Dear Families,

On Wednesday, February 14^th, we will be celebrating Valentine’s Day! If you wish to have your child send in Valentines cards for their classmates there is a list of your child’s class below.  Valentines cards can be purchased at stores such as CVS, Kroger, Walmart, the Dollar Store, etc. 

 Classmates 

• Wiam
• Jawaher
• Rayan
• Nasr
• Ali
• Mohamed
• Dany
• Eli
• Aya
• Noor 

On Valentine’s Day we will have a special treat at snack time. 

Thank you for helping your child enjoy Valentine’s Day!

Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 7th is a late start morning.

See you at 9:35. 

PEEK AT THE WEEK

• We continued letter of the week by listening to letter “L” songs, reading books about things that start with the letter “L” and completing our letter L book page by adding a ladybug
• Our classroom project for alphabet and number toys was fully funded on Donors Choose so the children spent time exploring some of our new toys this week!! Special thanks to all our donors who made this possible!
• The children practiced their counting and number recognition skills with an interactive winter counting book and a roll and cover game
• We read a story about animals in the winter and completed a comprehension matching task
• The class conducted their science experiment for the Science Fair next week. We asked the question “What melts ice the fastest?” We mixed together water and salt, water and vinegar, and water and sugar and put the solutions to the test.  The winner was water and salt! The students had fun pouring, scooping, shaking, and squirting while finding the answer
• The students played in our sensory bin that now has a Valentine’s Day theme. The used shovels to scoop the beans and fill heart shaped containers
• We read “10 Grouchy Groundhogs” and colored in groundhogs to use on our prediction chart
• After reading another groundhog story the students predicted whether the groundhog would see its shadow or not. We counted up how many people said yes and how many said no then talked about which one had more responses
• The children practiced letter identification with our class name book and then they decorated the first letter of their name with Valentine Day themed stickers

UPCOMING EVENTS

• February 7^th – Late Start
• February 19^th – 23^rd – No School – Mid Winter Break

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

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Influenza_-Fact-Sheet   Click on link to read.

Hi.  There are many sick children in the community right now.  Please take a few minutes to read the information provided.  One sick person coming to school can make many others sick!  Hand washing is very important!  Thanks for your help!

While we are in the midst of cold/flu season, we wanted to share with you helpful guidelines for parents to know when they should keep their children home from school. We hope this helps communicate our expectations to parents and alleviate some frustrations with children coming to school ill. Not only are these guidelines for when parents should keep their children home, but also for when we should send students home.

The Dearborn School Nurses
Carrie Conn, RN
Dearborn School Nurse
Phone 313.827.1650
Fax 313.827.1605
Email: connc@dearbornschools.org

PEEK AT THE WEEK

• We continued letter of the week by listening to letter “K” songs, reading books about things that start with the letter “K” and completing our letter K book page by adding a kite
• We worked on building stamina during read to self time
• We practiced number recognition and counting with an interactive book about things in winter
• The children practiced their fine motor skills with a variety of fine motor tasks including peg and button jars, puzzles, and peg boards
• We read a book about winter weather and answered the question, “Do you like winter?” The students graphed their responses and we talked about more and less
• The students practiced vocabulary words: “more,” “eat,” “drink,” and “all done” Here is a link to one of the videos we used to practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-98njJwSl4&t=280s
• We read a book that has interactive sounds and we matched the picture on the page to the sound button
• We read “There was a Cold Lady who Swallowed some Snow” and used props to feed our old lady
• The students played in our sensory bin that now has a Valentine’s Day theme. The used shovels to scoop the beans and fill heart shaped containers

We welcomed a new preschool student to our class.

Welcome to Snow, Rayan!

UPCOMING EVENTS

• February 7^th – Late Start
• February 19^th – 23^rd – No School – Mid Winter Break

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

Don’t forget tomorrow, January 26th is a half day of school.  Dismissal is at 11:45. 

Lunch will not be served but we will have a morning snack. 

PEEK AT THE WEEK

• Aya had a birthday over winter break so we celebrated this week! Happy Birthday Aya!!
• We continued letter of the week by listening to letter “J” songs, reading books about things that start with the letter “J” and completing our letter J book page by painting “jelly” on a bread cutout
• We had group with Ms. Staci and Mrs. Gallery. The students each made a snowman craft while working on their fine motor skills
• The children drew in their journals
• We worked on building stamina during read to self time
• The children painted snow onto their winter mitten and hat with q-tips
• We practiced color recognition with an interactive book about colored mittens and then the students colored their own mitten picture
• The children are working very hard on independently feeding themselves. PLEASE practice this at home.  The more practice the better!
• We made smoothies several times for snack. The children helped cut the banana, add the frozen strawberries, and pour the milk.  It’s a new favorite!
• The children practiced counting and number recognition with the poem “5 Little Snowmen”
• We read the story “Snowmen All Year” and talked about what we would do if we have a snowman all year
• The children worked on recognizing their first letters in the names with our name book and stamping activity

UPCOMING EVENTS

• January 26^th – Half Day
• February 7^th – Late Start
• February 19^th – 23^rd – No School – Mid Winter Break

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

PEEK AT THE WEEK

• On Monday we celebrated Wiam’s birthday! Happy Birthday Wiam!!
• We continued letter of the week by listening to letter “J” songs, reading books about things that start with the letter “J” and using bingo markers to outline the letter
• The children drew in their journals
• We worked on building stamina during read to self time
• The children painted at the easel to make a winter mitten and hat craft that will hang in the hallway along with our writings about what we like to do during the winter
• We practiced color recognition with an interactive book about colored snowflakes and then the students colored their own snowflake
• Kim read us the story “Winter is for Snow”
• We read a book about people in winter and then graphed if we prefer to wear mittens or gloves. The children tried each on before deciding
• The children practiced the core vocab word “stop” by reading books that included the word on each page, then we drove a car up to a stop sign and we danced to a song while saying “don’t stop”
• We worked on fine motor skills by working on puzzles, cause and effect shape sorters, and coloring with crayons
• The children are working very hard on independently feeding themselves. PLEASE practice this at home.  The more practice the better!

UPCOMING EVENTS

• January 15^th – No School – Martin Luther King Jr Day
• January 17^th  – Late Start
• January 26^th – Half Day

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

PEEK AT THE WEEK

• We made ornaments for our parents out of popsicle sticks
• We had group therapy with Ms. Staci and Mrs. Gallery. We made hot chocolate and decorated sugar cookies
• The children drew in their journals
• We worked on building stamina during read to self time
• The children made holiday song requests using the prompt “I want…”
• We sang jingle bells and shook bells along with the song
• We practiced color recognition with our felt tree and a present under the tree story
• The children practiced their fine motor skills with puzzles, fine motor jars, cubes, and pegs
• We watched a holiday movie and ate popcorn!

UPCOMING EVENTS

• December 25^th– January 5^th – NO SCHOOL

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 20th is a late start morning.