Bugs

10/29/2012


Dear Parents,

There were several cases of head lice reported at Westerly Creek in the past few weeks. We want to make sure you are aware of what to look for and how to deal with the issue, should you detect head lice in your child’s hair.

Head lice infestation is diagnosed by looking closely through the hair and scalp for nits, nymphs, or adult lice. Nits are the easiest to spot. They are found ‘glued’ to the hair shaft. Unlike dandruff or hairspray, they will not slide along a strand of hair. If you find nits more than ¼ inch from the scalp, the infection is probably an old.

If you are not sure if a person has lice, the diagnosis should be made by your doctor, the local health department, or a health care provider.

Facts

• Head lice are parasitic insects that live in the hair and scalp of humans. They need human blood to survive.

• Head lice spread from person to person through direct head to head contact.

• Personal hygiene is not a factor in the transmission of lice.

• Head lice are treatable with lice-killing shampoos.

• To prevent the spread 1) avoid direct contact with the head, hair, clothing, and personal belongings of a person with head lice, and 2) Encourage proper treatment of the affected person(s) and their household.

• Teach children not to share combs, brushes, scarves, hair ribbons, helmets, headphones, hats, towels, bedding, clothing, or other personal items.

Thank you,

Monica Johnston, DPS School Nurse

Colleen Brown, Health Para
DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS WESTERLY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

8800 East Twenty-Eight Avenue Denver, CO 80238

This week in Literacy

This week in literacy we will continue to focus on informational text. Last week we looked at cause and effect . This week we will investigate text that compares and contrasts.  Vin diagrams are often used as a graphic organizers for this type of text.  We will also practice recognizing signal words that are commonly used to express comparisons or contrasts.  This pdf. is a good example.  In writing, we will begin drafting out our feature articles. This last week, students work endlessly to put their thoughts into outlines. We hope to have our final copies finished before Thanksgiving.

In read aloud we continue to carve out time to for our book, The Watsons go to Birmingham.

Here is a link to a blog created by one our 4th grader, Kindal. Check it out!

Don't forget to vote and set you clocks back one hour.

Enjoy,
Mr.Rabinowitz

This Week's Reading Responses

On the back of each week's reading log, there is a Meta-Response prompt. The meta-response lets students write about what they are thinking as they read. The top response(s) of this week are copied below:


When I was reading: "TheTiger Rising it reminded me of the show SpongeBob Square Pants." I.thought about "how Spongbob would say "Well, that's a way to put some hair on your chest," and [in the book] the beauchamp had a necklace in his chest hair."


When I was reading: "Smile", I thought about "how she is going to highschool and she is really scared about it and sometimes I think about how scared I will be in highschool."


Encourage eachother to talk about what you are thinking about as you read in addition to the plot of the story!
Keep it up!
Mr. Rabinowitz