Apr 21 2021

Schoology

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Hello Families!

Schoology is currently experienceing some technicla issues. For the remainder of the school day please do the following:

Practice writing teen numbers in a number bond to show them as a group of 10 and some extra ones.

jack Hartmann Teen Numbers

Visit Reading Eggs. 🙂

Find 5 items in your home that can be recycled and draw a picture of them. Please remember to lable the items by stretching for the sounds you hear in their words.

Enjoy the rest of the day and I will see Group B on Zoom in the morning and Group A face to face!

We also learned about choosing healthy snacks with Ms. Zahraa and Ms. Endrina. Please ask your child to help pick out a healthy snack before or after dinner today!

Thank you for all you do!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Apr 19 2021

Look at what we have been doing!

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Hello families!

We are off to such a wonderful start this week! Take a look at some of the awesome learning that is taking place in Young 5s!

We identified the quantity rolled on our dice and matched it with the actual number!
We are writing a personal narrative with a beginning, middle, and end about a time we had a celebration!
we sorted pictures that begin with the letter Vv’s sound and the letter Uu’s sound.
Mrs. Hansen brought in Trixie along with some library books for us to borrow! She read Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion.
We made the letter Vv with playdough and brainstormed words that begin the letter Vv’s sound.
We made flowers and compared the number of petals on each one to see which had more and which had less.
We love writing in our binders!
We respond to stories from Benchmark with writing and telling about what we read!

This week is Earth Day! We will be talking about ways to help keep our planet healthy and beautiful! Today and tomorrow we will be discussing recycling! If you have a recycling routine you do at home, please explain it to your son or daughter. If you do not, please consider recycling your old paper, plastics, and glass to help keep our landfills from overflowing with much trash.

Thank you for all you do!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Apr 13 2021

Terrific Tuesday in Young 5s

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Hello Families!

We had another terrific day! Group B spent their day in person at Oakman! Take a look at some of the awesome things we did today!

We practiced handwriting the letters on our magic boards for our coming in activity.
We identified color words in our Benchmark poem. then we counted to see which color word had the most letters and which one had the least letters.
We practiced the letter Yy by creating it with playdough, writing it in the air, and saying its sound while we brainstormed words that begin with Yy’s sound.
We practiced making groups of ten.
We sorted pictures of activities and items that we see in the different seasons.
We enjoyed a recess on the playground!

I will see ALL of my friends on Zoom tomorrow at 8:35. We are virtual tomorrow. See you then!

Please remember, parent teacher conferences are tomorrow starting at 4:00. I have already reached out through text and email to those of you who I am meeting with on zoom. PLEASE be on time for your appointment. Thank you so so much!

Thank you for all you do!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Apr 13 2021

Reminders

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Hello Families!

Please remember to fill out the health screener before bringing your child to school. Also, we are now doing drop off and pick up at door 4 off of Orchard. Please also remember to send your child to school with a water bottle. We get thirsty with all of the fun work we do! 🙂

To all who are celebrating, I wish you all a happy month of Ramadan!

Happy Ramadan!

Thank you for all you do!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Apr 12 2021

Marvelous Monday in Young 5s

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Hello Families!

Group A came to school today! We had a marvelous Monday together! Take a look at some of the awesome things we did today!

We practiced the letter Yy! We also brainstormed a list of words that begin with the letter Yy!
We wrote about a time we had a happy day! The children are learning about personal narratives as writing that tells a story that happened to them!
We played a game on Nearpod about Seasons! We also read our informational Benchmark text about the Seasons. The big question in Unit 8 for Benchmark asks how do our activities change from season to season? We sorted pictures of activities that we do in the four different seasons. (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall)
We did a warm up math activity. We traced our hands and drew to answer how many peanuts there would be if there were 5 in one hand and 5 in the other.
We worked on making groups of ten!
We worked on making groups of ten.
It was raining during recess, so we played with our games! This is a super cool one that teaches one to one match along with number and quantity recognition.

Thank you for all you do!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Apr 11 2021

The Week Ahead in Young 5s!

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Hello Families!

I am so so so so so looking forward to seeing my friends face to face this week! I am excited for all of the fun we will have learning and laughing together!

PLEASE remember to fill out the Health Screener before your child comes to school on their in person days! It is on Schoology. 🙂

Monday and Thursday; Group B on Zoom at 8:35 and Group A face to face at 9:40 to 2:20.

Wednesday; We are ALL on Zoom and there will be virtual Learning Labs! There will also be Parent Teacher Conferences this evening starting at 4:00-7:00PM. You will be notified through your child’s email if you have an appointment! Not all of you will have an appointment with me for conferences. If you want an appointment with me I will be more than happy to set one up with you! PLEASE check your child’s school email for the appointment time. It is super important that you join the conference zoom link on time since we are only scheduled for a short amount of time until I meet with my next family.

Tuesday and Friday; Group A on Zoom at 8:35 and Group B face to face at 9:40-2:20.

PLEASE NOTE THIS IMPORTANT CHANGE!!!

FROM NOW ON, DROP OFF AND PICK UP WILL BE AT DOOR 4 BY THE SMALL PLAYGROUND. PLEASE BE ON TIME PICKING UP YOUR CHILD. YOUNG 5 AND KINDERGARTEN DISMISS FOR PICK UP AT 2:15.

Thank you for all you do!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Apr 5 2021

Welcome Back from Spring Break!!

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Hello Families!!

I hope you all enjoyed a joyous and restful Spring Break!!! If you celebrated Easter, I pray you all enjoyed a lovely time together with your loved ones too! I have missed the smiles of my little friends and am looking forward to hearing all about the fun things they did this last week!

In case you have not heard, we will be ALL VIRTUAL this whole week! We will meet on Zoom at 8:35 everyday! We will break for lunch at 11:45 to 12:25. We will ALL be on Zoom from 12:25 to 1:30. We will begin Learing Labs by appointment only (these times are listed on Schoology) Learning Labs will run to 2:35. After learning labs your child is to visit the Schoology sites for their special area teachers. On Monday and Tuesday please visit Music with Mrs. F. On Wednesday please visit Science with Mrs. Grucz. On Thursday please visit Art with Mrs. Torres. On Friday please visit PE with Mr. Lesniak. They will have lessons and assignments ready for your child. During the 1:25-2:35 time period while I am working with childrne during learing labs, your child will have at home learing to do that will be posted on Schoology. PLEASE remember to submit all work for our class on Schoology.

Tomorrow at 12:25 we will have a short parent meeting to go over some of the expectations for the week. Please feel free to ask any questions or voice any concerns you may have.

Again, I look forward to a great week of learning virtually with my amazing students!

See you soon!

Thank you for all you do!!

Love,

Ms. Mehrhof

Mar 25 2021

Spirit Week Continues!!

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Hello Families!

We are really enjoying the guest readers and Spirit Week dress up!

Take a look at some of the super awesome things we have been doing in Young 5s!

Dr. Maleyko read to our class on Zoom!!! We enjoyed his funny dinosaur book!
Mrs. Hansen read to our class too!! We also got to borrow new library books from her!!!
We learned about how the Sun warms our planet Earth and helps living things grow!
We practiced identifying teen numbers as a group of 10 and some extra ones.
We are all getting so much better at using scissors!!!
We had Wild and Wacky Hair Day!
We had a Wild and Wacky Hair Day!
We had a Wild and Wacky Hair Day!
We had silly hat day too!
We went on an egg hunt! We found eggs that matched the color on our egg bracelet!
We put the eggs into our Bunny Bags!
Inside the eggs were prizes and a 2D shape! We practiced identifying the 2D shapes by describing the number of sides it has!
We had a lot of fun with our egg hunt!
We practiced counting and matching the quantities of numbers 1-20!
We made Bunny Bags!!
We went on an egg hunt on the big playground’s field!

Today, Group A brought home an ABC sheet to practice letter identification and sounds. Please help your child also write these letters. In addition, on the back is a 100 chart to practice counting to 100! Thank you!!

Thank you for all you do!!!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Mar 22 2021

We are off to a fun Spirit Week!!

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Hello Families!

This was such a fun start to Spring Break Spirit Week!

Today was Silly Socks Day!

We are also enjoying having our guest readers for March is Reading Month! Remember, if any parents would like to be a guest reader on Zoom for us, please message or email me!!!

Mr. Mustonen, our district’s Communications Director, took time from his busy schedule to read Dinner at the Panda Palace by Stephanie Calmenson!!! This is also such an enjoyable time when he reads to us!
We enjoyed hearing Mr. Mustonen read, Dinner at the Panda Palace by Stephanie Calmenson.

Take a look at some of the awesome things we did today!!!

We practiced recognizing teen numbers as one group of ten and some extra ones using our fun tiny erasers, a spinner, and two ten frames.

We began learning about preposition words. We practiced with the word beside. We cut and glued the bunny beside the basket and read the sentence to match the picture as we practiced word by word matching.
We practiced the letter Jj and its sound. We made it our of playdough!
We brainstormed a list of words that begin with the letter Jj’s sound. This friend made a jet!
We enjoy learning about letters in fun and creative ways!
We used our Benchmark Readers to read our Benchmark poem about celebrations and looked for all of the Jjs within the poem.
We do our coming in work in the morning! The children are so great about picking up their magic boards to practice writing the upper and lowercase letters!
We learned facts about baby chickens…chicks! We watched one hatching from an egg in the video below! It was awesome!!! After, we painted our chicks and cut out the paper egg for it to hatch from! We even labeled the chick and the egg in our project!!!
Baby Chick hatching video from YouTube
We learned baby chickens are called chicks and that they hatch from eggs! We learned they used their beaks to help break through the egg!!!
We practiced writing a sentence to tell about what we like to celebrate! We used our Benchmark reader books!
We are writers!!
for Spring Break Spirit Week tomorrow, please wear your funniest hat! (Wednesday is Wacky Hair Day, Thursday is Sporty Shirt Day, and Friday is PJ Day!!)

Thank you for all you do!!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Mar 18 2021

Thankful Thursday

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Hello Families!

I am so thankful for all of my students and their love for learning and coming to school! What are you thankful for?

Take a look at some of the super awesome work we did today!!

The sneaky leprechaun came and left tiny golden shamrocks all over our tables!
We practiced writing our uppercase and lowercase letters.
We practiced directionality (left to right progression) when reading.
We used playdough and toothpicks to create 2d shapes.
We practiced identifying the front and the back of our books!
We sorted our teddy bears by color and told which color group has the most and which has the least.
We created color patterns!
We practiced counting objects in various scattered arrangements.
We used our white boards to write the number to show how many we saw on the promethean board for groups up to 10.
We made a model of the Sun and the earth! We learned the Earth goes around the Sun and the Sun warms the Earth!!!
We used small pieces of yellow and orange tissue paper to create the hot gasses that make up the large star we call the Sun!
We wrote our opinions about our favorite colors and created a rainbow with the colors in order of the rainbow! I am so excited to tell you all how awesome the children did with writing a sentence and following directions for their project!

Thank you for all you do!

See you tomorrow on Zoom, Group A and see you face to face Group B!!!!!

Love,

Ms. Mehrhof