Dear families. In order to access our google classroom you will need to be logged in as your child with their student ID and password through Clever. The student ID is located on your child’s report card (if you email me I can send it to you!) The ID is the student number @dearbornschools.org and their password is their birthday (for example 06271979). So it would look something like this I will make up a pretend log in number…
Username: 27564857@dearbornschools.org
Password: 06271979
Here is a video that one of the teachers made me to show how to log in as if you were a student trying to log into Mrs. Ross’s google classroom for the first time! I hope this helps. I have already invited everyone manually, so the students will just need to go from here! Thank you all for your help and hard work. Together we will get through this and I can upload so much more for you! Please personally email me if you need log in info so that I can keep your child’s information private.
Greetings from home to my darling students and their wonderful families! I have written another language arts lesson plan for you to use for the week with a new trade book! I hope your children enjoy this one it is very cute. I love the theme of sharing. With us all at home together with our loved ones, sharing is very important right now! I have also created our google classroom yay! It is a work in progress, but this very lesson can be accessed there as well. You just need to type in the classroom code to join! As always I will continue providing the language arts materials and you can use them. Although I don’t need to collect anything, I loved the cute pics you shared of you little penguins working! I hope it’s ok to share them on this blog. I’ll put them under a new post! Thank you again for all your hard work and support during this time. Please send my love to your children and let them know how much I miss them! In addition, Mrs. Pelaccio sent an email to LLI students last week about joining her blog. I am going to post her blog address here JIC anyone else wants to access more LA resources! No pressure of course just more resources for you. Here is here address: https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/pelaccio/
Mrs. Ross’s Google Class Code: itm6eu4
Spelling word Family -en: Ben, den, hen, Ken, men, pen, ten
Ideas to practice word families: rainbow writing, pyramid writing, roll and write, dry erase markers, magnetic letters, shaving cream tracing, q-tip painting words
Close Read Text: Too Many Carrots (by Katy Hudson)
Week Standard Objective: I can ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Weeks “I Can” statements:
I can identify the reason why the author wrote the story.
I can explain why it is important to share
Week Theme: Sharing
Essential Questions: Can be asked orally. Remember to encourage your child to respond with complete sentences.
Q: What was the author’s purpose for writing the story?
Q: Why is it important to share?
Comprehension Strategy: Connections, Cause and Effect
-independent practice connections: Illustrate a food that you like a lot.
-independent practice cause and effect: Rabbit brought lots of carrots to his friends’ homes. What was the effect of his action?
Story Elements: Characters (name the characters in this story, identify the main character of the story)
Phonemic Awareness Objective: Substituting Final Sounds
-State the word to your child: “I’m going to say a word, and you will change the sound at the end of the word. Then you will tell me the new word!” Do about 5 words per day!
example: kit- take away the /t/ put in a /d/……..kid
words: -kit/d/, bet/g/, rob/d/, hip/t/, tub/g/, bag/d/, leg/t/, sit/x/, lot/g/, cup/t/, lid/p/, rob/t/, big/t/, kid/t/, tub/b/, dog/t/, web/t/, six/p/, hut/g/, him/t/, pen/t/, sick/x/, med/g/, but/g/, wed/b/
*2 Journal Writing Ideas: Illustrate a food that you like and write about it, How would you help rabbit?
*Poem: In My Garden (I read the poem each day with the students identifying sight words we know as well as rhyming words)
I went into my garden.
Oh, what did I spy?
A tiny bunny rabbit
had caught my little eye.
It pulled on a carrot.
It dragged it far away.
I hope that little carrot
made that bunny’s day.
*Below I have typed out a suggested flow of the concepts above. This is how I break it up so that each daily lesson is not too overwhelming and too long!
Monday:
Students listen to the read aloud for enjoyment. Build an interest in the topic (sharing) and expand on their prior knowledge. Make a bubble chart on paper small or large and circle the theme word sharing. Then around it write phrases and words that have to do with the main theme of sharing. State the essential questions for the students to ponder. Than after reading the text, revisit the bubble chart and add any NEW ideas your child has about sharing! Use could use an alternate marker color to note the new learning.
Tuesday: Ask and Answer simple recall questions/Vocabulary Day
1.Who is the author/illustrator?
2.What is their job?
What happened in the beginning, middle, end of the story?
Vocabulary: Reread/Listen to the text., stopping to address unknown vocabulary words. Review and discuss essential questions. Have students practice the action to remember the word. Vocabulary words to expand on: collected (collected, burrowed, crowded, tortoise, collapsed )
Wednesday:
Reread parts of the text that lend themselves to the text-dependent questions. Review and discuss vocabulary and essential questions.
On pages 2-3, there are signs posted in the garden. What do those signs tell us that the words in the story don’t?
On page 5, why do you think the author wrote the word “BIG” in all capital letters.
What kind of friend is Tortoise? Provide evidence orally to support your answer. (Students can look in book to point out evidence and orally explain.)
How do you think Tortoise felt after falling down the hill with Rabbit? Provide evidence to support your answer.
How did Rabbit’s feelings about the carrots change from the beginning of the story to the end? Provide evidence to support your answer.
Thursday:
Reread the story and review this week’s vocabulary words and act them out. Part Two: Read an alternate book about sharing. Make a connection between the two stories. In addition, answer the questions:
What does this story make you think of?
What is your favorite part in the story? Why?
Friday:
Theme study wrap up with comprehensive discussion and craft.
Review: vocabulary words and essential questions.
Discuss: Wrap up the week’s theme with a discussion. What was the author’s purpose for writing this story? Why is it important to share?
Journal Prompt here: How would YOU help Rabbit?
Theme craft idea: Have students create their own rabbit craft with construction paper, crayons, cardboard, crayons, sandwich brown bags.
Good afternoon to my darling students and their families! I have been asked by three of our teachers that work with your students to place their iblog addresses on here for you to join if your child sees them during our regularly scheduled days. The ECS Mrs. Pelaccio will be posting resources that are great for her LLI (language and literacy instructional) groups and has personally email these families. Please check your emails and subscribe to her blog!
I hope this message finds you all well! Thank you so much for the feedback and pictures of your darlings working so hard and having fun working on their personal goals like riding their bikes without training wheels! Way to go my little penguins. I miss you so much.
Mrs. Ross 🙂
*Ms. Grammel: If your children are receiving Speech/Language services, please join the Duvall Elementary Speech/Language Remind group: remind.com/join/duvallel
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I hope you’re all well. I tried uploading a video of myself reading the book of the week yesterday, however it was too large for this site 🙁 I tried to make a FB page just for our classroom but it was showing up on my normal feed and I am still concerned with copyright issues so I am going to continue to learn how to use google classroom! There I won’t have to worry about all that and only our small group would be using it. I thank you all once again for your patience as I learn and extend my own knowledge. Hope you’re all having a great day with family. Stay safe!
Dearborn Schools offering free breakfast and lunch pickup for students at six sites
Dearborn Public Schools is offering free pickup lunch and breakfast for students while school is closed for the mandatory shut down over the next three weeks.
Families will be able to stop in and pick up a bag with both breakfast and lunch for each child in the family. Pickups will run daily from 10 a.m. to noon starting tomorrow, March 17 at Fordson, Edsel Ford and Dearborn high schools, McCollough-Unis, Salina Intermediate, and Woodworth Middle School.
Signage at each site will direct parents and students where to enter the building. Food will be near entrances to minimize the amount of time community members spend in the facilities.
Please note, meals are available to anyone age 18 and younger. Students do not need to be present, and the Dearborn School student does not need to attend at that building. A designated person can collect meals for multiple children. Meals for Saturday and Sunday can be picked up on Friday.
The program will allow the District’s 20,700 students to continue to have access to healthy food. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last week ordered all Michigan schools closed from March 16 through April 3 to slow the spread of novel coronavirus and cases of COVID-19. Dearborn Schools is scheduled for spring break April 6 to 10, so school will not resume in the District until April 13.
The grab-and-go meals will be served at least through April 3.
Superintendent Glenn Maleyko praised the District’s food service team for quickly implementing this drastic change in service to meet the needs of families.
“We appreciate the patience of our families and community as we all try to adjust to this sudden change from closing schools,” Dr. Maleyko said. “More than three quarters of our students qualify for free or reduced priced school meals. We realize this food is important to our families, many of whom may be facing additional financial hardships from the sudden economic changes related to COVID-19.”
Check the Dearborn Public Schools website at www.dearbornschools.org for any updates or changes to the meal program or for other issues regarding the school closure.
Hoping this message finds you well! I just wanted to let you all know that I have made a package in a manila envelop for each child tonight and I will be coming by to drop them off. I will be leaving them in your mailboxes or your front door. I just wanted to make sure I let you know so that you are not surprised lol! I hope all this stuff helps fill some of your time and child’s subject matter. Please know that anything you are able to complete does not need to be returned to me, however if your child wants to snap a pic and share with me I’d be so glad to see it! Enjoy and please let me know if you have any questions.
Hoping you are all well and safe. I am thinking of you all and miss the students very much. Please give them my love and tell them I am thinking of them and I am here if you should need anything. I thought I would do a few more things to help our little ones with math and literacy. I have entered all the students into Zern and will put their usenames/passwords for you to log in. You will only have to enter the class code once the first time you enter the site. IPlease remember that your child has been bringing home math games the whole year and these will REALLY come in handy now for skill review! In addition, I will write up a lesson plan for you for the week to help you with reading ideas and you can follow the ideas at home. 🙂
Mr. Attee just posted this on his DuVall Website as well!
Liberty Automotive in West Dearborn is donating laptops to families who need one to assist our efforts in remote learning. Please contact them if you need a laptop! Their email address is libertyauto313@gmail.com and phone number is (313)278-3610. They have a limited number so please contact them right away if you need a laptop.
Students Needing Computers During this Time:
Comcast is offering free Internet access to low-income families for help with the remote learning that will be taking place at home. Click here for more . A direct link to the Comcast website to sign up is located here.
Class Code for Zern: DX7Q7F All Passwords: 123
All Usernames are very simple: simply type your child’s first and last name with no space and a capital for the first letter of each. For example Abigail’s username is: AbigailBerhe and her password is: 123
*Only altered usernames: PeytonFullerton2 and MiaSmith6
Spelling Word Family: ap word family (cap, gap, lap, map, nap, rap, sap, tap) blends to challenge child: trap, flap
*ideas for learning and working with word families: rainbow writing them, pyramid writing them, dry erase markers on white board/ziplock baggie, magnetic letters, string, play-Doh, use each one in a sentence.
Language Arts Focus Book : Strictly No Elephants by: Lisa Mantachev
(go to youtube and type in title with words read aloud and you’ll find it)
Objectives: I can ask and answer questions about key details in a text
I can statements: I can identify the main characters in a story . I can determine the problem and how it was solved
Essential Questions: Who were the main characters in the story? What was the problem and how was it solved?
Phonemic Awareness Objective: Medial Sounds (Say a word and have your child tell you the MIDDLE sound they hear (tip, pace, hope, bed, top, seed, lack, toot, tape, feel, cute, sub, sheep, sip, face, rice, rut, head) I would do six a day
Interesting Vocabulary Words: (In book) club, coax, brave, skunk, directions
Making Connections Ideas:
1. Illustrate the two main characters in the story
2. In the story the kids have different types of pets. Illustrate a pet you have or would like to have.
3. Illustrate yourself being brave and a skunk.
4. Illustrate two of the boy and elephant’s new animal friends.
Writing Prompt: What would be a unique pet you would like to have?
The school has met and come up with a list of resources that you and your child can use to stay active and learning with while the schools are shut down. Please enjoy and use what you can without feeling pressured to do all of this. We are thinking of you all and sending you well wishes during this time.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Ross and Ms. Shapas
Stay up-to-date with information from DuVall Elementary by following the DuVall School News Blog and Dearborn Public Schools Website.
During the time that students are at home, there are many great learning activities will be able to continue to help them grow academically. Please use the resources listed below with your child for his or her grade level and special area subjects.
Reading with ALL students:
Read at home with your child at least 20 minutes every day with books they enjoy. EPIC Books and Moby Max contain web based books for students to read online. To access, students will use their credentials and log into CLEVER from the website http s://dearbornschools.org/resources/students.Online books are available from the Dearborn Library for (Elementary Students) and (Pre-school) children using your library card information.
Before reading:
You may read to your child a text before he or she reads it.
Have your child make predictions about what might happen next.
Have your child use picture clues from the cover to predict what the book is about.
During reading:
Read out loud to your child.
Listen to your child read.
Echo read (you read a line and then have your child repeat the line).
Read together at the same time (choral reading).
Reread or retell favorite stories.
Talk to your son or daughter about what they are reading.
Talk about how the pictures in the book connect to the words on the page.
After reading, you may:
Ask “What do you remember from the text?”
Ask questions about the reading (who, what, when, where, why).
Have your child talk about his or her favorite parts of the story and why.
Ask “What have you learned from the text?”
Can you please retell the story for me from beginning to end in sequence with characters names
Ask “Who was in the book and what did this character do in the story?”
Connect the story to your child’s life or to other books you and your child have read together.
Can you tell me the author’s purpose? What do you think the author wanted you to learn in this story?
Writing Prompt: Discuss the overall topic of the story/theme of the story and ask your child to draw a picture on a piece of paper and write about the theme or an inspired story from the book’s theme.
The following resources were shared by the district administration team to support parents in discussing COVID-19 with their children. Please click on the links below to review these documents.
As we have done in the past, when other flu related illness was a concern, it is important to remind everyone that the CDC recommends following these simple but very effective methods to limit the spread of respiratory diseases:
Always thoroughly wash hands for at least 20 seconds.
When soap and water is not available, use hand sanitizer to wash hands.
Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue or cloth when sneezing and/or coughing.
Stay home when you are sick. (This is a good habit to follow for any illness but even more important given the unknowns surrounding COVID-19)
CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including COVID-19.
Facemasks should be used by people who show symptoms of COVID-19 to help prevent the spread of the disease to others.
Thank you SO much for sending in so many mystery reader green forms today! The students and I are SO excited to hear your stories 🙂 We did run into a little problem this morning though after they were all pulled out of the folders. Two parent letters have no child’s name/parent name on them and we need your help. If you see that your name has not been scheduled and you sent me a letter this morning please send me an email to rossm1@dearbornschools.org or approach me after school and we’ll get you scheduled asap! THANK you again for your help and time we are loving this!
Wow! We had an amazing kick off week to March Reading Month last week! The students are working so hard and I am so proud of them. Here is what is happening in class this week! Please let me know if there is anything I can do for your and your family.
Important Dates/Reminders:
3-13-2020: 1/2 Day 11:45AM Dismissal for all students (Teachers PD afternoon)
*March Madness: Thank you once again for all the support with reading night, the Scholastic Book Fair and spirit days last week! I hope you and your child are enjoying reading together, our theme and filling our their reading calendar! The Activity calendar will inform you about spirit days as well as our school wide activities students will enjoy this month. Thank you to Anthony and Luciana’s moms for volunteering to be a Mystery Reader this month! We would love to have as many readers as possible so please send in those green forms as soon as possible!
March 18th: Next Wednesday morning we will have a late start.
*Raz-Kids: Please make sure to spend 10-15 minutes a night reading and enjoying Raz-Kids as well as reading packs and personal libraries.
Thursday April 16th: Lifetouch Spring Pictures
Spring Break: For your planning, Spring break will be April 6th-10th
LA/Writing: This week we will continue writing to the theme of perseverance in our favorite sports (the first books on our March Reading Madness list bracket). When these are finished, we’ll begin working on a persuasive piece about an animal we want from our parents which was also inspired by a book from our bracket last week (One Word from Sophia).
Spelling: -un Family (bun, *fun, gun, nun, *pun, *run, sun) starred words are on test for sure. Friday morning will be the testing day!
Math: Module 4 cont. about using tools such as the 5 and 10 frames and number bonds to compose, decompose and add/subtract combos of 5 through 10. Homework packets are due Monday and your child will receive a new pack of 5 lessons tomorrow as well as a new math game. This week we plan on completing lessons 11-15.
Social Studies: Cont. Where am I? Unit. Your child will be bringing home an assignment to describe places in their immediate environment. In addition, this week we will be moving towards the larger concept of “Me on the Map.” Thank you in advance for all your help with these school to home assignments.
