Note from the principal

Dear Snow Families,

This year has flown by so quickly!

Our staff, our students, our PTA and our parent community have been so helpful.  We are so very proud of our school and have truly enjoyed the partnership and positive collaboration.

Each child is precious and each face is loved and cared for by all of us.  When your child succeeds, we are so thrilled, and when he/she struggles, we work together as a team to improve the situation.

We have done our best to make this year a year of growth, higher achievement and a safe and happy environment for all.  Teachers are working to increase the rigor in instruction while differentiating for students as needed, we have implemented PlayWorks to develop sportsmanship and social skills and we have started Unified to support inclusion and leadership. We are happy to report that our hard work has paid off!  Our Snow Overall School Index Score as reported by the state of Michigan has climbed from 72.58 to 92.63!  Snow is soaring!

To help our students continue to make progress and avoid summer loss, we are asking all Snow students to read over the summer and practice math. Our Snow Summer Challenge is for every student to do iReady for an hour per week and Zearn for one hour per week as well.  Instructions will be sent home today.

Again, on behalf of the Snow Staff, we want to express our appreciation for your efforts to support our initiatives.  We look forward to seeing you all next fall to begin another successful school year together.

We wish you all a wonderful summer, and we hope that you will always encourage your children to practice the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Leadership- always!

 

Sincerely,

 

Amal Alcodray, Principal

Snow Staff

June 14th

Tomorrow, Friday, June 14th is our last day of school! 

It is a half day and dismissal is at 11:45.

I hope you all have a wonderful summer! 

Reminders

NO SCHOOL: Friday May 24th or Monday, May 27th.  Enjoy the long weekend!

Tuesday, May 28th is our special ed field day field trip! A hot dog lunch will be provided.  If your child does not like hot dogs please pack a brown bag lunch with all disposable items.  Dress your child for the weather we will be outside all day.

City Beautiful Parade

Tomorrow, Thursday, May 16th is our school wide city beautiful parade!

If you purchased a shirt for your child please have them wear it tomorrow.

If you did not purchase a shirt don’t worry! Your children revived Unified shirts that I have been keeping here at school and we will wear those for the parade. 🙂

If you are joining us we will meet you in front of the building, where the parade starts, at 1:30.

Field Trip Reminder

Zoo Field Trip Reminder

We are going to the Detroit Zoo this Monday, May 13th rain or shine.  Please dress your child appropriately for the weather.

All students must bring a brown bag lunch on this day with all disposable items.  Please write your child’s name on their bag. We will not be making any food purchases during this trip.

 

 

Newsletter for the week of May 6th

PEEK AT THE WEEK

  • Our core vocab word of the week was “you”
  • We practiced using the word “you” in many ways
  • Our letter of the week was “Y”
  • We practiced the letter “Y” by reading an interactive book and searching through our rice bin for objects that start with the letter “Y,” we did an yo-yo bingo sheet, and sang letter “Y” songs
  • We read many books including “Goodnight Gorilla” and “Dear Zoo”
  • This week we learned about zoo animals to prepare for our field trip!
  • The students matched baby animals to their mother’s after reading books about baby animals
  • We play on the playground!
  • The students practiced counting, number recognition and subtraction with a bowling game
  • We practiced our scissor skills with a paper plate lion craft
  • The students made mother’s day crafts….Happy Mother’s day to all our moms!!
  • We continued counting down the days to the end of the year! We blew bubbles, ate cookies, dressed our best, had extra recess, and wore red, white, and blue!

 

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Zoo Field Trip – May 13th
  • Late Start – May 15th
  • City Beautiful Parade – May 16th
  • No School – May 24th -27th
  • Special Ed Field Day Field Trip – May 28th (permission slips will be sent home soon!)

 

 

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

 

Newsletter for the week of April 29th

PEEK AT THE WEEK

  • Our core vocab word of the week was “next”
  • We practiced using the word “next” in many ways. One activity the children really enjoyed was taking turns on the slide and telling which friend was next to go down
  • Our letter of the week was “X”
  • We practiced the letter “X” by reading an interactive book and searching through our rice bin for objects that start with the letter “X,” we did an xylophone bingo sheet, and sang letter “X” songs
  • We read many books including “Ribbit!” and “Eight Silly Monkeys”
  • This week we learned about the butterfly life cycle
  • The students made symmetrical butterfly paintings
  • We read fun facts and completed a writing activity about what we learned. The students did drawings to go with their writing
  • Our kindergarten students completed a life cycle chart during which they practiced their scissor skills
  • Friday was the kick off of our ABC Count Down to the end of the school year.  It was bring a stuffed animal to school day.  The students who did not bring in one borrowed one and we had our animals join us for circle time 🙂

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Zoo Field Trip – May 13th
  • Late Start – May 15th
  • City Beautiful Parade – May 16th
  • No School – May 24th -27th
  • Special Ed Field Day Field Trip – May 28th (permission slips will be sent home soon!)

 

 

PICTURES OF THE WEEK