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January is Evergreen Network month at Maple Hill. This wonderful charity works with families infected/affected
by HIV/AIDS. Staff dress down day money will be used to buy books to be given
as birthday gifts for the children served by Evergreen. Some of the books are
on display in our school lobby. Check our classroom website for more info about the Evergreen Network.
 This graphic, the colored pencil & tape buttons, and the purple pencil
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When your child borrows a classroom library book, please read the
book to/with your child, and return it to school the next day.
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Click here for online activities for this theme. From this link
you can view a slideshow on this week's theme, two activities, fun spelling and vocabulary
interactive activities and a cute computer literacy activity. Most of the activities are interactive and the directions are
read aloud.
CURRENT EVENTS
Reading - Test Taking Skills:
Right There
Scholastic News - Pilgrims, Native Americans
Math - Topic 4 Numbers to 20 and Number Pattern
Using number patterns to add, working with
doubles
Making Meaning –
Retelling
SPECIAL EVENTS
Shakesperience Assembly
- Tuesday
Early Dismissal - Wednesday
Thanksgiving Activity Day
Thanksgiving Break - 11/26-11/27
Happy Thanksgiving!
Book It! Verification forms at due by December
1
Holiday Shop PTO Meeting at 6:30 p.m. - 12/2
Brown and White Gingerbread Colors Day - 12/4
HELP
WANTED
We are still working on
memorizing hot lunch PIN numbers.
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We have two sheets of
homework per night Monday through Thursday. Please read the directions for your child, watch them complete the assignment,
sign the paper after you check it, and have your child return it to school the next morning in the homework folder. Returning
homework is your child’s responsibility. Students that forget a paper are given a “reminder notice” so that
you know I am aware that it was missing. Simply have your child return the completed
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Hot lunch payment may be made by the
week or even the month. Children should bring the money to the cafeteria as soon as they get off the bus in the morning. Please
put money/checks into an envelope marked with your child’s name.
Hot lunch
can be purchased for $2.25 each day. At lunchtime, the students type in their PIN number (I
will give them their number on a card if they have not yet memorized it) and the amount is deducted from their account. When
a child is running low on money in their account, the ladies will let them know.
HOMEWORK NOTES
Math homework:
Monday - page 104
Tuesday - page 106
Wednesday -
Thursday -
Weekly homework assignments are posted on a link
from the home page of our classroom web site.
Book
It! Goal for November is 4 books.
Books
read for Book It! count for the brown November calendar, as
do black and white books read for the plastic envelope reading log.
 Click the logo to see the
Pizza Huts nearest to Maple Hill.
If these children chose pizza rewards,
they should tell the Pizza Hut people
that they are All Star Readers when
they go to redeem their final pizza
coupon. They will receive special
recognition.
Ask your child:
Who
or what is Focus and when is he visiting our home?
We have mailed 10,000 juice bags to Terracycle!
PERSONALS
We
walked 11 laps around the front circle during the Turkey Trot. Thank you for
the donations for the Food Bank.
We were surprised by a visit from Rosa Rebimbas after the Veterans
Day Assembly. She brought us some gifts from Hartford!
The Fall Festival was
very successful. Thanks to the PTO for all their hard work on this event.
We received our first
letters from our Prospect Street pen pals. We wrote a mini-biography to include with our first letters to them.
Many thanks to Mrs. Minasian for volunteering to be our Room Parent!
TEAM time (Together Everyone Achieves
More) continues daily from 9:05 to 9:35. Some students will leave our classroom
to work with another teacher during this time.
Picture Day went really
well. We had an early time slot and everyone was extremely cooperative. We can’t
wait to see the photos!
We have already exchanged
e-mails with Rep. Rosa Rebimbas. Now we have another penpal in Mrs. Sciacca’s
first grade class at Prospect Street School.
We
now have guided reading every day from 10:25 to 11:10 with the support of wonderful parent volunteers and other support staff.
If at any time
you wish to change your child’s web site permissions, simply request another copy of the form.
In the cafeteria, hot lunch is $2.25 per day. Milk is .50. Children
who order or bring peanut butter should wash their hands after eating.
Please
remember that all students need a small towel or placemat to use on their desk at snack time.
All Summer Reading and Math Packets were returned! The
average number of books each child read was 14.7. The children read a grand total of books 266! The average math score was
24/25.
Many thanks for all the donations of tissues
and hand sanitizer. They are much appreciated.
Before you send
in any empty juice bags, please remove the straw and its wrapper, slit the bottom inside seam of the bag and rinse the inside
of the bag with water. THANK YOU!
I’d like to clarity the Challenge Morning Math printout that
is available on the classroom web site. This is an optional assignment which
reviews concepts introduced the previous week. I print out copies on Monday morning
after I have posted the new version, but students are welcome to print out a copy from the site. Your child may complete the sheet and return it any day during the week.
Johnny and the Sprites is now being shown on the Disney Channel on Saturdays
and Sundays at 7:30 a.m. and weekdays at 6:30 a.m.
 The Maple Hill Elementary School website
was selected to appear on the Featured Websites Page for
the month of November by the ConneCTkids Committee. You can visit the site at ww.kids.state.ct.us A certificate was presented to our school and
to me in recognition of this honor. I served on a teacher panel at the teachers' catalog Really Good Stuff in Monroe. I got to see prototypes of new items and
even got a new product to test in our classroom.Evergreen Network This charity works with families affected by/infected
with AIDS in the greater Bridgeport area. The money
collected will be put toward the purchase of 150 multicultural
books to be given to the children as birthday gifts.
REMINDERS
 Please ignore the labeled pockets inside the
homework folders. Parents can easily decide which papers stay home. Homework must always be returned the next day.
Plastic reading envelopes
must be returned on the next school day. Don’t forget to log the book on the enclosed sheet! If the log is not initialed
by an adult, I will send home the black and white book again.
Box Tops
will be collected on Thursday, December 3. The winning classroom will win a cookies
and juice party.
Trick or
Treat for UNICEF was a wonderful success. We will send a check for $401 to UNICEF!!
Remember to empty the homework folder daily and be sure to return it
to school every day.
Don’t forget to send
in a small towel or placemat to cover our desktops while eating snack. Children may have a water bottle on their desks, but
they must have a top on them to prevent spills.
Flip-flops
and backless shoes are a safety hazard and are not to be worn to school. Shorts that are at least as long as the child’s
fingertips are acceptable. Due to fluctuating temperatures, students should wear jackets to school each day. If necessary,
they will borrow a jacket from the nurses’ office if available.
Please remember our new procedures
if you pick up your child(ren) at 3:20. Be prepared with a photo id and sign
out your child before you sit down at the first three tables to wait for your child to arrive at the cafeteria. Students will report to the sign out desk before joining their parents and leaving the building.
If in doubt about homework, you
may check the assignment on a link from the homepage of my classroom web site. Math
pages marked with a “home link” symbol at the top are always homework, unless we cross it out on a Friday.
Our Special Schedule
Our Special Schedule
Monday
Art 1:33 – 2:17 Mr. Sciacca
Tuesday
Music 1:33 – 2:17 Mr. Trosan
Wednesday *Gym 1:33 – 2:17 Miss Loomis
Thursday *Gym 1:33 – 2:17 Miss Loomis
Friday
Library 1:33 – 2:17 Mrs. Wilson
Music 2:19 – 3:03 Music Mr. Trosan
*Please wear sneakers.
Lunch time has been changed
to 12:01 to 12:31 p.m. (wave 2)
If your child does not already have their own library
card, I encourage you to stop into the Whittemore Library soon.You will need proof of residence and your child's
social security number.When your child gets their own library card, please allow them to bring it to school to show to us.
They will then be able to sign our library card poster.
Did you
know that you can check the lunch menu
Have you heard of our five strategies when we come to an unknown word while reading?
We use our fingers to help us remember each hint and the palm reminds us "Does it make sense?"
1. Check the picture.
2. Go back and reread.
3. Get your mouth ready to
make the first sounds.
4. Look for chunks of letters
that you know.
5. Take a guess and keep on
reading.
Birthdays
November Birthdays
Kevin
11/10
Nika 11/15
October Birthday
Ashleigh
10/11
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