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Parent Technology Training tomorrow at Fordson at 6pm. This session will assist parents with: setting up email accounts, subscribing to teacher blogs and their school blog , using their parent connections accounts, accessing DPS resources such as ‘clever’ from our district webpage, and using social media. ALL are welcome.
Thank you for all you do!!! And…thank you for sending your child to school in a plain white shirt today!!! 🙂
Happy 30th week of Young 5s! I hope you are all enjoying this amazing weather!!!
PLEASE REMEMBER TO SEND YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL IN A PLAIN WHITE SHIRT TOMORROW!!!!!
Please practice this song with your child! Thanks!
Please remember to send a healthy snack to school with your child everyday!! Thanks!!
This week we will talk more about ways we can take care of Earth. We will talk about recycling as one of those ways! We will also participate in the Care to Core Assembly. We will sing with Mrs. Shooshanian’s class! I am looking forward to another wonderful week of school! Please be sure your child sends in the money and the permission slip for the field trip to the farm by Friday! I would like for each child to bring an adult for this trip so please make plans on attending with us!
Reading: This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as we practice asking and answering questions in informational texts. We will also practice comparing two different texts on the same topic. We will practice the following literacy skills:
Identifying letters and their sounds while writing the letters.
Identifying blends at the beginning of words. (ex. st as in star and sl as in sleep)
Producing pairs of rhyming words. (ex. dish/wish)
Identifying plurals; more than one. (ex. dog/dogs, bush/bushes)
Reading emergent level texts and knowing where to begin reading on the page.
Blending the beginning sound with the rime in words from the -ug family. (ex. hug, mug)
Stretching for the sounds in three letter words and identifying the letter that makes the sounds in the beginning, middle, and end of the word..
Identifying the sight words (two) and (has).
Counting syllables in words.
Please review: All upper and lowercase letters and practice writing them! Please review the following sight words: a, the, see, to, like, my, you, I, it, in, said, for, am, make, here, can, is, up, do, big, little, yes, have, jump, she, did, he, red, so, not, go, green, will, him, down, find, good, please, come, one
Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 20. We will continue our math unit on measurement. We will continue to work on using a scale to learn about what is heavy and what is light in terms of weight. We will also continue using non-standard forms of measurement to identify how long something is.
Science: We will continue our science unit about Ecosystems. We will first discuss what living and non-living mean as we identify what makes something living. This week we are going to continue to take a look at plants.
Social Studies: We will continue a unit called “Where am I”. We will review position words such as up, down in, out, beside, in between. We are also working with a program called Second Step. This program helps us learn about rules, social skills, and how to handle our emotions. We will learn about how to handle when we feel when we are waiting. We practiced identifying the feeling, talking about it, and taking belly breaths.
Writing: We will focus on Informational writing. We will write about insects and recycling this week! We will write as we identify facts on these topics. Please help your child to practice writing at home each day!
Homework Everyday:
Count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s. Write numbers 1-10.
Use objects at home to practice hands on addition and subtraction up to 10.
Read books for 15 minutes!
Write sight words in shaving cream or sand with parent supervision
Practice letter formation
Make and play a memory match game with sight words in cards.
Play one math game and one ABC game on ABCya.com.
Thank you for all you do! Have an awesome week!~Mrs. Mehrhof
Tomorrow is Earth Day! In honor of Earth Day, we planted a tree at Oakman School together!!!
Please enjoy looking at the pictures! We will learn more ways we can take care of Earth this coming week at school!
Thank you for helping us, Mrs. McMahon, Mr. Ali, and Mr. Abu-Rus!!!!!!
We are thankful for our wonderful planet!
We are thankful for our wonderful planet!
We are thankful for our wonderful planet!
We are putting soil around our little tree!
We cannot wait to see our tree grow!
We cannot wait to see our tree grow!
We cannot wait to see our tree grow!
We cannot wait to see our tree grow!
Please be sure your child wears a plain white shirt to school on Monday!!! We are singing in a concert with Mrs. Shooshanian’s class for Care to the Core!!!
In honor of April bring the month of the young child, please have your child wear purple tomorrow!
We are singing in a lower elementary concert at school on Monday with Mrs. Shooshanian’s class. We are asking the children to wear a white shirt for this event on Monday. Thank you!
There is an amazing and free event at Henry Ford college on Saturday from 10 to 12. Please consider taking your child. See what was posted on Dr. Chochol’s blog about this awesome event!!!!
“NO COST TO ATTEND!
FREE BOOK AND LITERACY PACK FOR EACH CHILD AGES 1-8 YEARS
SATURDAY, APRIL 21
10:00 AM 12:00 PM
STUDENT CENTER BUILDING (BLDG M)
5101 EVERGREEN
DEARBORN, MI 48128
PARK IN SOUTH ENTRANCE-LOT 12 (SEE EVENT SIGNS)
Presented by the Children and Families Program at Henry Ford College.
There is no better way to build early literacy skills than to involve the whole family! Supporting language, literacy and reading development of young children are the responsibilities of parents, teachers, and the community.
The Children and Families Program is excited to host the 3rd annual family literacy event. Families are encouraged to attend for a fun, exciting and educational morning filled with lots of fun things for little ones to do! Children will have fun while they are learning and parents will leave with creative ideas to enhance their children’s literacy skills at home.”
Please be sure to always send a healthy snack to school everyday for your child! We will no longer be receiving the free fruit and vegetables but are so grateful that we did for so long! Your children tasted many new foods with this program. Thank you to Mrs. Chammout and the cafeteria staff for organizing this for our kids!
Tomorrow is Spring Picture Day. If your child is purchasing pictures, please fill out the form and send the correct payment. Thank you!!
Today we practiced a new song with Mrs. Shooshanian’s class! Please click on it below and help your child practice at home. We will be performing this song as well as one other one on Monday at our Care to the Core Assembly.
We also had a visit from Officer Aaron. We had more friends meet his challenge of learning their phone number or address! We are so proud that more children know their phone number or address. This is a difficult task at their age. Way to go parents!
We also made our own hungry caterpillars! We will use them tomorrow as we practice non-standard measurement. 🙂
We are in need of hand soap and baby wipes. Thank you for all you do!
Mrs. Mehrhof
Thank you for helping us be encouraged to learn our addresses and phone numbers, Officer Aaron!
We used clothespins and puff balls to paint our caterpillars!
We used clothespins and puff balls to paint our caterpillars!
We love the book, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle.
Happy 29th week of Young 5s! We have been having so much fun learning and playing! Please take time this week to double check you are getting the emails from our classroom blog. I post adorable pictures and classroom information.
This week your child will be bringing home a permission slip for another field trip. We are going to the Real Life Farm May 10th! The field trip permission slip for high velocity was due last week. Please sign them and send them in ASAP. Parents are welcome to attend the field trip to High Velocity but need to drive themselves. We will not have extra room on the busses. Thank you!
Reading: This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as we practice asking and answering questions in informational texts. We will practice the following literacy skills:
Identifying letters and their sounds while writing the letters.
Identifying blends at the beginning of words. (ex. st as in star and sl as in sleep)
Producing pairs of rhyming words. (ex. dish/wish)
Identifying long vowels in words when super e is at the end. (ex. rope, kite)
Reading emergent level texts and knowing where to begin reading on the page.
Blending the beginning sound with the rime in words from the -ot family. (ex. hot, pot)
Stretching for the sounds in three letter words and identifying the letter that makes the sounds in the beginning, middle, and end of the word..
Identifying the sight words (one) and (come).
Counting syllables in words.
Please review: All upper and lowercase letters and practice writing them! Please review the following sight words: a, the, see, to, like, my, you, I, it, in, said, for, am, make, here, can, is, up, do, big, little, yes, have, jump, she, did, he, red, so, not, go, green, will, him, down, find, good, please
Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 20. We will continue a new math unit on measurement. We will continue to work on using a scale to learn about what is heavy and what is light in terms of weight.
Science: We will continue a new science unit about Ecosystems. We will first discuss what living and non-living mean as we identify what makes something living. This week we are going to continue to take a look at plants.
Social Studies: We will continue a unit called “Where am I”. We will review position words such as up, down in, out, beside, in between. We are also working with a program called Second Step. This program helps us learn about rules, social skills, and how to handle our emotions. We will learn about how to handle when we feel when we are waiting. We practiced identifying the feeling, talking about it, and taking belly breaths.
Writing: We will focus on Opinion Writing. We will write about our thoughts and feelings about a topic. We have been practicing using finger spaces between words in our writing. (ex. I like…… because….)
Homework Everyday:
Count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s. Write numbers 1-10.
Use objects at home to practice hands on addition and subtraction up to 10.
Read books for 15 minutes!
Write sight words in shaving cream or sand with parent supervision
Practice letter formation
Make and play a memory match game with sight words in cards.
Play one math game and one ABC game on ABCya.com.
Thank you for all you do! Have an incredible week!~Mrs. Mehrhof
Today my parents visited our classroom! My dad read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle. This was such a nice visit! I’m so blessed to have such loving and awesome people for my parents!!!❤
Please join us today at 5:00 for family math game night! There will be really great games for sale too that will help reinforce the math concepts your children learn in school. I will be there too and would love to see you all! This is for the whole family and is free!!! The games for sale range in price. PTA will also be selling baked goods!!! Yummy!!!
Today I sent home a paper phone with your child’s phone number on it. Please help them practice their phone number and address.
Also, one of our Y5 girls did an amazing job as our “guest reader”. She asked me yesterday if she could be the guest reader for our class. 🙂 Of course I said yes!! She did one of the best and most impressive jobs reading the pictures to tell the story I have ever heard! I am very proud of her and all of my little students! Please continue to read with your children at home. Most of them are reading emergent level books with minimal help!
We practiced using our pretend phones to call home! 🙂
Here is our “Guest Reader” from today! 🙂
Here is the pretend phone your child brought home today! Please help them practice their phone number.
Thank you for all you do!!! Please make plans to be at Math Night on Thursday at 5:00.
