Hello Families!
I hope you all enjoyed the four day weekend as well as this lovely Labor Day!
Take a look at what this week’s Remote Learning Schedule will look like.
Click below to view my directions to access our Schoology! 🙂
I look forward to seeing and hearing all of you tomorrow at 8:55 on Zoom!!!
Have a great night!
Thanks for all you do!
Ms. Mehrhof
Hello Families!
This has been a great first week of remote learning! You all have made such a positive start to your child’s school year by helping them complete the activities and view my messages! Tomorrow and Monday there will be no school in observance of Labor Day! However, on Tuesday, please make time to go to Oakman School to pick up your child’s learning kit that I put together for them between 10:00 and 12:00.
In recognition of Labor Day, I have asked the children to draw and tell me what they dream of being when they are big! They can draw a picture of them as that occupation and say “When I get big I want to be a _____.”
I cannot wait to see what they draw and hear their little voices tell me what they want to be when they grow up! When my son was their age, he said he wanted to be a fire fighter! Now….he is achieving this dream!
Here is the video message from me!
Click here to view the virtual classroom activities!
Have an amazing day!!
Thank you for all do!
Love, Ms. Mehrhof
Hello Families!
I hope you all are well and having a great week so far!
If you have not picked up a Chromebook, please let me know. The students will need a computer for Schoology. Let me know how I can help. 🙂
Today we are talking about feelings. Your child’s feelings are so important to me. As their teacher, I want them to always know they can safely share their thoughts and feelings with me and even with their friends they make in our classroom family.
Please click here to access the virtual classroom activities for today!
Thank you for all you do!
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Love, Ms. Mehrhof
Hello Families!
What a beautiful sunny morning it is to start off our day! Thank you to all of you who sent pictures and messages yesterday! Each one, put a smile on my face!
Today, I would like to get to know all of my students better by learning about who they live with in their family!
I live with my incredible son, Ryan and my 3 dogs; Khloe, Doodle, and Buttons. Here are some pictures of them…..
Please draw a picture of who is in your family! Then, take a picture of it and you can email it to me or send it to whatsapp! This is how I will be taking attendance for today! mehrhok@dearbornschools.org
I look forward to talking with you today on our video chats as well as seeing the amazing drawings of your families!
Thank you for all you do!
Love, Ms. Mehrhof
Hello Families!
I cannot begin to tell you how excited I have been to meet all of my new little friends! Please check out the virtual classroom link below the welcome message from me for fun activities and videos for social/emotional development!
Here is a link to our first video!
Please click here to access the virtual classroom activities!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gIszj5ZyXAHK5O9ad6BfsOpkfBzxtjWhrMcwH79KZ1Y/edit?usp=sharing
   You can help your child click in the videos as well as practice ABC’s , and counting by using the links in this virtual classroom. The books are also links for you and your child to listen along to! Have fun and I will see you soon!
Thank you for all you do!
Love. Ms. Mehrhof
Hello Families!
I am so excited to be your child’s Young 5 teacher! I know this is a very different way of starting the year off, but I can tell you, this is going to be a great experience for your child! In Young 5s we will be learning kindergarten curriculum with an emphasis on hands-on activities as well as social and emotional development. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me anytime! mehrhok@dearbornschools.org
If your child is in need of a chromebook (laptop), please visit Oakman School on Monday at 9:00 AM for the chromebook distribution.
I will be meeting with your child remotely the first week of school as well. I am looking forward to seeing all of their smiling faces!
I will set up meetings with each one of you for a personal orientation where you and your child will get to meet me as well as receive a bag full of learning goodies!
Although this year will look different than years past, the whole Oakman team and myself are committed to working together to make sure that your child has a positive educational experience. We will accomplish this through the use of strong curriculum, relationship building and consistent communication. Please know that I am here to support your child in any way I can to help make this a successful and fun year! We are a team, and we can do this together!
Please read through the following information thoroughly to ensure a smooth start to the school year.
1) To get to know each student.
2) Teach students and parents the new technology tools.
3) Explain student and parent expectations.
4) Material pickup from school (books, chromes, supplies/supply lists)
This is going to be a wonderful year for you and your child! I am so excited to teach your child! Teaching young children and making learning fun and memorable is something that I have a passion for!
Click on the link below to access the Informational SlideShow about the Beginning of the school year! 🙂
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1guB8khIPMvZqPkkzZub19AluZCIxbxnzQHfv-94NY7U/edit?usp=sharing
Thank you for all you do!
Ms. Mehrhof
This is me without a mask 🙂
This is me in bitmogi form! 🙂
Hello Families!
Well, we made it! We made it together and that is what matters! We are healthy and happy and loved! I am so incredibly blessed to have been your child’s teacher and now to have gotten to know you all so much more through all of our videos and photos on Whatsapp! Please continue to keep in touch and send videos and photos of all of the fun things you all do over the summer! I hope your child enjoys the summer fun bags that I delivered today with my mom.
Please continue to help your child read, write, and practice math. Raz kids will be available all summer long. Please use this resource with your children. You can also visit abcya.com and starfall.com for more fun online learning.
Here is a special message from Officer Aaron!
Review Lesson 1
The goal of this lesson is for the children to identify the number of syllables (or word parts) in a word. Then, they are asked to go on a scavenger hunt in the house for items that have 1, 2, 3, and 4 syllables.
Click here to view the lesson.
Last Day of School Read Aloud!
This story was written by Allison Ryan! Many teachers would like to thank her for putting into words our feelings and thoughts about this very different school year! Thank you, Ms. Ryan!
After listening to me read her story, please help your child draw/write/tell about their favorite memory in Young 5s!
AND….here it is!!!! The End of the Year Young 5 Video!!!!! Enjoy, my dear friends!!! Thank you again for all of the wonderful memories!!!
Here is the 5th grade Promotion video! It is a beautiful tribute to our Oakman Lions who are moving onto Middle School!
From the depths of my heart, I want to thank you for all of you done to help your child through this online learning! I want to thank you for your love and friendship! I especially want to thank you for allowing me to be your child’s teacher! I know, it can be hard to send our little ones off to school for the first time. Trust me, it see,s like yesterday I was outside of my son’s elementary school dropping him off for his first day! And….now, he is a licenced fire fighter! Time flies….so cherish each school year! Cherish each memory! Volunteer and attend each school event that you are able to attend! These moments are important to your child! Continue to take the time to read to them, color with them, play games with them…. Your child, as you are well aware, are precious gifts from God! May He continue to bless you all and keep you safe!
Remember, I am ALWAYS only a phone call away, my friends!
Thank you for all you do!
Love, Mrs. Mehrhof
Please read the touching and very thoughtful words from Mr. Abu-Rus! We have an outstanding leader and principal! Mr. Abu-Rus truly cares about each one of his students! We are very blessed to call him, Principal of Oakman Elementary School!
Here is his message!
“There are times in each of our lives that mark particularly special occasions. Today is such an occasion. Today you can say I’ve finished my elementary school phase!
Here at Oakman Elementary, you took the first of many important steps in your lives. Here you have learned skills and developed talents. Those skills and talents will be the foundation for whatever you achieve or learn in the future. You will build on them and find out many more fascinating things about you and life surrounding you. The skills you have mastered here will last you for the rest of your lives.
Today is a special day for you and for your family. Today you have every reason to be proud of all the skills you have mastered because with them you will be able to succeed in doing even more. I don’t know what the future holds for you! Yet I have no doubt that each and every one of you has the potential to do something special with your lives. You see, each one of you is already a very special and unique person! While you have been here, you have learned not just math, science and the other subjects; you have begun to learn and to take part in the society around you. You have learned many varied skills, from sports through to singing. Here you began to be the wonderful creative beings that you will one day fulfil! You have begun to form opinions and learned how to behave towards each other. You have formed friendships that, hopefully, will continue for the rest of your lives.
Oakman Lions, You have been excellent students and we are sorry to see you leave. Yet we know that it is in the nature of things for you to grow up and to move on. We hope that you will remember your years here fondly and that you remember your teachers equally fondly.
Today, I give you the same blessing as Christopher Columbus was undoubtedly given many
years ago when he set sail to discover a new world. May your seas be calm seas, may the wind that fills your sails be a following wind and
may God bless each one of you on your voyage through life.”
Best Regards,
Mr. Abu-Rus
Principal
Hello Families!
Here are the review lessons that were sent yesterday! Thank you all so much for sending the videos and photos of your work 🙂
Lesson 1
The goal of this lesson is for the children to identify words that rhyme as they go on a scavenger hunt for rhyming pairs in the house.
Click here to view the lesson.
Lesson 2
The goal of this lesson is for the children to identify the opposite pairs and then go on a scavenger hunt for opposite pairs around the house.
Click here to view the lesson.
Lesson 3
The goal of this lesson is for the compare two stories and tell what is the same and what is different.
I cannot post this video due to the copyright of the book that was used. But…check your Whatsapp.
Lesson 4
The goal of this lesson is for the children to identify what the children could do to play together as friends.
Click here to view the Second Step lesson.
Calendar
Lesson 5
The goal of this lesson is for the children to add when 2 dice are rolled.
I do not have this video for this lesson on You Tube…..BUT, I do have this… 🙂 Click here
Thank you for all you do!
Love, Mrs. Mehrhof
Hello Families!
We are on our last little stretch here of Young 5s! Just a few more days left! I am so proud of my amazing little students!
Tomorrow we will meet at Oakman for a joyous celebration for the graduating 5th Graders!!! Way to go graduates!!! 5th graders and their families will line up in the car parade at 9:30 AM. Then…at 10:30…the rest of the grades, including Young 5s, will line up in their cars for the car parade to wave goodbye and join this celebration! Please plan on participating. You can decorate your cars if you choose to!
Thank you for sending the adorable videos of your children doing this learning review!
Lesson 1
The goal of this lesson is for the children to say the letter and sound for Gg and Bb as well as practice writing the letters!
Click here to view the lesson.
Lesson 2
The goal of this lesson is for the children to write a message using the sight word like.
Click here to view the lesson.
Lesson 3
The goal of this lesson is for the children to make a personal connection to the story “It’s Ok to Be Different” by Todd Parr. It is important that we recognize and have a heart of acceptance for the differences we all have. The children can listen to Todd Parr reading his story and then view the video of Greenly and I!
Click here to view Todd Parr reading!
Click here to view the lesson.
Lesson 4
The goal of this Second Step lesson is for the children to identify a fair solution for Gus and Jillian as they are playing with the boats.
Calendar
Lesson 5
The goal of this lesson is for the children identify the steps to solve the story problem.
See you in the morning!
Thank you for all you do!
Love. Mrs. Mehrhof
Hello Families!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. This is our last 3.5 days of Young 5s! I cannot thank you enough for all of the help you and support you have given and continue to give your children during these remote learning times! I miss the students so so so so so much!!!
Please plan on joining the parade of cars at 10:30-11:00 on Tuesday! All of the Oakman teachers and staff will be waving!
I will be doing a special delivery to each one of my precious students on Thursday afternoon around 12:00-1:30. This is our formal last day of school!
I will still be sending videos to the children this week. If I have tears in my eyes at any point during these videos it is only because I am so excited for all that is to come in your child’s life while at the same time I will miss seeing them as often on the videos that you all send. They really have grown so very much this year! They are super stars!!!
Here are the lessons I sent on Friday:
Lesson 1
The goal of this lesso is for the children to read, write, and spell the sight word by.
Lesson 2
The goal of this lesson is for the children to write a message with the sight word by.
Lesson 3
The goal of this lesson is for the children to orally say, write, and draw a picture to match the new word when the suffix -s is added to the end of the root word to make it plural! (more than one).
Lesson 4
The goal of this Fun Friday project is for the children to not only practice following directions, but also to identify the colors of the rainbow.
Calendar
Lesson 5
The goal of this lesson is for the children to decompose a large 2D shape from a cardboard object at home (ex. box/rectangular prism) into smaller 2D shapes as a puzzle.
I look forward to wonderful and memorable week ahead!
Thank you for all you do!
Love, Mrs. Mehrhof