The half day scheduled for November 6^th has been changed to Friday, October 30^th.

Also, parent teacher conferences will be held virtually November 5^th, 10^th, and 17^th from 3:00-6:30. 

Friday (October 9th), is a half day. There will be no afternoon learning labs or virtual learning!

We are excited to start to offer curbside library service to Howe students on Tuesdays from 1:00- 2:30 pm at Door #20 (1st set of doors in the large parking lot). Students who have no overdue books or fines are now able to place a book on hold using our online library catalog.

Here is a video of How to Place a Book on Hold at Howe Media Center: https://youtu.be/gf2UUfaHJkQ

Once a student places a book on hold, our library staff will email the teacher to let the student(s) know that they can come on the next Tuesday (Door #20) to pick up the book.

Ms. Laurie Kurth will be at the door to receive books and hand out books on hold each Tuesday at that time. 

**Students will need confirmation from us before coming to school to get a book. 

Just a reminder, Learning Labs start Monday! If your child is attending Learning Labs, I have already contacted you with their bussing pick up/drop off times.

If your child is not coming in for Learning Labs, live Zoom meetings will be done by other teachers (Mrs. Kathy Adams and/or Mrs. Lindsey Ray), if you have not received their Zoom links, please let me know!

Also, you have received work packets for the week of September 21st. These work packets are meant to be done while your child is not attending Learning Labs or live Zoom meetings (for example, if your child is participating in morning Learning Lab sessions the work packet is meant for the afternoon).

As always, please let me know if you have any questions and/or concerns! 🙂

Here is today’s live Zoom meeting! Tomorrow our therapy staff will be joining us!!

Lets get moving on this beautiful Thursday with some movement songs!

This week we have been seeing a lot of apples during our live Zoom meetings.  Posted below is a book all about the apple tree life cycle!  Can you believe that an apple grows from a tiny little seed into a beautiful tasty apple?! Also, I am posting some of our fun apple counting songs.  Enjoy your Wednesday, everyone!

Here is a recording of today’s Zoom meeting!

If you missed it, here is today’s live Zoom meeting!

Try to make your own calendar using this link: https://www.starfall.com/h/holiday/calendar/?t=303731338

Practice counting with this fun song and link below:

https://wow.boomlearning.com/play/8nM8tWbQTsuPfBcr4/teacher

Morning Routine Visual Schedule

• Talk with your child about each step of the process and show the pictures as you move through each task.
• Help your child to understand the sequence of events by using “first- then” to describe the tasks in relation to one another.  For example, “First we get dressed, then we eat breakfast.”

Clothing choice board

• Present 1 or 2 clothing options at a time.

• Ask different types of questions:
  • Yes/no questions such as “Do you want to wear this sweater?”
  • Multiple choice questions using different types of clothing such as “Do you want to wear pants or shorts?”
  • Multiple choice questions using the same type of clothing adding descriptive words such as “Do you want to wear the blue shirt or the red shirt?
  • ‘Wh-‘ questions such as “What do you want to wear?”

• Allow for different types of responses:
  • Nod or shake head
  • Look at, point to, or touch the clothing
  • Point to picture symbols on a choice board
  • Produce sounds or words
• Provide a verbal model to reinforce your child’s choice such as “Shirt”, “Blue shirt” or “I want blue shirt”.
• Show your child how to point to the words on the communication board as you say them.    

Please contact Dawn Hunt, SLP  with questions at huntd@dearbornschools.org or 313-827-8335.

Here is today’s live Zoom meeting. Don’t forget, we meet daily at 10:00!

Zoom Meeting: https://dearbornschools-org.zoom.us/j/87257163374?pwd=TmlHSDVoelMwd3RIQ2xQMnJ1akE1Zz09

Meeting ID: 872 5716 3374 Passcode: 329744

Below is a fun apple counting book/song as well as our favorite ABC song!