Since I’ve got the time today! 🙂

First I completely forgot to blog post yesterday! I understand about the math lesson and it’s disaster! Thanks to the parents who brought it to my attention. When we practiced and I worked with them on problems they were “adding” but then some of the gear problems wanted them to subtract. By that point they were doing it independently. Eureka was using the word fewer in multiple problems and the kids were getting confused and not reading the whole problems. I realized yesterday when I saw the first email but we skipped math Wednesday because we had to do the valentines crafts instead. We are ahead in math so next week we will spend 2 days re-doing some problems and practicing more from lessons 3 and 4 before moving on. I had already printed additional practice problems yesterday before we left at the end of the day.

The students all know we are taking the spelling test tomorrow to finish this weeks benchmark up. Lots of conversations about our story and being nice. This week has been about kindness with valentines day so they matched perfectly. Yesterday afternoon we did an activity with filling in hearts with describing words for our friends and they each got to fill out everyone else’s book! It was so cool and I can’t wait for you to see them on Friday! I looked through them last night as I was adding my finishing touches on the project. It was super cool to see some of the creative things they wrote about each other. <3

We made valentines for our special education buddy classroom! On Friday we will deliver them! They each cut out the heart, wrote happy valentines day, and drew pictures. They are SO EXCITED to pass them out to them! (A lot of these students have allergies so we couldn’t just add them into our counts with what they brought from home even though I thought about it…. I did not want to give them things they potentially could not have and then it have to be taken away)

Not only did we work on writing about each other we also worked on some self love- This was titled a sweetheart activity. Thinking and writing about things we LOVE about ourselves. They are hanging in the hallway for all to see but I couldn’t help snapping a pic to post for you all to see as well. (I will put the picture at the bottom of this post).

Unfortunately with WIDA testing I wasn’t able to teach science and social studies this week. They seemed to pull each afternoon to complete that testing and its super hard to teach with so many gone! We will just push those lessons to next week because everyone is officially done with the wida test now for second grade.

Remember— If you haven’t sent in valentines yet you need to on Friday! We pass them out!

Also ——send in popcorn money in folders if you want to buy some! $1 per bag. They will be passed out at dismissal.

I will see all my friends bright and early Friday morning! We have the spelling test then off to the Micheal Berry side to play and learn with the high school students wanting to become Dental hygienists.

Enjoy your snow day!

Greetings, 

Due to a forecasted heavy snowfall and wintery mix of ice and snow, all Dearborn Public Schools will be closed on Thursday, February 13, 2025. 

Please stay safe. 

(I’m sure you all heard but posting just in case……)

Scholastic news homework tonight. Please complete and send in tomorrow!

Field trip (another) form coming home today! It is bright green. This is a district required field trip for all second graders. It is free and only for two hours. We have chaperones already so I just need the permission slips signed for them to go. Please let me know if you have any questions.

These weeks seem to be flying by…. so fast. I can not believe next week is already valentines week.

Lots of things coming home today…. most important being the Iready scores. I was so excited to see how many of their scores went up and they did better. We are going to continue to work on things and practice the standards that I know are addressed in both the Iready assessment and what is graded on report cards. The next step for most of them in the reading test is going to be to write a sentence answer and type it into the computer. If they have a purple box on iready pathways to practice that means that will come up on their spring test. We will start practicing this in class to get used to it so I can assist them in this process as well. It is all a learning curve and not as simple as choosing the right answer once they get to a certain level. As for the math scores we did not do any of the geometry lessons before taking the test which included time. So many missed those questions simply because we had not covered this. We will continue practicing those and reviewing before the spring even though our next module is back to adding and subtracting. Overall as long as their score went up I was pleased with the progress. I know they tried their best and testing is never easy. Please email me if you have any questions.

Even with missing the day we are going to keep pushing ahead. Next week Valentines are due by Wednesday (2/12) please! Make sure the bag is labeled so I know who is passing them out. Each child should have 19 to pass out. We have lots of cute projects to do throughout the week talking about kindness and what we love about ourselves.

Make sure you are subscribed to the school blog… They post lunch choices each morning and with the days off and deliveries being affected I have had some complaints from students that the choice isn’t what the paper calendar says. Lunch is posted everyday around 730 am so you know before school in case a lunch from home is wanted.

We did science experiments this week and it was QUITE THE MESS! But fun… the pictures were posted on the school instagram if you haven’t seen them yet 🙂

In social studies more practice to come with map reading. That homework was supposed to be a review… those were the first grade standards (knowing north/south/east/west and answering questions related to a map). I will find more practice for us to do in that area while we continue on with the social studies lessons. Some will be done in class and some will come home for homework. We are trying to squeeze in so much that occasionally I’m gonna have to send home undone things like that just because we ran out of time.

Last– Field trip papers to The Henry Ford Museum are not due until the 21st. If you DO NOT send in money I will assume no one is chaperoning and put your child in a group with others.

Have a great weekend! <3

Greetings, 

Due to predicted extreme weather that could bring hazardous conditions in the morning, all Dearborn Public Schools will be closed on Thursday, February 6, 2025.

Those involved in athletic programs taking part later in the day on February 6th will be notified regarding the status of activities. 

Please be safe! 

I am so excited we have FINALLY finished all of our testing! Reading level scores are coming home in today’s folders and Iready will come home next week. We still have some sick students with makeups. So all grades will be sending them home next Friday.

Just a heads up lots of mistakes on the math iready with adding and subtracting from the tens column first which got wrong answers! We are practicing fluency facts on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday so that hopefully will be addressed the more we practice but I wanted you aware so you could watch at home. We always add and subtract starting in the ones place. Next week we will begin Eureka math module 4 and this is adding and subtracting through 1000. So we add in the hundreds column now too!

I forgot to add on my Valentines letter that all valentines are due by Wednesday, February 12th! This gives me time to sort and make sure everyone has something to pass out. Please label the bag with your child’s name. If anyone is able to donate aldi bags again I would be grateful… that is the easiest way for them to get all of their goodies home that day. We have 19 students.

For the all school field trip to the Henry Ford Museum not all students have to have a chaperone. We will do groups of 4. So I am looking for 4-5 parents. (* If you all want to come that is fine though to….). All paperwork for that field trip is due by February 21st but you can turn in sooner if you want.

Next week we continue with science, start social studies map unit, begin benchmark unit 6 on characters, and start eureka math module 4! Rest up this weekend… we will need lots of brain power next week! 🙂

Have a great weekend!

Hello Families!

We are excited to announce we are having a Buddy Classroom field trip. Montessori classrooms and lower elementary special education classrooms will be visiting The Henry Ford Museum on Friday, April 4th.

A few notes:

*All paperwork is coming home in your child’s folder today!

*All Kindergarten/1st graders will need an adult chaperone. (Montessori classrooms)

*Students will come to school then ride the bus to the museum. All chaperones will meet us at the museum. 

*No siblings allowed. 

*All paperwork and money is Due on Friday, February 21st. 

(firm deadline– we need to give numbers to them and get a check before spring break and that takes a few weeks).

Super short week so these will be quick updates…

New books for book bags coming home on Monday. Just didn’t have time to get them pulled and get them out with the testing and juggling everything else this short week. I told them they can read library books or books at home until I get them new ones next week.

Next week we will be on Benchmark Unit 5 Week 3. We saved all of the spelling words and writing for that. So they get 2 weeks with these simple words! (brown, now, count, out, cow, owl, house, round, mouth, and town). I gave a new spelling choice board and told them to do 2 boxes they did not do last week and then do one repeat for a total of only 3 boxes due next Friday. You will see the date with Jan 31st 🙂 If they did not bring the old choice board today I told them to bring it on Monday.

We did not get to Science this week with the short days and testing as well! Hoping next week we can get back to normal! Testing always adds in many more to dos….

Today we had an assembly… Super U. About being kind, following the rules, doing your work, and being a great friend. The kids enjoyed it and it was fun to spend our morning laughing and playing contest games with each other. Nice way to end a crazy cold week.

Have a great weekend! 🙂

With three days off this week we are going to push Benchmark week 3 back to next week. We will not have time to cover what we need to along with finishing the iready math test. So they will get another week until we take the spelling test.

Please go to bed early tonight and have a good breakfast tomorrow morning before school! We will take the math iready first thing in the morning and finish up on Friday.

See the message below from the District office:

Greetings, 

Due to actual temperatures reaching single digits and below and windchill temperatures reaching -20 degrees, all Dearborn Public Schools will be closed on Tuesday, January 21 and Wednesday, January 22, 2025.

We look forward to seeing everyone back in school on Thursday morning.   

Here’s a link to our Cold Day closing- 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1edvXeqjD8qTCh0_F1BvH8qgyNWoTadrA/view?usp=sharing

Stay warm and be safe!