Category Archives: Community Events

Week of 11-6-17

This week we have many things going on. The students have no school tomorrow because of the election. Mrs. Parana is taking the girls to the firehouse and parent-teacher conferences start on Thursday. If you haven’t already signed up, please do so today on the Dojo link or a slot will be assigned to you. Our classroom bakesale is on Friday and we are looking for snack donations and parents who are able to pop popcorn, set up the table and sell at the end of the day Friday. If you are able to do any of these things, please let me know ASAP. Thanks in advance for helping raise money for classroom supplies.

This week:

Spelling: 3rd-button, rabbit, soccer, tunnel, better, letter, kitten, cotton, dinner, happen, better, fiction, predict, character, author, traits

4th: serpent, sternly, swirl, blurred, purpose, curve, carpenter, turnip, twirl, curler, Upper Peninsula, Dearborn, Michigan, United States, plains

Math: 3rd Grade-We are focusing on area models and introducing multiplication through area models

4th Grade- We are still working on factoring and multiples

Science-3rd- Mrs. Parana

4th Grade- Newtons laws of motion and transfer of energy in a collision

Writing-Students are working on restating the question in the form of a constructed response. This will be an expectation for all questions for the rest of the year and beyond.

Social Studies- 3rd- Mrs. Parana

4th-Immigration push and pull factors

Daily 5- We are working on going back to the text to find specific answers and close reading skills like highlighting important information and annotating the margins of a text.

We are still collecting BoxTops and Coke caps so keep sending them in. We are currently in the lead for the Sept./Oct. contest but we are waiting for the final count tally! We are also collecting canned food for Gleaners Food Bank until November 20th. The winning class will win a $5 gift card from Yogurtopia for each student! I hope we can get some great donations for people in need!

Have a great week.

 

Week of 10-23-17

Hello everyone, I hope your weekend was relaxing. This week is Fall Fest on Friday. A sheet should be coming home. We are looking for volunteers to set up and work the event so if you are interested in volunteering for a shift, send an email to ptanowlin@dearbornschools.org and let the PTA know. They would really appreciate the help! The US Government provides a free national park pass to all 4th grade students. I have registered for these and will be sending one home with each 4th grader. It is good for the year so you can get out and enjoy some of the beautiful parks offered in our State or beyond.

Spelling:

3rd grade: Practice words at https://quizlet.com/_3wv11s

Words: chip, shell, bath, shin, three, reasons, conclusion, because, believe, chop, ship, shop, thin, chin, think

4th Grade: Practice words at https://quizlet.com/_3wv27m

Homework: Put the words in ABC order and turn in by Thursday or Sign your student’s planner that they practiced the words at the link above for at least 20 minutes.

Words: redeem, relieve, even, equal, scene, cedar, between, precede, beneath, believe, environment, habitat, characteristic, adaptation, survival

Math- Both grades are working on extended addition and subtraction problems. We will be introducing the three forms of every number and there will a study guide and test towards the end of the week.

Science- 3rd-Mrs. Parana

4th-We are working on electrical circuits and creating different types of circuits

Writing-We are starting to learn about using evidence to support a claim for opinion writing. This will be our unit for the next few weeks

Daily 5-Daily book clubs are continuing with students having 30 minutes of reading EVERY night. This is extremely important. We are working on both fluency and comprehension so have them read to you so you can listen to their rate of reading and if they are pausing at ending marks. Then ask them questions about what they read.

Social Studies: We are starting unit 2 which focuses on how human interaction with the environment and each other play different roles in our country. The 3rd grade is with Mrs. Paranas Class.

Keep sending in Coke Caps and BoxTops as the contest is continuing through the rest of the month. Many of the classes are close to first place, including ours! Keep up the great work.

Week of 10-9-17

Hello everyone. This month is completely flying by! We are over a month into the school year and I am already seeing growth with the students. This week we have many things going on. On Tuesday, I have DTE Energy coming in to run experiments with the 4th graders during science. Each 4th grader will be coming home with a gift from DTE. On Friday. our building will kick off its PBIS practice with an assembly in the morning. It is a half day so remember the kids need to be picked up early. In the evening on the 13th, Nowlin PTA is hosting a really fun Halloween themed skating party at the Lincoln Park Skating center. Information will be coming home this week and the PTA will begin to presell tickets for $5 a person which covers entrance and rentals. The cost will be $7.00 at the door so I recommend grabbing them early from one of the PTA board members. Costumes are welcome. I hope to see everyone there.

In class this week:

Math: Both grades are working on mastering addition and subtraction of larger numbers. We are struggling with numbers over two digits so we will continue working. If you have Khan Academy access at home, I encourage your students to work through the tutorials on here for addition and subtraction, at home.

Science: 3rd-Forces and Motion with Mrs. Parana

4th- We are looking at energy and transfer of energy. We are going to be studying parallel circuits and creating them this week.

Social Studies-3rd-Parana

4th-We are finishing up our regions unit and we will be taking the Wayne County assessment on Thursday. Watch for the study guide to come home.

Writing-We are focusing on verbs and adverbs this week. We will be finding ways to make our writing more exciting through the use of verbs and learning different ways to hook the reader with our writing.

Daily 5-Book Clubs will continue with each group working on a different strategy. If your student is at home reading out loud to you, encourage them to read with inflection that is appropriate with the ending mark. We are moving past “Robot Reading” and trying to make our reading sound like we are talking.

Spelling:You can view or practice the spelling words by clicking on the links below

3rd- https://quizlet.com/_3u51ry

4th https://quizlet.com/_3u52ww

Have a great week everyone!

Open House

It is hard to believe but Open House is tomorrow 9-14-17. Open House will be open from 6:00 pm-7:30pm. I hope everyone can come and visit our classroom as well as stop by to meet all of the new staff members we are welcoming to the Nowlin Family. There will be several groups such as the Boy Scouts and the Nowlin PTA here as well signing up members. Please consider joining the PTA as it is already doing wonderful things for the school such as our Ice Cream Social last week and we are working on purchases throughout the building to go directly to things to be used by the students. I really hope you can join, volunteer and make sure you have followed their Facebook group to stay up on all of the meetings, events, and news. I can’t wait to see everyone tomorrow.

Week of 3-15-16

Hello everyone,

I apologize for the late update this week. It is flying by!

As a reminder, we do not have school this Friday or next week for Spring Break. I hope everyone gets to do something fun! As soon as we return, students begin their M-Step and NWEA testing. I will be sending home a sheet of paper with your students current NWEA scores on it. On the back of the page is a list of websites that will let your student practice what they need to learn, according to their score. I highly encourage daily practice on these sites and Mobymax, Front Row Ed or Myon. I would hate to see any student scores dip down because they got a bit foggy over break. If you have questions on this sheet, please send me a note! Please watch the following video about the new M-Step so you will have an idea of all that is expected of your student on this test.

Video about M-Step

 

This week:

Spelling: We are focusing on the ‘ble” pattern. Our words are tangible comprehensible, audible, combustible, irresponsible, survival, authority, environment, ordered, and origin.

Math: We are working on spiraling through some past topics and working on our current fraction unit.

Reading: Most students have a new reading group book and they are working on new strategies. As a class we are working on Close Reading and summarizing.

Science: We are focusing on animal adaptations and how these adaptations help them survive. Ask them about their moth projects.

Writing: We are publishing out poetry that we have been writing and we will be starting a new unit after break.

In other classroom news, the first grant I wrote for a classroom set of noise canceling headphones has been ordered. This will help all readers and test takers be less distracted and we wont have to share headphones with different students throughout the year.

I wrote a second grant and it looks like it has been approved. We should be getting a few iPads in the classroom. I hope to use these to have every student create a virtual portfolio of all of their work throughout the year for your viewing.

Lastly, In partnership with the P.T.O. I am launching a club to take back the garden located behind the building. It has become far too overgrown to use and enjoy so we will be meeting to plan out how we wish to use it and what we would like done to it. Please find our group page located on the Facebook Nowlin PTO page and “like” it for more information on the meeting times and how you and your student can become involved. Let’s all work together to make Nowlin even more beautiful again! Have a great week.

Free Admission to the Michigan Science Center

Hello Everyone,

If you are looking for a cheap and fun activity for over break, on December 26th, the Michigan Science Center in Detroit is having it’s third anniversary and they are offering free general admission all day. It is the perfect day to head down to the MSC and check out their new exhibitions. For more information check out the link below and have a great evening.

https://www.mi-sci.org/event/miscis-3rd-birthday/

 

Empty Bowls Community Project

Annual Empty Bowls Event

Helps Those In Need

 

The Dearborn Public Schools Art department is hosting its annual Empty Bowls meal on Monday, November 23, from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m. at Park Place Banquet Hall, 23400 Park Street, Dearborn, MI 48124.

 

For a minimum $5 donation, guests who attend this family-friendly dinner will receive a one-of-a-kind handmade bowl and enjoy a serving of tasty soup and bread. The bowls are made by students in kindergarten through high school who attend Dearborn Public Schools.

 

Donations will support Gleaners Food Bank and Blessings in a Backpack, local charities that help feed the hungry. Guests can take their bowls home as a reminder of all those who go hungry each day.

 

A variety of soups will be available, including vegetarian and gluten free, at this simple meal of soup and bread to fight hunger. A tin can raffle also will be held.

 

No reservations are required, but those who arrive early will see all of the unique bowls made and donated by students and teachers in the Dearborn Public Schools.

 

The annual Empty Bowls charity event is hosted by the Dearborn Public Schools Art Department and Park Place Banquets & Catering.

Reminder: Free Science Event Tomorrow

Please take a look at the event listed below. It is a great opportunity for some fun, free science! The students are really getting excited about the hands on science experience and this would be a great chance for the entire family to see science in action! I will be at the event and would love to see you there or to see photos of our students in action. Please email or send the picture through classroom Dojo if possible. Not only is there a CD made at the end of the year for 5th grade students featuring their activities, but we are also starting a classroom photo board. I hope to see many of you there!

South East Michigan Science & Engineering Festival at Schoolcraft College-Mind Trekkers

  • Start Date Oct 10, 2015 09:00 AM
  • End Date Oct 10, 2015 03:00 PM
  • Location: Various locations on the main campus
  • Address: 18600 Haggerty Rd. , Livonia , Mi
  • Email: sciences@schoolcraft.edu
  • Phone: 734-462-4453

Can you walk on water? Make ice cream in 60 seconds? Make a magnet float in mid-air, no strings attached?

Michigan Technological University’s Mind Trekkers STEM Road Shows bring the WOW! of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to the hands and minds of K-12 students under the inspirational guidance of the Mind Trekkers team consisting of undergrad and graduate students, who will be working with Schoolcraft College students.

This event is free.

Open to students, their parents and teachers and the general public.

Mind Trekkers- Get your geek on!

Picture Day, Greenfield Village and Mind Trekkers

Good Evening!

I hope everyone is having a great week! There were lots of forms coming home today so I wanted to make sure everyone knows what is coming up. Monday is picture day and the picture order form was one of the forms coming home. Also a Book Fair order form, October’s lunch menu and a sports information form came home. We will be previewing the book fair tomorrow and then we will have time for students to visit and purchase items next week.

Next week is also the Greenfield Village field trip. I am still in need of one more parent to come with us and I need the rest of the permission slips to be sent back ASAP. All students attending will need a bag lunch with no glass on the day of the trip.

Lastly, I wanted to share a very cool event that is happening at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, on Saturday, October 10th. The college is hosting the South East Michigan Science and Engineering Festival. It is called Mind Trekkers and is a free event that will allow students, parents, teachers and anyone interested to participate in very need hands on science explorations around campus. I will be attending and I would love to see some of our scientists on campus, enjoying this wonderful opportunity. Below I have included a the event description, as well as links to the Schoolcraft Event Information page and the Mind Trekkers page.  Watch the video below to get an idea of the very interesting things to expect! I hope to see lots of you there! It will be fun for the entire family!

South East Michigan Science & Engineering Festival at Schoolcraft College-Mind Trekkers

  • Start Date Oct 10, 2015 09:00 AM
  • End Date Oct 10, 2015 03:00 PM
  • Location: Various locations on the main campus
  • Address: 18600 Haggerty Rd. , Livonia , Mi
  • Email: sciences@schoolcraft.edu
  • Phone: 734-462-4453

Can you walk on water? Make ice cream in 60 seconds? Make a magnet float in mid-air, no strings attached?

Michigan Technological University’s Mind Trekkers STEM Road Shows bring the WOW! of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to the hands and minds of K-12 students under the inspirational guidance of the Mind Trekkers team consisting of undergrad and graduate students, who will be working with Schoolcraft College students.

This event is free.

Open to students, their parents and teachers and the general public.

Mind Trekkers- Get your geek on!