Mrs. Keebler's Blog

We are in the home stretch!  Only 8 1/2 days of school left!  We have a very busy couple of weeks!

Monday 6/4

• NWEA Language testing in the morning – to prepare please use Moby Max test prep or Language.
• Native American Projects due – we will practice presenting to each other – see guidelines for the project below
• Music rehearsal for play 2:35

Tuesday 6/5

• 10:00 – Cultural play for the school
• 1:30 – Cultural play for parents
• 2:30 – Native American Fair for parents

Wednesday 6/6 – We will be having art on Wednesday because the art teacher will be helping out at the Special Ed Field day on Tuesday.

Thursday 6/7

• 10:00 – Field day for Keebler’s class

Friday 6/8 – Last spelling test

Thursday 6/14 – Last day of School

• 9:30 5th grade promotion ceremony
• 11:45 Dismissal – Report cards given at dismissal

Missing work – All missing work is due by this Friday 6/8.  Make sure that you check the “Show all” button at the top of the Assignment section of Parent Connect so that you can see everything.

Native American Research Paper – DUE MONDAY 6/4  All students should have created notes, an outline and a research paper.  Each part is a separate grade.  Each of these have documents on Google classroom and should be completed and turned in on Google classroom.  If you can’t access your student’s Google classroom please contact me right away and I can email their work and you can have them complete it and email it to me.

Native American Research Project – DUE MONDAY 6/4 -Student will turn their research report into a project on a tri-fold board.  They should include their paper, other interesting facts, pictures, artifacts and possibly an interactive game for their audience.  They will be presenting these project to the rest of the school and the parents next week.  The board should be neat in appearance, and free of spelling, capitalization and punctuation errors.  They will be graded on the presentation also.

School work – There will be no more reading logs due this year. We will have the last spelling test on Friday 6/8.

If there is something I have forgotten or if you have questions about any work please email me at keeblek@dearbornschools.org

SEUSSICAL the Musical is tomorrow 5/31 –

Native American Cultural Play 6/5 at 1:30 in the gym – 2nd-5th performing an informational presentation about Native Americans from all around North America.

Native American Fair 6/5 after the play around 2:30 in the classroom – students will be presenting their projects to the parents and the other classes in the school.

Native American Research report and project – Due Monday 6/4 – Please make sure that your student completes their project with their research report, pictures and/or artifacts on a tri-fold poster board.

Native American Costume for the play – students should wear tan, black or brown.  We are making head bands and Native American vest as part of the costume.

NWEA testing has been move to Friday 6/1 and Monday 6/4

Library books and Book Bags – Please return all school library books and book bags, or anything else from school that needs to come back.  Thanks!

Native American Research report – Due date 6/4

• Today we continued to work on taking notes
• We started to organize our notes by highlighting notes that were in the same topic.
• The students were introduced to the outline they will be using once their notes are complete.
• They were given a paper to start with which should be easier to work with rather than switching between two tabs on the computer.  However, I would like the final copy of their outline typed into the Google Classroom assignment that I just added.  Here is the link: Google Classroom
• Native American Outline is due by Tuesday 5/29
• If students finish their outline before Tuesday they are welcome to begin their 1st draft of their report.  Remember to cite evidence and keep track of their resources.  They can use the following sentence starters for citing their evidence:
  • According to the text…
  • This author states…
  • Based on what I read…

Native American Cultural Play costumes – all the children should wear any shade of brown/tan/khaki shirts and pants with no writing for their costume.  We will be making Native American vests to wear over their brown clothing.

NWEA Testing – This week we completed the NWEA reading and math test make up testing.  We will complete the Language and Science tests next week on Tues 5/29 and Thur 5/31.

Long Weekend – No school 5/28-5/28.  School resumes on 5/29.  Have a wonderful long weekend.

Native American Research – Your student can continue to research their Native American report on the weekend.  All the directions about what to do are in Google Classroom.  Here is the link:

Google Classroom – https://classroom.google.com/u/0/h

Log in with student number@dearbornschools.org (this part should already be there)

Password is their birthday – MMDDYYYY

Native American Research Report and Project – Last week, we started our big research project for the year.  Each child has a topic, we are learning how to take notes, create an outline, rough draft and final draft.  We will be working on this in class.  But there are only 8 class days left before it is due on June 4th, therefore it would be a good idea for students to work on this at home also.  Here is the information needed to create the research paper:

Native American Research Report and Project Assignment and Directions

Native American Topic List

Native American Project Note Taking

Native American Outline

Native American Fair – Each child will be creating a project to go with their research topic and they will present them at our Native American fair in June.  More details on the date to follow soon.  Project should be on a tri-fold board and will be completed at home.  Everything is due June 4th.

Native American Cultural Play – June 5th at 1:30 PM – All families are invited.  Grades 2-5 will be presenting music and information about the Native Americans of North America.

NWEA Testing – This week we are finishing up the make up tests in Math and Reading.  If we get these done we will resume testing in Language on Thursday.

Short week this week and next for Memorial day – no school on Friday 5/25 or Monday 5/28 – Enjoy your long weekend.

Spelling Tests – because we have a short week, the Week 32 spelling test will be on Thursday.  The week 33 spelling test will be on Friday as usual.

You must have a signed permission slip if you want your child to be fasting.

Ramadan Fasting – If  you would like your child to fast during Ramadan please make sure you print and complete this permission slip.  If there is anyone who needs me to print the form please let me know. Thank you 🙂

Fast Parental Approval Form

NWEA testing tomorrow.

Math test – Unit 9 test was post-poned until tomorrow

Science end of unit assessment on Wednesday – here is the the study guide answers. – Study guide answers

Math Test Monday – Study guides went home today for the Unit 9 Math test.  Here is a link to the study guide if you student did not bring it home.

3rd+Grade+Pre-Test+Unit+9

Here is the answer key: Answer+Key+GR3+U9+PreTest

NWEA Testing – We will be doing NWEA testing on Tuesday and Thursday, next week and the week after.  Please practice with Moby Max Test prep, fact fluency and science.

Thank you for everything you do with your children and everything that you did in making this a wonderful teacher appreciation week.  I really enjoyed all the cards, flowers and presents!  Thanks to the PTA and parents for the breakfast and lunch.  I even had an 8% increase in the classes positive behavior this week!!  That was really appreciated!!!  Enjoy your Mother’s Day weekend, I hope your like your butterfly cards.

Thank you, thank you, for all the wonderful cards and flowers!!!  –  This is absolutely my favorite day of the year!   It is so wonderful to get so many beautiful flowers and cards in one day.  You are all so generous and kind!

Staff luncheon – The PTA is providing lunch for the entire 86 member staff tomorrow and is asking each family to please bring $5 to help with the cost.  Thank you for your generosity.

Ramadan Fasting – If  you would like your child to fast during Ramadan please make sure you print and complete this permission slip.  If there is anyone who needs me to print the form please let me know. Thank you 🙂

Fast Parental Approval Form

Thank you!! to the families that brought school supplies yesterday for “Sweet Supplies Day”!  They will be very helpful since we are getting very short on supplies.

Reading Log this week – I am have a few problems with Mahara so I would like to try something new this week. All students will create their reading log in Google classroom this week.

Color Run – the students had a great time at the Color Run yesterday.  Here is the link to the photos I took.  Color Run pictures