Mrs. Melissa's Bunch

Every morning after breakfast we gather together and talk about the day and what is expected of them for the day. Here are the musical videos we sing and move to everyday!

Ms. Dawn, our Speech Pathologist, put together schedules for students to have continuous exposure to communication and physical activities while at home. I am also posting our Core Vocabulary board which students are exposed to daily at school.

Starting tomorrow, Dearborn Public Schools will offer free pickup breakfast and lunch to all of our students at any of six school locations. The grab-and-go meals will be available from 10 a.m. to noon at Fordson, Dearborn, and Edsel Ford high schools, McCollough/Unis, Salina Intermediate and Woodworth.

Any child age 18 or younger is invited to receive a meal.

Please refer to the press release for more details.

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Please subscribe to Ms. Harden’s iBlog (music) and Ms. Dudek’s iBlog (art) for fun suggestions during our time away from school!  

Here is our classroom access website and code for our weekly scholastic news articles. It allows for the kids to engage in reading activities, shows educational videos, and also has educational games! 

Website: https://digital.scholastic.com/resources/classpasscode/?app=letsfindout&state=%2Fhome-page-logged-out.html&role=classroom 

Password: piemine5441

Reading Resource:

Here is a great social story explaining Coronavirus.

From the office of our Superintendent:

Greetings Dearborn Public Schools Community,

We have been working on a plan to serve meals to students now that schools are closed for several weeks in response to the International COVID 19 Crisis. We plan to have a modified grab and go breakfast and then lunch available at limited locations. The details of this plan will be posted Monday March 16 in the afternoon/evening.

During these unprecedented times we are doing our best as a district to navigate how instruction will be provided moving forward. 

One of the biggest things we work on throughout the day is attending to instruction and choice making.  You can reinforce these skills at home by providing your child opportunities to make choices (show them two different books and have them select the one they would like to read, give them two options for a snack and let them chose, have them select from two different toys which they would prefer, etc.)  Furthermore, we use the core vocabulary communication board throughout our day to communicate and make choices as well. Allowing your child to have access to the their core vocabulary board increases their familiarity with it as well as provides them opportunities to communicate with you.

Each student will be receiving a packet via mail (packets are being mailed Monday, March 16th).  These packets include familiar work, a core vocabulary board and ideas to enhance movement and communication skills.  These tasks can be done with your support. Please feel free to contact me with any questions and/or concerns (roskelm@dearbornschools.org)!

Mrs. Melissa Roskelly—SCI Teacher

We started the week off with fun activities about shamrocks and leprechauns in preparation for St. Patrick’s Day. We applied our measuring skills again and made green Slime! For Math we had a class discussion on measuring and used our math cube manipulates to measure some pictures. The kids really enjoyed using building blocks to build tall towers and see who had the highest tower. However, I believe the kids favorite part was when they got to knock over the tower! We wrapped up our science weather unit with our weekly scholastic newsletter which focused on the different weather. This weeks book of focus was The Old Lady who Swallowed a Clover. The students loved finding out about the different objects that silly old lady swallowed this time! The kids then created a summary sentences and choice while item they would swallow if they were the old lady.

All Dearborn Public Schools will be closed for students effective immediately, March 13, 2020. This is a result of Governor Whitmer’s order to close all K-12 school buildings, public, private, and boarding, starting Monday, March 16 until Sunday, April 5. Dearborn Public Schools spring break will take place from Monday, April 6 through Friday, April 10. Students will return to school on Monday, April 13, 2020.

As any new information becomes available, I will be sure to share it!

Mrs. Melissa Roskelly–SCI Teacher