Hello everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the Holiday weekend and the beginning of summer break. This years celebration and summer activities have been so different from every other year, but my family and I are still finding joyful moments by spending time together in the sun!

As we wrap up the weekend, I wanted to send out a friendly reminder of our virtual summer school starting tomorrow! This weeks packet were delivered last week, on Thursday. The packet includes materials needed for the week, along with a schedule for virtual meeting times and days. As posted in the schedule, we will all meet together for 1 hr daily, at 10 AM. The link you need to access is, https://meet.google.com/zci-icrc-tqd, or you can access by phone with, ‪(US) +1 385-325-1141‬ PIN: ‪630 819 690‬#. Tomorrows individual meetings include MG, HA, AG, MA, and SI. You can find your link invite on the schedule from your packets or in your email. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please let me know! My email is roskelm@dearbornschools.org or by phone at (734) 536-9994. I look forward to seeing everyone soon!

Hello Friends, Happy Thursday!! Happy Last Day of school!! This year has been one to remember and definitely unforgettable 🙂

Join me for our last morning meeting, well until summer school in July!

The fun activity for today is a Science Experiment! Join me to see what ingredients we can use to stop our cut apples from turning brown.

Enjoy this story about the last day of school, than try and have a dance party to celebrate the end of the year!

Dear Parent(s),

Every year, billions of dollars in federal funding go to hospitals, fire departments, schools, roads, and other resources based on census data.

For a better future of our city, schools, and students , please click on the link now and fill out the census. It only takes a few minutes from your time to make a difference.

Complete the Census application here: 

https://my2020census.gov/

Sincerely,

Mrs. Melissa

Hello Friends, Happy Wednesday! Start the day by joining me for our morning meeting.

Join me for our math activity all about rectangles!

Enjoy our weekly Scholastic News Article. Here is the link which allows access to the website. Where it will read the entire newspaper and allows for educational games based off the topic at hand! The classroom password is : piemine5441. This weeks article is all about Summer Safety! If you are having trouble accessing the website you can use the template linked below. You can complete this assignment on your own or alongside with Mrs. Melissa!

Don’t forget Wednesdays are our Music Days, Join Ms. Harden for this weeks music activity!

HOWE CENTER-BASED SPECIAL EDUCATION MUSIC LESSON #7 JUNE 1-5

Posted on June 1, 2020 by Susan HardenHOWE CENTER-BASED SPECIAL EDUCATION MUSIC LESSON #7 JUNE 1-5

This week we will learn a new song with sign language called “One Small Voice.” Listen to the song a few times then record you and your family (using Screencastify link) doing the sign language together while the video is playing from 1:57-END. Make sure that your face and hands can be clearly seen in the video. I look forward to seeing you all!

One Small Voice Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GBi79RbbCM

Screencastify Recording: https://app.screencastify.com/record/6-jcBkcNMuXZZWvk1f78V

Hello Friends! Start the day by joining me for our daily morning meeting.

Join me for today’s math activity about Counting with all of our Coins!

On Tuesdays we have group therapy with Ms. Dawn and Ms. Emily so try joining them for some fun activities!

Join Ms. Dawn for some More Core work 🙂

Join Ms. Emily for this fun physical activity that addresses several skills at once!

This activity is great for all ages, and works on several skills at once! This works to strengthen the core muscles, back muscles, neck muscles, and shoulder, arm, and hand muscles.

This works on balance skills. (You will still need to have at least one hand on your student for safety.)

This works on reaching skills. Including reaching across the midline. (Imagine there is an invisible line down the center of your body. Reaching with your right hand to grab something on the left side of your body, [and vice versa] is crossing the midline. For example, when you are about to drive and you buckle your seat belt, you cross your midline to grab the seat belt.)

This works on visual motor skills. This is how your brain and your body work together to understand visual input and respond with appropriate body movements. (For example, when someone tosses a ball to you, you respond by putting your arms up and closing them around the ball to catch it.)

How To Adapt This Activity: Play Tic-Tac-Toe with sticky notes. Use shaving cream to draw on the mirror instead of dry-erase markers. Roll your student back to a standing position between each turn to give them brief breaks from being in the prone (face down) position. Or simply roll your student toward the ground and back to the standing position. (Encourage your student to reach to the floor with his/her arms when you roll forward.)

Welcome back friends, happy Monday! I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend.

Lets start today’s work by joining me for story time about friendship!

Join Mrs. Dawn for some Core Vocabulary work.

Today is our Art and Physical Activity Day. Try out your creative side, and active side with these fun activities.

Have some creative time by talking about colors. Get out your color cards from the work packet. Talk about each color card you have and find something that matches that color.

Side Walk Squares

Here is a fun way to make an exercise routine and be creative! Have fun!!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/h1mZvr1jLNNG1rVh8

Dear Howe School Family,

I would like to take a few minutes to personally thank you for all your support with your children and our school throughout this year.  With the unexpected closure, your partnership has been even more critical for our students and we appreciate all you are doing.  We are all learning together.  Unfortunately, due to the Governor’s orders and the safety concerns related to Covid-19 our summer school learning will most likely continue as remote learning. As a staff we have worked together to evaluate our remote learning program and have made some changes to our provision of services to address areas of weakness and to better serve our students. We are excited to provide you with important information about how we will continue to provide essential learning through the summer months.

As you know, students who receive services in the severe cognitive or severe multiple impairment programs have a high need for continued instruction into the summer months. For this reason, all students are expected to receive instruction as defined by their Individualized Education Plans for 200 school days each year instead of the 180 days provided by the district calendar. All students in our programs will have 20 additional days of school throughout the summer that they are required to attend. Students who have direct occupational, physical, or speech therapy determined by their IEP will continue to receive these services remotely as part of the school day during the summer months and.  

The Howe School school day for our programs will run on Mondays-Thursdays beginning on July 6 and will operate through August 6. 

Each school day (Monday-Thursday) will be made up of the following:

• A daily 1 hour virtual session held at the same time each day that will include a Class Meeting, English Language Arts lesson, and a Math lesson. 
• Scheduled individual consultation with the teacher at least two times each week
• In addition, a weekly therapy block will be virtually conducted during one of the daily sessions.
• Instructional materials will be delivered to the homes of Dearborn residents on Thursdays for the following weeks. All others will be mailed.

Daily attendance will be taken for the daily live sessions and for the individual consultations

• Please notify your child’s teacher if he/she will be absent for any sessions.
• If your child is having difficulty attending, it is important that you communicate with your child’s teacher to work out a plan with you. 
• Translation support will be available if needed.

We appreciate your continued support and collaboration.  If you have any questions please feel free to call at 313-827-7000. 

Respectfully,

Tammy L. Fournier,  Principal

Lets finish the week by joining me for today’s Morning Meeting!

On Fridays we do our letter work! Join Mrs. Melissa for a Mini Lesson on the letter Z. Listen to the lesson and then complete the letter Z activities from your work packets. Make sure to share a picture of your work in the comments section below!

Try this fun art lesson from our Art Teacher Ms. Hannah!

K-2nd Grade Mosaic Assignment

Directions: 1. Watch the video below

2. Draw your favorite fruit BIG on a paper

3. Find old junk mail, magazines, etc. Look for the colors you need for your fruit and rip them into small pieces (about 1 inch pieces)

4. Glue the pieces in your fruit drawing.

REMINDER: Join the classroom team for a hangout session today at 1:00 PM! Check your emails for the reminder invite. Hope to see you all 🙂

Start the day by join Mrs. Melissa for the daily Morning Meeting!

Join Mrs. Melissa for our weekly News2You Article and Activity. We are going to talk about 2020 Graduate Ceremonies! Follow along with your own copy of the article and activity, from your work packets, or use the one linked below.

Graduation 2020

Join the classroom team for our weekly hangout session today at 1. Today’s session involves a science experiment with apples.

Today is our Physical Education Day. Try and get the kids moving with this fun activity from our Physical Education teacher Mr. Borg!

In honor of celebrating the end of the year, Mr. Borg would like to celebrate by hosting an End of The Year Talent Show. Share a 10 to 60 second video of a talent or you participating in physical activity and share it through email with me (roskelm@dearbornschools.org) and our gym teacher, Mr. Borg (borgj@dearbornschools.org) so we can post it to our blogs for everyone at school to see!