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The Dearborn City-Wide School Art Show was canceled this year, but I still wanted to celebrate some of the student artists who would have had their artwork showcased. So here are some of the Lowrey Middle School students who had artwork chosen for the show – MANY congratulations to them on their hard work and creativity!

Congrats to them and all the art students this year who worked hard to – improve their art making skills, to learn something brand new, to practice creative thinking and problem solving, and to make something amazing!

 Parents,  please fill out this short but very important survey concerning your feedback on returning to school in the fall.  Please, it is crucial that you take the time to answer the questions and leave your comments. Please press on the link below to start the survey.For translation assistance, parents may call 313-580-2532 Monday June 8th through Friday June 12th 8:30a.m. through 4:30p.m.

School ReOpen Committee Parent Survey #1 https://forms.gle/DNx3eN8hcRpXsfSs5

الاهل الاعزاء،

الرجاء ملء هذا الاستطلاع القصير ولكن المهم جداٌ لرأيكم في إمكانية العودة الى المدرسة في الخريف المقبل. من المهم ان تأخذوا الوقت الكافي للإجابة على الأسئلة وترك تعليقاتكم.  يرجى الضغط على الرابط ادناه للإجابة.  للمساعدة في الترجمة ، يمكنم الاتصال بالرقم 3135802532 من الاثنين 8 يونيو إلى الجمعة 12 يونيو من 8:30 صباحًا حتى 4:30 مساءٌ.

Announcement from school about Chromebooks:

“This Tuesday April 28th, there will be chromebook distribution for Lowrey students only from 12pm to 2pm at Lowrey School.  Please come to the main doors. Even if you received a chromebook already and you have more than one child that attends Lowrey, then you can check out another one.  Large families will be given more than 2 chromebooks.  If your family already received three or more chromebooks, please do not come and ask for more, we need to make sure we have enough for all Lowrey students.
Also, we will not cater to Fordson siblings.  Fordson will have their own chromebook distribution tomorrow.”

I have quite a few students who have still not joined our online Google Classrooms. This is where I am posting assignments, giving notice of upcoming due dates and meetings, and sharing important information for all students. If you haven’t joined yet, please look below for the correct code for your class/hour and join our class as SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Email Mrs. Kruger with questions: krugerl@dearbornschools.org

6th GRADE STUDENTS class code: xmknsox

2ND HOUR and 6TH HOUR STUDENTS class code: 52wiga4

3RD HOUR and 5TH HOUR STUDENTS class code: voc4t55

Here are two assignments from the last week or so, that I have posted to the Google Classroom. If you haven’t seen the assignments on there, make sure you are logging in to the class and completing assignments. Happy art making:

Good Morning everyone,

If you haven’t seen my emails about our Google Classrooms, please look for those today. You DO need to sign up to the Google Classroom in order to see all the assignments I have been posting. I emailed invitations last week but I will be sending them out again today. Your art assignments are required work, just like your other classes.

If I don’t see you signed up this week, I will be calling home to check in with you and Mom/Dad and make sure you get signed up.

Let me know if you have questions.

Mrs. Kruger

Dearborn Public Schools is offering free pickup lunch and breakfast for students while school is closed for the mandatory shut down over the next few weeks.

Families will be able to stop in and pick up a bag with both breakfast and lunch for each child in the family.  Pickups will run Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon at Fordson, Edsel Ford, Dearborn high school, McCollough-Unis, Salina Intermediate, and Woodworth Middle School.

Mondays, students will receive breakfast and lunch for Monday and Tuesday.

Wednesdays, students will receive breakfast and lunch for Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Fridays, students will receive breakfast and lunch for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Something I LOVE to do, that’s a fun, really fast and easy drawing activity is – writing a short haiku poem and then coming up with a picture to go with it. It doesn’t require any fancy art materials. All you need is a paper, a pencil and some creativity!

“But, Mrs. Kruger, WHAT IS A HAIKU?” I’m glad you asked.

A HAIKU is a really short little poem that has THREE/3 lines. Only 3 lines. And each line of the poem has a certain number of syllabus. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables again. 5, 7, 5. They don’t HAVE to rhyme. But sometimes I like to try and make the last word of my 1st and 3rd lines rhyme.

“But, Mrs. Kruger, WHAT IS A SYLLABLE?” I’m glad you asked.

A syllable is one part, or unit, of the pronunciation of a word. When you pronounce, or say, a word – it has small sound parts that go together. Here’s a silly little video to explain if you aren’t sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvcgVRULaWw

SO. Here is an example of a little haiku.

Hello sweet students,
Are you missing crazy class?
Go draw a picture!

Hello is pronounced, hel-lo. It has 2 syllables. Are you getting it? Great!

If you can’t think of a TOPIC for your haiku – I love to just start with an observation using my senses. What is something I hear, see, smell, or feel around me. The sound of birds chirping out the window. That’s a great first line: “Birds chirping outside”. So go right a silly little poem. Or a serious poem. And then make a picture for it. If you do – send me a picture of it! I can’t wait to see. 🙂