Elementary Report Cards for Marking Period 3 are currently being processed and will be available to parents in ParentConnect, Monday, April 6, 2020. Student marks were calculated based on work assigned through March 12.

Following is some information on how parents can access report card data in MIStar ParentConnect. Please note that if you have more than one child, you should be able to see data for all your children and you do not need separate logins for the different schools (if your children attend more than one school).

How do parents login to ParentConnect? To login to ParentConnect, parents need their PIN and password; this is how it is obtained: Parents go to the Dearborn Schools’ website (dearbornschools.org) and then the ParentConnect link. If they don’t know the login info, they click (Need Your Login Information) link and it will prompt them to enter their email address (as provided to the school and entered in MIStar), and then click Submit. This process emails them their PIN and Password. After logging in, click on “report card marks” module.

Next week begins Spring Break from April 6-10. You will not be expected to complete any home school work. I would like to meet with you on Hangouts or Zoom next week Tuesday or Wednesday. I’ll let you know. See you soon. Ms. Truxall

How is everyone? Hope all is well and everyone is healthy and happy. Keep going with your home school routines. You are doing so well! Continue working on all the websites and your math homework book. Also keep working on your biography. A few of you sent me your final copy of the paper. I didn’t give a due date but try to get it done by next Thursday, April 9. Thank you.

Miss you all so much! Hope all is well with you and your family. Just wanted to remind you to work on your Eureka Math Succeed Homework Math Book. Work on 3-5 lessons for the week. Many of you are ahead in Zearn. Hip, Hip, Hooray for you! Awesome job. Keep going with Zearn. I hope you are enjoying Epic. There are a lot of wonderful books for you to read! Keep working hard!

Good Morning Class!! We are beginning week 3 of Home School. This week’s Spelling words are: chore, roar, board, snore, wore, shore, oar, aboard, score, tore. Academic Vocabulary words are non-living, plan, revise, energy, exercise.

Home Work Reminders: Students should work on Zearn, Moby Max, Raz kids and Epic for reading, Journal-writing each day, Spelling and ABC ya. I’d also like the students to complete our Biography that we has started on couple weeks ago.

Biography- Before the school shut down, our class was working on biographies. We used the website Ducksters.com and google docs to work on the paper. I’d like the students to revisit our work, complete the biography and send it to me via google docs. The famous people they could choose from included, Sacagawea, Neil Armstrong, Henry Ford, and Rosa Parks. Some of the children wanted to choose from the previous list we already wrote about. They included George Washington, Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King Jr. Anyway, the criteria for the paper is to have an interesting beginning, introduce the famous person, include birth and death dates(if applicable), include interesting facts, tell why they are famous or what are they well-known for, and an interesting ending. The paper should be at least 5 – 8 sentences long. Students can use Ducksters.com to research information about their person and use google docs to write the report. We, as a class, have discussed how important is is NOT to copy the words from ducksters but to rewrite the information into your own words. This can be a challenge and where your child may need your help and guidance. Pictures from the internet can be included in the report. I have not had a chance to instruct the students how to include a picture so that portion is optional. Almost everyone had started the report so your child should be able to find it his/her google docs. Let me know if you have any questions.

It has been brought to my attention that Epic wasn’t working for some. I put in all the parent emails. You should be getting an invite soon in your email. Follow the instructions and use the class code I blogged earlier. This should free until the end of the school year. Let me know if you need help and I’ll do my best to help. Thanks!

Please continue working on Zearn. 3-5 lessons per week is acceptable. Please have your child complete lessons in the homework book as well. Students can turn pages in to me when we return to school.

Moby Max- Please have your child continue on the Reading Contest. Students can choose Reading Skills Literature and Informational, Vocabulary, and Phonics. All those skills count for the contest. There are other choices to do that are fun and interesting too!

Raz Kids and Epic- Epic is new and I just put our class in this morning. See previous blog post for directions. Students should choose books and read for at least 20 min per day.

Journal- Your child should write a journal each day. He/She can write the journal on googledocs and send it to me or write it on paper and turn it in when we all come back together. I have had parents take a picture of the written journal and send it to me. You can choose to do that too!

Spelling- Practice spelling the words by writing them in sentences, doing some of the activities we did in class like painting, if you have paints. Write words 3 times each, whatever you like.

ABCya- Have your child visit site and explore reading and math.

Let me know if you need any help. Stay well and healthy!

I have a new website for all of you to visit. Its called Epic. You can click on various books to read or have it read to you. There are so many titles to explore. Epic can be used on the computer, laptop or your phone. For the phone, it will let you install the app. Here’s how to get started- getepic.com Then put in the class code. Class code is swm-1182 Then you will see your name. Its that easy. Happy Reading!

Good Morning to all! Hope all is well with everyone. Starting week 2 of online learning. Hopefully you have had an easy time getting on the websites and enjoying the learning. Keep going. Just about all of you have been earning contest points on Moby Max! Just a reminder that there are lots of things to do on Moby Max. They won’t count for the Reading Contest but that’s ok. Check out the Science and Social Studies!

Spelling for this week: near, deer, where, gear, peer, fear, steer, there, rear, cheer, Academic Vocabulary: cause, effect, famous, opinion and publish

Please send me your journal if you are writing them on google docs.

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https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/puchals/