News Notes from
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December 14, 2012
DECEMBER CALENDAR
All Wednesdays, 1hour early
release at 2:55 p.m.
No School– November
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Cookies with Santa
5-7:00 PM
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Class party 11:00 siblings
welcome!
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No School
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School opens—January
Higgins phone: 493-5210x2031
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*Fifth grade bagel sales
every Friday $.75 for bagels
and $1.00 for water.
What a wonderful
week of accomplishment in spite of the extraordinary Christmas
excitement!!!!! We
worked on special writing gifts for you! You
will love them!
We completed our
Unit 4 Math test on
multiplication. Again,
keep in mind that the
concepts will be reviewed over and over
again and retested in
January and May! Our
next Math unit is about
very big numbers our
goal being to learn
about what you need to
buy a house!
We have been busy
practicing our cursive
writing. I told them
that it may seem slow
at first but if they can
get good at it, it makes
writing so much faster!
The Social Studies
test on immigrants went
very well. Thanks again
for your great study help!
We will begin our
next Science unit on force
and motion in January.
After force and motion, we will study Michigan explorers. It is very
difficult to make this part
of history come alive for
kids. If you are a creative
costume person, let me
know if your child would
be interested in researching, dressing up, and talking about Father Marquette, Antoine Cadillac,
Samuel de Champlain,
Jacques Marquette, Jean
Nicolet, Jean du Sable, or
Jacques Cartier. They
Can bring their Social
Studies books home over
the break so that you can
see pictures.
You are welcome to
send 30 small stocking
stuffer gifts to our holiday party on the 21st if
you like. They can be pencils, balloons, candies,
etc., small and inexpensive. Please let me know
if you would like to bring a
small portion of special
family recipe from your
family heritage to our
party on the 21st. Please do
not send cupcakes because it is just too much
sugar! Thanks!
We are looking for volunteers
to help with our book cart
books on Wednesdays from
8:40-11:30 for grades 1-5 and
12:30-1:15 for Kindergarten.
This is a wonderful project
where kids can select books at
their reading level so that they
can practice extra good fluency and comprehension.
Please let me know if you can
help.
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Have a wonderful weekend!!!
You can order Scholastic books online. Our
code is HHV3P. We receive a $3.00 book for
the classroom and you
receive a free book coupon with each online order!
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HIGGINS PHONE: 493-5210X2031
Spelling Routine!!!!
Monday: Students will
bring home words to
sort in an envelope
Tuesday: Students will
do a page in class called
Look, Say, Cover,
Write, Check
Wednesday: Students
will do a Buddy Check
paper. Study these
words for the Friday
test.
Friday: Students will do
a Buddy Test. Missed
words will be on next week’s
test.
Our Higgins PTC has created a Facebook page for
parents. This page will be
used to share information
regarding PTC events and
happenings around the
school. Please take a moment to visit “Higgins Elementary PTC” on Facebook.
Thanks for supporting our
school!