Nov 11 2020

Thank you, Veterans!!!

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Hello Families!

Thank you for another amazing day of learning. love, and laughter. As we end our school day on this Veteran’s Day, let’s take a moment to reflect on how thankful we are for the many brave men and women who have served our country and who are currently serving our country! Let us remember their sacrifice and dedication to our freedoms we so cherish in our amazing country!! Let us also remember and be thankful for the families of these brave men and women who also sacrifice so much for America’s freedom and values!

Thank you Veterans! Thank you, families of Veterans! Thank you to all who have served and who are actively serving our country! I would like to encourage all of you to help your child watch these videos and make a poster to say thank you to not only the Veterans, but also all of the first responders who serve the community members in our country! You can put this poster in the window of your houses for these brave men and women to see so their hearts can feel appreciated!

Thank you for all you do!!! Thank you to all of the many heroes!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj5_DdRdI4E&feature=youtu.be
What is a Veteran?
Veterans-Heroes in our Neighborhood by V.  Pfundstein
Jack Hartmann singing about America
Sesame Street Veteran’s Day

Nov 10 2020

Veteran’s Day is tomorrow (Wednesday)…let’s wear Red, White, and Blue!

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Hello Families!

Thank you all for all of your support and encouragement that you show your children as they zoom and learn together!

Tomorrow is a special day….it is Veteran’s Day! A day that we recognize all of the brave men and women who gave so much for our freedom and safety!

In recognition of Veteran’s Day, let’s wear red, white, and blue tomorrow (Wednesday) on Zoom!!!

Thank you for all you do!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Nov 10 2020

Round 2 of Conferences are Today:)

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Hello Families!

I hope you all are doing well! I am so excited to discuss your children’s progress this afternoon during conferences!

Here is today’s schedule!

Please click on the Zoom link on Schoology at your appointed time! See you all soon!


Oakman Elementary
Parent Teacher Conferences
Tuesday,  November 10, 2019
TimeChild’s Name
4:00 – 4:20Hussain Altamimi 
4:20 – 4:40Hassan Altamimi 
4:40 – 5:00Hassan Bazzi 
5:00 – 5:20Mahdi D. 
5:20 – 5:40Ali E. 
5:40-6:00Lamees 
6:00-6:20Mahdi E.
6:20-6:40
6:40-7:00

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Nov 6 2020

Look at what we have been doing this week!!!

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Hello Families!

We have been so busy learning, laughing. and zooming!

We have been learning about characters in the story. We listened to Little Red Red Riding Hood and identified the characters… The characters in the story are Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf”
We sorted items that begin with the sounds of S and M
We identified the characters in “Goldilocks and theThree Bears”. This friend drew Mama Bear, Papa Bear, and Baby Bear.
we are learning about 2D shapes. We learned about Triangles and constructed a triangle with three sides using materials from home.
We identified the characters in the Benchmark story, “The Little Helper”. The characters in the story are the lion and the mouse.
In Eureka Math we identified how our pizza slices looked like triangles.
We went on an adventure in our homes to search for items with 1 syllable! These friends found a spoon and a cup.
We learned about rectangles. A rectangles has 2 long sides and 2 short sides. We constructed rectangles using materials we have at home.
We learned a new sight word. (the) We used our magic fingers to point to and find the sight word the in our Benchmark poem.
This friend found socks and a cup while on her adventure for 1 syllable words.
We identified our favorite character in the story “Duck on a Bike” by David Shannon (one of my favorite children’s books 🙂 ) This friend said and drew that his favorite character is the duck.
This friend said their favorite character is the goat. We practiced stretching for the sounds in words as label our favorite character.
We practiced writing and identifying the letters that make the sight word the.
We did a RAN chart yesterday for Elephants! Today we presented our elephant facts. We stated the facts as we wore our mask! This friend said elephants use their trucks to hug other elephants!!!
We discussed the difference between hexagons and circles!
We created elephant masks with paper plates!!
We used triangles and rectangles to create rocket ships!!!

Please be sure to complete the Benchmark assignments and submit requested work into Schoology. I will see you all for Zoom Learning Labs this afternoon!

Have a lovely weekend!!! Please contact me with any questions and concerns.

Thank you for all you do!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Nov 5 2020

Round 1 of Parent Teacher Conferences are today!

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Hello Families!

Please notice your appointment time for this evening’s conference times. I look forward to meeting with you to discuss your child’s report card and learning progress! Thank you for being on time to log into the Zoom meeting that is posted on Schoology!

Here is today’s schedule!

Oakman Elementary
Parent Teacher Conferences
Thursday,  November 5, 2019
TimeChild’s NameParent/Guardian Signature
4:00 – 4:20Batoul 
4:20 – 4:40Mela 
4:40 – 5:00Amina 
5:00 – 5:20Ali Aljlaiwali 
5:20 – 5:40Hussain Aljlaiwali 
5:40 – 6:00Kamari 
6:00 – 6:20These remaining times are open conference times……  
6:20 – 6:40 
6:40 – 7:00
7:00-7:30		 

Thank you for all you do!!!!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Nov 2 2020

A Look Ahead at Week 10 of Y5s!

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Hello Families!

We are already on week 10! Happy beginning of November to all of you!!!!

Here is our week ahead….

Ms. Mehrhof’s Class Week 10 Schedule

There will be no school for students tomorrow, Tuesday Nov. 3rd!

It is election day on Tuesday! Last week we talked about what it means to vote as we voted on what movie we will watch for spirit week’s movie day! Today we listened to “Duck for President” by D. Cronin.

https://youtu.be/xIe558h3SO8
Duck for President by D. Cronin (on youtube)
We began Unit 2- Every Story has Characters in Benchmark. We listened to “Little Red Riding Hood” and identified the characters with our drawings.
We began Module 2 un Eureka Math. We are learning about 2D shapes

Please remember to check your child’s email for their NWEA test results. You will also be receiving your child’s report card this week! Thank you for all you do!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Oct 30 2020

Happy Halloween and Spirit Week Learning and Fun!

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Hello Families! We had such an amazing week! Take a look at what we have been doing!

I wish you all a fun and safe Halloween weekend!!!!!

Math story with Ms. Mehrhof
Sink or float activity with Ms. Mehrhof
Ms. Mehrhof reading Linda Williams’s book “The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything”
Sink or Float with Cookie Monster
One of our Favorite Halloween Dances!
We did a RAN chart for Pumpkins!
We strung 10 cubes! “4…..one more makes 5. 5…one more makes 6….”
Our Halloween math story problem
This friend dressed up as Marshall
We made a tower taller than the orange of our pumpkins
We measured how tall our pumpkins are with our cubes
4 +1 = 5 pumpkins!!!
These friends found grapes, gloves, and glasses for the sound of the letter Gg.
We drew our hypothesis before investigating if our pumpkin would sink or float
We recorded the result! The pumpkin sank to the bottom of the bowl!
This friend dressed as a witch
This friend dressed as a tiger
This friend dressed as Spiderman
This friend dressed as a skeleton
This friend dressed as a princess
This friend dressed as a fairy princess
This friend dressed as a mermaid
We made towers that were taller than our pumpkins
We drew what our Halloween costume is!
We drew what our Halloween costume is
These friends dressed as Batman
We learned the sight word see and found it as we read our book…”Pumpkin Faces
We wrapped up Benchmark Unit 3 today and reviewed what rules we have and the importance of rules.

We ended our week with a Halloween Dance party! It was super duper fun!!!!

Thank you again for all you do!!!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Oct 28 2020

Look What Has Been Happening During Spirit Week!

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Hello Families!

We have been having a fun Spirit Week! Please know, tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon, we will all be working on our independent work since teachers will be in a meeting. In addition, Friday is a half day of school for our students! Teachers have another meeting. The students have been working so hard and having lots of fun as we have been incorporating some exciting Halloween activities and stories into our zooming!

Take a look at what we have been doing!!!

Ms. Mehrhof stringing 10 cubes with 2 different colors
Ms. Mehrhof making a mix and fix math game
Sneaky Halloween Elves left something special on our porches!!!
We had hat day!!!
Our Halloween elves left us sticker faces for us to design our pumpkin’s face!
We went on a number path walk through a “spooky forest to find the 5 Little Pumpkins that rolled out of sight”
We made a counting to path to walk on as we say the numbers in order
We made Halloween bracelets by using 5 black and 5 orange beads that we colored!
We drew the character in our Benchmark story, “Rules are Cool”.
In Eureka Math we created 10 plates of 10 scoops of strawberry and chocolate ice cream to compare with the drawings of our friends!
We made a numbers mix and fix game for home!
Mrs. Torres showed us a super cool Art site to make art on the computer.
We drew and named the character in “Rules are Cool”
We followed the Benchmark 3 Steps of Writing to write about what we can build.
We had fun creating faces on our pumpkins.
We are engineers and designers!
We presented and told about our pumpkin creations.
Our pumpkins have eyes and a mouth!
Some of our pumpkins wore hats.
Our pumpkin friends even got to watch us build and design towers!
This friend has a hat that is a game for hat day!
This friend went on a hunt for items that begin with the sound of P…potato, pillow, pencil, and peach!!
We practiced writing the letter Pp.
We practiced writing the letter Gg.
We strung 10 cubes to make a pattern.
We showed how 5 and 5 make ten beads on a pretend necklace for our mamas!
We used the muscles in our hands to string our cubes on a shoesting!
We had fun looking for a shoe string and using it to show ten cubes!
We drew 2 snow people 5 snowballs tall to show 5 and 5 make 10.
This friend found items that begin with the sound of Ss…..salsa and slime!!!!

Thank you for all you do!!! Thursday is Scientist Day and Friday is costume day for Spirit Week!!!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof