Click on the go noodle link for some exercise!

Good Afternoon, I have updated the spelling list for what would have been our next test. I’ve included both the regular list and the harder list. Several students earned their way to the harder list just recently so make sure they practice the correct list. Here are some suggestions for practicing their words

-rainbow write -draw a picture and hide the words in it -use each word in a sentence (start with a capital letter and end with punctuation) -spelling mountains ( what they do for Tuesday’s homework normally) -write their words in ABC order -make their words using play dough, pipe cleaner, abc letters, etc.. -write their words using blue for consonants and red for vowels. On Friday, if you would like, you can give them a spelling test.

Good Afternoon Families! I am attaching Mystery Science to the links on the right. Here you will find mini lessons or full lessons (unless only teachers see those??) for first grade science topics. Just click where it says first grade. If you do see the full lessons have your child do Sun and Daily Patterns, Sun and Shadows, and Camouflage and Animal Survival. Then after doing those, they can explore the mini lessons. If all you see are the mini lessons then have them do those.

Hello, I created a link (located to the right of this post) titled Social Studies. When you click on it, it should open open to Michigan Open Book Project. Scroll down to the first grade “Families and School”. Then click on chapter 3 “Where Are We?”. That is one of my favorite S.S.’s unit to teach. I’m sad to be missing out on it. Before they read, ask them the questions in the “Questions to Guide Inquiry” and then talk about the meaning of the words in the “Words To Introduce Section”. There is a part where they would have built a model of our classroom and then drawn the birds eye view (aerial perspective) of it. Instead have them pick a room in your house to do this project with and if you don’t have the supplies to have them do it, then just have them draw the map of it. Include a map key that shows the symbols and what they represent. For example, a small square might represent couches, a rectangle might represent a table or bed. Don’t do the project until that section has been read. If this goes on longer than expected, have them then read Chapter 2-What Stories are Part of Our Past, Present, and Future. Thank you!

Please let me know if the the link does not work…it’s my first time doing one :0

I hope everyone is healthy and hanging in there amidst this unfortunate crisis. On Friday we posted that all first graders should be going on Zearn and iready. Please have them go on daily or for a total of 2 hours each a week per both. They can also use other programs on clever such as Moby Max and whatever else works for them. In case you don’t have a computer and/or you would like a few more things for them to do, here are some suggestions.

From their book bags or books you have at home:

From Fiction Books (have them write and/or draw from the suggestions below)

They should know all these terms as they are modeled and practiced during daily 5 mini lessons and small groups.

-identify characters, setting, problem and solution

-retell the story using words such as First, Next, Last, Then or In the beginning, in the middle, in the end…

-make predictions

-make inferences

-identify the central message (what lesson can you learn from the character in the story) provide evidence to support your central message

-compare and contrast characters in a book, or two similar stories, or yourself with one of the characters

-write about your favorite part of the story and why you like it

-tune into interesting words-use them in a story, find out their meaning and draw a picture of what it means or write the definition and use the word in a sentence

-write different ending to the story you read

For non-fiction texts

-write interesting facts you learned

-look through the book and identify text features like table of contents, glossary, index, bold words, headings, photographs, captions, and diagrams with labels

-tell what the main idea (what the section is mostly about) is of the information you read under each new heading and give 2 supporting details

-use the information you read to write a little report

Here are some writing ideas from Journal Buddies.com

For instructions on how to login to Clever, click on the link below:

https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/kearneybridgette/wp-content/uploads/sites/287/2020/03/Clever-Login-1-1.pdf

Dear Snow Families,

The Michigan Department of Education MDE has recently given Snow a school grade of letter “A”!  Our students are performing and we want to continue to soar! During this time of shut down, we are going to work hard to continue student learning.  We are asking all Snow families to do the following:

-iReady for a minimum of 2 hours per week. 

-Read “Good fit” books. (K-2) 20 min daily, (3-5) 30-45  min daily.

-At least 1 lesson per day on Zearn.

-4^th and 5^th grade Khan Academy for 20 minutes daily.

-Grades 2-5 will receive assignments via Google Classroom.

There will be additional assignments based on classrooms/grades. Teachers and support staff will be monitoring student learning. 

Please check your emails regularly! This will be the main method of communication between school and home. Phone calls will be made as necessary. 

Due to the fact that we are moving to online learning for this period of shut down, please limit recreational screen time! (Social media, YouTube, video games, television, etc…)

Teacher Blogs:

• Ms. Barakat | barakam@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/barakat3/
• Ms. Bowdell | bowdels@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/sbowdell/
• Ms. Charara | charare@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/charare/
• Ms. Chase | chasen@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/chasen
• Ms. Cullip | cullipv@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/cullip/
• Mr. DeSantis | desante@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/edesantis/
• Ms. Fleming | flemind@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/dfleming/
• Ms. Guadiana | guadiaj@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/msguadiana/
• Ms. Grizzell | grizzed@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/grizzell
• Ms. Hussein| husseia@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/husseia/
• Ms. Kearney | kearneb@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/kearneybridgette/
• Ms. Majetic  | majetir@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/majetic/
• Ms. Massey | masseyk@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/mrsmassey/
• Ms. Reslan | reslanf@dearbornschools.org

 | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/reslan/

• Ms. Sandakli  | sandakl@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/sandakli/
• Ms. Shene | shenew@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/shenew
• Ms. Sherlock | sherloj@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/mssherlock
• Ms. Slater | slaterc@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/slater/
• Ms. Sokoloski | krawcza@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/sokoloski/
• Ms. Smith | smithe@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/smithe
• Ms. Wilkie | wilkiec@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/wilkiec/
• Ms. Zak | makowsk1@dearbornschools.org | https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/makowsk1/

iReady, Moby Max, Khan Academy and Google Classroom all can be accessed through Clever.  Directions to login will be posted on the Snow blog.

I will make announcements as I receive them on the Snow blog.  Thank you in advance for supporting our students! 

Sincerely,

Amal Alcodray

Snow Principal

Hello,

I’d like students to bring in one or two (for students who don’t have one) shoe boxes and any empty paper towel or toilet paper rolls (send in as many as you want of those). I’m going to have them build Leprechaun Traps that we will set up on Monday to try and catch a Leprechaun Tuesday Morning (St. Patrick’s Day). This will go toward their science benchmark of building and engineering. If you have other supplies like pipe cleaner, gold coins, or St. Patrick’s Day stickers and would like to donate those, that would be great as well. If you can’t find a shoe box but have another box similar in size to a shoe box send it in instead.

Thank You!

Hello, tomorrow is our annual Literacy Night. Please join us for literacy games from 3:45-5:00pm. Hope to see you there!

For March is reading month, students will be bringing home a yellow sheet with bananas on it. They will record the books they read on the banana/s instead of their reading log. I will be keeping track and at the end of the week the student that read the most books (meaning they finished reading the book, or a chapter if it is a chapter book) will get a prize. So the goal this month is not recording minutes, but recording a completed book or chapter on a banana.