are enjoying using our writing rubrics and you will see these rubrics coming home soon! The leprechaun writing will go up on our bulletin board for the month of March and then come home at the end of the month.

Spelling words for next week will be in the homework packet coming home on Monday.

Please continue to have your child practice writing at home. Here is what I am looking for in class:

Uppercase to start the sentence

End punctuation (. ! ?)

Finger spaces between words

Does the sentence make sense? Are the words in the correct order?

Does the picture match the words?

Did you stretch your sentence? (Is there a noun, adjective, and verb?)

Math: We took our +8 math quiz.  I sent the the +9 flashcards home today. We will take the +9 quiz on Friday, March 10th.

This week continued learning about comparing numbers using the greater than, less than, and equal to symbols. The children were able to able to work more with numbers to strengthen their knowledge of greater than, less than, and equal to. The children were supported in this by using counters to show which number was bigger and by finding the numbers on a number line to identify which number was larger.

Please continue to practice counting by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s to 100 with your child at home. Also practice counting to 30 by 2’s (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20…..).  Other activities you can practice at home are using tally marks to count objects, identifying 2D/3D shapes around the house of community, and really making sure your child has good one-to-one correspondence when counting (this means that they touch each object as they are counting and count all objects correctly).

Housekeeping Items:

Children need a snack each day! Please do not send candy as a snack. The children need a healthy snack each day such as fruit, crackers, cheese, yogurt, granola bars, etc.  As a reminder, no juice is allowed in class for snack.

Your child  started a 30 day free trial of  Math Seeds this afternoon at school.  Math Seeds is the same company as Reading Eggs.

Please look for a note in your child’s folder.  YOUR LOGIN AND PASSWORD ARE THE SAME AS YOUR READING EGGS LOGIN AND PASSWORD.

When you go to the Reading Eggs page and sign in,  you will have the choice to play Reading Eggs or Math Seeds.  The Math Seeds will expire on April 1, 2017.

Have fun!!!

Please check your child’s folder for the March is Reading month calendar and reading log.

There is a note explaining our theme and goals for the month on the back of the white reading log.

The green calendar is suggested activities that you can do with your child at home.

We may be doing some of the activities in class.

SPIRIT WEEK  BEGINS THE WEEK OF MARCH 12TH.

Happy reading!!!!

Please see me at the doors during entry and dismissal if you would like to sign up to be a guest reader in our classroom.

You may bring your own book or read one from our classroom.

PBIS Celebrations

Dear Families,

On Tuesday, February 28 we will be having a PBIS celebration to recognize your child’s positive behavior. This month’s celebration theme will be “Beach Fun!” We will turn the gymnasium into an fun indoor beach and enjoying activities that could take place at the beach! Your child may wear sunglasses, and or a fun beach hat to school. Please label everything with your name.

Thank you,

Haigh PBIS Committee

Please put your child on readingeggs.com at home and have them do a couple of lessons each night.  This can count on the reading log in the homework for some of the nightly reading!

Upcoming Events

2/20 – 2/24 Mid-Winter Break

2/28 PBIS PARTY – Beach Fun

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing:  We finished our informational reading and writing about animals that hibernate. All of the children completed a “blueprint” or graphic organizer, however not all of the children published their writing about each animal.

Spelling words for next week will be in the homework packet coming home on Monday.

Please continue to have your child practice writing at home. Here is what I am looking for in class:

Uppercase to start the sentence

End punctuation (. ! ?)

Finger spaces between words

Does the sentence make sense? Are the words in the correct order?

Does the picture match the words?

Did you stretch your sentence? (Is there a noun, adjective, and verb?)

Math: We took our +7 math quiz. Yesterday, I sent home the +8 flashcards to practice over mid-winter break. We will take the +8 quiz on Friday, March 3, 2017.

This week we began learning about comparing numbers using the greater than, less than, and equal to symbols. The children were able to complete a fun project where they rolled dice and had to decide which number the greater than alligator head wanted to eat or if the numbers were the same (equal to).

Please continue to practice counting by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s to 100 with your child at home. Also practice counting to 30 by 2’s (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20…..).  Other activities you can practice at home are using tally marks to count objects, identifying 2D/3D shapes around the house of community, and really making sure your child has good one-to-one correspondence when counting (this means that they touch each object as they are counting and count all objects correctly).

Housekeeping Items:

Children need a snack each day! Please do not send candy as a snack. The children need a healthy snack each day such as fruit, crackers, cheese, yogurt, granola bars, etc.  As a reminder, no juice is allowed in class for snack.