Tomorrow is a late start

School starts at 9:15 AM

Enjoy your day

Greetings, Friends & Families!

Poem of the week

First Snowflake

Snowflake,

snowflake,

blowing into town

like one, last,

summer’s-end

dandelion end,

or a cold little

raindrop

in her winter nightgown.

By: —–N. M. Bodecker

What was happening?

The explorers were very busy discovering all the magic about the letter of the week, the letter H. They have been working very hard in tracing, coloring, matching, sounding out, and identifying the letter H. Using construction papers, they made the letter H as a shape of a house. And “house” starts with the letter “H”.

To improve our reading comprehension, we used the book that has the title of “Sneezy the Snowman” by “Maureen Wright” to answer questions such as, “Who was the character in the story?”, “When did the story take place?”, “Where did the story take place?”, and “what was the story about?”. Here is a picture of the book.

In Math, we counted numbers, completed patterns, and learned about greater than/less than.

The explorers in room #107 started their first lesson in science. They started a new unit that focuses on “Animal & Plant Secrets”. The first lesson was about “Animals’ Needs: Food”. The explorers chose their favorite animal, glued its picture, wrote the name of the animal and what does it eat?

Here is “Sneezy The Snowman” read aloud:

Enjoy the pictures of this week:

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REMINDER:

Please, remember to call the school office when your child is going to be absent.

Upcoming Events:

December 8th Late start

December 9th Lifetown Field Trip

December 17th Last day of school

December 20th Winter break begins

January 2nd Last day of the break

Have a nice & safe weekend, everyone 🙂

Greetings, Friends & Families!

Poem of the week

Thanksgiving

Thank you

for all my hands can hold—

apples red,

and melons gold,

yellow corn

both ripe and sweet,

peas and beans

so good to eat!

Thank you

for all my eyes can see—-

lovely sunlight,

field and tree,

white cloud-boats

in the sea-deep sky,

soaring bird

and butterfly,

Thank you

for all my ears can hear—-

birds’ song echoing

far and near,

songs of little

stream, big sea,

cricket, bullfrog,

duck and bee!

——– Ivy O. Eastwick

What was happening?

Since it was a very short week, the explorers in room 107 continued their learning of the letter G. They continued their tracing, coloring, identifying, and sounding out the letter of the week, the letter G. They also had the opportunity to practice their counting and comparing two groups of items for greater than and less than. For their reading comprehension, they were able to pick their answers from two choices that were presented to them. The questions my explorers answered were “what was the story about?”, “who was the character?”, and “when/where did the story take place?”. All these questions were about the story, “Hooray for Thanksgiving”.

The explorers had so much fun making and wearing their turkey hats. During the month of November, my explorers were very busy in Art class, they were able to make their favorite slice of pie and place it on a plate, a pumpkin, a turkey, and many more.

Now, it is time to enjoy this week’s pictures:

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District Update

In our efforts to be proactive the district has asked us to notify our families and prepare for the possibility of distance/online learning. This does not mean that distance/online learning is certain to occur. However, we are planning for all possibilities. A decision for a class, school, or the district to move to online learning could occur at any point in time as we see the COVID 19 Rates increasing in Dearborn, the County, and the State level. Please keep an eye on your emails, district website, and classroom blog for any updates as we go into the Holiday break. Thank you so much for your understanding and flexibility as we continue to wade through the challenges of this pandemic. If you need anything please reach out to me at asadi@dearbornschools.org, or by phone.

في إطار جهودنا لنكون استباقيًا ، طلبت منا المنطقة إبلاغ عائلاتنا والاستعداد لإمكانية التعلم عن بعد / عبر الإنترنت. هذا لا يعني أنه من المؤكد حدوث التعلم عن بعد / عبر الإنترنت. ومع ذلك ، نحن نخطط لجميع الاحتمالات. يمكن أن يحدث قرار لفصل دراسي أو مدرسة أو المنطقة التعليمية للانتقال إلى التعلم عبر الإنترنت في أي وقت حيث نرى زيادة معدلات COVID 19 في ديربورن ومستوى المقاطعة والولاية. يرجى متابعة رسائل البريد الإلكتروني الخاصة بك وموقع الويب الخاص بالمنطقة التعليمية ومدونة الفصل الدراسي لمعرفة أي تحديثات أثناء دخولنا في عطلة العطلة. شكرًا جزيلاً لتفهمك ومرونتك بينما نواصل الخوض في تحديات هذا الوباء. إذا كنت بحاجة إلى أي شيء ، فيرجى التواصل معي على 

alasadi@dearbornschools.org

Thank you

Ilham Alasady

Howe School

Room#107

Friends & Families:

Remember there will be NO SCHOOL 11/24-26/2021.

Have a nice and safe Thanksgiving, everyone 🙂

Hello, Families

Poem of the week

What If……

What if …..

You opened a book

About dinosaurs

And one stumbled out

And another andanother

And more and more pour

Until the whole place

Is bumbling and rumbling

And groaning and moaning

And snoring and roaring

And dinosouring?

What if …….

You tried to push them

Back inside

But they kept tromping

Off the pages instead?

Would you close the covers?

—Isabel Joshlin Glaser

What was happening?

The explorers in room #107 were discovering all the magic about the letter of the week, the letter G. They have been working very hard in tracing, coloring, matching, sounding out, and identifying the letter G. Using construction papers, they made letter G as a shape of a gumball machine. And “Gumball” starts with the letter “G”.

In this week, my friends started their “My thankful mini-book”. They colored and wrote two things that they are thankful for, family and food. Since we are in the spirit of Thanksgiving, my explorers enjoyed a new book that talks about some items we might be thankful for. The title of the book is “Hooray for Thanksgiving”, and the author is “Roger Priddy”. Here is a picture of the book

To improve our reading comprehension, we used this book to answer questions such as, “Who was the character in the story?”, “When did the story take place?”, “Where did the story take place?”, and “what was the story about?”. In Math, we counted feathers, completed patterns, and learned about greater than/less than.

Here is the link to this book:

Enjoy the pictures of this week 🙂

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PICTURES OF THE DAY

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Upcoming Event

November 24th – 26th – No School

Have a nice and safe weekend, friends & families 🙂

الأهالي الكرام:

مدرسة هاو للتعليم الخاص تدعوكم لحضور اجتماع اولياء الأمور. إنه اجتماع إعلامي لمشاركة الموارد ومعالجة أي مخاوف قد تكون لدى الوالدين. مفيد جدا للآباء والأمهات مع الأطفال ذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة.

أدعوكم و أشجعكم للحضور و المشاركة بأسماع صوتكم و أرائكم و أسئلتكم هو ايضا فرصة رائعة لكم لتلتقوا بالمسؤولين عن تعليم و تطوير اولادكم علميا و نفسيا و جسديا

موعد الأجتماع: الثلاثاء من الساعة الثانية و الى الساعة الثالثة ظهرا

يمكنم الحضور شخصيا أو عن طريق الأنترنت

أتمنى لكم عطلة نهاية أسبوع سعيدة

Greetings, Families

Poem Of The Week

Colors Crackle, Colors Roar

Red Shouts a loud, ballon-round sound.

Black crackles like noisy grackles.

Cafe clickety-clicks its wooden sticks.

Yellow sparks and sizzles, tzz-tzz.

White sings, Ay, her high, light note.

Verde rustles leaf secrets, swish, swish.

Gris whis-whis-whispers its kitten whiskers.

Silver ting-ting-a-ling jingles.

Azul coo-coo-coos like pajaritos do.

Purple thunders and rum-rum-rumbles.

Oro blares, a brassy, brass tuba.

Orange growls its striped, rolled roar.

Colors Crackle. Colors Roar.

By: Pat Mora

What was happening?

For this week, my explorers learned their new letter of the week, the letter F. They created their letter F mini-book. They glued pictures that start with the letter F, and they colored another mini-book that contains pictures that start with our letter of the week. My friends had so much fun reading the book of the week, “Five Silly Turkeys” by “Salina Yoon”. Eye-gazing, picking up, or pointing are some of the techniques that my explorers used to answer the “who, what, when, and where” questions. We used the same book to learn our math concepts for this week, such as counting. In this book, we were able to count how many turkeys we had left on each page.

Ms. Al-asady was so happy and excited for meeting her explorers’ families. The meetings were very friendly and productive. I would like to thank all the parents for joining the meetings, their elegant attitude, and for their positive inputs.

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Upcoming Events:

November 24 – 26 NO SCHOOL

Have a great and safe weekend, everyone 🙂

Hello, Families

Poem Of The Week:

Something Told The Wild Geese

Something told the wild geese

It was time to go.

Though the fields lay golden

Something whispered-“Snow”.

Leaves were green and stirring,

Berries, luster-glossed,

But beneath warm feathers

Something cautioned-“Frost”.

All the sagging orchards

Steamed with amber spice.

But each wild breast stiffened

At remembrance ice.

Something told the wild geese

It was time to fly-

Summer sun was on their wings,

Winter in the cry.

“Rachel Field”

What was happening?

My explorers continued in learning all about the letter of the week, the letter E, and they created their mini letter E book. In this book, they glued pictures that start with the letter of the week, such as a picture of an egg, an eggplant,…etc. In another book, they colored all the pictures that start with letter E. They also practiced matching pictures, tracing dotted straight and curved lines, coloring, they even created their E’s by using red kidney beans.

Our Reading Comprehension for this week focused on the book of “Five Silly Turkey’s”, and it was written by “Salina Yoon”. My explorers answered different questions regarding our story of the week. They answered, “What story did we read?”, “Who is the character in the story?”, “When did the story take place?”, “What was the story about?”, “Where did the story take place?”, “What happened at the beginning of the story?”, ” What happened at the middle of the story?”, ” What happened at the end of the story?”

In Math, the explorers used our story book to focus on counting and identifying numbers. They also practiced tracing, coloring number 1, and counting a group of items.

Check out the following video for “Five Silly Turkeys”:

November 9th Parent–Teacher Conference’s Schedule is as follow:

Youssef Saraeb’s Family at 3 PM Phone Call

Yassmin Elzahabi’s Family at 4 PM Zoom

Hanin Albazo’s Family at 5 PM Zoom

Enjoy some of the Halloween Party pictures and our classroom’s activities:

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Upcoming Events

• November 10th – Picture day
• November 24th – No School

November Objectives

Reading (Literature)-

EERL.K.2 With guidance and support, identify major events in familiar stories.

Reading (Informational) EERI.K.2. With guidance and support, identify the topic of a familiar text

Reading (Foundation Skills)-

EERF.K.2. Demonstrate emerging understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds

a. With guidance and support, recognize rhyming words*

b. (beginning sound)

EEL.K.1.d With guidance and support, answer simple questions (who, what)

EEK.CC.6 Identify whether the number of objects in one group is more or less than (when the quantities are clearly different) or equal to the number of objects in another group.

Hello, Families!

Welcome to our SXI classroom where our kids, for two weeks, have been learning, discovering, exploring, and enjoying different adventures!

In the last couple of weeks, we were learning about the Letter D, and the many ways of becoming more familiar with this letter, such as tracing, coloring, identifying, cutting out, and matching.

For reading comprehension, we were reading “The Very Hungry Caterpillar“, a book by Eric Carle. This children’s book has an educational theme – counting the days of the week, foods, and a butterfly’s life stages. It teaches children how to count and to make one-to-one correspondences between numbers and the items the Very Hungry Caterpillar has eaten. This book combines Language Arts, Math, and Science all in one lesson. In math, we had the opportunity to explore the Number 1 in tracing, connecting, and coloring.

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NEXT WEEK’S OBJECTIVES:

During the first week of November, we will explore the Letter E as the letter of the week, and the Number 2 as the number of the week. The kids will start learning about shapes next week, and they will start to explore the shape of a Circle. 

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As you can see below, the children had a fun time today at the gym when they joined the Halloween activities that were directed and supervised by Phys-Ed and Art teachers.

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PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE

NAME	DATE	TIME	LOCATION
Bisan Freij	Nov 4th	3PM	HOWE School
Kareem Gelan	Nov 4th	3:30PM	ZOOM
Fadel Joumaa	Nov 4th	4:00PM	Phone call
Heba Karoosh	Nov 4th	5:00PM	ZOOM
Youssef Saraeb	Nov 9th	3:00PM	Phone call
Yassmin Elzahabi	Nov 9th	4:30PM	ZOOM
Hanin Albazo	Nov 9th	5:00PM	ZOOM

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UPCOMING EVENTS

• November 2nd – No School
• November 5 – 1/2 day
• November 10th – Picture day
• November 24th – No School

Dear Families,

I have added a page to my iBlog, which is information about what Ms. JaNell Wilder, our Music Teacher, is teaching your child and/or children every week. Please feel free to click on the link below for this information.

https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/musicblog/

Warmly,

Ms. Alasady