{"id":5912,"date":"2019-12-10T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T11:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/keebler\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2019-12-10T06:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T11:22:25","slug":"busy-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/keebler\/2019\/12\/10\/busy-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Holiday Boutique – <\/strong>Your help is needed for the Holiday Shop where students buy gifts for family and friends. Volunteers are needed for all days, but especially on Tues., Dec. 10 (preview day). <\/strong>Please consider volunteering a few hours of your time. You can sign up at<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holiday Boutique Volunteer Sign-Up!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holiday Sing Along <\/strong>– Our annual Sing-Along will be held on Friday, December 20 in the Gym at 9am.<\/strong> This year we will be inviting All Howe Montessori and Center-Based students and their parent to participate in on special event which will be held in the gym. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to wear red or green and wear Santa hats, reindeer antlers, Christmas light necklaces, etc. and decorate student wheelchairs. Please bring any jingle bells that you might have (or find at the Dollar store) for your students. Let’s make this a festive event! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week’s Star of the Week is Sophia.<\/strong> She will make a poster board (NOT foam board) for Monday, bring a favorite book on Tuesday, bring sharing on Wednesday, and invite a guest to lunch on Thursday. Friday have the star\u2019s parent writes a letter about why they are so special to them. The days maybe switched around except the poster board. Only one thing per day. Next week\u2019s<\/strong> Star of the Week \u2013 <\/strong>Merlin <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Star Parent Letters<\/strong> – If you did not get the chance to write a letter to your student about why they are so special to you I HIGHLY recommend that you do this. I almost cry each time I read one of these to the class they are so wonderful to read and such a precious gift to your child. I have started doing these for my own children. It is a great way to let your child know how much you care about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Winter Holiday Project\u00a0<\/strong>We have been working hard on our research project. We are trying to finish up. Please check your child’s project. Your student may need your help at this point.<\/strong> I have been doing writing conferencing with students everyday but only one person. At this point they should have completed their notes on Google classroom, their Blueprint(Graphic Organizer ) on paper and the Rough Draft on Google Classroom. I have put in grades for the notes and Blueprint and will be doing grades for the rough draft over the next couple of days. Here is the timeline we are following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Pick a holiday and start taking notes \u2013 November 26, 2019 <\/li>
  2. Take notes \u2013 due December 4, 2019<\/strong><\/li>
  3. Complete your Blueprint (Graphic Organizer) \u2013 due December 6, 2019<\/strong><\/li>
  4. Write a 1st draft \u2013 due December 10, 2019<\/strong><\/li>
  5. Edit using your Informational Writing Checklist due December 11, 2019<\/strong><\/li>
  6. Create a final draft in Google Docs- due December 13, 2019<\/strong><\/li>
  7. Create a presentation with pictures, videos or audio clips in Google Slides.- due<\/strong> December 16, 2019<\/strong><\/li>
  8. They will present their presentation to the class. due<\/strong> December 16-20, 2019<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Each section will be a grade for the report card. This research paper can be worked on in school and at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Publishing a book <\/strong>– I would like to publish our International Holiday research papers into a book. I published a hardcover book with my class last year and it was wonderful. I will bring a copy of last year’s book to the sign along and Gingerbread house holiday party so you can see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Gingerbread Houses and Holiday Party <\/strong>\u2013 HELP NEEDED <\/strong>For our Holiday Celebration we will be creating Gingerbread Houses.  The celebration will be December 20th at 2 PM.  You may start sending in the materials to create the houses right away so that I can  make sure we have enough of everything. Parents are welcome to join us for the celebration. We will be needing supplies to make the houses and treats for the party. \u2013 Sign up Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Dearborn City Librarians<\/strong> are excited to come in and present to classes on electronic resources available to Dearborn students from the Library.\u00a0 This will be a 30-minute in-school field trip.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Lanyard Sale\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 For a fundraiser Mr. Hesch (the chess coach) will be selling Howe School lanyards. Each lanyard includes an I.D. holder. The cost is $5. Available for students and staff.\u00a0 The leftover proceeds will be used to fund our classroom cooking projects.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Lanyard order form<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Next Week will be Holiday Spirit Week December 16-20<\/strong> Monday<\/strong>– Dress to Impress- New Years Eve Attire
    Tuesday<\/strong>– Winter wonderland white out! Wear white & wish for snow.
    Wednesday<\/strong>– Twin day
    Thursday<\/strong>– PJ day! Wear your favorite holiday pjs to school!
    (Please also bring in a new pair of pajamas or a monetary donation for our school\u2019s Girl Scout troop who is doing a pj drive)
    Friday<\/strong>– Wear Red or Green for our school\u2019s holiday sing along.
    Holiday hats or headbands are included. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    No School – December 21-January 5th Holiday Break<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Holiday Boutique – Your help is needed for the Holiday Shop where students buy gifts for family and friends. Volunteers are needed for all days, but especially on Tues., Dec. 10 (preview day). Please consider volunteering a few hours of your time. You can sign up at Holiday Boutique Volunteer Sign-Up! Holiday Sing Along – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/keebler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/keebler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/keebler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/keebler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/keebler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/keebler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5918,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/keebler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions\/5918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/keebler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/keebler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/keebler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}