Mrs. Keebler's Blog

Wow, we have a busy month coming up! Check out the dates to remember section below to see all the things we have going on!

Kindness – Our new character trait of the month is kindness. This is a perfect trait for us this month! We could use some extra kindness in our classroom this month. Please remind your student about the importance of being kind! I’ll be watching everyone this month and we will be picking a student to get the kindness award at the end of the month.

Dates to Remember:

10/7 – Serena is still star of the week because of the short week last week.

10/8 1st Math Test– here is the study guide and answers, I will pass these out and we will work on these in class on Monday, test is Tuesday:

Module 1 Study Guide

Module 1 Study Guide Answers

10/10 Pistons Assembly

Thursday, October 10th, 2024 The Detroit Pistons will host a SEL assembly for all at 1:30pm in the school gym. They did a great SEL lesson, with a lot of fun activities, and gave away prizes. After the assembly at my last school, I made a highlight reel, if anyone wants to see what to expect:

This is a great incentive for the students because they will also give me game tickets for students and families to attend one of their games. This assembly program rewards our students with time out of the classroom. The assembly includes a visit from Hooper, a Pistons Youth Coach, teacher vs. student competitions, prize giveaways, and character-building messaging.  Ms. Sparkle

10/10 – Madalyn visit – we will have a high school student visit our room to decide if she wants to be a teacher.

10/13 Wyatt Star of the Week

10/20 Isabella Star of the Week

10/22 – Fire Safety talk – a firefighter will visit our classroom and talk about fire safety. This is in preparation for a field trip to the Dearborn Smoke House on November 4th where 3rd graders learn what to do if there is a fire in their house.

10/23 Last Day to turn in all assignments – marking period ends on 10/25 this will be a 1/2 day.

10/28 – Picture day – put on your best outfit and your best smile!

Academics –

Math – Monday – Lesson 23 Tuesday Module 1 test – see study guide above, Wednesday – Module 2 Lesson 1, Thursday Lesson 2, Friday Lesson 3.

ELA – CLICK HERE FOR YOUR SPELLING WORDS: Unit 2 Week 1 – Spelling – Long E, Grammar – Adjective and Adverbs  Spelling Practice , I have included an optional spelling practice for those who need extra work on their spelling.

Science – Force and Motion

Social Studies – Government

Reminder – I run the Robotics club on Mondays and the Green Team on Wednesdays after school for the 4th and 5th graders, if you need to talk to me about anything on those days, please send me an email at keeblek@dearbornschools.org.

No school tomorrow October 1st

Spelling words to are attached to the previous post

Reminder – No School on Tuesday, October 1st – Professional Development

Star of the Week – Will be shared this week by Anesa and Serena. We still need to complete Anesa’s book and Serena will continue until the following week since we don’t have a full week this week.

Math – Homework – there are quite a few students that are not turning in their homework or exit tickets. Please check your student’s work each night to make sure it is complete and they are understanding the current concept.

Topic D Quiz on Monday – Make sure your students have completed all their work for lesson 15-18 and they understand it! The following students have missing work or redos for this sections and should make sure they complete or redo all their work: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 21

Math this week will be Topic E – Lesson 19-23 We will have the Module 1 Assessment on Monday, October 7th.

ELA – Unit 1 Week 3 – Spelling – Long O and U, Grammar – Subject Verb Agreement Spelling Words

Science – Force and Motion

Social Studies – Government

Grades – These can be viewed on Parent Connect. You can access this by going to Dearborn Public Schools, click on the Parent Connect button near the top center of the page. If you don’t remember your username and password, just click forgot and it will send you an email with your information. Please check this weekly for your child’s progress and missing work. I allow one redo on most assignments until the week before grades are due. Papers that are “report card” grades will have a percentage or a number score with a circle around it near the top of the paper. A check on the right side of the paper means it is in the grade book, a check on the left side means I have seen it. A star is 100%.

Grading Scale in a circle at the top of a paper.

1 – 100%-95%

2- 94%-80%

3- 79%-60%

4-59%-0%

Papers – I am putting in a lot of grades this weekend, please check on Sunday for an update on what is missing. Please save all papers until the end of the marking period. Then if something goes missing, you can just return it for a grade, instead of having a redo.

Conferences and Marking Period is ending on October 25th – All assignments are due by October 23rd. Parent Teacher conferences will be on November 12th and 14th in the afternoon and evening. I will be sending a sign-up sheet soon.

Star of the Week is Anesa

Spelling Test – several students did not do well on this week’s spelling test. I will do a retake on Monday. Please ask your child their score on their test Friday and anyone who didn’t get 100% will be allowed to retake. Please help them study. Their words can be found in their planner and on the Week 1 pamphlet.

Spelling Menu – Because we had trouble this week we will now be starting a Spelling Menu, each week. Students will need to choose 3 activities to complete on the back of the paper or attach your own paper, to practice the spelling words. This will be due every Friday. I hope we will see better test results next week.

iReady practice – we have now finished our iReady testing and it is time to begin practicing iReady at home. Students should do 15-20 minutes a day of iReady. They should alternate between reading and math so they will improve in both area.

Academics –

Math – This week we will be completing lessons Lessons 13, 14 We will take a quiz on Topic C on Tuesday. Then finish Lesson 15-17 for the rest of the week. Students will do well on the quizzes if they complete their daily classwork and homework. Please make sure they are bringing in their math each day.

ELA – This week we will start week 2 of our Benchmark curriculum. The week 2 Spelling and Grammar pamphlet will cover Spelling – Long A, Grammar – Regular Verbs.  The spelling words are on the pamphlet.

Social Studies – we will take the paper quiz on the Government Week 1 materials. Please make sure your students have completed the week 1 activities on online.studiesweekly.com, if they don’t know their login please message me on ClassDojo and I will send it to you.

Science – we will begin out unit on Balancing Forces.

Dates to remember – October 1st – No School Professional Development

Benchmark ELA – This week we will be beginning our 1st Benchmark unit called Animal Adaptations. Here is a copy of the Grammar and Spelling pamphlet that we will do this week. Unit 1 Week 1 The grammar focus this week is Concrete and Abstract Nouns- We will also begin our spelling – This week we will be working on Short Vowels, Here are the Spelling Words. I will also ask students to write them in their planners on the right side. We will have a spelling test on Friday, please help your student practice spelling the words each day.

Reading logs will also begin this week. They will be due on Friday.

Star of the Week: Amira– Each day she will bring on of the following items to share with the class:

Monday she will be making a poster board all about her life, she will get her Star of the Week crown and get to be our line leader.

Tuesday her parents will write a letter to her telling us what makes her so special and we will share that with the class,

Wednesday she will bring sharing from home

Thursday her favorite book to read to the class.

Friday bring your favorite stuffed animal to sit on your desk while you work.

The days can be switched around except for the poster. She should bring 1 item per day. This is what every student will do on their week for the rest of the year. To find your student’s week look on the blog calendar.

I-Ready Testing – Most students are done with i-Ready testing, the students who are not finished will be testing with our instructional coach in her office. We will be giving out and discussing the test results at conferences in November.

ELA – We are on week 3 of the Benchmark Review and Routines. We will continue our reading test this week. This is the last week of review before our regular lessons and spelling tests start.

Reading logs and Book bags will begin this week. Your child will get a reading log with a short activity to do after their 20 minutes of reading. I will send home a book bag with 1 – 2 books at their level. Please return the book bags and reading logs each Friday. Your student will switch out their book and get a new reading log.

Math – This week we will start on Monday with the Topic B quiz. We will try to complete lessons 10-14. Watch the planner for the exact assignments. Please remember to sign the planner each night.

Math Fact Tests – We had 2 more students finish addition on Friday, so we now have 5 students working on subtraction. Please make sure that you student is studying their math facts each night. When all students have passed the addition facts they will earn an ice cream party. I will send a picture next week of our scoop progress, our wall is getting very colorful! Please ask your child which facts they are on and have them practice each afternoon and morning in the car while you are driving, ask them what is 4+8 and see how quick they can answer.

Social Studies – We will continue to learn about Government. We will take our quiz next week. Students can practice by login into www.Online.StudiesWeekly.com/login. If they don’t remember their login information send a Class Dojo Message.

Library Check out will be on Wednesday until January. Please make sure all books are back in school by Tuesday, so they are ready to return on Wednesday.

Gym class will be on Thursday. Please make sure they wear gym shoes on Thursday.

Class News

Star of the Week: Evana – Each day she will bring on of the following items to share with the class:

Monday she will be making a poster board all about her life, she will get her Star of the Week crown and get to be our line leader.

Tuesday her parents will write a letter to her telling us what makes her so special and we will share that with the class,

Wednesday she will bring sharing from home

Thursday her favorite book to read to the class.

Friday bring your favorite stuffed animal to sit on your desk while you work.

The days can be switched around except for the poster. She should bring 1 item per day. This is what every student will do on their week for the rest of the year. To find your student’s week look on the blog calendar.

I-Ready Testing – We will begin our i-Ready testing on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. We will be starting right away so please arrive on time. Make sure your child gets a good night sleep (9-11 hours are recommended for 3rd graders). Make sure they eat a healthy breakfast with protein not sugar.

Academics –

ELA – We are one week 2 of the Benchmark Review and Routines. We will begin our reading test this week. We have one more week after this of review before our regular lessons and spelling tests start.

Math – We took our 1st Topic A quiz on Thursday, most students did very well, I let everyone correct mistakes on Friday. The quiz will go home on Monday. We will try to complete Lesson 7, 8, and 9 by Wednesday this would mean we will take the Topic B quiz on Thursday or Friday. Watch the planner for the exact assignments. Please remember to sign the planner each night.

Math Fact Tests – we take a math fact test each morning to try to improve our fact fluency. We have started with the addition facts. Each time your child gets 100% on a test in less than 5 minutes, they earn a scoop for their ice cream sundae. When all students have passed the addition facts they will earn an ice cream party. I will send a picture next week of our scoop progress, our wall is getting very colorful! Here is a picture from a previous year. Please ask your child which facts they are on and have them practice each afternoon and morning in the car while you are driving, ask them what is 4+8 and see how quick they can answer.

Social Studies – We will continue to learn about Government. We will take a little quiz on the week one content this week. Students were given a Studies Weekly login if they want to study at home, we will go

Library Check out will be on Wednesday until January. Please make sure all books are back in school by Tuesday, so they are ready to return on Wednesday.

Gym class will be on Thursday. Please make sure they wear gym shoes on Thursday.

I hope everyone enjoyed their extra long weekend with their children. We are starting a new week tomorrow. I got to babysit Mrs. Polster’s monarch caterpillars and black swallowtail chrysalises. They are almost all chrysalises now, so we will get to observe a new stage on Tuesday.

Homework – Each night your student will come home with a planner, it will tell you the current night’s homework, which is usually a math page and reading a book for 20 minutes. I will be adding a short response to reading, writing assignment for homework in a couple of weeks. Please sign the planner so that I know that you have seen it and please ensure that your child completes their work. It is helpful if homework is done early right after school before fun activities so that students are more motivated to complete it. Students should never spend more than 60 minutes doing homework. If it is taking too long, please let me know and we will brainstorm ideas to make it shorter.

Lost or Forgotten homework – It sometimes happens that someone forgets to bring home their homework or they somehow lose it. If you have a printer it is available to print from the blog. Go to Homework on the right side. Hover over it and the list pops up. Click on Eureka Math Homework to find the directions for how to find and print the homework. Here is the link if you can’t find it. If you don’t have a printer then you follow the same directions and copy the answers on a piece of paper. This is also helpful if your student is absent from school, so that they can still complete their work.

Blog – Almost everything that you need is on the blog. Do a little exploring if you need something. If you can’t find it let me know in an email and I can help. My email is: keeblek@dearbornschools.org.

Parent Homework – Class Dojo and the Blog – I am very excited that 91% of families are signed up for Class Dojo. Only 2 families to go! It is harder to tell who signed up for the blog since there are not kid names attached to your emails. SO I would like to do a roll call to make sure I am talking to all families each week. If you get this blog post please go to Class Dojo and say “I got the blog post”. Then I will know who I need to get added to the blog! That’s your homework! Thanks!

Star of the Week – Starting September 9th we are starting Star of the Week. Evana will be our 1st Star of the Week. About every week we will have a new Star of the Week. This is a very special week for your child. They get to make a poster about themselves, get a Star of the Week crown, be the line leader, do sharing and bring in a special book and letter from their parents. I have started adding the students to our calendar on the blog so you can check your student’s date. I am going in alphabetical order. The date may change so check the calendar when your students date is getting closer. To learn more here is the Star of the Week page from the blog. If we have days off during the week or if your child is sick during their time I will extend their week to include the next week also.

Academics –

Social Studies – We will begin working on Government in Social Studies. Students will get a Studies Weekly magazine each week and will have an online platform to do games and assessments.

ELA – We are working on the Benchmark Review and Routines. Each week students will get a pamphlet that will need to be completed by Friday. About every 3 weeks we will start a new unit magazine.

Math – This week we will be doing the following homework from their Apply books.

Tuesday – Lesson 4

Wednesday – Lesson 5

Thursday – Lesson 6

Friday – Lesson 7

If you ever have any questions, comments or concerns please contact me at keeblek@dearbornschools.org or message me on Class Dojo.

I have posted our first full day of school picture on Class Dojo! I’m excited to see 69% of parents connected to Class Dojo one the 1st full day of school! That is awesome! To hatch the monster the kids need to log in also. There is a QR code when you open up their egg. If you are not signed up yet, I have sent the QR code again to sign up. Students will get a prize when their parents are connected. If you need help let me know.

It was great having our students back in school yesterday! As a reminder, Tuesday, August 27 will be a full day of school for all students from 8:25-3:20. Breakfast will be served from 8:00-8:20 in the cafeteria. All students will be dismissed at 3:20.

Students will be dismissed from the following locations:

Montessori k-2: Door 18 (the small lot off of Ann Arbor Trail)

Montessori 3-5 (and younger siblings): Door 20 (First door in the big lot off of Ann Arbor Trail and Warren Rd.

Don’t forget a reusable water bottle (no disposable water bottles please), a healthy snack, your red folder and lunch unless you are buying lunch:

1st choice: Halal Chicken Patty

2nd choice: Hummus & Pita

Birthdays:We have several birthdays coming up soon. Please follow the birthday guidelines when making your plans. Please let me know as soon as you know which day you are sending in treats: