Dear Families,

Thank you all once again for volunteering to chaperone and drive us to the IMAX! We had to to a lottery to make sure we had enough seats for all the classes and people. Therefore, each family chaperoning will only send one adult to the theater. Here are the names of students whose parents will be joining us. Again, if your name was not picked please feel free to still join us afterwards for pizza! If there is an * next to your name please kindly pop in the office to have your insurance up to date on file with the secretary and/or ichat current!

Chaperones Driving AND Attending Polar Express:

Andrew’s Parent*

Abigail’s mom

Reeve’s mom*

Peyton’s dad*

Nico’s mom

Isaha’s mom*

Mohamad’s mom*

Jillian’s mom*

Anthony’s mom*

Luciana’s dad

Noah’s mom

Dear Parents,

Thank you all for getting all your little penguin’s payments and permission slips in last Friday and for all the parents who volunteered to drive to the IMAX! Because the theater is not large enough to accommodate all four classes with unlimited parents we will have to do a lottery for parent drivers/chaperones! We will draw names this afternoon and list the parent chaperones chosen on the blog later tonight. For those of you not chosen we are sorry, but we’d still love to have you join us afterwards in the classroom for our pizza lunch 🙂

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ross and Class 🙂

PS. Tonight you will get a note if you are a chaperone. There are MANY parents that need to pop in the office and show your insurance is up to date in order to remain as a chaperone. Thank you!

Field Trip to the IMAX: If your child has a little note in their folder tonight it will let you know if there is anything they still need to turn in for our fiend trip! Tomorrow everything is due so it can be turned in.

Canned Food Drive: We are in SECOND PLACE so far for the canned food drive woohoo! The class is SO excited and we THANK YOU for your generosity this week! Tomorrow is your last chance to donate and possibly win a pizza party for the class so keep the cans coming!

Popcorn: Tomorrow is popcorn Friday so make sure to bring those quarters at 8:35am!

Dear Families,

        On Friday,December 13th, the kindergarten and first graders will be going to The Henry Ford IMAX theater to see The Polar Express! We will be leaving school by 9:00am and returning around 12:30pm. We will then order pizza for lunch in our classrooms. Students and parents dressed in pajamas will get free popcorn! The cost is $14 per student and includes admission, a drink, and money for us to order a pizza lunch at school for after the movie. Cost for parents is $11. We will need parent drivers for the trip. Please let us know if you can drive and how many students you can take. Please return form and money by Friday, Nov.22nd because The Henry Ford needs our payment three weeks in advance. Thank you in advance for your help to make our trip memorable!

*If you plan to be a chaparone, please make sure you have a current ichat AND insurance check on file with the office! Thank you 🙂

Homework Update: This week Ms. Shapas and I have decided not to send home a homework packet. Instead we sent home two geometry math games 🙂 We are not on schedule to begin Module Three until later this week. Because next week is a short two day school week we will send home the first seven lessons next week. Thank you for all you do!

Mrs. Ross and Class 🙂

Dear Families,

I Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Thank you all for being so flexible with conferences last week 🙂 I only have one more conference to make up tomorrow night, but I will be at school the whole time should you need anything! Here is a look at our week.

Important Dates:

Conferences: 11/18 last date for snow day makeups

Homework: This week your child will receive a new homework packet and math game to play about geometry shapes!

Library Check Out: This Tuesday we will visit the media center and check out new books! (Last Tuesday we had a snow day)

Popcorn: This Friday we will have popcorn sales so bring your quarters!

Language Arts: This week our Narrative focus will be the book “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” We will focus on retelling the story with key details. We will place ourselves in the story again and give an appropriate reaction to the actions/decisions of Goldilocks and share different ideas about how we could write an alternate ending (just like we did with the three billy goats Gruff!). We will cont. writing our alternate endings to the Three Billy Goats Gruff stories and then write new endings to Goldilocks stories. We are going to be SO busy!

Sight Words: this, little Letters: Focus on Letter Formation (Reading Groups,writing workshop)

Math: We will continue our work in Module 2 on shapes!

Science/Social Studies: We will be focusing on our Weather Unit. This week we will be “weather watchers” and chart to compare temperature, wind, precipitation and clothing worn in various temperatures. In social studies we will discuss and work in small groups to sort and glue pictures on t-charts that show basic Needs and Wants. Please help us out by cutting out pictures from magazines and newspapers that show needs and wants (please send them in ziplock baggies marked needs/wants). Thank you in advance for your support!

Dear Families,

We have been asked to pass along the following announcement from Mrs. Grahl Thank you in advance for helping DuVall battle hunger:

This year’s fifth annual Battling Against Hunger drive is a cooperative effort between Dearborn, Edsel Ford and Fordson high schools, with help from the elementary and middle schools that feed into those buildings.We will be helping Edsel Ford with collections  The drive runs from Nov. 18-22nd. The goal is to collect 30,000 canned goods for Zaman International and $7,600 for the Amity Foundation. The class that collects the most cans at DuVall will win a pizza party. Thanks for your help!

I hope you all enjoyed sleeping in and staying warm on our snow day yesterday! Due to cancelled conferences last night don’t worry, I will take the parents and give you a new time in an opening for Thursday 11/14. If there are more that need to be rescheduled we can personally talk from there. Thank you all for your patience and help making sure we meet to discuss your darlings progress.

Have a wonderful day 🙂

Dear families,

It was a pleasure meeting with many of you last week to discuss your child’s progress. I am looking forward to meeting with the rest of our wonderful families this week! Here is a look at our week ahead. If there are any changes or additions to our week I will let you know as soon as possible.

Important Dates:

Conferences: 11/12 and 11/14 are the next two days of conferences. 🙂

Homework: This week your child will receive a new homework packet and math game to play about geometry shapes!

Library Check Out: This Tuesday we will visit the media center and check out new books!

Popcorn: This Friday we will have popcorn sales so bring your quarters!

Language Arts: This week our Narrative focus will be the book “Three Billy Goats.” We will focus on retelling the story with key details. We will place ourselves in the story and give an appropriate reaction to the troll and discuss ways we would convince the troll to let us cross the bridge.

Sight Words: here, you Letters: Focus on Letter Formation (Reading Groups)

Math: We will continue our work in Module 2 on shapes!

Science/Social Studies: We will be focusing on our Weather Unit and Needs and Wants

Dear Families,

I hope this post finds you dry and warm and enjoying the weekend with family. I wanted to thank you all so much for helping us make our Halloween party such a success last week! Here is what is happening in our classroom this week along with important reminders as we begin the month of November! Time is flying by and we are working so hard.

Important Dates:

Tuesday: Tuesday November 5th students have no school

Conferences: Reminder slips will go home tomorrow for your conference dates. They begin this Thursday. If your child does not have an appointment yet so worries! I will make sure to sign everyone up, please let me know if you have a conflict or change in your schedule and we will make sure to reschedule it. Looking forward to sharing how much your little penguin has grown!

Homework: Homework packets will be collected tomorrow and the next 5 lessons will be sent home 🙂 In addition, your child will receive a new homework game to add to their binder! Thank you again for all your ongoing support with the packets. Each week when your child returns them they will get a check mark. If they reach four in the month they will receive a penguin point! 

Popcorn: Popcorn is on this week so feel free to send in your quarters!

Language Arts: This week our theme will be about scarecrows. Students will identify setting, make connections and place themselves in the story and share their opinions. Students will recall important details from the story as we work on retelling. Our books will be “Scarecrow” by Cynthia Rylant and “The Little Scarecrow Boy” by Margaret Wise Brown. In addition, we will focus on the following CCSS Phonics: substituting beginning sounds to make new sounds, blending syllables (onset and rhyme), isolating/providing final sound in words.

Poem: “I’m a Little Scarecrow”

Sight Words: for, are Letters: Uu, Ll

Writing: (Narrative Focus) This week we will continue writing through very detailed pictures that include color and labels. We will also begin our next unit in writing that will take us beyond labeling beginning sounds! It’s going to be such hard work and fun I can’t wait to see how much we grow this next marking period!

Math: We will begin a new Module in math this month about geometry. This will be a short 10 lesson module, however we will go back to another geometry unit later in the year.

Science and Social Studies: In science we will begin new mysteries about “Weather”. In social studies we will begin learning about Needs and Wants.