Week of 10-10-2022

Good morning! This Wednesday, 10/12/22 is a late start for students. It is hard to believe but we are about 2 weeks away from the first report cards being turned in. If your student is missing lots of work in Schoology, students have until Friday to get it submitted. Please have them take you to the ELA course in Schoology and take you to their grade book. You can also have them click the Dearborn Schools icon in the upper left corner of Schoology and their late work will show up on the left. After this Friday, I will not have time to grade late work and get it submitted in time. If you have questions, please let me know.

This week:

Spelling: https://quizlet.com/_a4p7cm?x=1jqt&i=xp8qf

ELA- We are focusing on character traits and understanding the motivation behind a character’s choices. Reading groups will continue to meet each day.

Writing- We are currently working on writing an opinion piece. This week we will be planning our writing and working on pulling evidence to support our opinions.

Math- We just started module 2 which is metric conversions. We are going to continue to practice converting metric measurements to other metric measurements.

Science- We are working on the human body unit. We are in the middle of building eye models and learning how the nervous and muscular systems work together to help make our vision possible.

Social Studies- We are working on the geography of the USA. We have broken the US down into regions and continue to learn about those regions.

Have a great week.

Week of 9-19-22

This week we are off and running in every subject. Please see below to see what we are working on in every subject.

Reading- This week we are working on identifying key details in an informational text. DRAs are continuing and so are our daily book clubs.

Writing- We are working on an informational piece of writing. Our focus is on identifying and fixing fragments.

Spelling- Our list is a review of short and long /e/ sounds in words. Our list is here https://quizlet.com/_8t3iri?x=1jqt&i=xp8qf

Math- We are working on the second part of module 1. The focus is on rounding to a given specific place value using number lines.

Science- Our human body unit continues. We will build a robotic hand to look at how muscles and bones work together.

Social Studies- As we continue working on regions of the US, we will focus on cultural differences in each region.

Have a great week.

Week of 9-12-22

Friday of this week is a half day for students with dismissal at 12:05. The PTA sent home information on Friday for the Pizza Kit fundraiser they are doing. Please see the flyers for more information.

This week:

Math- We are working on rounding numbers to the thousands place value and higher. Our Module 1 mid-module assessment will be Thursday or Friday depending on how we do with the lessons before then.

Reading- This week we are focusing on asking and answering questions while reading informational text. Students also started their first full week of Unit 1 Benchmark. As part of this unit, we will be writing our first informational pieces of writing with a focus on animals. Reading groups are launching this week and you will see students coming home with strategy work if they can’t finish it during their reading time. If they finish their reading group work at school, they should still be reading for 15 minutes in the evening.

Science- This week launches our life cycle unit on the systems of the human body. First up is the nervous system. We also are beginning to track our aquaponic tank and the growth of the seeds we have planted in it.

Social Studies- We are working on creating a flap book on the different regions of the USA. Today we broke up the US map into the 5 main regions and we will be learning about each one.

Spelling- We are working on long and short /a/ sounds. Students can sort the words by their vowel sounds or blend. Their Quizlet is due Friday. https://quizlet.com/_a4bzq3?x=1jqt&i=xp8qf

Have a great week!

Week of 9-20-21

Hello everyone, this week we are starting our full normal schedule. We have finished almost all assessments besides a few in reading. Please see below for a list of what we will be covering this week. Students will start having reading group homework this week with a specific strategy and assignment they need to work on. Some students may complete it in class. They still have 20 minutes of reading every night if they do not finish. Planners have been ordered but have been backordered. I am hoping to have them soon. We are using a printed calendar until the planners arrive.

4th grade:

Reading- This week we are focusing on asking and answering questions, determining the main idea with supporting ideas, and correcting sentence fragments

Writing- We have started working on an informational piece of writing based on our Benchmark informational texts.

Spelling- https://quizlet.com/_8t3iri?x=1jqt&i=xp8qf

Math- We are working place value this unit. Specifically, we are working on multiplying and dividing up to a million, by powers of ten

Science- We began working on animal systems. We will be focusing on the nervous system and how the eye works for the next few weeks.

Social Studies- We are working on the US government and it is similar to the branches in the Michigan Government.

5th Grade

Reading- This week we are focusing on asking and answering questions, determining the main idea with supporting ideas, and correcting sentence fragments

Writing- We have started working on an informational piece of writing based on our Benchmark informational texts.

Spelling- https://quizlet.com/_9yr6te?x=1jqt&i=xp8qf

Math- We are working place value this unit. Specifically, we are working on multiplying and dividing decimals to the thousandths place, by powers of ten

Science- We began working on animal systems. We will be focusing on the nervous system and how the systems work together for survival in different environments

Social Studies- We are working on our review of the US government and how it was formed.

Have a great week!

Week of 9-21-20

We are off and running this year. The students and families have been handling the new technology with such wonderful attitudes. I have been so impressed and am even more excited to spend the year working with everyone. We are currently NWEA testing and taking our DRA reading assessments. After these are completed we will set up reading groups and we will begin working on some exciting projects. We will have another round of supply pick-ups coming up soon for some materials for an in-class field trip, reading group books, and books that the students would like to borrow from my classroom library. More information will be released about this soon.

Have a great week!

Week of 9-15-20

We have so many things going with WIDA, NWEA, and DRA tesing. I working on making it a least stessfull on everyone. Reach out to me on Schoolog and we can resolve the isues. The students are doing great adjusting to the art class an music class but hopefully that is taken care of:

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4- working on place values with base tens and subtractions with exponents.

5th- We are moving into metric measurements in relation to meters, inches, millimeters, and so on. If you are stuck in the lesson, have your student play the Eureka video in our INSycp program and you can read a parent helper and you see a video on the entire lesson.I hope this helps with that

Thanks for a great few weeks!

Good afternoon everyone. Thank you to everyone who I missed when calling that have been emailing me, messaging me, and/or signing up for a material pick-up time slot. If you did not receive a call or voicemail from me, I may have the incorrect contact info and please let me know. I wanted to update you on information about tomorrow. We will not be meeting live tomorrow or Tuesday due to the supply pick ups. We will having our first meeting on Wednesday at 8:55. The Zoom meeting link and passcode are posted in our Schoology Homeroom. You will have access to this tomorrow. Each students needs to log into Schoology tomorrow and explore the homeroom site. The other courses will be there but they will not show content until later in the week. There is a discussion post in our classroom rules and expectations folder. The students should read the directions on the discussion and complete the task. I have also create a resource folder for parents in the Homeroom and you can use this to watch videos and read directions for any task you need to complete in Zoom or Schoology. Feel free to post or interact with anything in the course and on the course update feed. The update feed which you will see under the Updates tab is basically where I will post things once we phase out Dojo. If you have issues logging in or questions about the Homeroom, please let me know and I will answer your questions. On Tuesday we will have a new task set up in the Homeroom for students to complete and we will be continuing with our meet and greet material pick-ups. I look forward to seeing and speaking with everyone soon. Below is information on how students will log into Schoology tomorrow:

Schoology will be available for students Monday morning. They will sign in using Google (Dearborn Account)

To sign in to a Chromebook, students use their district credentials:
– User Name = Student Number
– Password = whatever they set it as last year, we did NOT change any passwords. New students will have their passwords set to their birthday (MMDDYYYY) as per MiStar.

Students can access Schoology from the Student Portal on the district web site (Staff can use the Staff Portal).
*Students using district issued Chromebooks will have two tabs open upon start up, the district student portal page AND the Schoology page.

If you are not on a school provided Chromebook or if your tab doesn’t show up, click this link and then click Schoology. https://dearbornschools.org/student-portal/

Welcome to our 2020-2021 4th grade/5th grade split

Welcome to our 4/5 split grade class for the 2020/2021 school year! We will not be using Dojo for the entire course of the year but we will be until everything is up and running and everyone is feeling comfortable with Schoology. Please join our class Dojo if you have not already done so. I have sent messages to the families who were not previously on Dojo with sign up codes. Below will be a link for you to sign up for a meet and greet/material pick up next week. We have limited spots available due to pick-ups with all classes and social distancing requirements. If you or your student is not able to make it to one of these time slots, please let me know. We have to wear a mask and socially distance during the meet and greet. Please meet at the upper elementary blacktop during your time slot and you may want to bring your book bag for the supplies/materials. I can’t wait to meet everyone who is new to my class and to see everyone who I was fortunate enough to work with last year. There will not be a live meeting Monday or Tuesday due to these meetings but we will have I will get a meeting link posted for Wednesday. I will also be sending out more information on our Schoology launch as I receive it. Please do not stress about these new tools as we will practice them together and I will be working with the students in our live meetings on how to use our new tools. Let me know how I can make this transition as smooth as possible for you and your student.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0F44ADAD2EAAF94-meetgreet

2020-2021 Supply Lists

Below is the 4th/5th grade supply list for the students in my class for both virtual remote learning and for our return to school. Please contact me if you have any question. I can’t wait to work with you all!

Mr. Hawkins 4th/5th grade

Virtual Supplies- Mr. Hawkins 4th/5th Grade 

  • 6 spiral notebooks
    • Blue        Reading
    • Red        Social Studies
    • Green     science
    • Black      Vocabulary  
    • Yellow     Math
    • Purple     Language/Grammar 
  • 2 packs of pencils 
  • 1 small pencil sharpeners
  • Ruler with metric and standard
  • Small Dry erase board
  • 4 of dry erase markers
  • Dry erase board eraser or old sock to use
  • Crayons
  • Earbuds

In person supplies (when we return to face to face instruction)

  • 1 ream of white copy paper
  • 5-single subject spiral notebooks-different colors if possible for each subject
  • 4 packs of pencils pre-sharpened
  • 1 pack of colored pencils
  • 1 pack of markers
  • 1 set of earbuds to keep in your desk (no full headphones
  • 1 duo tang pocket folders 
  • 4 glue sticks 
  • 3 packs of dry erase markers 
  • 2 highlighters
  • 1 pair of student scissors with the student’s name written on them. 
  • 2 packs of wide-ruled loose-leaf paper
  • 2 packets of large Sticky notes 
  • 1 pencil box
  • 2 boxes of tissues with student name written on them
  • 2 pack of 3×5 notecards
  • 1 ruler with centimeters and inches
  • A small hand sanitizer to keep in their desk
  • Disinfectant wipes for their desk 
  • Small pencil sharpener that will collect shavings

Optional supplies if you would like to donate

  • Gallon size Ziplock slider bags and Quart size Ziplock slider bags
  • Packs of bright or neon-colored cardstock
  • Packs of brightly colored/neon printer paper
  • Extra glue sticks, markers, colored pencils, notebooks, for students who weren’t able to get supplies
  • Extra boxes of tissue, disinfectant wipes, and sanitizer 
  • Extra dry erase markers