Hello Families!

Today was a fun and busy day! We had an assembly that demonstrated magic through mathematical concepts. The speaker also said that we are all superheros when we work hard and practice math! With that said, Friday is our count to 100 test! Please practice counting with your child! Next week I will re-test the children on writing and recognizing numbers 1-10.

We are also looking for guest readers! If you or someone from your family would like to surprise your child as a guest reader in our classroom this month, please see me! This is fun opportunity to come and read your child’s favorite book from home to the class! If you would like to borrow a book from the classroom that is fine too. You can also read a children’s book in Arabic if you would like.

Here are some pictures from today!

Here is our new friend from Mrs. Patterson’s class! He chose to come and read our class in informational book about bears! How sweet!

Here is our own little superhero making Mrs. Mehrhof a meal during recess!

Here is another one of our little superheros enjoying using the cash register during recess!

We learned about fractions at the Superhero Math show!

We also saw some magic tricks centered around math!

Thank you, Mr. Abu-Rus for organizing such a fun event for us!

Thank you for all you do!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Tomorrow we will have a Superhero Math show at school! If your child would like to wear a superhero shirt, they are welcomed to do so!!!

Also, please notice the Minion paper in your child’s folder. On the back of this paper is where you write the TITLE, MINUTES read, and your initials. This is a school-wide reading contest for the month of March. There will not be our normal reading graph going home each week this month. Instead, you will record each week’s reading on the back of a Minion paper. The children who read the most will win an invitation to the Minion party that will take place here at Oakman. If you have any questions, please see me. Please continue to read for at least 15 minutes each day with your child! 

Thank you for all you do!!!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Today we celebrated the children’s accomplishment of raising over $1,400.00 for Jump Rope for Heart! This money will go towards helping children with heart problems. What a worthy cause! Great job, Oakman Lions!!! So….today we celebrated with a jump rope contest and silly stringing not only teachers, but also our principal, Mr. Abu-Rus!

Take a look…..

Mr. Abu-Rus….about to get silly stringed by the children who raised the most money!

I got silly stringed too!!!

Mr. Abu-Rus got covered in silly string for a worthy cause!

Friends taking a selfie!

Friends taking a selfie!

Here we are…jump roping in front of the whole school!!! Yay…Young 5s and Kindergarten!

Here we are…jump roping in front of the whole school!!! Yay…Young 5s and Kindergarten!

Getting silly stringed!

Getting silly stringed!

Getting silly stringed!

Getting silly stringed!

We had a great time at the Jump Rope for Heart Celebration! Thanks, Coach Southers for organizing this for us!

Please be sure to read for 15 minutes each day and record the titles and minutes read on the back of the Minion paper for our March is Reading Month reading contest. And…. to help your child become a better reader. And….to continue to foster a love for reading and love for books!

Reading: This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as identifying the features of narrative stories. (ex, characters, setting, problem/solution). We will practice the following literacy skills:

• Identifying letters and their sounds while writing the letters.
• Producing pairs of rhyming words. (ex. frog/log)
• Reading emergent level texts and knowing where to begin reading on the page.
• Blending the beginning sound with the rime in words from the -op family. (ex. hop, pop)
• 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 (green) and (will).

Please review: All upper and lowercase letters! 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

Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 20.  We will also practice finding the sums for addition problems up to 5. We will also continue learning about subtraction using objects.

Science: We will begin a new science unit about Ecosystems. We will first discuss what living and non-living means as we talk about living things need.

Social Studies:  We will continue a unit called “Who am I?”. We will continue to talk about ways we measure time in terms of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. We will also talk about ways we can learn about the past. 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 have been focusing on what to do when we have a strong feeling. We practiced identifying the feeling, talking about it, and taking belly breaths.

Writing: We will practice narrative writing as we focus on telling a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end. We will also review the features of narrative writing. Please encourage storytelling with writing and drawing at home!

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! Record the title and minutes read on the back of the Minion paper.
• Draw a picture and label the drawing
• Practice letter formation
• Make and play a memory match game with sight words on cards.
• Play one math game and one ABC game on ABCya.com

Thank you for all you do! The newsletter and reading logs will go home tomorrow! 🙂

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Can you believe we are already celebrating the 100th Day of School? I know I cannot! They say….time flies when you are having fun! We are certainly having fun in Young 5s at Oakman! We have been having fun learning to read, learning to write, learning to count….but most of all, learning about getting along with others, being a good friend, and growing as a super Young 5 star!

Here are some adorable pictures from the 100th Day of School. Thank you families, for making your children look like little 100 year old men and women. We had so much fun!

Happy 100th Day of School!

We stacked 100 cups in different ways! (Thank you to our new friends from Mrs. Habhab’s 5th grade class!)

Look… we have a young 5 friend with a beard! 🙂

We have another Young 5 friend with a moustache…looking 100 years old!

We are working on counting 100 pretzels for a pretzel necklace. (Thank you to our friend from Mrs. Habhab’s class.

We are racing to 100 by rolling a dice and coloring the quantity of numbers.

We are stacking 100 cups!

We fingerpainted 100 gumballs!

We love to count to 100!

We ended our day with a March is Reading month celebration in the gym.

We ended our day with a March is Reading month celebration in the gym.

We counted to 100!!!

We are looking 100 years old in Young 5s!

We have loved the first 100 days of school and are looking forward to the rest to come!

Thank you for all you do! Please read with your child for 15 minutes each night. On the back of the Minion paper in their folder is a log to fill. Put the date, the titles of the books and minutes read. This is a new contest to win going to a Minion party with Ms. Mahon and other Oakman students!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families! Happy 23rd week of Young 5s! I hope you all enjoyed the Mid-Winter Break! I am excited for the great things we will be doing this week at school!

*100th Day of School is on Thursday!  I seriously cannot believe it is the 100th of school on Thursday already! Time is zooming by for sure! I am encouraging all of the children to dress up as if they are 100 years old! Have fun and be creative with this! : ) (ex. gray hair, mustache, dress in an outfit that a 100 year old person might wear.) 

March 1st is also the kickoff to MARCH IS READING MONTH!!! There will be much more information on these activities to come!

Reading: This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as identifying the features of narrative stories. (ex, characters, setting, problem/solution). We will practice the following literacy skills:

• Identifying letters and their sounds while writing the letters.
• Producing pairs of rhyming words. (ex. frog/log)
• Reading emergent level texts and knowing where to begin reading on the page.
• Blending the beginning sound with the rime in words from the -ig family. (ex. twig, wig, jig)
• 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 (go) and (not).

Please review: All upper and lowercase letters! 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

Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 20.  We will also practice finding the sums for addition problems up to 5. We will also begin learning about subtraction using objects. We will celebrate the 100th Day of school with activities that encourage us to count to 100!

Science: We will begin a new science unit about Ecosystems. We will first discuss what living and non-living means as we talk about living things need.

Social Studies:  We will continue a unit called “Who am I?”. We will continue to talk about ways we measure time in terms of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. 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 have been focusing on what to do when we have a strong feeling. We practiced identifying the feeling, talking about it, and taking belly breaths.

Writing: We will practice narrative writing as we focus on telling a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end. We will also review the features of narrative writing. Please encourage storytelling with writing and drawing at home!

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!
• Draw a picture and label the drawing
• Play one math game and one ABC game on ABCya.com

One more thing….Officer Aaron from the Dearborn Police Department has an Instagram site for Dearborn families. If you have the Instagram app and would like to follow him, please subscribe by following him on Instagram @officer_aaron_ He will be offering safety tips as well as featuring some of the family events and activities in Dearborn. Officer Aaron is a school officer in our district. He has visited our classroom to read stories and talk to the children about making safe choices. Thank you!!!

Thank you for all you do! Have an awesome week!

 Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Now that we know SO much about lions, we wanted to share more facts about lions! Especially since we ARE the OAKMAN LIONS! 🙂

We presented to Mrs. Fowler’s and Mrs. Rawson’s Kindergarten classess. We also presented to Mrs. Gartha’s 5th grade class. Then we presented to Ms. Rose and Ms. Amged in the office! Thank you, friends for allowing us to visit and share our lions facts!

When we visited Kindergarten, they shared their amazing writing and illustrations they did  in their informational books about lions! What an awesome job they did!

We know many facts about lions!

Thank you so much to the very kind kindergarten friends who listened to our facts about lions!

Kindergarten also learned about lions and shared their writing!

Kindergarten also learned about lions and shared their writing!

We took turns telling facts about lions!

We buddied up with a kindergarten friend as they shared their writing with us!

We buddied up with a kindergarten friend as they shared their writing with us!

We loved sharing with the secretaries in the office! 🙂

We took turns telling our facts about lions as we wore our lion masks!

We took turns telling our facts about lions as we wore our lion masks!

We took turns telling our facts about lions as we wore our lion masks!

We took turns telling our facts about lions as we wore our lion masks!

Enjoy the Mid Winter Break! There is no school next week! Please see the skills practice I sent home in a turquoise folder. There is writing practice with a dry erase marker as well as extra writing paper to practice writing. Please use the paper to help your child write and draw one fun thing they do each day while on break. And…count to 100. Also, there are new books coming home. Please read for 15 minutes each day.

Thank you for all you do!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

First, thank you for the lovely Valentine gifts! You are very thoughtful!

We had a great time at our Valentine celebration! We practiced upper and lowercase letter match. we sorted candy hearts by color and graphed them. We also made heart shaped strawberry jam sandwiches. We made Valentine bags with lots of decorations using stickers and hearts! The children went home with lots and lots of treats!

We practiced upper and lowercase letter matching using stickers!

We practiced upper and lowercase letter matching using stickers!

We made our own strawberry jam sandwiches and used heart shaped cookie cutters to make the heart shape.

We made our own strawberry jam sandwiches and used heart shaped cookie cutters to make the heart shape.

We sorted candy hearts by color and graphed the number from each category.

We made Valentines to give to someone special.

We made Valentines to give to someone special.

We made our own strawberry jam sandwiches and used heart shaped cookie cutters to make the heart shape.

Thank you for all you do! I hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day! 🙂

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Today we made lion masks and used them as we presented the information we learned about lions. The children did such a great job recalling facts we learned from our informational book and videos. Please check out their writing about lions hanging outside our classroom!

We presented facts lions to our book buddies!

We presented facts about lions to Pre-School!!

We are the Oakman Lions!

We used pencils to make curly lion manes!

We used 2D shapes to make the face of our lion!

We are so excited to share what we know about lions!

Please see me if you can help at our Valentine’s Day party at 2:00.

Thank you for all you do!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families!

We will have a Valentine’s Day party on Wednesday. I am encouraging all of the children to wear red on this day. Your child is welcomed to bring in valentine cards or treats to pass to each of their classmates. Please send 13 valentines or treats and have your child write their name on each one. If you want to help at our Valentine party, please see me. The party time has changed. We will have our party from 2:00-3:15.

Thank you for all you do!

Mrs. Mehrhof

Hello Families! Happy 22nd week of Young 5s! I am looking forward to another wonderful week with my little Valentines!

We will have a Valentine’s Party in the afternoon on Wednesday!! The children are welcomed to bring 13 valentine cards/treats for their friends. Please be sure they write their name on each valentine. 🙂Please see me if you are able to help during our party!!! We are going to have a fun time!

Please remember there will be no school next week! Enjoy the Mid-Winter Break!

Reading: This week we will continue to practice the Three Ways to Read a Book as well as identifying question words as we ask questions about informational text on feelings and how to get along with others!. We will practice the following literacy skills:

• Identifying letters and their sounds while writing the letters.
• Producing pairs of rhyming words. (ex. frog/log)
• Reading emergent level texts and knowing where to begin reading on the page.
• Blending the beginning sound with the rime in words from the -et family. (ex. pet, get, met)
• Stretching for the sounds in three letter words and identifying the letter that makes the sound.
• Identifying the sight words (so) and (red).

Please review: All upper and lowercase letters! 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

Math: We will work on counting to 100 and recognizing/writing numbers and their quantities 1 to 20. We will compare numbers up to 10. We will also practice finding the sums for addition problems up to 5. We will also begin learning about subtraction. We will also practice sorting items by color.

Science: We will continue to talk about the different types of weather, (rainy, snowy, sunny, partly cloudy, and cloudy) We will record the day’s weather on our weather graphs. In addition, we will identify characteristics of hazardous types of weather. (ex. tornados)

Social Studies:  We will continue a unit called “Who am I?”. We will talk about ways we measure time in terms of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. 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 have been focusing on what to do when we have a strong feeling. We practiced identifying the feeling, talking about it, and taking belly breaths.

Writing: We will work on informational writing using digital tools such as the Internet. We will use a graphic organizer as we write about today, yesterday, and tomorrow.

Homework Everyday:

• Count to 100 by 1’s and 10’s. Write numbers 1-10.
• Use the deck of cards I sent home to use two at a time to compare the numbers and identify which is greater (more). This is called “Top-It”.
• Read books for 15 minutes!
• Draw a picture and label the drawing
• Play one math game and one ABC game on ABCya.com                                                                                                                                                                                                         Thank you for all you do! Have a lovely week!       Mrs. Mehrhof