Hello Oakman Lions,

Welcome back to school! The first day of school is tomorrow Monday, August 31st, 2020. As you know, school will be virtual. But the first week of school is a soft start which means everyday this week is a half day. During soft start, teachers will be scheduling one on one orientation.

Due to late staff realignment, you should expect to receive a phone call or email from your child’s teacher either today or tomorrow. Please dont panic if you haven’t received a call yet. Some families may have already received a phone and some may have not. Please note teachers will be reaching out and scheduling one on one appointments. Some families will have appointment times on Monday, some will have times on Tuesday and so on. Again, please dont panic! Please know we are working the best we can to give you information as we receive it.  We appreciate your patience.

Teachers will be scheduling appointment times for outdoor orientation. During your orientation time, you will receive learning materials for the new school year. Orientation will take place on the small playground and parking lot. Please keep an eye out for a phone call or an email from your child’s teacher. Also, please continue to check the school blog and your teachers blog for more information.

Chromebook distribution will begin tomorrow Monday, August 31st, 2020 starting at 9:00. The chromes will be distributed by the cafeteria door number 10. No appointment is needed. One chrome per student as quantities last.

Please come to meet your teacher only with an appointment. We must follow safety protocols. Parents and students must wear a mask. We look forward to having a great school year!

I am looking forward to seeing all of you!!! I will be making more calls tomorrow to schedule orientation times for the rest of the week!

Love,

Mrs. Rawson

Welcome to Kindergarten! My name is Mrs. Rawson  and I will be your child’s teacher this year. 

Although this year will look different than years past, the whole Oakman team and myself are committed to working together to make sure that your child has a positive educational experience. We will accomplish this through the use of strong curriculum, relationship building and consistent communication. Please know that I am here to support your child in any way I can to help make this a successful and fun year! We are a team, and we can do this together! 

Please read through the following information thoroughly to ensure a smooth start to the school year. 

• The first week of school: August 31st – September 3rd 8:55am to 12:00pm.
  • The primary goals this week are 

1) To get to know each student. 

2) Teach students and parents the new technology tools. 

3) Explain student and parent expectations.

4) Material pickup from school (books, chromes, supplies/supply lists)

• Attendance: Student attendance is mandatory and counted at all live sessions. If your child is ill or otherwise unable to attend a live session, please email the teacher as soon as possible so that they may be excused. If the teacher is not informed it will be an unexcused absence. Live sessions are an important part of your child’s learning and cannot be made up at a later time.
• Grading: Students will be graded using the Dearborn grading scale (1-4). Students will be expected to complete work on time and to the best of their ability. Please contact your child’s teacher right away if you are having trouble completing assignments or experiencing technical difficulties so that the Oakman team may be of assistance. 
• Family-School Communication:All school-wide communications will be posted regularly through:
• Oakman blog (click here to subscribe). It is highly recommended that all Oakman families subscribe to the school blog if they are not already.
• Email or robocalls
• Schoology
• District Blog (click here to subscribe)
• Please make sure that your contact information is updated and correct in Parent Connect to ensure that you receive all emails and phone calls.  You may also call Ms. Amged for help (9am-1pm).
• Here is a link to my blog: https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/rawsonm/ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE AS I WILL BE POSTING INFORMATION ON THE BLOG UNTIL SCHOOLOGY IS UP AND RUNNING! Thank you!!! 🙂

Student /Parent Orientation Oakman click on the link for the powerpoint presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WJe752Kg1MHn5OyHDZhkU3ATe55Rx9A-Wk02k3nVmVU/edit#slide=id.p

Thank you for being a partner in your child’s education! Please email me with any questions/concerns and I will get back to you! Email Address: rawsonm@dearbornmschools.org

Mrs. Rawson

 مدرسة أوكمان الإبتدائية 2020-2021

أهالي أوكمان الكرام، مرحباً

أرحب بكم في صف  الروضة  ,أنا إسمي  مسز فاولر  وسأكون معلمة ولدك لهذا العام

بالرغم من أن هذه السنة الدراسية تبدو لنا مختلفة عن السنوات الماضية،فأنا وكل الطاقم التعليمي في مدرسة أوكمان سنعمل معاًعلى تحقيق بيئة تعليمية إيجيابية لطلابنا،وسيتم ذلك من خلال منهج تعليمي قوي، وبناء طرق تواصل فعالة ومتواصلة بيننا

رجاءاً إعلموا انا هنا لدعم كل طالب في إي طريقة كانت من أجل جعل هذه السنة دراسية ممتعة وناجحة. أنا وأنتم فريق واحد وسنخوض هذه التجربة سوياً

الرجاء إقرأ هذه المعلومات بتفحص لتكون طريقنا سهلة من البداية

الإسبوع الأول في المدرسة (الكترونيا) : 31/آب – 3/أيلول نصف يوم دراسي من الساعة 8:55 صباحا حتى 12:00 ظهرا.

اهداف الاسبوع الاول: 1- التعرف على الطلاب.

                         2- تعليم الطلاب والأهل على طرق التكنولوجيا المستخدمة.

                        3- شرح وتوضيح ما هو متوقع من الطالب وولي الأمر

                       4- كيفية ووقت الحصول على اللوازم التعليمية من( كتب ،كروم بوكس ،وقائمة الأدوات المدرسية المطلوبة).

الحضور والغياب: حضور الطالب إجباري،ويؤخذ الحضور عند تواجد الطالب على الجهاز بالوقت المحدد من قبل المعلمة ،إذا كان الطالب مريض أو يتعذر عليه الحضور لأي سبب عليه إرسال أيميل الى المعلمة فورا حتى يسجل معذور في سجل الغياب وإذا لم يتم التواصل مع المعلمة سوف يسجل الطالب غائباً في سجل الغياب.والدروس التي تعرض بشكل مباشر من قبل المعلمة هي دروس مهمة ولا تسجل لذلك لا يستطيع الطالب الرجوع اليها لاحقاً.

العلامات: سيكون نظام الدرجات أو العلامات حسب ما هو مقرر في ميزان مقياس الدرجات في ديربورن من (1 الى 4 ) ويتوقع من الطلاب إكمال كل الوظائف المطلوبة بالوقت المحدد مع بذل قصارى جهدهم ،والرجاء التواصل مع المعلمة مباشرة عند وجود أي صعوبة في حل الواجب أو عند وجود أي مشكلة الكترونية حتى يتمكن الطاقم التعليمي في مدرسة أوكمان من تقديم المساعدة اللازمة.

طرق التواصل بين المدرسة /الأهل :  كل المعلومات العامة التي تتعلق بمدرسة أوكمان ستعرض بشكل اعتيادي على:

_ الصفحة الرئيسية لمدرسة أوكمان والتي نشجع كل الاهالي والطلاب على إتباعها بشكل دائم:   

 Oakman blog :https://oakman.dearbornschools.org

https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/pesci/wp-admin/post-new.php

 الايميل والرسائل الهاتفية.

_ سكولوجي (Schoology)

_ موقع مديرية ديربورن على الموقع التالي :

                                                      Dearbornschools.orgكما نرجوا منكم أن تتأكدوا من أن جميع المعلومات الموجودة على صفحة تواصل الأهل(بيرنت كونكت) صحيحة حتى نتواصل معكم بشكل أسهل.ويمكن التواصل مع (أمجاد)  لأي مساعدة مابين الساعة ال(:00 9 صباحا حتى 1:00 ظهرا).   نشكر تعاونكم معنا ومشاركتنا في هذه المسيرة التعليمية

Student /Parent Orientation Oakman click on the link for the powerpoint presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WJe752Kg1MHn5OyHDZhkU3ATe55Rx9A-Wk02k3nVmVU/edit#slide=id.p

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. Rawson!! **PLEASE watch to the end!!!*

The slides that go along with the video (including the special LAST picture of me with a *special* guest!!!(:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JW1b_R4frKdIUPS4WAI2ZvCcGOZ-vPOCeON7JaX6B1Y/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. Rawson

Today’s final ROAR Announcements for the year:

Mrs. Rawspn’s video explaining today’s assignments: (NOT my final video ;))— I will post my final video and farwell to you TOMORROW!!)

The slides that go along with the video:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ArYSQbVuxyUaTr1veS5lM5zFEu2v0mmpJDyNPfXa-fI/edit?usp=sharing

Have a wonderful Wednesday!!! This afternoon (after 3pm) severe storms are possible. Talk to your family today and make a plan of where you should go if tornado sirens are heard and/or a tornado warning is called. Be safe and I look forward to seeing your work pictures today!! You all are amazing HARD workers and I am SO PROUD of each of you!!!

Love,

Mrs. Rawson

Today’s ROAR Announcements:

Mrs. Rawspn’s video explaining today’s assignments:

The slides that go along with the video:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DLlP_99sbWhBuMni1A9FKF__x2OIVjtvfdRt8lzWjFE/edit?usp=sharing

See you today at the drive by Parade!!! 9:30 is 5th graders and 10:30 is when all other grades can come!!

See you soon!

Love,

Mrs. Rawson

I am sooooooo happy to report  HIGH assignment participation from last week!!! Monday 19/22 Tuesday, 20/22, Wednesday 17/22, and Thursday 18/22, and Friday 16/22 students of completed work by sending my daily pictures on on the REMIND APP!!!  We had 2 friends complete “some” of the work this week, 6 friends complete “most” work, and 14 friends complete ALL OF THE WORK THIS WEEK– daily assignments and 60+ minutes for the week on RAZ kids!! Eow!! 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 OMAR, WISSAM, AND REHAM!!! We had 17 of 22 friends read for over 60 minutes (1 hour) this week. Hip Hip Hooray for Reham, Beyan, and Omar for reading over 3 hours this past week— wow!!! AND BIG SHOUT OUT TO RIDHA WHO READ FOR 6 HOURS 8 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!! ******

I 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. Rawson explaining today’s assignments:

Here are the slides for today:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ocd2BS_F0LiM44YnRIKsifoB_R9EqHucTnkIUi4o8Q8/edit?usp=sharing

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

Love,

Mrs. Rawson

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!

Yesterday we 19 of 22- 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 a link to your pictures from remote learning!! Let’s keep up our HIGH participation!!! I am soooo proud of ALL of you!! Parents and families included!! We are a TEAM!!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rT2eBNTArmMbMl9L-JrCrgtSfGbVyzDs?usp=sharing

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

Yesterday, we WERE 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 22/22 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. Rawson that you are READY FOR 1ST GRADE!!! 20 minutes!!! You can do it!!!

This week we have 11 of 22 friends already who have read for 60 minutes or more for the week!!!!! Special shout out to Amin, Reham, Ridha, Ilyas, Zakariya, Reham, Sophia, Beyan, Yasmin, Wissam, Nora and Yahya who all have over 60 minutes 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!!!) We had 3/7 friends work on ZEARN Yesterday at the kindergarten numbers 0-20. Let’s see if we can have more friends finish ALL of the activities for 0-20 so they can MOVE UP!!  Amin is soooo close to finishing and being able to move up to 1st grade ZEARN and then now able to instead go on to CLEVER and do math online at rainbow “e” or abcya.com Let’s see if you can finish today, maybe Yasmin, Nora, Serena, Mila, Rawan, and/or Ahmed will finish today too??? Or hopefully by the end of the week— you are soooo close friends!! You can do it!

Way to go Yahya, Zakaryia, Reham, Dawoud, Wissam, Ridha, Malak, Beyan, Ilyas, Manissa, Omar, Ali E, Ali S, Sophia, and Ali Z!!! These friends who have been working on FIRST GRADE MATH are now 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. Rawson explaining today’s assignments: **Please watch FIRST* ***

Here are the slides that go with the video:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ks5cQ_hP3lvaiNB_6TmJrPZ3yzphXJq5dzqBvFNJRRs/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. Rawson