Mrs. Johnson's Fourth Grade

Dearborn Public Schools

A and B Student Groups

Here is the breakdown of A day and B day class lists. At this time, changes cannot be made to the A and B student groups. A-group students will attend in-person school days on Monday and Thursday. B-group students will attend in-person school days on Tuesday and Friday. When I have accurate information to create a schedule for the asynchronous days, I will email a copy and print a copy for the students. This is the information I can provide now. In-person school days will begin at 9:40 and dismissal will be at 2:20. Asynchronous days and Wednesdays will begin at 8:40 and end 3:35. 

A Group StudentsB Group Students
Eseal AbdallahMaya Abboud
Lily AbouChahineJenna Abdallah
Jana AhmedYusuf Alshafey
Fatima BalhasAli Alshammari
Mohammed Ali BazziJenna Beidoun
Hussein DarwicheFatima Ghazle
Tasneem KhandkaniNemer Saad
Serine SalameJason Saadeh
Fatima SoueidHussein Shehab
Yasmena Tarraf
Ali Alawan

Before we return to school, please find all of the learning materials that your child received. We will establish new routines so that the students have exactly what they need whether they are in the building or learning from home. Students will not need chromebooks in the classroom. Please keep the computers at home and fully charged to prepare for Wednesday remote learning and asynchronous learning days. 

This week’s learning lab schedule is not complete. I will post the full learning lab schedule for the weeks of February 22 and March 1 before the end of the day on Friday, February 19 so that you have a chance to check your schedule and confirm times with me. 

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River Oaks Parent Letter

Dear River Oaks Community,

We are so excited to have our Rockets coming back to River Oaks!!! It has been almost a year since our students have been at the building to work on their academic and social development and it is time for them to come back 🙂  At the last board meeting it was decided that we will transition into the “Hybrid Model”. This means that we will have 2 cohorts of students;

  • Group A- comes to school from 9:40am-2:20pm on M/TH (2 days)** Lunch will be provided and we will follow the CDC and Wayne County Health Guidelines.  Group A-students will have their special area classes on days that they are not at school. The whole class will meet remotely on Wednesdays with their classroom teacher.
  • Group B- comes to school from 9:40am-2:20pm on Tues/Friday (2 days)**. Lunch will be provided and we will follow the CDC and Wayne County Health Guidelines. Group B students will have their special area classes on days that they are not at school. The whole class will meet remotely on Wednesdays with their classroom teacher.
  • Important- the classroom teacher will meet with students at home using zoom from 8:40am-9:05am on days that they are not at school. The classroom teacher will go over their content practice for the day, remind students about special area  classes for the day, and answer any questions students may have. Attendance will also be taken at this time for the asynchronous day. 
  • Both groups have live remote lessons on Wednesday with their classroom teacher.  (1 day)
  • River Oaks classroom teachers will post their A-Day and B-Day student schedules on their schoology page each week. 

Preparation for the Hybrid Model has taken place over the course of this school year. Our classrooms have been altered to align with the “National CDC Health Guidelines” and our school district has been working with the Wayne County Health department to make sure we have taken the correct steps to have our schools as safe as possible. 

At River Oaks we have been working extremely hard providing live instruction in the morning and offering learning labs in the afternoon that are specific to our students academic levels. To prepare for the Hybrid model groups, we looked at the following items; placing siblings together in the Dearborn High Feeder on the same days, planning for students that need support services, planning for students that need transportation, balancing numbers in the groups to align with national spacing guidelines, and looking for common levels amongst the students in the 2 groups. This process was very time consuming and making changes can cause a “domino effect”, so we ask that no changes are made during this hybrid transition period. My hope is that the Hybrid Model goes very well and we can be back to a normal 5 day week in the near future. We are all going to have to continue to work together to keep the levels low at our building and our students/staff/ and parents safe. 

Please remember to go over the “COVID Screening Questions- English or Arabic” with your student(s) each day and to keep them home if they have any symptoms.  

Additional resources from the school nurses click here.  

Thank you to all of our parents for everything that you have done over the last year to help with your student’s education! We appreciate your constant support and devotion 🙂

Mr. Martin

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Return to School Information…

Dearborn Public Schools is excited to announce the district has met the COVID measurements set by the Board of Education and will start phasing students and staff back to in-building learning.

February 18, 2021 – In person learning labs will start. Classrooms teachers will schedule the students.

March 1, 2021 – Kindergarten, 1st and second grade students will start the Hybrid schedule. 2 days of face to face learning with half the students from the class. 2 days at home doing asynchronous review work (no live classroom instruction). Gym, Art, Music, Media & Technology will have at least one live lesson on the days at home. Wednesday will be the same as now for all students.

March 8, – Pre-school, Third, fourth and fifth grade students will start the Hybrid schedule. 2 days of face to face learning with half the students from the class. 2 days at home doing asynchronous review work (no live classroom instruction). Gym, Art, Music, Media & Technology will have at least one live lesson on the days at home. Wednesday will be the same as now for all students.

Social distancing guidelines will be followed to help students/staff be safe. Students will eat lunch at school.

A parent meeting will be held soon. You will have an opportunity to ask questions and get additional information.

I know this news is both exciting and stressful.  We will work through this transition together. Please call the school if you have any questions or concerns.

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Parent Update

It has been a while since I have sent a message and I hope that everyone is staying healthy. 

Our school day begins at 8:55 every morning. I begin each zoom class as close to 8:50 as possible. Lately, there are students who are joining the meeting at various times between 9:00 and 9:30. It’s really difficult when the students join late because they miss the informational part of the day. 

I end the zoom meeting for lunch at 11:45. Today, I had 7 students leave before 11:30 while I was still teaching. After lunch the students need to join the Zoom meeting again at 12:25. I always begin the meeting as close to 12:20 as possible. Today, 4 students joined after 12:30. The after lunch meeting lasts until 1:00. I am still expected to teach all of the fourth grade content and the students are still expected to be ready for fifth grade. If they join late and leave early, it adds up to a huge amount of missed learning by the end of the year. 

Please remind your child to join on time and to stay until dismissal.

Please continue to check your child’s grades in Schoology. While this is not the complete picture for report cards, it is very close. The reading test grades are listed in the Benchmark link and math scores are in the math link. If you have questions about assignments or grades please contact me. By Monday, the grades for the previous week are available in Schoology. I am noticing that some students are not reading directions and rushing through assignments just to be finished and the results are not good. Any of the student writing should be in complete sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation. Please remind your child to slow down and read their work before they submit it. 

Mr. Martin will host a 4th grade parent meeting Monday, December 14 at 1:30. I will post the link in the Schoology Updates and send it by email. 

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River Oaks Virtual Open House

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKjBHzVfHwBQMwLlBfPVGWVbzq?projector=1

Parent Sign in link.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpQPNW0XKJfiiBaQhtlnQ8yK-ONMAtGOpVk51ypZ8ZFKAmLw/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Virtual Pumpkin Carving Contest!

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Coffee with the Principal

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School Board to Meet on Monday, October 12, 2020

The article has a link to the meeting on Monday, which will start at 7:00 pm on Monday, October 12, 2020

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Thank you for your patience!

Today was not a fun day with technology. I appreciate your patience and support as we get used to this new way of being in school.

There is no school tomorrow, September 4 or on Monday, September 7. Have a wonderful weekend and I will see the students again on Tuesday, September 8 at 8:55.

The link to join the meeting will be in the Schoology course and it will be in the same place on the top of the list, in the center of the screen.

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Schoology Update

Today the orientation meetings went well. Nearly all of the students in our class attended the meetings. Yay!!

Tomorrow morning, students need to be ready to begin the school day at 8:50. The will log in to the Student Portal and go to our 4th Grade Schoology course. In the center of the page I will post the link to our morning Zoom meeting.We will begin the day at 8:55. Join the meeting and I will admit students as quickly as possible. It is better to be there a minute or two early and wait for me then to join late.

I have sent an email to all parents using the email that is recorded in Parent Connect. If you do not want to use that email for school communication, please update your email address as soon as possible.

See you tomorrow at 8:55!

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