Mrs. Keebler's Blog

NWEA Testing – We will be testing on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday for 3rd Grade.   2nd Grade will test only on Monday and Wednesday.  Please be sure your child is well rested and well fed (protien not sugar) on testing days.

Social Studies Quiz – Both 2nd and 3rd Graders will have a social studies quiz on Tuesday.   Please log into Studies Weekly and reread all the material to review.   Here is a study guide with additional information for the 2nd graders, you will only need page 1 of the study guide.   The 3rd grade will only be tested on the material in Studies Weekly:

To log in to Studies Weekly: go to StudiesWeekly.com

User name: FirstnameLastname (must have capital first letter for each name, no spaces)

Password: Firstname (must be capitalized)

2nd-grade-unit-1-study-guide

Grading – To be sure that your student’s papers have been graded and recorded you should look for a number with a circle around it.   You should also see a check in the upper right hand corner.  The check means that it has bee recorded in the grade book.  Here is our grading scale:

1 = 95-100%

2=80-94%

3=70-79%

4=0-69%

If you do not see a number in a circle and a check you should sent if back to school to be recorded.   Sometimes I will put a star at the top instead of a number.  If students get a redo, this usually means they got a score that is less than 79%.  They should correct their mistake, write redone at the top and turn it in again.  They will get partial credit for a redo.  I suggest students save their papers for a week to 2 weeks to make sure they are graded and recorded before recycling.

Daily Schedule – is finally updated.  Here is the link to find it – Daily Schedule

Missing Flash Drive – I’m sorry that things are talking longer than usual to post.  I recently lost my flash drive with all my data and I am having to work to recreate things that were already complete.

Communication – Many people are making comments on the blog and Google classroom.  It is best to send all questions to my email.  I may or may not always check the comments on these other sites regularly and you question could get missed.   It is usually a good idea to put all communication in writing.  Sometime if you tell me something, then 4-5 students or parents ask me questions after you told me something, then I might forget what you said.  If it is important, please send an email.

NWEA MAP Testing – will be this week and next.  We will be testing in the morning.  Please be sure that your child is well rested (children this age need 10-12 hours of sleep) and has a good breakfast (protein not sugar).

Homework and Lesson Plans –

Fridays I will be sending home the Spelling homework and Spelling sort.  This assignment will be turned in on Wednesdays.  I will also be sending home a reading log.  Students should be reading each night and completing the log each night Reading Logs will be due Thursdays with the book bags.   I will only send home one book a week.  They may use books from home or the library if they need more books to finish their log.  All students should be practicing their math facts a few minutes each night.

I will be making assignments on Google classroom and on the lesson plans that are on my blog.  These assignments will all be completed in class.  If your student is absent or does not have time to complete the work in class then you can print it from the blog.

Snacks – we don’t each lunch until 12:30 each day.  The students get very hungry by that time so we usually eat a healthy snack around 10 am.  Please provide fruits, veggies or other healthy snacks.   We count our fruits and veggies each day and we will earn an extra recess when we have reached 400 healthy snacks.  We are already at 85!  Please do not send juice or pop to drink.  The only beverage allowed in the classroom is water.

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.