Miss Knaus' Classroom

New work today: Writing and Reading

Writing both grades – Please find in Google Classroom – June 2 Personal Narrative Final Copy. This is your last writing of the year! Read the directions carefully. There is a video to watch first. The second video is the lesson – Mrs. Juntunen says it is long, so she suggests that you watch half today and half tomorrow. Then, follow the directions on writing your Personal narrative. She included a Thesaurus website to help you find better words. Have fun when you write! Due Friday.

Reading – You have a choice this week. I put 5 new books in your assignments on Raz Kids – www.kidsa-z.com. You only have to choose 1. Pick the one you think sounds the best! Read the book and take the quiz. These are the choices: Animals Feel Emotions, Life in Space, The Ant in the Photograph, Alia and the Furniture Troll, and World Cup Soccer. **Remember – you only have to read one and take the quiz. Due Friday.

Don’t forget Special Classes – good stuff this week again! Mrs. Baloga’s Interactive Music Room is so cool! I’ve been in there looking around today! Mr. Harvey has Cosmic Yoga! In Art, there are Origami Hawaiian shirts!

Dear Parents,

As the school year is coming to an end, we wanted to take this time to thank you for all of your continued support and understanding.  None of what we have accomplished could have been possible without the strong partnership we have as a community.  

Our plan this week is to have a day for material pick-up and drop-off.  The day is currently planned for Thursday, June 4th in the afternoon.  In order to maximize safety, we have assigned timings based on your child’s last name.  If your child’s last name begins with the letter A-M, the pick-up/drop-off time will be from 12:00-1:30pm.  If your child’s last name begins with the letter N-Z, the pick-up/drop-off time will be from 1:30-3:00pm.

We ask that students do not accompany adults and that we practice safety precautions at all times.  Please plan on coming with a mask on, practice social distancing and come in to pick up items and leave immediately.  We greatly appreciate your support in keeping everyone safe and healthy.

Below are a few important pieces of information to be aware of:

• Pick-up/Drop-off will occur on the South Playground (near Myrtle).  
• There will be an area marked for each classroom teacher.  Student materials have been placed in brown paper bags and extra material in a plastic bag ready for pick up with your child’s name.  There will also be a basket with the teacher’s name there for you to drop off any classroom books/materials.  These items should be placed in a bag, clearly marked with your child’s name.  Please remember, some students have lots of items, so come prepared.  
• In the lot, there will also be bins for you to drop-off:
  • library books
  • musical instruments
  • safety belts
  • service squad pins

Please clearly mark your child’s name on these items by either placing them in a bag or using a piece of masking tape.  

• There will also be a table to pick up your child’s medicine, anything left will be disposed of according to policy.
• If you have been collecting pop tabs, we will also have the box outside to collect those pop-tabs.
• Yearbooks and Spring Pictures have come in, there will be a table set up for those.  5th graders will get their yearbook in their promotion bags.

Since this will all occur outside, we are hoping that the weather cooperates.  If things change, we will let you know.  

Have a wonderful day!

Ms. Tiba
Zainah Tiba

Principal

This will be our last week of assignments!! There will be no NEW assignments the week of June 8 – 11. June 8 and 9 will be the last days to turn in any work to be finished. Report cards will be done on June 11. Reminder: Report Cards for this marking are based on participation. Instead of 1,2,3,4, you will see M – regularly submitted work since on-line learning began, P – Submitted some work. LP – Rarely or did not submit work. LPs could result in Summer School on-line learning which will be from mid July – mid August.

**Progress Reports from this past week will be coming out this morning (Monday). I will also let you know the day you can come up to school and pick up the items that were in desks and lockers. Ms. Tiba is making a schedule. Please bring back library books, book bags, and any other books that belong to school or our classroom.

How many of you watched the Space X Dragon blast into Space Saturday night? It was awesome! I discovered the site N2YO, which predicts when we can go outside and see the International Space Station fly over us. I went outside Saturday night, and within 10 minutes, there it was! Maybe one day, we will see our future astronaut, Julia, go up to space to visit the space station or Mars!

This week, we will have our last Social Studies lesson in Economy. We will also be writing our Personal Narratives from your planning last week. This comes from the Digital Memory Book. Math, both grades are moving into Module 6 – in Google Classroom and on Zearn. We will have one last reading book too in Raz Kids.

New Today: Please find in Google Classroom :

3rd grade Math – Module 6, Lesson 1 – Organizing data using a picture graph. Please read the directions in Google Classroom. Due Wed. Zearn – all of you have been moved to Module 6. Please do Lesson 1.

4th grade Math – Module 6, Lesson 1. Decimals. Please find the assignment in Google Classroom and read the directions. Due Wed. Zearn – everyone is now on Module 6. Please do lesson 1.

Social Studies – Please find in Google Classroom under Social Studies both grades. There is a timeline and photos to look at. Please look at the Slide Show. There are 3 videos in the slide show, but if they don’t play, I have attached them separately. The assignment is 7 questions on a Google Doc. This is due on Friday, so take your time and answer carefully.

I put a list of library books that were checked out by students in Google Classroom under LIBRARY BOOKS. Please look to see if you have any of these at home. If they were in the classroom book boxes or desks, I have already turned them into the library. Also, please find your blue reading bag and books that were taken home in that bag. I will post the day next week that we will have drop off and pick up.

Please read previous blog regarding pick up things/drop off things coming next week!

Today: Looking over my checklist for this week, no one has everything done yet – so all of you have things to finish…..therefore, NO NEW assignments today. Please take today to finish this week’s assignments. I have also had to send some work back to redo or to finish. Please check Google Classroom for any messages from me. The Progress Report will include:

3rd grade math – Lessons 18 and 20

4th grade math – Lesson 21 and Mid Module (please read directions in Google Classroom)

Social Studies – Incentive chart

Science – Google Doc 3 questions from the video

Reading – Raz Kids – www.kidsa-z.com – Fiction book and quiz. 8/10 is considered completed work. (These students have passed: Huissen, Mahdi, Kareem, Nadine, Zachary, Maya, Ava, Mohamed, Julia, and Danny)

Writing Plan – fill out Google doc with your plan for your personal narrative.

Art, PE, Music, and Science Enrichment with Mrs. Poisson.

***Next week will be our LAST week of assignments!!! Hooray!

Ms. Tiba is working on a schedule for one day next week (week of June 1 – 5) for parents to come up to school and pick up your child’s things that were in desks and lockers. I will let you know the day and time as soon as I hear.

We are asking that you please find any library books at home that need to come back, instruments (5th graders), or any blue book bags with books in them that were sent home. I have already returned library books that were in student book boxes in the classroom. Please gather up these things from your homes.

I bagged all student desk items in brown bags with their name on it and Room 206. Most students have 1 bag. A few of you have plastic bags also that include things from lockers.

You will not be allowed in the school – there will be a designated pick up spot.

More information to come…..Thank you!

New today: Only Math!

3rd grade – Lesson 20. We are skipping Lesson 19. This will be due tomorrow – Friday. It is a short lesson. Please go to Zearn also.

4th grade -*** Mid Module Assessment – fractions. Today you will show me what you have learned about fractions. PLEASE read the directions in Google Classroom for this test – I have picked out only some of the problems for you to do. If you do not have a printer, please write on a piece of paper clearly so I can read your answers. This will be on your Report Card with these letters: M – You turned it in and got many correct. P – You turned it in and tried your best. Some are correct. LP – You did not turn it in.

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This week, we have had these assignments. Please use today to check over what you need to do:

Math – 3rd grade – Lesson 18 and Lesson 20.

Math – 4th grade – Lesson 21 and Mid Module.

Social Studies – Incentive chart was due on Monday.

Science – How does the brain control your body? Google Doc questions are due tomorrow – Friday.

Writing – Planning your personal narrative using your Memory Book. You should have turned in your Memory Book for me to see. Use the Plan from Mrs. J. This is due on Monday, June 1.

Reading – new Fiction book on Raz Kids. www.kidsa-z.com. Due Friday either: Neighborhood Mystery or The Shadow People. Find which book you have in your assignments and take the quiz after you have read it.

Don’t forget about PE, Art, Music, and Science Enrichment.

New assignments today: Writing, Raz Kids reading, and Leader In Me video for Habit 7.

Writing – Please find in Google Classroom – Writing both grades – May 27. Read Mrs. Juntunen’s directions carefully. You will be planning your last writing piece – a personal narrative – using your Memory Book that you did last week. Due Monday, June 1.

Raz Kids – On Google Classroom, I put the directions under Reading Everyone. Please go to www.kidsa-z.com and find your new book under My Assignments. This week, we are reading Fiction stories. They are great books! Take the quiz when you are ready. Due Friday, May 29.

I included a video for Habit 7 – Sharpen the Saw at home! Please find it under Leader In Me 7 habits on Google Classroom. There is nothing to turn in – just a great video with some great ways to stay healthy – your body, mind, and heart!

Please visit PE, Art, Music, and Science Enrichment with Mrs. Poisson this week. They all have an assignment due by the end of the week.

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Math lessons were assigned Tuesday to both grades. Due Thursday.

Science both grades – The brain – There is a Google Doc with questions to answer after watching this video. Due Friday.

**Just for fun – I put 2 really cool videos in Science also – Are Unicorns Real? and How Can Some Animals See in the Dark? They do NOT have assignments, just cool videos to watch from Mystery Science!

We are almost there! The finish line is in sight! Please continue to turn in assignments this week and next week.

***Friday, June 5 will be the LAST day of assigned work! The week of June 8 – 11 will be used for any catching up or turning in late assignments.

**Due to the Holiday weekend, Progress Reports will be coming out this morning – with work that was completed by Monday, May 25 at 3 p.m.

*Reminder: The final report card – 4th Card Marking, will be based on submitted work since we officially began our On Line Learning. This Grading Criteria comes directly from Dearborn Public Schools. Grades will be letters: M – Meeting – regularly submitted work. P – Progressing – Submitted most assignments. LP – Limited Participation – student rarely submitted work and summer school may be required. (This is why I send home the weekly Progress Report and forward that information to Ms. Tiba.)

Due today: Social Studies – Incentives Chart. This will be on the next Progress Report, not today’s. Today has the Supply/Demand assignment on it.

New work today: Math – both grades. Please go to Google Classroom to find assignments and directions. 4th grade will be having a Mid Module Assessment test on Thursday.

New today: Science both grades – How does your brain control your body? Watch the Mystery Science video, do the fun, easy experiment, and answer questions on Google Doc. Find in Google Classroom under Science both grades.

No new assignments today! Please make sure you have done your assignments in PE, Art, Music, and Science Enrichment.

Your Progress Reports for this week will have:

Math 3rd grade – Lessons 14, 16, and 17

Math 4th grade – Lessons 18, 19, and 20

Writing – Memory Book fill in

Social Studies – Supply and Demand Questions

Raz Kids book and quiz – www.kidsa-z.com

Readworks.org – Spring Into Poetry

***Everyone have a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend! Get outside and enjoy the nice weather. Stay safe and healthy!

See you next Tuesday, May 26 here on the blog.