Thank you to the PTA for donating our new turtle habitat. The turtles love their new habitat!! They have so much more room to swim. 

Today we took a progress monitoring on NWEA. We want to make sure that the scores stay up when we take the winter test.  Your child received a new updated RITbscore a lot of students RITb score went up! Congrats!! Keep up the awesome work. there are a few who’s RIT score went down please make sure your child is doing extra time on Moby Max at home to bring up the scores. 

Our second science test on the solar system went home today please look over these test with your child they did an amazing job! 

This Thursday their child alien passport projects are due. A lot has come in already they look amazing I can’t wait to look through them all! Nice work I’m so proud of you. 

This Friday, December 9th is Pajama Day. Students are asked to donate a jar of peanut butter for our food drive in order to wear their pajamas to school on Friday.

Our class will be attending the Secret Santa Shop on Tuesday, December 13th at 2:30pm Students are able to bring money to school to shop for family and friends for the holidays. More information will be coming home soon from the PTA.
Students should arrive at school no earlier than 8:20 a.m. to line up in the gym. Kid’s Club is in the gym until 8:15, so the gym is not available for line up until 8:20. Students can go to the cafeteria for breakfast at 8:00 a.m.

The M & M challenge has begun for the month of December. It will run until January 14th. Students should be reading on MyOn at home as often as possible, and going onto MobyMax at home as often as possible. Students have been assigned lessons in the Math section of MobyMax on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions to help prepare for our Unit 5 Test.

The PTA is planning popcorn day for Friday, December 9th. Popcorn costs $0.50 per bag. You can pay Ms. Sherlock anytime this week, or even Friday morning!

It is important that children are eating breakfast every morning. Please make sure you’re making time in the morning for your child to have breakfast. If they are having breakfast at school please make sure they are coming to school earlier enough to eat breakfast before the bell at 8:35am. Many students are coming to class saying they did not have time to eat breakfast at home or at school and are complaining of hunger pains around 10am because of missed breakfast. 

Donate a jar of peanut butter for our Blessings in a Backpack program and wear your PJs to school!

https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/web-apps/number-pieces/

You may type, write, draw, or print pictures to complete your project.

Here is what you will need on each page:
-Cover – Passport cover page (you will draw and color an accurate picture of your planet in the space provided – write Interplanetary Space Commission,
Passport on the front)
-Page 1 – Introduction Page
– Mini-photo of your alien (you will need to take this at the end of the project once your alien is completed)
-alien name
-alien age (on earth and on its planet)
-alien weight (on earth and on its planet)
-planet of origin / terrestrial or gas giant?
-Page 2 – Basic Facts
How many planets yours is from the sun (ex. Venus is 2nd planet from sun)
-Any moons? If so, provide the number and some basic information about them.
-atmosphere and composition
-weather (if there is any)
-temperature of planet
Page 3 – A Day in the Life Page
-How fast does the planet revolve around the sun?
-How fast does your planet rotate?
-Length of day and year
-Size of planet
Page 4 – Interesting Facts
– Write a paragraph about your planet that includes some interesting facts.
Page 5 – Description of Alien
-Write a paragraph with a description of your alien. For each characteristic,
write an explanation of why the alien would have it. For example, my alien
has special skin that protects it from the heat. Venus is a very hot planet so it would have needed to adapt to its extreme temperatures.
Page 6 – Credits Page
List your sources
**You may add more to your passport but the pages above are required.**

Here is the science study guide, which will go home tomorrow

Welcome back I hope everyone had a restful and thankful Thanksgiving! 

Thank you to all of the wonderful families that attended Parent Teacher Conferences!

Our second science test on the solar systme will be this Thursday. A study guide will go home tomorrow. We will also be studying in class Tuesday and Wednesday this week. 

Students should go onto xtramath.org at home as often as possible. We will go to this free website in class, but the more students practice their basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills the more proficient they will become in computation. 

There is a M & M challenge for the month of December. As previously posted, the contest will run from December 1st – January 14th. The top 3 students in the school with the most badges earned on MobyMax and the top 3 readers on MyOn will receive certificates and a gift card. The top 16 students will be invited to a pizza party with Mrs. Bush!

Dear Parents,                                                                                                             
IF you are having trouble with the CLEVER login: On your home computer an adult had to login to get their email opened. For students to login to CLEVER the STUDENT must be logged to the computer with THEIR email and password. So you must log off or ADD ANOTHER ACCOUNT so your child can login. Then: GO to the Dearborn Public Schools home page. Click Resources and Students. Then click CLEVER. Finally click Moby Max or Myon. IF you still cannot login please email me at bushm@dearbornschools.org

Thank you,

Nicole Bush

No spelling words this week due to the shortened week.

No school Wednesday, November 23- Friday, November 25 for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Thank you to all of the wonderful families that attended Parent Teacher Conferences over the past two weeks.  It was amazing to see the students lead each of their own conferences and taking ownership of their own learning!

Snow School Skate Night is tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 22) at Lincoln Park Skating Center from 6:00-8:00 p.m.  Pre sale prices are $7.00 and Door sale prices are $9.00.

Please make sure your still reading or going on myon or mobymax over the break. Also make sure your working on your Aline passport projects. They are due December 8th!!!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and enjoy spending quality time with family and friends!