Important Running Club Announcement

Review week: Weather and Seasons

Reading: we will be reading fiction and non-fiction stories this week called: Bears snores on; Bear wants more; All about Bears, Animals in winter.

Focus vocabulary: hibernation, migration

Strategy:

• Comparing stories and collecting reall information
• making a text to self connection
• making a text to text connection
• retell the a story (first, next, then, last)
• Identify problem and solution

Spelling: sun, bun, run, fun, up, it, is, in, help

Phonics: short u; CVC words practice with our word families

• sight word test coming up
• Letter identification and their sound test coming up

Grammar:

• nouns (review)
• verbs (review)
• adjectives (new this week)
• homophones (review)
• antonyms/opposites (new this week)
• rhymes (review)

Writing: we will be writing a non-fiction book or writing  piece about bears. We will create a thinking map, KWL chart and a tree chart to guide in this process. Sentence stems will be: Bears are ___. Bears can____. Bears have ____. Each child is expected to write 3 sentences independently.

Math: we will continue to practice addition, subtraction, counting backward and comparing numbers 0-10. We will also explore making 2 digit numbers using base ten blocks (tens and ones).

Social Studies: we will be having a social studies test this week about maps, globes, positional words (next to, up, down, above, below, under), sequence of a story (beginning, middle, end), regions in a classroom or a school ( i.e. What does a playground contain?, what does a lunchroom contain?,  what does a classroom contain?).

Reminders:

• Late start on Wednesday, March 15th
• Parent reader updated schedule is up. Sign up!
• I will be testing sight words we have learned thus far
• I will also be testing letters and their sounds

Ms. Mohamed

To our fabulous readers! We are so glad you came 😊

Ms. Muluk Haidar

Ms. Beydoun

Mr. Haidar

Ms. Ahmad

Ms. Marwa Haidar

More readers to come….stay tuned 😊

Updated Reader schedule:

Monday, March 13 @9:00-  Ms. Robynn Rasmussen 9:10- Ms. Rahal

Tuesday, March 14 @3:00- Ms. Miller, 3:10 Ms. Hamade

Friday, March 17 @9:00- Grandma G. , 9:10 Ms. Tannoukhi

Monday, March 20 @9:00, 9:10, 3:10 Ms. Ittayem

Tuesday, March 21 @3:00-Ms. Rasmussen,

Friday, March 24 @9:00 Ms. Assaf , 9:10, 3:10 Ms. Harajly

Monday, March 27 @9:00, 9:10

Tuesday, March 28 @3:00- Ms. Dabaja

Friday, March 31 @9:00- Mr. Ahmad , 9:10

Sign up sheet is in the hallway, if you are interested!

Have a great weekend!

-Ms. Mohamed

Congratulations to the students of the month:

Hassan Beydoun

Joanne Taleb

Abbas Alhilal

Keep up the great work! I am so proud of you!

-Ms. Mohamed

Tuesday, March 7 @3:00-Ms.  Marwa Haidar

Friday, March 10 @9:00- Mr. Haidar, 9:10- Ms. Ahmad

Monday, March 13 @9:00-  Ms. Robynn Rasmussen 9:10- Ms. Rahal

Tuesday, March 14 @3:00- Ms. Miller

Friday, March 17 @9:00- Grandma G. , 9:10 Ms. Tannoukhi

Monday, March 20 @9:00, 9:10

Tuesday, March 21 @3:00-Ms. Rasmussen

Friday, March 24 @9:00 Ms. Assaf , 9:10

Monday, March 27 @9:00, 9:10

Tuesday, March 28 @3:00- Ms. Dabaja

Friday, March 31 @9:00- Mr. Ahmad , 9:10

This week is all about the seasons!

Reading: We will be reading stories that discuss how the weather changes in each season. We will also discuss activities you can do in these seasons. Stories include:  In the Yard; A year with Bears; How turtle flew South; Paul Bunyan and the Popcorn Blizzard

Spelling words: -op word family and sight words (hot words)

hop

top

shop

drop

my

play

on

Writing: We will be writing an informational piece on the seasons. This writing piece needs to inform us on what kind of activities we do in that season (using verbs). The sentence stem will be: In __(season), I _____. I ____. I can also____.

Math: We will practice subtraction using created pictures, manipulatives, drawings and number sentences. We will practice counting backwards to aide in this process.

Social Studies: We will continue to sharpen our map skills. We will learn to follow directions, to find items on a map and to understand important aspects of a map such as a compass rose, a key and positional words (next to, across, south of, north of, west of, east of, behind, above, below etc..). Last week, we created our own classroom map where we discussed areas in the room. This week, we will look and work on different types of maps and place items based on directions.

REMINDERS:

• We need parent readers! I have a sign up sheet in the hallway by our door. Sign up for a time available.
• Please follow the March is Reading Month Calendar. Wednesday is bring in a reading poster day, and Thursday is have a super animal fact in your pocket day!

Have a great week!

Ms. Mohamed

Below are the pages for the homework for March. I am sending home the attached packet. In case you lose it, here are copies to print out. There is a calendar attached of what to do for homework each night. Reading Tickets are due every Friday.

March is reading month Page 1

March is reading month Page 2

March is reading month Page 3

Happy Reading!

Ms. Mohamed

homework 2-28 page 1

homework 2-28 page 2

homework 3-2 page 1

homework 3-2 page 2

In celebration of March is Reading Month, I’m requesting parents (that are available of course) to come in and read your child’s favorite story or I could provide a book for you to read. This would take no longer than 10-15 minutes. The available times are listed below:

Monday, March 6 @9:00- Ms. Muluk Haidar 9:10- Ms. Beydoun

Tuesday, March 7 @3:00-Ms.  Marwa Haidar

Friday, March 10 @9:00- Mr. Haidar, 9:10

Monday, March 13 @9:00, 9:10

Tuesday, March 14 @3:00- Ms. Miller

Friday, March 17 @9:00, 9:10

Monday, March 20 @9:00, 9:10

Tuesday, March 21 @3:00-Ms. Rasmussen

Friday, March 24 @9:00, 9:10

Monday, March 27 @9:00, 9:10

Tuesday, March 28 @3:00- Ms. Dabaja

Friday, March 31 @9:00, 9:10

Please email me the time that works for you and I will update available times on the blog. My email is mohamek@dearbornschools.org

Thanks!

-Ms. Mohamed

Welcome back!

New Unit: Weather

Reading: We will be reading A Rainy Day; Weather Poems; Frog and the Locust; How thunder became lightening.

Strategies:

• Self to text connection: what do you do in this particular type of weather
• Retelling: Beginning, middle, end of a story
• Rhyming

Word Family: -ig (pig, big, dig, twig, fig, rig)

Phonics for the week: short i (-ig words, pin, fit, chick, fish; etc)

Spelling: are, what, and, rain, pig, big, dig

Writing: we will focus on opinion writing this week. We will discuss our favorite weather. We will create a weather thinking map and choose our favorite weather and why we like it. Our sentence stem will be: I like ___. I can__. It is ___.

Math: We will practice counting on using addition. We will also explore ways of making 10. We will create number stories and connect them to creating number sentences. Practice identifying any number on a number chart.

Science: We will revisit land forms. We will identify where to find soil, sand, and water.

Social studies: We will sharpen our map skills. We will learn to follow directions, to find items on a map and to understand important aspects of a map such as a compass rose, a key and positional words (next to, across, south of, north of, west of, east of, behind, above, below etc..).

REMINDERS:

• Book fair is scheduled this week. If your child is interested in purchasing any books please preview the order form that was sent before break.
• March is Reading month is starting!!! You will be receiving a letter with details this week.
• In celebration of March is Reading Month, I’m requesting parents (that are available of course) to come in and read your child’s favorite story or I could provide a book for you to read. This would take no longer than 10-15 minutes. I will send out available times later this week. Please email me the time that works for you and I will confirm via email. I will update available times on the blog. My email is mohamek@dearbornschools.org

Thanks!

-Ms. Mohamed