Mrs. Abu-Rus's Blog

PTA will be hosting a fundraiser through The Goodies Factory from 4-14 through 4-28-2017. There will be  a Prize Give-A-Way for the students who sell the most on the following Monday, April 14th ( a DRONE with camera) and the Second Monday a $100.00 cash Prize Give-A-Way.

Parents, Here are some tips for you on the upcoming M-Step.  Please continue to have your children doing Study Island, MobyMax and Khan Academy. Parent M-Step tipsParent  M-Step Parent Letter (1)

Parents, In a little over a month, we will be taking the M-STEP test.  This is an academically challenging test from the state of Michigan.  It is important that students be able to do their best.  It covers everything they have really been working on all year and even in past years.  M-Step practice I have linked a site where …Continue reading →

We have a new Honor Roll Criteria for Geer Park in grades 3 to 5,   To make the Honor Roll recipients need 1s and 2s in 85% of curriculum areas (including art, music and PE), 3s are acceptable in the remaining 15%, but none can be in Core Values. Students cannot get any 4 in any subject to get …Continue reading →

Families, I hope you all had a safe and restful break. As you all may know, children are intrigued by electronic devices. As a result, many children are spending way too much time in front of digital screens. This passive screen time may negatively impact your child’s academic progress, as it is linked to poor social development, behavioral problems, irregular …Continue reading →

Our Awards Ceremony –  Students performed a skit and musically to demonstrate core values.  Also we named our students of the month. January – Saif Albasrawi February – Alia Chami  

     For break, I assigned 3 articles.  The kids should be practicing close reading and answering the questions following the passages. https://digital.readworks.org/ Also students should routinely be using study island at home.  If I have not assigned a lesson, they can go to the section marked CLASS.  Then they go to NWEA.  This section gives them practice for NWEA on …Continue reading →

All students received new dictionaries from the Kiwanis Club.  We are so thankful and using them every day.

We have two student teachers that are working with our classroom for the next couple of months. They will be in part time.  Normally that will be Monday afternoon, and all day Wednesday and Thursday. We are happy to have them working with all of us. Their names are Ms. Pennington and Mr. Gray