Reminders:

Monday: Read for 20 minutes, Math HW2: 15-16: 1-5

Tuesday: Read for 20 minutes, Math HW3: 21-22: 1-4

Wednesday: Read for 20 minutes, Math HW4: 27-28: 1-5

Thursday: Read for 20 minutes, Math HW5: 33:1-4

Remind your child not to share food in school please. This is for safety purposes.

No spelling this week, we completing some assignments.

Dress like a book character on Tuesday!

Yearbook Order Link

Field trip to The Cranbrook Institute of Science is Friday, March 21st – Reminders:

-Please pack a lunch (even if you are fasting, many fasters are asking for food by afternoon) If you would like to order a sunbutter and jelly sandwich from the cafeteria to bring please let your teacher know by Tuesday.

-Please wear red – School t-shirt would be great (this color is easy for chaperones and teachers to see)

-Mr. Zamora’s Group is Group A, Ms. Polster’s Group is Group B, Mrs. Keebler’s Group is Group C, Know your group letter.

We have many chaperones and limit space on the bus so chaperones might need to drive. Students will ride on the bus. If you need to leave early for any reason please check out with your teacher and let them know you are leaving. You may only leave with your own child.

Friday – Read for 20 minutes, Reading Log, M4HW3: 9-10:1-5

We got behind this week, so this is the math homework for this weekend.

March is reading month and the students have a choice of which reading log they would like to use to show they are reading 20 minutes nightly. The reading logs must be brought in each Monday.

Chess club will now meet on Thursdays after they eat during lunch time at 12:50 PM. No more morning meet times.

Summer Program Application

Hard Copies of Summer Program Application are in office too.

This Week’s

Greetings,

On Tuesday, March 11 at 8:30 am we will host an informational meeting regarding the incident and the threat to Howe School at the Michael Berry Campus. Danielle Elzayat, Director of Safety and Security will be here with information and to address any concerns. The meeting will take place in the Lecture Hall. Please enter through Door #1, our security officer will be there to greet and guide you.  

Thank you.

Amal Alcodray

Director of the Michael Berry Campus: Career Technical Education, Magnet High School, Dearborn Center for Math Science and Technology, STEM Middle School, Howe Montessori and Center Based Education and Dearborn Public Virtual School Grades 1-12

Monday – Read for 20 minutes, Reading Log, spelling menu, Module 3 Assessment Review

Tuesday – EARLY RELEASE: Read for 20 minutes, Reading Log, spelling menu

Wednesday – Read for 20 minutes, Reading Log, spelling menu, M4HW1: 9-10:1-5

Thursday – Read for 20 minutes, Reading Log, spelling menu, M4HW2: 15-16: 1-5

Friday – Read for 20 minutes, Reading Log, M4HW3: 21-22: 1-4

We are reading about the Transcontinental Railroad for the next three weeks in class. This week we are reading about how the railroad changed the lives of the Native Americans. We will be creating our own stories of working on the railroad for writing. We are looking at how sound energy travels in waves in Science. We will be assessing Module 3 tomorrow and beginning Module 4 on Wednesday: Fractions.

Homophones: bare, soar, site, bear, sore, sight, plain, seen, threw, plane, scene, through

March is reading month and the students have a choice of which reading log they would like to use to show they are reading 20 minutes nightly. The reading logs must be brought in each Monday.

4th Grade News

Monday – Read for 20 minutes, Reading Log, spelling menu, Math HW21:137-142: 1-5

Tuesday – EARLY RELEASE: Read for 20 minutes, Reading Log, spelling menu, Math HW22:143-148: 1-3

Wednesday – Read for 20 minutes, Reading Log, spelling menu, HW23: 149-154: 1-4

Thursday – Read for 20 minutes, Reading Log, spelling menu, HW24: 155-160: 1-3

Friday – Read for 20 minutes, Reading Log, MODULE 3 REVIEW

We are reading about the Transcontinental Railroad for the next three weeks in class. This week we are reading about the Chinese Railroad workers. We will be creating our own stories of working on the railroad for writing. We are looking at how sound energy travels in waves in Science. We are dividing with numbers that result in whole-number quotients and remainders. The students recognize the remainder as the amount remaining after finding a whole-number quotient, and they solve word problems that require interpretation of the whole-number quotient and remainder in math this week. We are finishing up the Module and testing next week.

Prefixes: intertwine, propel, superintendent, supervise, transmit, interval, proclaim, superficial, supersonic, transfer, transport, proceeding

March is reading month and the students have a choice of which reading log they would like to use to show they are reading 20 minutes nightly. The reading logs must be brought in each Monday.

This Week

Monday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Summary Reading Log, spelling menu, Math HW18: 1-6

Tuesday – NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

Wednesday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log, spelling menu, HW19:123-128:1-7

Thursday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log, spelling menu, HW20: 129-134: 1-7

Friday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log if needed

/ou/ and /oi/: about, choice, grouchy, loudly, broiling, disappoint, avoid, frowned, joined, slouch, corduroy, scour

We are reading about the Transcontinental Railroad for the next three weeks in class. The students are summarizing for their reading logs. We will be working with chronological order in text structures for writing. We are looking how sound energy travels in waves in Science. We are using conversion tables and number lines  convert units of time and customary units of weight and liquid volume to smaller units math this week.

Permission Slips Due!

Please turn in your Henry Ford Museum field trip permission slip today.

*If a parent has a membership you do NOT have to pay the $12. Copy or send me a picture of your membership card and keep that as your form of payment. 

I understand many of us have been to the museum before BUT we are doing as one WHOLE school with the Special Education students. We will be buddying up and doing a scavenger hunt with our buddies. The museum is the most accommodating for the whole population for our school.

This Week

This week our Reading Logs are fiction. I would like the students to choose a story or stories from Benchmark to read. the students may access Benchmark on Clever, assignments pops up and Confronting Challenges the magazine will be available. It will read aloud for your student if you want, I have also offered paper copies to those students who wanted/needed a paper copy. I would like the students to choose the following stories to read: Sugar Maple and the Woodpecker, The Valiant Little Tailor, Chi Li and the Serpent, Hercules Quest, Kate Shelley: A Young Hero, and Paul Bunyan. All are wise tales that teach a lesson.

Monday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Summary Reading Log, spelling menu, Math HW13:1-2

Tuesday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log, spelling menu Math HW14:91-96:1-4

Wednesday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log, spelling menu, HW15:97-102:1-4

Thursday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log, spelling menu, HW16: 103-108: 1-3

Friday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log if needed, HW17: 109-113: 1-5

Early Release Tuesday

Valentine’s Day on Friday: students can bring candy or valentines to share with everyone in class. we have 18 students.

Hello Families!

We are excited to announce we are having a Buddy Classroom field trip. Montessori classrooms and lower elementary special education classrooms will be visiting The Henry Ford Museum on Friday, April 4th.

A few notes:

*All paperwork is coming home in your child’s folder today!

*All Kindergarten/1st graders will need an adult chaperone. 

*Students will come to school then ride the bus to the museum. All chaperones will meet us at the museum. 

*No siblings allowed. 

*All paperwork and money is Due on Friday, February 21st. 

(firm deadline– we need to give numbers to them and get a check before spring break and that takes a few weeks