The children had so much fun sharing their collections with their friends!!!  I loved all the creative projects they brought in to share!!!

My student helper accidentally put the wrong homework packet in the student mailboxes.  The packet labeled mid winter break is due on 2-28-17

and the packet with the “ap” family spelling words is due on 3-3-17.

Enjoy the break!!!

100TH DAY OF SCHOOL

Dear Families –

The 100th day of school is a big deal in Kindergarten! We will do many activities that involve the number 100 and of course celebrate being 100 days smarter! Please help us celebrate by completing a 100th day project. This project can be ANYTHING that is a collection of 100 items. Over the years, I have seen this done many different ways – posters with 100 items glued to it, collections of items separated into baggies, etc. Important – please make sure to practice counting the objects with your child! The items on these projects should be grouped by 5’s or by 10’s. Your child will share and count their project with the class! These projects are due on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17th.

The children may also choose to dress up like an “old person.” Sometimes the children come with gray hair, glasses, suspenders, pearls, etc! I love seeing the children’s interpretations of what it looks like and feels like to be old!

Happy 100th Day!!!

Upcoming Events

2/14 Valentine’s Day Party

2/15 Late Start – 9:45am

2/17 Exotic Zoo Assembly

2/17 Haigh School Store open during lunch hours

2/17 100^th day of school!(Collection of 100 items project and dress like your 100)

2/20 – 2/24 Mid-Winter Break

2/28 PBIS PARTY – Beach Fun

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing:  We continue to work on informational reading and writing through researching hibernation. We are learning about bears, bats, ladybugs, and groundhogs. We have completed our research and writing about groundhogs and bats. Next week we will move on to bears and bats. The children are learning how to write a topic sentence, how to include three facts about the topic, and how to conclude their paper using a summary sentence.

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 +6 math quiz. Today, I sent home the +7 flashcards. We will take the +7 quiz on Friday, February 17th.

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).

Social Studies: We began talking about geography and continue discussing the world around us, our community, maps, and globes. We read a book about a little boy who got a map and he was able to have adventures all over the world through using his imagination.

Science:  We began learning about the basic needs of living things. This unit will take a few months to complete. We know that living things need food, shelter, air, water, and space. While we are learning about the needs of living things, we have been researching hibernation and migration. We have been learning about the needs of animals which hibernate. We have talked about how animals store food or eat lots of food before winter hibernation. Some animals do not get up to eat at all during hibernation. The children are very curious about hibernation and have been enjoying reading books and researching this topic.

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.

Please make sure reading books are placed back in the green book pouches each night and returned to school every morning.

Please make sure to record the reading that you do with your child each night on the reading log in the homework.

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.

The children will be exchanging Valentine cards on Tuesday, 2-14-17.  This is not mandatory.  The usual procedure is for each child to bring one Valentine for every child in the class.

Please have your child sign his/her name on the back of each Valentine.  Leave blank the “To:____________” and have your child write their name in the “From: _____________” spot.

Dear Families –

Report cards will be coming home today in your child’s green folder. Please take out the report card and keep it. Please sign the envelope and send the envelope back to school in your child’s green folder.

All of the children are working hard and making progress! Please keep in mind that the content is becoming more difficult as the year progresses and the expectations are higher each card marking.

The scale for report cards is as follows:

1 – Exceeding expectations

2 – Meeting Expectations

3 – Progressing

4 – Concern

Please know that if your child is progressing in a skill, but may need a little more practice, they will receive a 3 on their report card. This is not a bad mark, it just means that your child may need a little more practice with that particular skill. To me, progressing means that they are making gains, but still need to make some more growth.

Upcoming Events

2/10 Family Valentine’s Dance (in gym)

2/6 – 2/9 Valentine Gram Sale

2/14 Valentine’s Day Party

2/15 Late Start – 9:45am

2/17 Exotic Zoo Assembly

2/17 Haigh School Store open during lunch hours

2/17 100^th day of school!

2/20 – 2/24 Mid-Winter Break

2/28 PBIS PARTY – Beach Fun

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing: We engaged in another R.A.N strategy this week. The R.A.N strategy is reading and analyzing non-fiction text. We talked about what we already knew about hibernation and then we read stories about hibernation and confirmed the facts we knew and discussed knew facts we learned. Next, the children were split into groups to do research on a specific animal and how that animal hibernates. The children practiced informational writing by including facts from the text in their writing. We also made crafts to go along with our research writing. We researched the hibernation habits of bears, groundhogs, bats, and ladybugs.

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 +5 math quiz. Today, I sent home the +6 flashcards. We will take the +6 quiz on Friday, February 10th.

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).

Social Studies: We will begin our geography unit and take a few months to learn about the world around us, our community, maps, and globes.

We watched Phill come out of his hole and see his shadow for Groundhog’s Day. We also completed several activities for Groundhog’s Day.

Science:  We began learning about the basic needs of living things. This unit will take a few months to complete. While we are learning about the needs of living things, we will research hibernation and migration as an extra project and complete a R.A.N strategy where we pull the evidence (facts) right from the text and practice informational writing with the information we learn. We started our R.A.N strategy about hibernation and learned about what different animals do to prepare for the long winter.

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.

Please make sure reading books are placed back in the green book pouches each night and returned to school every morning.

Please make sure to record the reading that you do with your child each night on the reading log in the homework.

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.

Upcoming Events

1/23 Leaders for Life Assembly – Send children in Detroit Lions gear/colors

1/27 ½ Day – dismissal 11:45

1/27 Pizza Kit Delivery ***Must pick up orders between 11:45 – 3:00pm

1/30 PBIS PARTY – School-wide BINGO

Agenda for the Week

Reading/Writing: We reviewed adjectives, nouns, and verbs this week. This week we focused more on nouns and verbs. We are working on stretching our sentences to include more details (who is the story/sentence about, where are they, what do they look like, what are they doing, etc).

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 +3 math quizzes. Today, I sent home the +4 flashcards. We will take the +4 quiz on Friday, January 27th.

We continue to learn about addition. We have been practicing using a number line to add numbers together. We also have been using a strategy called “counting on” where the child imagines the larger number in their head and displays the smaller number on their hands by putting up that number of fingers. Then they touch their head and say the larger number, then count up from there on their fingers to find the total.

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).

Social Studies:  We continued talking about history and what timelines are and how they are used. We shared our timeline projects with each other and the children enjoyed talking about their past.

Housekeeping Items:

If you would like to leave boots and snow pants at school in your child’s locker, please feel free to do so! Just send me a note so that I know that they need to stay here through the week.

Please make sure reading books are placed back in the green book pouches each night and returned to school every morning.

Please make sure to record the reading that you do with your child each night on the reading log in the homework.

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.

Field trip permission slip and $13.00 are DUE FRIDAY 1-20-17.   I HAVE TO PAY FOR THE TICKETS BEFORE 4:00 PM

ON 1-20-17.  The theater company will cancel our reservation if the tickets are not paid for by the deadline.