Mrs. Keebler's Blog

Here are photos from our visit from the Easter bunny on Thursday.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/krcHYjAsCoptYZh8

Hassan will be the Star of the week starting Monday 4/10. He will make his poster about his life, be our line leader, bring sharing, his favorite book and his letter from his parents about what makes him special. It is best to spread out these activities over the week.

Penpal Update – Each child got to meet their penpal this week in a face to face interview over a video call. We have had a lot of fun comparing climates and have found out that 60 degrees feels very different to those who live in FL and think that is freezing and time for a coat, hat and mittens and those in MI who are ready for shorts and t-shirts at 60 degrees. Both groups of kids have been asking to share their personal information with their new friends like gaming ids, emails and maybe even phone numbers. We will be sending home a permission slip this week. Please let us know if you would be willing for them to have contact with their new friends outside of school. Our pen pals school year ends next month, it would be wonderful if they have formed a lasting friendship with someone in another state!

Academics–

Math – We finished our topic D quiz on Thursday we are starting Unit 5 Topic E – Fraction Equivalents – We will complete Lessons 21 – 25 this week. We will begin studying for the MSTEP math.

ELA – We started studying for the MSTEP ELA last week. We will continue to study and do our regular Benchmark Grammar Unit 8 Week 3 Pamphlet. For grammar we are studying subject and verb agreement we are also studying subordinating and coordinating conjunctions. Our spelling words this week are Diphthongs.

Science – we will continue to learn about the scientific method. Please be sure their handout stays in the communication folder so we can work on this at home and at school this week. We also will continue to study about weather and climate.

Science Fair  Question due Friday 4/14 – There was a conflict with our Science Fair date. PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGES IN DATES! We started learning about the Scientific Process in preparation for our Science Fair on May 19th. Each child will create a science experiment and follow the scientific process, they will display the results of their experiment at the science fair. Students have been given two packets, a colorful one to write the vocabulary and a white one to complete to prepare for their project. You will be helping your child to pick a question. Please remember that the question they pick for their project must be able to do all 6 parts of the whole scientific process: Purpose/question, Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analysis, and Conclusion. Science Fair Folder with all the information needed for the project.

Science Fair Due Dates – Here is a break down of when each part is due. YOU SHOULD BEGIN TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE PROJECTS WITH YOUR STUDENT. MOST OF THIS PROJECT WILL HAVE TO BE DONE AT HOME DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE ASSIGNMENT. WE WILL BE CHECKING IN ON THE FOLLOWING DATES:

Monday, April 10 – Introduce Scientific Method Project

Friday, April 14 – Question Due 

Monday, April 24 – Research Due

Friday May 5 – Experiment Completed 

Friday, May 12 – Data Analysis Due

Friday May 19- Communicate Results (Science Fair)

Dates to remember – No school April 20-21

Welcome Back – I hope everyone had a restful, enjoyable break with their families. I enjoyed spending time with family and friends including a lunch with the Montessori teachers including Ms. Nellie and Mrs. Hall. It was great to catch up with everyone. I look forward to seeing everyone again when school resumes on Monday. Remember this is a short week with no school on Friday.

Star of the Week – Will continue to be Amir L. Next week will be Hassan.

Academics

ELA – We will continue working in our Weather Magazine. For spelling we are on Unit 8 Week 2 Hard and Soft G. In our U8W2 Spelling and Grammar Pamphlet we will be doing simple, compound and complex sentences and pronoun and antecedent agreement. Spelling test will be on Thursday.

Math – For Math we will continue on Fractions. We will work on Lesson 17-18 then take the Topic D quiz. We will finish the week with lessons 21-23.

Science – We are continuing to work on weather and climate. We will take a quiz on Mystery 4, before beginning mystery 5.

Science Fair – We will begin learning about the Scientific Process in preparation for our Science Fair on May 12th. Each child will create a science experiment and follow the scientific process, they will display the results of their experiment at the science fair. More information will be coming this week. Here is a break down of when each part is due:

Monday, April 10 – Introduce Scientific Method Project

Friday, April 14 – Question Due 

Wednesday, April 19 – Research Due

Friday April 28 – Experiment Completed 

Friday, May 5 – Data Analysis Due

Friday May 12- Communicate Results (Science Fair)

4/4 – Spring Pictures – please remember to return your order forms.

4/5 Sky Dome Assembly

4/14 Popcorn Friday

No School – Friday – April 7th Good Friday

No School – Thurs and Fri- April 20-21 Eid

Congratulations to our top 5 people on the IXL leaderboard this month. I will add a new leader board for April soon. Everyone, please continue to practice the IXL skills needed to do better on your spring testing coming soon!

Joshua 1st place,

Ryan 2nd place

Lincoln 3rd place,

Amir Y 4th place

Bilal 5th place

Spring Testing – We will begin testing soon after break. Students should continue to try to complete as many skills as they can in IXL. There is also a MSTEP practice website, they can use this to practice the interface and see the types of questions they will see.

M-STEP – Testing window opens up on April 10th-May 5th – I don’t have the exact dates of testing yet. But I highly advise that students are not fasting while they are trying to complete their spring testing. This could greatly affect their ability to do well on the test.

NWEA testing window is May 28th – June 15th.

Teacher Cadet – Our teacher cadet Noor finished her time with us on Thursday before break and we will now have time with her twin sister Malak. The children enjoyed working Noor and I’m sure Malak will be equally delightful.

Spring Testing – We will begin testing soon after break. Students should continue to try to complete as many skills as they can in IXL. There is also a MSTEP practice website, they can use this to practice the interface and see the types of questions they will see. We will spend time with this website when we return, before we start the test, but extra practice is great.

M-STEP – Testing window opens up on April 10th-May 5th – I don’t have the exact dates of testing yet. But I highly advise that students are not fasting while they are trying to complete their spring testing. This could greatly affect their ability to do well on the test.

NWEA testing window is May 28th – June 15th.

No Homework – We didn’t have time for math today so no math homework.

Special Guest and Assembly-We had a special guest reader and we go to decorate bunny cupcakes. Thank you to Lincoln’s mom for reading and the cupcake project. Look for the pictures in Class Dojo. We also had an assembly for the end of March is reading month.

I hope everyone has a wonderful, restful vacation! Enjoy your week! See you on Monday, April 3rd. Don’t forget to bring your form for Spring pictures on Tuesday April 4th.

Star of the Week Amir L – he will be our line leader, bring a poster about her life, bring in a letter from his parents telling us what makes him special to them, a favorite book and sharing.

Academics –

Unit 5 Mid Module test – Monday will be our test. We have completed the review and it was sent home to study with this weekend. We went over the answers Friday, morning. We will be working on Lessons 14-17 this week.

ELA – We will begin our Benchmark Unit 8 – Weather and Climate. We will be working on our new spelling words for Unit 8 Week 1 Hard and Soft C words. We will work on our Spelling and Grammar Pamphlet our grammar is adjectives and future tense words.

Science we will continue to learn about weather. Ask you students what they learned about clouds this week.

EVERYONE needs to read to reach 100 minutes this weekend. Sign reading log windows is this Monday, 3/20. Please bring the reading log Monday for a prize.

Ramadan 2023

Fill out the approval form if your child will be fasting at school. Thank you.

Fasting Form

Book Fair

Tuesday (3.21) and Wednesday (3.22)

Yearbooks

Parents go online and place your child’s yearbook order! The website is ybpay.com and our code is 14568323. The fee is $12 by April 21, 2023.

Spring Break – begins at the end of the day Friday 3/24 until April 2nd. Our marking period ends on the same day. All assignments need to be turned in by Wednesday 3/22.

Hello, 

Please join us for a PTA meeting on 3/16/23 at 6pm via zoom. 

Join Zoom Meeting

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Thanks!

Angie

Clock change-I hope everyone remembered to “Spring Forward” and move your clocks ahead one hour! Hopefully, this is the last time we have to do this!

Snow day- I hope you all enjoyed your snow day! I was sick and enjoyed the time for my body to recover! I’m feeling much better now!

Native American Fair- Wow! The Native American and Alternative Energy Fair was amazing! Everyone did an awesome job! I’m very proud of all of you! I got many compliments from parents, teachers, the principal and the superintendent. Thank you to everyone who was able to make it. I’m so happy that the superintendent took the time to come and actually interacted with our students and he said that he was very impressed that students were very knowledgeable about their topics. Here is a link to the pictures, if you have pictures to share feel free to add them to the album!

Academics –

ELA -This week we will take our spelling test Monday for last week’s words and get our new spelling words. This week we are Unit 7 Week 3 our new words are Variant Vowel o. We will be completing our Spelling and Grammar Pamphlet concentration on dialog and standard English.

Science – We are continuing our unit on Weather we began last week.

Math – We are continuing to learn about Fractions. We will be working on Lessons 8, 9 10 and 12. We will take the Topic B quiz after lesson 9 and there will be a mid-module review on Friday.

TB testing– The health department will be returning tomorrow to do the follow up testing for TB. They will be here on Monday and Wednesday. Make sure that you have your permission slips returned, so the health department doesn’t have to call you.

High Tech High Touch- We are so excited that High Tech High Touch will be returning on Thursday to do another exciting hands-on science presentation for our class. Thank you to the PTA and for all of you that support the PTA for providing the funds to pay for this wonderful program!

1/2 day – Friday, March 17th (Happy St. Patrick’s Day!) will be a Professional Development Day for staff and 1/2 day for students. Dismissal at 12:05

Book Fair – Please consider coming in to help with the book fair! It takes several parent volunteers for it to run smoothly!  The sign up genius below provides the dates and times, as well as what is happening that day (set up, preview, shopping, make up day).  The book fair is the week of March 20th! 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0F4FA5AD2FA1F85-march

End of Marking period – Friday, March 24th – All missing work will be due by Wednesday, March 22nd.

Submitting Native American Assignments– Make sure that your students submit all parts of the Native American projects in Schoology so that I am able to grade all parts. Notes, Outline and Rough draft each get a grade and need to be completed and submitted.

IXL Practice– Please continue to practice with IXL to work on increasing the skills needed to get a higher score on the NWEA. We will begin testing again in a few weeks. Students will also be taking the MSTEP for the first time in 3rd grade. This is the state standardized test. Doing well on these tests will help students get into our STEM program and can also lead to scholarships in the future.

Spring break- Will begin at the end of the school day on March 24th and continue until April 2nd. We will also have April 7th off. Enjoy your time off!

Pictures – Spring pictures will be on Tuesday April 4th after spring break.

Fasting – If you are going to let your child try fasting during school hours, please make sure you complete this very brief form giving permission. Children who don’t have permission not be allowed to join the fasting group. Knowing the number of children fasting helps us to make plans for an alternative location during lunch.

Parent Teacher Conferences are by invitation only on Thursday 3/16. – We are only given 1 day in the spring, opposed to the 3 days we are given in the Fall, so there isn’t time to meet with everyone again. If you did not receive an invitation for a conferences, then I have no concerns or reason to conference. Your child is doing well. If you have a concern that you wish to address please email me the concern and I will see about squeezing you in on Thursday. We will not have a report card until after the Marking Period ends on 3/24. keeblek@dearbornschools.org

Reminder parents are coming in to pick up their students and see the Native American and Alternative Energy Fair today at 3:30. I just asked the office and they can not leave a door unlocked for safety reasons.  So please park in the front parking lot and if it gets full there is parking across the street.  Then come in the playground door.  Sorry for any inconvenience. Remember to check out with me before you leave 4 PM. We are very excited about our parents seeing all our hard work!

Please come at 3:30, park come in and see the fair, then help your students bring their projects home at 4:00. All 3rd graders and Green Team are dismissing from the cafeteria tomorrow. Don’t forget to check in with Mrs. Keebler before you leave.

I will be out sick tomorrow. Do NOT send in your projects until Tuesday. We will not take the History test until Tuesday. Continue to study with the History Blooket Game. We will take the Topic A quiz in math.

Julia Star of the Week-She will be our line leader, bring a poster about her life, bring in a letter from her parents telling us what makes her special to them, a favorite book and sharing.

Reading log for prize-March reading log need to come in each Monday with the number of minutes read each day and parent initials each day to get your super window for the cityscape and a super prize.

Native American Projects are due on Monday. Send in the posterboard and crafts/house. We will start presenting to the class throughout the week.

Native American and Alternative Energy Fair – Thursday March 9th – 3:00-3:30 students ONLY grades PreK-5 will view projects. 3:30-4:00 PARENTS view projects. Please park and come in to see the fair. At 3:55 you may check out with me and help your student carry their project out. Please do not leave without checking with me.

1/2 Day- March 17th – Professional Development

Academics – Please remember plans can change due to scheduling isssues.

Social Studies/Science – We will have a history test on Monday. Students can study for their history test by playing the History Blooket Game. Please use your real name when signing in so that I can track your progress. After we complete our History Unit we will begin a science unit on Weather.

ELA – We will continue our Benchmark Magazine Communities Then and Now with Week 2. We will be working on Homophones for spelling words. We will be completing our Unit 7 Week 2 Pamphlet. In grammar we will be talking about possessive nouns and punctuating dialog.

Math – We have started Unit 5 – Fractions

Monday – Topic A Quiz – Lesson 5 Must dos 1 a-d, 2, 4

Tuesday – Lesson 6 Must dos 1-2

Wednesday – Lesson 7 Must dos 2, 4, 10, 11

Thursday – Lesson 8 Must dos 1-3, 6

Friday Lesson 9 Must dos  1(d)–(f), 2(b)–(c)

Fasting Permission slip– Please complete the following form if you would like your child to be able to fast during school hours during Ramadan. This will give us the information we need to provide alternative activities during lunchtime. Students will NOT be allowed to fast without parental permission.

Spring Break – March 25-April 2 Enjoy your break

End of Marking period – March 24 End of 3rd marking period – All work due by March 22nd.

Spring Pictures will be Tuesday April 4th after break.

No School – April 7th – Good Friday