Dear Parent/Guardian, 

Henry Ford Elementary School is using this Parent Survey as a means to elicit your beliefs and opinions to help target areas for the school system to improve and areas to continue to be effective. The online survey will be available until 11/15/19. In order to complete the survey, please click on this link: Parent Survey Dearborn Schools Fall 2019

Please be assured that your responses to this survey will be anonymous and your honest opinions are appreciated. Thank you in advance for supporting our improvement efforts.

Sincerely, 

Lamis Srour, Principal

أولياء الأمور الكرام ، 

مدرستنا وجميع مدارس ديربورن في عملية تطوير و تحسين مستمرة و دائمة ،يعتبر خلالها الأهل  والأوصياء جزء لا يتجزأ و جوهري لسيرها. نستخدم استطلاع رأي متطور و خاص بالأهالي كوسيلة للاطلاع على آرائهم التي من شأنها المساعدة في استهداف المناطق الفعالة والمؤثرة على سير العملية التطويرية للمدرسة. رأيك مهم بالنسبة لنا،لذا نرجو منكم الاجابة على الاستطلاع  لإتمام هذه الدراسة. يتوفر استطلاع الرأي عبر شبكة الإنترنت. من أجل إكمال الدراسة، يرجى الضغط على الرابط التالي: 

استطلاع رأي الأهالي والمجتمع في مدارس

نؤكد أن مشاركتكم و اجاباتكم حول هذا الاستطلاع سرية ولن يتم معرفة شخصية من قام بالاستطلاع، و أن آرائكم الصادقة هي موضع تقدير. إذا كان لديكم أي أسئلة حول هذا الاستبيان، يرجى الاتصال بمكتب المدرسة. شكرا لكم مقدما على مساندتكم ودعمكم  لعملية تطوير و تحسين المدرسة. سيكون الاستبيان عبر الإنترنت متاحًا حتى 11/15/19

نقدر تعاونكم ودعمكم في إكمال هذا الاستطلاع و لكم جزيل الشكر.

Lamis SrourPrincipalHenry Ford Elementary School16140 Driscoll St.Dearborn, MI 48126

This Friday will be our whole class celebration. The students in my class will be allowed to bring a toy from home to play with. No electronics please or anything that will cause upset if it gets broken. Please be sure it can fit in their backpack.

Thanks 🙂

Well, the first month of school is behind us now. The students are doing great with our routines and schedule.

My goal is to finish assessing students this week and we’ll be able to begin our reading group rotations next week. We are still reading daily, by ourselves, as a group, as well as writing in our response journals as well as doing whole class writing. This week it’s a non fiction about storms. We do have 2 other teachers coming in during our reading block time to work with small groups.

We are continuing with the measuring unit in math. They are doing well with measuring the length of objects or line. The students are having a bit of difficulty with “how much longer/shorter” is one line or object than another. This will come but please continue to help them with this concept.

Today’s homework does not need to measure paper clips. We’ve been doing that in class. If you have paper clips at home and they want to do those parts, great. If no paper clips, then just measure with the centimeter ruler.

This week for social studies, we’ll be learning about 3 types of communities: rural (farm), urban (city) and suburban areas.

In science, we continue learning about the properties of matter. Last week was the great hat activity! They loved creating and I loved watching them 🙂 The properties were, soft, hard, opaque, absorbent. This week will be an activity with hot/cold items and which materials hold heat or cold in or out better. Each student will need a pair of gloves or mittens for Friday’s activity.

All for now, enjoy your week 🙂

Good Morning! I hope you had an enjoyable weekend.

Late Start this Wednesday September 25. School will begin at 9:35.

Most students have been assessed for their current reading level so books in their reading bags should be coming home. Those books are at a level they can read by themselves. They will be learning skills and strategies at a level higher.

We continue this week with becoming familiar with the routines for our new reading program. The reading strategies this week include text to self connections, using word chunks to help read words, making pictures in your head of what is being read. Our phonics this week focuses on “ar, or, ore, oar, er, ir, ur, ou, ow, oi, oy, oo, ou, ew. We will be taking an online assessment from Benchmark. The students today will sign into my iLearn course to take the test tomorrow.

We’re also building our stamina for reading to self. I will introduce buddy reading this week as well. We’ve been using the ipads for listening to books online.

Social Studies continues learning about Dearborn and comparing it to other communities.

In science we will create something using everyday materials. I don’t want to give it away 🙂 They’ll show you on Friday (if all goes well with our schedule).

Math continues with the measurement unit and learning about centimeters and meters, when it’s best to use one or the other to measure objects.

Enjoy your week.

I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend 🙂 Hard to believe we’re beginning week 4 of 2nd grade, wow! It was so nice to meet so many of you at Open House. I also had former students and parents stop by to say hello which I absolutely love!

1/2 Day this Friday September 20.

NWEA math testing will be Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Please make sure your child is at school on time because we start testing first thing.

Here is a summary of what we’ll be doing this coming week:

In our Reading/ELA time, we’re continuing learning new routines for our new program.We’re discovering the differences between fiction and non fiction books, developing our stamina for reading for longer periods of time, while I’m assessing each student to see what their instructional reading level is. We are developing our listening skills by listening to a story read aloud, discussing with a partner, and developing our writing skills by writing about the story and any connections or thoughts we have. Our phonics skills are being reviewed daily also. No spelling words yet. Those will be coming as we getting further into the program.

We began a new Math unit–measurement. We begin with centimeter cubes then will use rulers this week. Students will be measuring objects as well as pictures in their math books and on homework pages. They’ll also be expected to figure out how much longer or shorter one object is than another.

Learning about our Community is the focus all year long of our Social Studies curriculum. We’ve been talking about things in our community as well as in other communities. Learning which are natural/physical characteristics and those that are human/man made ones. This is where the many experiences you and your family do together helps your child learn.

We’ve begun our Science unit–Matter. We’ll be learning about how understanding properties help us use materials to solve problems.

If you weren’t able to make it to Open House, I do have open slots to sign you up for conferences that will be in November. If you already know a day that works for you, please email me and I’ll see what I can do.

Enjoy your week!

Good morning 🙂

I hope you all had an enjoyable weekend. This week we have 2 important events here at Henry Ford. One, is our Second grade parent meeting for Mrs. Herrod, Mrs. Serini, and Mrs. Spencer’s classes. It will be held in Room 203 at 2:00. It will last 30 minutes.

Thursday is Open House 🙂 An exciting evening around here! I’m looking forward to meeting all of you and to have your child show you their new classroom. The time frame is 6:00-7:30.

Your children are settling in and learning our new routines. Many are the same, but since we’re in a different part of the building and learning some new curriculum, some routines are new. They’re doing great! It’s so nice to see them come back from summer break and find their old friends and make new ones 🙂

A note about math homework: please help your child following the parent homework helper that comes home with each sheet. Let them do as much as they understand even if it’s not the entire sheet. My philosophy is no crying/tears over homework. They’re learning and it will come with some work over time if they don’t get it right away.

A big thank you to those who have sent in tissues, hand sanitizer and wipes. Cold season will soon be here and I like to keep things clean.

Please feel free to email or call with any questions, concerns or anything you need me to know.

NWEA testing will begin this week for Second grade. My class will be testing Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Please make sure your child gets a good night’s sleep and is in school on time.

See you this week!

Welcome back to Henry Ford for a new school year!

Each Monday I will be updating my iblog page with things you’ll need to know for the week. To get my blog in your email, just send me your address and I can add you to my page. I believe this is how it also works for Dojo except with cell phone numbers. I am new to Dojo this year, so I’m learning 🙂

Looking forward to meeting all of you next week at Open House, next Thursday. More details to come from Mrs. Srour.

One last reading site I introduced to the class this week:   uniteforliteracy

It has many books to use for reading and/or listening to reading.

Enjoy your summer everyone 🙂

Hard to believe this is the last post of the school year!

I did send home the math books that we’ve used but not finished. Please keep them and have your child use them this summer. 1/2 hour 5-6 times a week is perfect for keeping their skills up. I’ll be sending home the last 3 books this week.

If a summer academy green note was given to your child please return them, signed.

Our school Field Day is tomorrow for 2nd grade. Due to the bounce house, all students need to wear gym shoes and socks. You can also send a hat (with your child’s name on it) and sunscreen. Water bottles are recommended also, again, with your child’s name on it. Will be a very fun morning 🙂  

I’ll send out an update when Dr. Moughni lets us know that last day to bring backpacks. In the meantime, please empty your child’s backpack (or have them do this). I’ll be sending things home daily from their lockers and desks.

Please take advantage of all that is offered this summer in and around Dearborn. Many opportunities for fun learning activities that are either free or low cost.

Enjoy your summer!

I hope everyone had an enjoyable Memorial Day weekend.

Spelling words this week focus on word endings called suffixes: friendly, likely, careful, coldness, walkable. There are no Dolch words this week but there will be “mystery” words based on the suffixes we’re learning this week.

We’re still working with narrative (story) writing. This week the students will be writing for our District prompt.

We’ll continue reading informational text to answer questions based on the passage.

Social studies will study an issue in a fictional Michigan community and we’ll be discussing and writing about how the community solved the problem.

Math begins a new module about shapes/telling time. We are down the last few weeks of school, so I’ll be skipping around a bit to introduce these concepts to the students.

This week is also our District STEAM project which we’ll be doing Thursday afternoon. If you have any shoe boxes/paper tubes, yarn, etc. please send it in. We’ll be getting creative 🙂

Enjoy your week!