First Graders will be traveling to Upland Hills Farm on Thursday, October 20th.  Mrs. Kearney planned this trip and will send home information on it soon.  I will be sending my first graders with Mrs. Kearney and Mrs. Slater’s classes, along with parent chaperones.  Please be sure to fill out a criminal convictions note in the school office if you’d like to chaperone.  This must be processed through the Dearborn Police and usually takes about 10 days.  If you already filled this out last year, you are good to go!  Your background check is still good, yet needs to be updated every 3 years in our office.

Thank you and look for a permission slip in your child’s folder in the next week or so.

Mrs. Kearney’s email is:   kearneb@dearbornschools.org

2nd grade parents – I will let you know when a 2nd grade trip is planned. 🙂

Good morning parents,

I hope that you are staying dry!

To help your child meet his/her end of the year NWEA Goal you can go on the Dearborn Public Schools website and go under RESOURCES (on top right), then select STUDENTS.  Then find USEFUL LINKS and click on NWEA RIT Practice  https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/nweapractice/  Once you are there, click the area of your child’s RIT score.  (This is the score that I circled on your child’s NWEA report that I sent home 2 days ago.)

For example:  My child scored 181 in math, I would click on the 181 section in math.  Choose any of the blue links to work on skills in the 181 RIT level. The same thing applies for reading.  

Thank you for your support at home.

Your child’s NWEA Student Progress Report will be coming home today.  I circled your child’s fall score and attached a grade equivalent chart.

Grade Equivalent numbers starting with the number zero represent kindergarten level.  Exs:  0.5 is kindergarten 5th month; 1.6 is first grade 6th month,  and 2.3 is second grade 3rd month.

Please let me know of any questions that you may have.  We will be retesting in January.

Thank you.

Good morning!

Snow School’s Picture Day will be October 10th.  Order forms will come home today.  If you’d like to purchase school photos, please return the form on the 10th.  Thank you.

Books bags are coming home this evening.  Please return them to school each Friday.  Students must read each book to help build reading fluency, accuracy and comprehension.  Inside the bag, there is a book log to keep track of books read and comprehension questions to ask your child during and after reading.  Thank you for your support at home.  Please let me know of any questions!

NWEA scores will come home this week. 🙂

Thank you for visiting and signing up for conferences on Open House evening.  For those who were unable to attend open house, I signed you up in our open slots.  If these times do not work for you, please send me an email and we can reschedule.  grizzed@dearbornschools.org

Here is our schedule:

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10:

3:40  McKenna

4:20  Charlotte

4:40  Susan

5:00 Sara A.

5:20  Aasim

5:40 Ty

6:00  Farah

6:20  Zoe

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16:

4:00  Luke

4:20  Kasey

4:40 Blaire

5:00  Vinny

5:20  Adam

5:40  Ryan

6:00  Maggie

6:20  Kayla

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17:

4:00  Sara S.

4:20  Emma

4:40  DMario

5:00  Isabella

5:20  Ahmad

5:40  Noor

The following students improved their reading lexile over the summer through the M&M challenge:

1st Grade:

DMario, Charlotte, Adam & Zoe

2nd Grade:

Sara A., Maggie, Susan, Farah, Vinny, Ryan and Izzy

They were rewarded with a M&M ice cream treat after lunch on Friday!  Great commitment and dedication over the summer boys and girls!  We will continue to use MYON and MobyMax in the classroom during Daily 5 to help improve our reading lexiles.  Students are encouraged to go on these websites at home.  If you are having trouble getting on these websites from home, please refer to my previous blog post.

Snow’s first PTA meeting of the 2016-2017 school year will take place on Thursday, October 6 at 6:00 p.m. in the Snow Media Center.  Everyone is welcome.  Items will be discussed pertaining to events, funds, and information about the school.

Dues for becoming a member are $6.00 per person.  Pay by cash or check made payable to “Snow PTA”.

The class with the highest percentage of paid PTA members per student by Friday, October 7 wins extra recess, cider and donuts!  Anyone can be a PTA member:  moms, dads, grandparents, guardians etc.  🙂

Any questions?  please contact Reagan Davis: davis.reagan@gmail.com   or  Mike Ghrist:  ghristmike@gmail.com

For PTA updates throughout the year:  check out the PTA blog – https://parents.dearbornschools.org/snow/

or visit PTA’s Facebook Page:  Snow School PTA

Thank you for supporting our Snow PTA!

Good evening,

Here are directions on how your child can improve his/her reading skills on a home computer or electronic device:

Go to the Dearborn Public School Home Page

On the right side go to RESOURCES, click STUDENTS

Then SCROLL down on the left side until you see CLEVER (blue link).

Click CLEVER (blue link)

Then it will ask student to ALLOW the computer to use their student number.  CLICK ALLOW

Then it will ask for their email: studentnumber@dearbornschools.org and THEN their password (b-day)

MYON and MOBY MAX icon links will be live to Click

MYON USERS: IF you have a tablet (IPad) you will need to click on the tablet (BLUE BOX) next to your avatar.  When you click the tablet it will give you a secret code for you to login.

Thank you for your support in helping your child succeed in school!