{"id":811,"date":"2017-12-11T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/?p=811"},"modified":"2017-12-11T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T16:24:46","slug":"news-from-mrs-venskos-room-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/2017\/12\/11\/news-from-mrs-venskos-room-26\/","title":{"rendered":"News from Mrs. Vensko&#8217;s Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Upcoming Events<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>12\/11 \u2013 12\/14\u00a0<\/b>PTA Popcorn Sales (Popcorn delivered on 12\/15)<\/p>\n<p><b>12\/12\u00a0<\/b>Family STEM Night from 6-8pm (Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum comes to Haigh)<\/p>\n<p><b>12\/13<\/b>\u00a0Ugly Sweater Bingo for Books (PTA event 6 -7pm)<\/p>\n<p><b>12\/14<\/b>\u00a0Haigh School Store open during lunchtime<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>12\/18 \u2013 12\/20\u00a0<\/b>Candy Gram Sales<\/p>\n<p><b>12\/20\u00a0<\/b>Late Start<\/p>\n<p><b>12\/20\u00a0<\/b>Polar Express and Pajama Day (more information coming home soon)<\/p>\n<p><b>12\/21\u00a0<\/b>Winter Party<\/p>\n<p><b>12\/22\u00a0<\/b>PBIS Celebration \u2013 Movie Theater (at Haigh)<\/p>\n<p><b>12\/25 \u2013 1\/5\u00a0<\/b>Winter Break \u2013 No School!!!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agenda for the week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The children loved Pete the Cat.\u00a0 We had many discussion about the play and their favorite parts.\u00a0 The were very well behaved both on the bus and in the theater.\u00a0 I am very proud of all of them!!!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The winter weather has arrived.\u00a0 Please label all of your child&#8217;s winter clothing.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 \u00a0Remember, we are trying to teach independence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading\/writing\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0We worked on the letter Ll.\u00a0 \u00a0We began introducing sight words.\u00a0 We learned the word I and practiced using it in our writer&#8217;s workshop writings. Each week we learn a new sight word. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home.\u00a0 We are continuing with writer\u2019s workshop and are learning how to draw a picture and label it or write about it. \u00a0 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\u2019T FORGET TO DO READING EGGS AT HOME 3 DAYS A WEEK. I will be giving \u201choots\u201d to students who do Reading Eggs at home.\u00a0 We are learning about characters and setting in our stories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Math<\/strong>\u00a0 We are working on sorting and measurement.\u00a0 \u00a0We will continue working on numbers from 0-20. Please\u00a0 have your child work on Math Seeds 3 days a week.\u00a0 We are working on counting to 20. We are learning to show the value of a number in different ways. \u00a0We 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social \u00a0Studies\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0We are learning the difference between goods and services.\u00a0 We turned the kitchen into a restaurant to help understand the concept of a service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Science\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0We are learning about the 4 seasons.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>Please make sure to\u00a0<strong>empty\u00a0<\/strong>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!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snack\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Please remember to send only healthy snacks like fruit, vegetables, and cheese and crackers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming Events 12\/11 \u2013 12\/14\u00a0PTA Popcorn Sales (Popcorn delivered on 12\/15) 12\/12\u00a0Family STEM Night from 6-8pm (Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum comes to Haigh) 12\/13\u00a0Ugly Sweater Bingo for Books (PTA event 6 -7pm) 12\/14\u00a0Haigh School Store open during lunchtime &nbsp; 12\/18 \u2013 12\/20\u00a0Candy Gram Sales 12\/20\u00a0Late Start 12\/20\u00a0Polar Express and Pajama Day (more information coming home&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/2017\/12\/11\/news-from-mrs-venskos-room-26\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":994,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}