Greetings Parents,  

On Monday, August 10 the Board of Education approved a plan for all Dearborn Public School students to return to school on-line. Students from kindergarten through high school will take classes online at least until sometime around the beginning of October.  The board will reevaluate conditions later in September to see if it is possible for some or all students to begin returning to their classrooms perhaps in a blended model of in-class and on-line learning.

The District understands there are parents who want their children in a 100% virtual learning program no matter what phase the State is in or how other students in the District are attending school.  For the parents who want a 100% on-line option for the entire school year, the school district has created the Dearborn Virtual Learning Program for students K-12.  Parents selecting this option are opting their children into the program for a one-year commitment. 

In order to meet staffing, transportation, and several other components of our new school environment, it is vitally important to know how many students will join the Virtual Program. Parents seeking more information and/or are interested in opting their child(ren) into this program are highly encouraged to visit Oakman Elementary School’s cafeteria on Wednesday August 12 between 9am and 3pm. 

School administrators will be on hand (social distancing, limited numbers, and masks will be enforced) on August 12 between 9am and 3pm to meet with parents. If you have children at different grade levels and buildings, you do not need to attend meetings at multiple schools.  Opt-in forms will be available and parents can opt-in all their children at one location. Here is a link to the complete schedule of schools and meetings.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SdFISdKk-c1Lbkz7Vj5irylxEkqJOKZy2J3HJGvJ_tI/edit#heading=h.e1437s49s5yw.

If you are not comfortable meeting in a safe environment at the school or are unable to attend on one of the scheduled days, please call or email the school so we may discuss this option and begin the opt-in process for your children.

We understand there are many questions, concerns, and uncertainties as we approach the start of the school year.  Our Back to School Reopen Committee has spent many hours considering all of the health, safety, logistical, and educational concerns before making their recommendations. Our Board spent many hours reviewing those recommendations including a six hour Study Session to hear from the various sub-committees and stakeholders.  We are now ready to move forward, together, to ensure what will be an interesting, but great, start to the 2020-21 school year. 

Have a great day

There are times in each of our lives that mark particularly special occasions. Today is such an occasion. Today you can say I’ve finished my elementary school phase!

Here at Oakman Elementary, you took the first of many important steps in your lives. Here you have learned skills and developed talents. Those skills and talents will be the foundation for whatever you achieve or learn in the future. You will build on them and find out many more fascinating things about you and life surrounding  you. The skills you have mastered here will last you for the rest of your lives. 

Today is a special day for you and for your family. Today you have every reason to be proud of all the skills you have mastered because with them you will be able to succeed in doing even more. I don’t know what the future holds for you! Yet I have no doubt that each and every one of you has the potential to do something special with your lives. You see, each one of you is already a very special and unique person! While you have been here, you have learned not just math, science and the other subjects; you have begun to learn and to take part in the society around you. You have learned many varied skills, from sports through to singing. Here you began to be the wonderful creative beings that you will one day fulfil! You have begun to form opinions and learned how to behave towards each other. You have formed friendships that, hopefully, will continue for the rest of your lives.

Oakman Lions, You have been excellent students and we are sorry to see you leave. Yet we know that it is in the nature of things for you to grow up and to move on. We hope that you will remember your years here fondly and that you remember your teachers equally fondly. 

Today, I give you the same blessing as Christopher Columbus was undoubtedly given many years ago when he set sail to discover a new world. May your seas be calm seas, may the wind that fills your sails be a following wind and may God bless each one of you on your voyage through life.

Best Regards,

Mr. Abu-Rus

Principal

Today’s FINAL FARWELL video from Mrs. Fowler!! **PLEASE watch to the end!!!*

The slides that go along with the video:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rKEEOSUaSLyHDT9BUUeTLK-pZHoskDojfOkC3cbsKLc/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you for a great school year!!!— what an experience it has been!! From the bottom of my heart, it has been so special and so rewarding to see how parents, teachers, students, support staff, and community leaders have come together to make sure learning has continued, I am sooo proud of each of you!!!

PLEASE continue to read and and work comprehension quizzes using the RAZ KIDS website so that your child is ready for 1^st grade!! If you do not read daily over the summer, summer slide happens and reading levels will go down in the fall.  It is important to take 20 minutes every day to read on the computer, in print books, and use CLEVER resources, such as reading eggs and rainbow “e”.  Also, the  summer packet that is in the binders we delivered should be completed over the summer!! Try to do 1 page of the reading section and 1 page of the math section EACH DAY! 

Remember to help increase your child’s vocabulary continue to ask them questions and encourage them to answer in complete sentences and write in their notebooks/red booklets that we sent home as well.

 Have a wonderful summer- be safe, be kind, and be responsible so that you are ready to be an Oakman Lion 1^st grader in the fall!!!

**Be on the lookout for a *special individualized* virtual gift from me through the REMIND APP this morning!!***

 I miss and love each of you!

 Mrs. Rawson

Love,

Mrs. Fowler

Here are today ROAR announcements:

It was so wonderful to see so many of you yesterday at our farewell parade!

Here is today’s YOUTUBE video from Mrs. Fowler explaining today’s assignments: **Please watch FIRST* ***

Here are the slides that go with the video:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/178ulW2h3nnjp97c_D67cCeKmKK7e1acZ89rtRQYx6pY/edit?usp=sharing

Have a wonderful Wednesday!!! Let’s make our our last full day of kindergarten AMAZING!!!! Only 2 more days till summer, so keep working each day to get your work completed and let’s finish kindergarten STRONG!!! Wahooooo!! Almost summer, almost official 1st graders!!!!

Love,

Mrs. Fowler

5th Grade Promotion Car Parade on Tuesday at 9:30am

5th graders are you ready to celebrate your time at Oakman? On Tuesday morning at 9:30am, we are asking all 5th graders and their families to join in our Promotion Car Parade.

Teachers will be lined up in the playground parking lot and will wave and congratulate all passing cars and students. Teachers will be passing out 5th grade promotion certificates and our PTA will be passing out goodie bags to our 5th grade students.

Cars will travel NORTH on Orchard, pass the cafeteria and in and out of the parking lot. Please keep traffic moving and do not get out of your cars.

5th graders may return in the afternoon to pick up their lawn sign which will be displayed in front of the building on Orchard.

AFTER the 5th grade Promotion Car Parade, we are inviting all grades from Pre-K to 4th for their End of Year Celebration Car Parade. Teachers will be in the playground parking lot to wave goodbye and wish everyone a wonderful summer!

Here are today’s ROAR announcements:

Here is today’s video from Mrs. Fowler explaining today’s assignments:

Here are the slides for today:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OjR2gKbw-GiNUQ9rTBAglI7D7X48dbWOQd0D_I0dngU/edit?usp=sharing

Have a terrific Tuesday!! I’m excited for this morning!!!!!! See you at 10:30 to wave goodbyes!!!

Love,

Mrs. Fowler

I am sooooooo happy to report  HIGH assignment participation from last week!!! Monday 19/19 Tuesday, 18/19 Wednesday 19/19, and Thursday 18/19, and Friday 16/19 students of completed work by sending my daily pictures on on the REMIND APP!!!  We had 1 friend complete “some” of the work this week, 2 friends complete “most” work, and 16 friends complete ALL OF THE WORK THIS WEEK– daily assignments and 60+ minutes for the week on RAZ kids!! Wow!! WOW!! Wow!!! 

Here are weekly stats from RAZ KIDS- we are UP on hours logged, listens, reads, AND quizzes from last week!! We had 4 out of 5 days of meeting our time class goal of 6 hours (20 minutes each student) . SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO Lara, Melak, and Ali Ismail!!! We had 17/19 friends read for over 60 minutes (1 hour) this week. Hip Hip Hooray for Aboody, Ali A, Ali I, Ali M, Lara, Melak, Omar, and Zahraa for reading over 3 hours this past week— wow!!! AND BIG SHOUT OUT TO Ali Ismail WHO READ FOR 9 HOURS 27 minutes last week!!!! SOOOOO SO SO AWESOME!!!

********Remember RAZ kids will be available and encourage ALL SUMMER so that you can continue to improve your reading level and comprehension skills!!!! Keep the routines you have established at home and try to get on some EACH DAY!! ******

Great Job Aboody for finishing kindergarten activities on Zearn now everyone should go on Clever for math path 20 minutes a day!

 hope you had a wonderful weekend and are ready to transition to our remote learning routines becoming summer learning routines with some fun mixed in!!! I cannot wait to see all of you TOMORROW (TUESDAY, JUNE 9th do the goodbye to OAKMAN parade at 10:30). STAY in your cars and keep moving as ALL OAKMAN TEACHERS will be standing outside of the school to wish you all a happy end of the school year and a safe, fun, healthy, and amazing summer vacation!!!!

Here are today’s ROAR announcements:

Here is today’s video from Mrs. Fowler explaining today’s assignments:

Here are the slides for today:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GS8vRCxZgHPXHOGP1xawUV5yXyfbK8y_aK3GENW6Hm4/edit?usp=sharing

Have a marvelous Monday!! I’m excited for tomorrow!!!!!! See you at 10:30 to wave goodbyes!!!

Love,

Mrs. Fowler

5th graders are you ready to celebrate your time at Oakman? On Tuesday morning at 9:30am, we are asking all 5th graders and their families to join in our Promotion Car Parade.

Teachers will be lined up in the playground parking lot and will wave and congratulate all passing cars and students. Teachers will be passing out 5th grade promotion certificates and our PTA will be passing out goodie bags to our 5th grade students.

Cars will travel NORTH on Orchard, pass the cafeteria and in and out of the parking lot. Please keep traffic moving and do not get out of your cars.

5th graders may return in the afternoon to pick up their lawn sign which will be displayed in front of the building on Chase.

AFTER the 5th grade Promotion Car Parade, we are inviting all grades from Pre-K to 4th for their End of Year Celebration Car Parade. Teachers will be in the playground parking lot to wave goodbye and wish everyone a wonderful summer!

Yesterday we 16/19- friends who completed their Thursday work and sent me their assignments picture. **Remember all work for the week (including Raz kids minutes should be completed by Friday night—TONIGHT!!!!) –Thank you!***

Let’s make OUR LAST FULL WEEK of kindergarten a week of EXTREMELY HIGH participation– Remember RAZ kids and Zearn Kindergarten level will needed to be completed to get ALL participation points (vs. most) !! You are also HIGHLY encouraged to spend some time each day on the wonderful FREE CLEVER resources available to you (Rainbow “e” and Reading Eggs, I added abcya.com this week too!)

****Remember: The learning continues!! Our last day of school is Thursday, June 11th. Final Report cards will be available online as well as mailed to your house.****

Here is our time logged in on RAZ KIDS yesterday- Thursday, June 4th.

Yesterday, we WERE WAY ABOVE BELOW our class goal of 20 minutes- Let’s keep our bar at or ABOVE the red line- that means 20 minutes today for EVERYONE!! 

TODAY let’s try for 19/19 ALL doing at least 20 minutes!!! Remember 20 minutes is a “special goal” because that is the stamina time 1st grade teachers expect for independent reader so let’s show Mrs. Fowler that you are READY FOR 1ST GRADE!!! 20 minutes!!! You can do it!!!

This week we have 17 of 19 friends already who have read for 60 minutes or more for the week!!!!! Special shout out to Abbas, Aboody, Ali A, Ali I, Amar, Lara, Melak, Omar, and Zahraa who all have over 2 hours plus for the week!!!  **Remember you must have at least 60 minutes by Friday to earn *ALL* participation points for this last full week before I start report cards! SO let’s make it a great one!!

Here is our activity tracker for ZEARN KINDERGARTEN LEVEL (make sure to go on for 20 minutes today!!!) Let’s see if Aboody can finish ALL of the activities for 0-20 so they can MOVE UP!! Only 5 lesson left to complete to move up to 1st grade. Way to go Aboody!!

Here are today ROAR announcements:

Here is today’s YOUTUBE video from Mrs. Fowler explaining today’s assignments: **Please watch FIRST* ***

Here are the slides that go with the video:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JGdpZ-uZVbWmq8fnPq1a0l-Bb4sT5ZPV7z7NjjXZYc4/edit?usp=sharing

Have a wonderful weekend!!! Let’s make our our last full week of kindergarten AMAZING— and finish strong, I will be working on report cards this weekend so make sure to get ALL your work completed!!!! Only 5 more days till summer, so keep working each day to get your work completed and let’s finish kindergarten STRONG!!! Wahooooo!! Almost summer, almost official 1st graders!!!!

Love,

Mrs. Fowler

Yesterday we 17 of 19- friends who completed their Wednesday work and sent me their assignments picture.  I also had friends send their Tueasday work pictures to get on track for our last full week!! **Remember all work for the week (including Raz kids minutes should be completed by Friday night!) –Thank you!

***If you are missing any assignments or are behind on RAZ kids, try to get on track TODAY and send me work pictures from yesterday AND today! Let’s make OUR LAST FULL WEEK of kindergarten a week of EXTREMELY HIGH participation– Remember RAZ kids and Zearn Kindergarten level will needed to be completed to get ALL participation points (vs. most) !! You are also HIGHLY encouraged to spend some time each day on the wonderful FREE CLEVER resources available to you (Rainbow “e” and Reading Eggs, I added abcya.com this week too!)

****Remember: The learning continues!! Our last day of school is Thursday, June 11th. Final Report cards will be available online as well as mailed to your house.****

Here is our time logged in on RAZ KIDS yesterday- Wednesday, JUNE 3rd

Yesterday, we WERE WAY ABOVE our class goal of 20 minutes- Let’s keep our bar at or ABOVE the red line- that means 20 minutes today for EVERYONE!! 

 Remember 20 minutes is a “special goal” because that is the stamina time 1st grade teachers expect for independent reader so let’s show Mrs. Fowler that you are READY FOR 1ST GRADE!!! 20 minutes!!! You can do it!!!

Yesterday we had 19 of 19 friends read for 40 minutes or more for the week. Special shout out to Ali Almemar, Ali Ismail, and Omar Alduais who all have over 3 hours this week minutes for the week!!! And if you didn’t get on yesterday, maybe try some extra time today…**Remember you must have at least 60 minutes by Friday to earn *ALL* participation points for this last full week before I start report cards! SO let’s make it a great one!!

Here is our activity tracker for ZEARN KINDERGARTEN LEVEL (make sure to go on for 20 minutes today!!!) Aboody worked on ZEARN Yesterday at the kindergarten numbers 0-20. Let’s see if he can finish ALL of the activities for 0-20 so they can MOVE UP!!

Here is our activity tracker for ZEARN KINDERGARTEN LEVEL (make sure to go on for 20 minutes today!!!) Aboody 14 activities to finish kindergarten level. Let’s see if he can finish ALL of the activities for 0-20 so they can MOVE UP!!

Everyone else is encouraged to do rainbow “e” math path or abcya.com on CLEVER instead of ZEARN. From now on I will only track kindergarten progress and not post 1st grade math progress in ZEARN— great work friends!! WOW! Wow! WOW! That we have so many friends working ABOVE GRADE LEVEL IN MATH!!! 

Here are today ROAR announcements:

Here is today’s YOUTUBE video from Mrs. Fowler explaining today’s assignments: **Please watch FIRST* ***

Here are the slides that go with the video:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uYMoob388NodNs-G_lrT_gpiOdXmtmDVtSbzDMjOPkI/edit?usp=sharing

Have a terrific Thursday!!! Let’s make our our last full week of kindergarten AMAZING!!!! Only 6 more days till summer, so keep working each day to get your work completed and let’s finish kindergarten STRONG!!! Wahooooo!! Almost summer, almost official 1st graders!!!!

Love,

Mrs. Fowler

Yesterday we 17 of 19- friends who completed their Tuesday work and sent me their assignments picture.  I also had friends send their Monday work pictures to get on track for our last full week!! –Thank you!

***If you are missing yesterdays or Mondays assignments or are behind on RAZ kids, try to get on track TODAY and send me work pictures from yesterday AND today! Let’s make OUR LAST FULL WEEK of kindergarten a week of EXTREMELY HIGH participation– Remember RAZ kids and Zearn Kindergarten level will needed to be completed to get ALL participation points (vs. most) !! You are also HIGHLY encouraged to spend some time each day on the wonderful FREE CLEVER resources available to you (Rainbow “e” and Reading Eggs, I added abcya.com this week too!)

****Remember: The learning continues!! Our last day of school is Thursday, June 11th. Final Report cards will be available online as well as mailed to your house.****

Here is our time logged in on RAZ KIDS yesterday- Tuesday, JUNE 2nd..

Yesterday, we WERE WAY ABOVE our class goal of 20 minutes- Let’s keep our bar at or ABOVE the red line- that means 20 minutes today for EVERYONE!! 

TODAY let’s try for 19/19 ALL doing at least 20 minutes!!! Remember 20 minutes is a “special goal” because that is the stamina time 1st grade teachers expect for independent reader so let’s show Mrs. Fowler that you are READY FOR 1ST GRADE!!! 20 minutes!!! You can do it!!!

Yesterday we had 16 of 19 friends read for 40 minutes or more for the week. Special shout out to Ali Almemar, Ali Ismail, and Melak Salman who all have over 2 hours this week minutes for the week!!! And if you didn’t get on yesterday, maybe try some extra time today…One RED zero…. **Remember you must have at least 60 minutes by Friday to earn *ALL* participation points for this last full week before I start report cards! SO let’s make it a great one!!

Here is our activity tracker for ZEARN KINDERGARTEN LEVEL (make sure to go on for 20 minutes today!!!) Aboody worked on ZEARN Yesterday at the kindergarten numbers 0-20. Let’s see if he can finish ALL of the activities for 0-20 so they can MOVE UP!!

Everyone else is encouraged to do rainbow “e” math path or abcya.com on CLEVER instead of ZEARN. From now on I will only track kindergarten progress and not post 1st grade math progress in ZEARN— great work friends!! WOW! Wow! WOW! That we have so many friends working ABOVE GRADE LEVEL IN MATH!!! 

Here are today ROAR announcements:

Here is today’s YOUTUBE video from Mrs. Fowler explaining today’s assignments: **Please watch FIRST* ***

Here are the slides that go with the video:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-aF1Ebf0q7oiUS5XulZJBNcn9ZCaD1j3RZBH1IRtYf0/edit?usp=sharing

Have a wonderful Wednesday!!! Let’s make our our last full week of kindergarten AMAZING!!!! Only 7 more days till summer, so keep working each day to get your work completed and let’s finish kindergarten STRONG!!! Wahooooo!! Almost summer, almost official 1st graders!!!!

Love,

Mrs. Fowler