Monday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log, spelling menu, math HW 12:  67-72: 1-5

Tuesday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log, spelling menu

Wednesday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log, spelling menu, math HW13:75-80: 1-6

Thursday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log, math HW14: 81-86: 1-5

Early Release Tuesday and NO SCHOOL on Friday

All 4th and 5th Graders!

If you are interested in attending any of the last 3 Green team meetings, please fill out the attendance form.  You do NOT have to be currently enrolled in the Green Team.

Since I will need to purchase supplies for some of the meetings I will need to see how many will be attending. Please answer the 3 questions about attendance so that I can buy supplies and be ready.  If you have been interested in the Green Team and would like to participate for the last 3 meetings you are welcome to join us.  Especially for our field trip, we need a minimum of 10 students to have the trip.

Green Team Meeting Attendance Survey  – NEW working link to the survey

4/16 – Earth Day Clean up and planting

5/7 – Nature journaling with Tristan’s mom

5/21 – Trip to Pond Exploration (if we have at least 10 students)

We are beginning a new project on National and Michigan State Parks. 2nd – 5th grades will be participating in this project. Students will research a chosen park. They will be creating a trifold board and an artifact to present at a school wide fair on May 14th. The timeline of things that are due is coming home today. 4th grade students will be working on this mainly in school but it will be sent home on Fridays if not completed in class to be completed on the weekends, be sure to send it back on Mondays. The trifold board and artifact will be completed at home. An artifact can be anything that represents your child’s national park.

The information has been added to a National Parks page found at the top. Look for updated information there.

Here is a link to the National and State Parks project.

Report cards are coming home today. Sign and the return the EMPTY envelope please. (*** Just an added note about report cards- the standards I grade each marking period can be different so it is possible to go up or down grade wise in an area based on what I assessed. For example- Marking Period 1– “Numbers and Operations/Base 10” was graded on number lines and place value adding and subtracting where Marking Period 2 — was using the eureka math strategies we used like making a ten, compensation, and adding like units. Your child could have earned a 2 in marking period 1 but dropped to a 3 in marking period 2 because different standards were assessed. This goes for the ELA standards as well. I choose different standards during the marking periods based on what Benchmark/Eureka is focusing on in those units.)

This week, our reading logs are Cause and Effect, which goes with our unit 8 reading in class. Your child can read anything for their reading log, have your child let me know if they need reading material. We are starting unit 8 in ELA, which is also nonfiction about earthquakes and volcanoes, This week in Science, we are continuing with Waves. Next week, in Social Studies we will be starting and working on Economics

This week we will starting Topic B in Module 4, we are working on equivalent fractions. More information is available on the Math Blog page.

This month our SEL topic is Perseverance please check out the details on the blog page which you can find above. If you have any questions, send me a message.

Monday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Summary Reading Log, spelling menu. HW 7: 41-46: 1-3

Tuesday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log, spelling menu, math HW8: 47-50: 1-3

Wednesday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log, spelling menu, math HW9: 51-56: 1-3

Thursday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log, spelling menu , HW:10: 57-60: 1-3

Friday – Read for 10 minutes, fill out Reading Log if needed, Math HW11: 61-66:1-4

Early Release Tuesday

We have our Buddy Classroom Field trip today! Remember to drop off your child at Howe like normal and meet us at Henry Ford Museum clocktower entrance at 9:25am if you are a chaperone! Students who requested bagged lunches for the field trip will have them with them. If your child is not attending the field trip these are the lunch options at school: 1st Choice: Fish Patty Sandwich 2nd Choice: Hummus and Pita Have a great Friday!

Thursday, April 3, Annual Orchestra Field trip from 9:30 – 11:30 AM.

Please wear a black t-shirt so we all match.

We will be back at school for lunch and regular curriculum.

20 Reasons why Music is Educational

Hi Families – We have a busy week of trips planned. Here is the information you need:

Wednesday April 2nd – Outdoor Adventure Center

• Wear your Howe School Shirt or red shirt
• Please pack a nut-free lunch for you and your child
• Please arrive at Howe School at 8:20.
• Check in with your teacher and then wait in the cafeteria.
• Two parents are needed to watch the front and back doors for the bus. When it arrives let the classrooms know where the bus is.
• We will fit as many chaperones as we can on the bus, however we have quite a few chaperones and the rest will need to drive.
• If driving the address is Outdoor Adventure Center, Globe Trading Company Building, 1801 Atwater St, Detroit, MI 48207
• We will return to school around 1:30.

Friday 4/4/25 Henry Ford Museum Trip

We are so excited about Fridays all school field trip! We wanted to update you on the final plan so we all know what to do….

• If possible please wear a Howe school shirt OR red shirt so we can easily find each other throughout the day.  
• Please drop your child off at Howe at the normal time (8:20 am)
• Students will board the buses and leave around 9:15 am. 
• All chaperones will be meeting us at the clocktower entrance benches at 9:30 am. Your child will have the tickets for you both. 
• Teachers will hand off the students to chaperones and then people may begin entering the museum. 
• Once inside make sure you are walking around and finding other Howe friends. Work on completing the scavenger hunt!
• At 12:30 pm please meet in Lunchroom A. (This is in the hallway by Michigan Cafe).
• The only place to purchase food is Plum Market. This is on the other side of the museum so you will have to carry the food over to the lunchroom if that is what you choose. 
• *At 1:30 pm please meet back at the clocktower entrance READY TO LEAVE. (*If you want to sign out your child and not have them come back to Howe please come around 1:20 so we can sign you out before we load buses.)
• All students not signed out by a parent will be taken back to Howe and dismissed like normal at 3:20 pm. 

Please let your teacher know if you have any questions! We look forward to this experience with all of our Howe students. 

​Read for Eid logs and donations are due by tomorrow if you participated! 

~PTA

If you are going on the Field Trip tomorrow, wear RED!

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.

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.