Mrs. Keebler's Blog

Thank you to all the parents who volunteered to help in the classroom.  I have several volunteers for Friday morning.  I won’t need everyone every week.  But this week, everyone who volunteer can show up when they do drop off and we can work out a schedule.  I have several other projects that I need help with that we can discuss on Friday.

Spelling – The first week of spelling words when home this Friday.  Please help your child to study their words for their test next Friday and to complete their spelling activities that are due on Wednesday.

Reading Log– I will be sending home a reading log each week when we get a parent helper in to set up the reading bags.

Google Classroom – I will be making many of our assignments on Google Classroom.  There are two separate classes for Keebler’s class and 3rd Grade math.  We all tried to sign in to Google Classroom on Friday to do a Social Studies assignment.  We ran out of time because several students were having trouble signing in.  If students complete the assignment over the weekend they will get 20 extra credit points.  Here are the directions for signing in to Google Classroom.

1. To get to Google Classroom – https://classroom.google.com/u/1/h
2. IMPORTANT – Click on the down arrow next to the email address in the upper right and corner and sign out-THIS IS NOT YOUR STUDENT
3. Sign in with the student’s lunch card number@dearbornschools.org as the username and their passwork is their birthday in month/day/year format, like this: mmddyyyy. For example February 3, 1965 would be 02031965.
4. If they don’t know their lunch card number email me and I can send it to you.

No School on Monday, September 12

Roll Call – I would like to check and make sure all families are getting my blog.  Please reply to this post with your child’s name and mom or dad, so I know who’s email is whose.

Thin Cardboard needed – we will be needing thin cardboard like from an empty cereal box or tissue box for a science project.  Each student should bring in one box.  If you have extra please share.  We will need this by next Friday 9/16.

No School – Monday, September 12th there will be no school.

2nd Grader Math – The 2nd Graders will be going to Ms. Truxall’s class for math.  Math starts tomorrow 9/8.  I will be teaching all other subjects.  Ms.  Nellie’s husband will be helping us with Social Studies.

Homework – Spelling words will be sent home on Fridays for a test the next Friday.  Students should be studying their spelling words at home, practicing math facts addition and subtraction for 2nd grade and multiplication and division for 3rd grade.  I will talk more about other homework later.

Emergency cards – were sent home today.  Please make sure they are all current and correct and return them by Friday 9/9.

Parent Volunteers needed– A list of volunteers that are needed was sent home today.  If you are able to volunteer please write your name, child’s name and when you are available, check off the things you can help with.  Thanks.

Star of the Week will be starting in the first full week of school.  Please read all about it on the blog.  Each child will have a turn to be the star.  We go in number order so our 1st student will be Raseil.  If you have any questions or can’t find the page on the blog please email me.  I will be posting the dates on the Star of the Week page soon.  It is subject to change so please keep watching for when your child week will be.

I look forward to seeing everyone in a few days, our first day is 9/6 school starts at 8:35.   Since many students are coming in with supplies on the first day of school we have decided to invite the parents into the classrooms if you would like to help your children with the supplies and/or to meet the teacher.  We ask that all parents go leave the classrooms at 9:00 so that we may get started with our day.    Dismissal will be at 11:45.   Pick up and drop off for Mrs. Keebler’s classroom is in the back parking lot.    If you have any questions or concerns please email me at keeblek@dearbornschools.org.

I wanted to thank everyone for all the well wishes and presents during the last week of school.  This was a very sweet and thoughtful class.  I will miss everyone who is moving up or moving away.   I hope everyone is enjoying their first few days of summer.

I would like to stress the importance of summer learning.  Attached is a video link explaining why it is so important for students to continue to use their brains during the summer.  If they don’t their is a significant loss in the reading abilities and cognitive skills that will cause them to fall behind their peers and is difficult to catch up again.  Please watch this 2 minute visual of what can happen if students don’t continue to learn.

I checked the weather report again this morning and now they are saying higher than 50% chance of thunderstorms for most of the afternoon.  I will be returning all the money and copies of passes today.

Instead we will be having a Pajama/Movie/Game Day.  Students may dress in pajamas, bring pillows or blankets, stuffed animals and their favorite movie and game.  No electronics please.

Field Day/Picnic tomorrow – please put sunscreen on your child in the morning.  They also need to wear gym shoes.  Picnic at 12:35 on the playground field.  Field day at 1:1o, volunteers needed.

Greenfield Village trip –   There have been a few people afraid it might rain on Wednesday.  Currently weather.com say 25% chance of scatter storms on the morning and afternoon, 40% around lunch time.   At this point we still plan on going.  If it looks like it will be a very stormy day in the morning we may switch to visiting the museum instead.  We will decide by Wednesday morning and let you know.

Please pack a sack lunch unless you plan to buy food.  Please put it in a string backpack so your child can carry their own lunch.  If sending spending money put it in an envelope or ziplock bag with your child’s name written  on it.  Don’t send more than $20.

The following people have been their paperwork complete to chaperone.  There are a few people that it looks like the wrong parent is approved.   Make sure that the person who is actually chaperoning is on the list below.  If not please come to the office right away in the morning and get the paperwork taken care of.   Skye’s dad, Christian’s mom, Joseph’s mom need to go to the office if they are chaperoning to get their papers taken care of.  Joseph needs to turn in his slip again with the money.

Cultural Play tonight – be in your child’s classroom by 5:45 in full costume.  I have all their headdresses at school.

Greenfield Village Field trip – 6/15 – 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM – CHAPERONES NEEDED!  I currently do not have enough chaperones to drive and supervise all the student’s who are going.  Please let me know if you are able to chaperone on this trip and how many you can take in your car.

Field Day/Picnic – 6/14 – Picnic will at 12:30, Field day begins at 1:10.  PARENT HELPERS are needed to help run the games and stations.  Please let me know if you are able to help out.

Missing Howe Library books – The following students still have outstanding library books: Mahdi, MJ, Zahraa K., Hassan D. and Christian –  Here is the list of the missing books:

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Missing Livonia Library Books – I checked out several books about Aztecs from the Livonia Public Library.  The students were instructed not to take any of them home, however we have 3-4 that are not in the classroom.  Please check your child’s room and backpacks for missing books about Aztecs.   I will be posting the names of the books later today or tomorrow.

Cultural Night – This Thursday 6/9 please be in your classrooms in full costume by 5:45.  We are not having refreshments.

Permission slips – I am still missing some permission slips.  Please turn them in right away.   If your child is not attending please send me an email or note to let me know if they will be at school or at home.

Missing assignments- This is the final week to turn in all missing assignment.  Everything is due by Wednesday June 8th.  Mrs.  Polster and I added zeros for the missing assignments so you can see what the grade will be on the report card if the assignments are not completed by Wednesday.   Please check your parent connect to see their new grade, missing assignments bring their grades down a lot.  Please help your students to complete everything by Wednesday.

Permission slips –  need to be turned in as soon as possible for our field trip on June 15th.  If your child is not attending please send me a note to let me know.  Please let me know is they will be coming to school so I can make arrangement for another teacher to have them in their room and prepare work for them to complete.  Make sure you have completed your forms in the office this week.  These cannot be done the day off the trip.

Cultural night –   We have our  cultural night this Thursday 6/9.  Students should be in full costumes in their classrooms by 5:45.  Since we are performing a play we need 100% attendance since all of the parts are dependent on the others.

Library Books – we still have many missing library books.  Please check the list from the June 1st post to see if you child is missing  a book.

Book Bags – All book bags and books are due by Tuesday 6/7.  Please make sure your student returns them on time so that our book bag mom Mrs. Mouhajer can check them all back in on Tuesday.  Thank you to Mrs. Mouhajer for all her help preparing the book bags this year!

Aztec projects – All the Aztec projects are due by Thursday 6/9 – We will display them for the cultural play.  Please have your student write a short paragraph explaining what they created to display with their project.