Congrats to Noor for being our October Student of the Month!

Also congrats to our homework club! They were Amal, Mona, Hussein, Jenna & Ali O.

Thanks for your hard work students.

We had such a great time at our Halloween party. Here are some pictures from our day:

Such a great time at the apple orchard. Thank you to the chaperones who came with us!

Here are a few pictures from our firefighter visitor’s presentation and from our field trip to the firehouse!

Congrats to Ayah J. for being September’s student of the month for our classroom!

Congrats to September Homework club! Thank you girls for working so hard!

Our Freckle class code is “Hankag”.

On Freckle, students will be practicing both math and ELA.

The ELA practice is both fiction and nonfiction passages where students will have to answer comprehension questions after reading a short article. These questions are very similar to questions that students see on NWEA and also will see on M-Step at the end of the year. This website is great practice for the students and it will reinforce the skills we are working on in the classroom. Please encourage your students to take their time and try their best on these assignments! Students will need to provide evidence sentence stems and cite a piece of evidence for their answers. These passages are assigned to them at their level so students should be able to do this practice independently.

The math has two components. The first part is fact practice that should be done daily. This reviews basic facts that students should have memorized. This should take about two minutes for students to complete. No work is needed for these problems. The targeted practice I assign will reinforce skills that we are going over in class or have previously gone over. Students will need to show work in their notebooks to show how they found their answers.

Hello! Welcome to my first blog post for this brand new school year! I am looking forward to a great year! I will try and post pictures, updates and information on here as often as I can! Although I have this blog, the majority of my posts will be on remind. This application is much easier to manage, access, and communicate through. If you are not signed up for my class on remind, please do so as soon as possible. I will send home a paper on how to sign up for this or you can come see me if you need assistance.

One thing that I wanted to update you about is the importance of students reading at home. With the new Read by Third law it is very important that students are completing their reading at home. Here are some steps we are doing as a building to ensure that our students are at the reading levels they need to be:

1. Reading book bags will go home daily
2. Students must read books:
   1. K-1 (15+ minutes daily)
   2. 2-5 (30+ minutes daily)
3. Students will complete a reading assignment daily
4. Reading Logs– Signed daily by parents
5. Online reading websites through the District homepage (CLEVER) https://dearbornschools.org/  and in our Monthly Newsletter

Please make sure that you do see your child taking out their book bag everyday and practicing reading those books. Please also sign the reading log that will be in your child’s folder. There are questions that your child will be filling out based on the book that they chose to read to reinforce the importance of your child comprehending what they are reading. These need to include the sentence stems if given, and be answered in complete sentences. Please do not sign unless you see that student’s are trying their best and taking the time to complete this reading log. Thank you for your support.

I look forward to another great school year!

Thank you,

Ms. Hankard

Here are a few pictures from our field trips throughout the year!

Apple Orchard:

Skyzone:

We had so much fun for our Halloween celebration!

Good afternoon! I will try and post pictures, updates and information on here when I get the chance to! Although I have this blog, the majority of my posts will be on remind. This application is much easier to manage, access, and communicate through. If you are not signed up for my class on remind, please do so as soon as possible.

One thing that I wanted to update you about is the importance of students reading at home. With the new Read by Third law it is very important that students are completing their reading at home. Here are some steps we are doing as a building to ensure that our students are at the reading levels they need to be:

1. Reading book bags will go home daily

2. Students must read books:

   1. K-1 (15+ minutes daily)

   2. 2-5 (30+ minutes daily)

3. Students will complete a reading assignment daily

4. Book Logs– Signed daily by parents

Online reading websites through the District homepage (CLEVER) https://dearbornschools.org/  and in our Monthly Newsletter

Please make sure that you do see your child taking out their book bag everyday and practicing reading those books. Please also sign the reading log that will be in your child’s folder. There are questions on the back of the reading log that you may ask your child to reinforce the importance of your child comprehending what they are reading. Thank you for your support. I hope to add some pictures later tonight!

Thank you,

Ms. Hankard