Ok first of all I survived the “pie in the face” fundraiser lol! Yara Nassour had a blast smooshing a delicious cream pie in Mrs. Ross’s face this afternoon hahahaha!!! It was so fun 🙂 We were only disappointed that more people couldn’t pie me! I knew there were a couple things I wanted to remind you about so here they are:

When we get to letter ‘T’ we are going to tie-dye t shirts in school woohoo!!! SO, could you please start sending in a new OR old white tshirt for your child as soon as possible we are already on the letter “k”! If you don’t have one, you could send in $5 and I would be happy to run to the store and buy some tshirt packs for the kids. THANK YOU in advance for your help!

Announcements  for end of the year PBIS: CONGRATULATIONS is in order for Ayman Hijazi and Rokaya Alkharashani for earning the “Mostly Green” clip up extra reward at the end of the year! They will join other students to be sprayed by the local fire truck. In addition, CONGRATULATIONS to Yara Nassour for earning 30 or MORE clip ups! She is the only student from room 111 with the honor of attending the “clip up” extra reward day! She will join other McCollough students for an afternoon of bouncy houses! We are ALL so proud of our students for their efforts this year. I am SO proud of how much my class has GROWN as individuals and as a whole. We as a staff know this PBIS program is not only beneficial but CRUCIAL to help mold and shape young minds. I THANK YOU once again for your support and help this year!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ross 🙂

Hello room 111!

I am SO glad to be back to school! I missed the kids SO much and want to thank all the wonderful chaperones for all the help on the day of the field trip last week. Really, from the bottom of my heart…thank you. I saw some of the pics that parents took and it looked like you had a WONDERFUL time! I heard a wonderful report form the teachers that took the class and the substitute on Friday. I am so proud! If you have any pics you took at the field trip feel free to text them to me or email them to me and I will share on the blog! Here are a few things to know and share about this short week!

Word family: review all

Math and LA: testing for report cards (I collected all the reading packs Monday so read read read every night from raz kids now!)

Monday: pajama day! new homework packets went home today! make sure to check your countdown for what comes next.

Tuesday: MRS. ROSS is shaking in her boots because so many students want to throw a pie at her today lol!!!!!!!!! We will enjoy our fundraiser this morning outside ahh!!!!! also we will have art and music. THANK YOU to all the families that donated towards field day!

Wednesday: Computers

Thursday: FIELD DAY in the AM. Be sure to check the weather ahead of time and dress appropriately for the weather. We will be eating outside after field day for a picnic lunch! So if ou want to feel free to send your child to school with a “sack lunch” in a brown paper bag so that they can eat a lot faster than going back in to the building and waiting through the lunch line! After field day at 11:50am they will just eat outside our room and then play!

Friday/Monday: NO SCHOOL. Happy Memorial Day weekend! See you all on Tuesday…

I’m sure there is a lot I have forgotten! So goodbye for now and I’ll be in touch! I must go get my beauty sleep and rest up for all the pie I am going to be eating and ingesting tomorrow 🙂

Mrs. Ross 🙂

Greetings room 111 families!

I hope this message finds you well and warm this weekend! How crazy is this weather! Well this is going to be a really fun week as we get ready for our trip to the Detroit Zoo! I have my updated parent list from the office (of background checks) and a few parents that might have changed their minds about going so tomorrow please fill out the note and return if you WANT to follow the bus and be a chaperone (AND you already completed your background check!) OR if you want to send in the $7 and just walk with YOUR child. Just indicate what you what for my planning purposes and we’ll be all set! Hopefully it wont be so cold!

Word Family: ag (bag, hag, gag, sag, wag, lag, nag, rag, tag)

*As you’ve noticed the books in the reading packs have slowed down lately. I have begun the end of the year testing for language arts and will continue this week with your child’s individual reading level DRA2 test. In order for your child to stay current with their reading and skills you will need to continue to read every night on RazKids. Also, the library every year begins asking for the leveled books several weeks before school closes, so please make sure your child has ALL small leveled books in their packs, because I will also begin collecting them soon! This way we can avoid any costly library fines!

*This week their will also be a scholastic book fair! So at some point we will head up there as a class and your child can return at a later time this week with parent volunteers to purchase books.

Tomorrow is exercise day on our 26 day countdown! Woohoo we’ll be doing some fun exercises in class for brain breaks! Continue to check the list each day to be ready for the fun!

Monday: Gym. Homework pack is due and another is sent home.

Tuesday: Art and music

Wednesday: Computers

Thursday: FIELD TRIP to the zoo! make sure your child is to school ON TIME because we will leave as soon as the bus gets to school! Have your child in comfortable and weather appropriate clothing with walking shoes! If it is going to be hot please put sun screen on before they get to school (if your child is not allergic to it)  to help protect their skin. This has helped a lot in the past. Also, make sure your child has a BAGGED lunch they can eat and throw away to avoid lugging it around all day! Something healthy with a small snack and drink. We’ll be back to school by 2:00pm.

Friday: Gym.

Looking forward to an awesome week with my amazing class!

Greetings to all our amazing room 111 families! I can not believe that May is already here!!! Time is flying by so fast. We have been enjoying and sharing all the earth materials and the social studies maps in class. Thank you so much for helping us make this project possible! If you have not turned it in please bring it this week it will be graded on the report card. We have another busy week coming so here is what you can expect!

Word family: we are still working on the -og family so our test is extended to Friday the words were (log, dog, hog, bog, cog, fog) sight words bonus his and him.

NWEA: we have our first NWEA test on Tuesday for math so make sure your child gets a great night sleep and a good breakfast! Our second test on reading will be May 10th in reading.

Field Trip chaperones: thank you all for your interest in chaperoning the field trip! I have chosen the first four parents that have their information completed to ride the bus: Mrs. Hazimeh, Mrs. Hajj, Mrs. Aoun and Mrs. Baiz. I wish we could take ALL of you on the bus!!!!

More amazing chaperones: to all the other lovely moms that have volunteered to follow the bus And are waiting for their background checks to clear I will send home a note reminding you to send in your $7.00 now so you don’t have to pay $12.00 at the gate! Reminder that if you are a “chaperone” you will be taking a group of students from McCullough so please leave little ones at home! A great idea would be to buddy up like a few moms are doing and drive together. I did this with three other moms before and we saved on gas and parking this way 🙂

Monday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner. Collecting homework packets and sending new ones home.

Tuesday: Art with Mrs Brown and Music with Ms Wilder. NWEA test in the AM.

Wednesday: computers with Mrs. Pantaleo

Thursday: media check out 1:30pm. We also have music with Mrs. Webber. Today is our school improvement walk through wish us luck!

Friday: pink book testing, spelling test -og family and gym with Mrs. Fenner

whew! That’s all for now, I’ll send more updates during the week if I need to. Have a great week

Greetings room 111 families!

A special congratulations to Yara Nassour who has completed her PINK BOOKLET in kindergarten! Woohoo Yara way to go! She will be moving on to booklet #2 this week. Here is a picture of us having our special lunch date today. I am so proud of her and all my students working so hard on their sight words. It’s time to turn on the heat!!!

I hope you were are all out enjoying the beautiful Sunday weather with your families! It was a PERFECT DAY to take your child to the part and collect earth materials! As the month is coming to an end, a gentle reminder that their science project is due this Friday! We have already had some students turn it in thank you! We will enjoy sharing them this week. DON”T FORGET to draw a map of one of the parks you visit and answer the question: “Was that park clean? Did it have any garbage or graffiti on it?” Here is what you can expect from our busy schedule this week!

Although the weather is beginning to get warmer, please continue to check the weather every morning and send your child with the proper gloves, hats, coats if the weather dips down in temperature. Michigan can be crazy in April and May! Also, remember that students are not allowed to wear flip flops or open toed shoes and shoes that do not have a back supporting them for safety reasons.

*Important Dates: May 3rd and May 10th will be our last reading and math NWEA tests for the year. You can help your child practice their skills by reading every night, counting, practicing their addition and subtraction facts, sight word practice, rhyming practice and counting objects!

*Field Trip to the Zoo May 19th. I will announce the parent chaperones this week. I have given a few extra days for parent to hand the background checks in. There were SIX students who did not turn in their permission slips. Remember, I can not take your child on the bis with out your permission!

Word Family: -og (dog, bog, fog, hog, jog, log)

Sight words: make, his, him

Monday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner

Tuesday: Art with Mrs. Brown and music with Mrs. Wilder.

Wednesday: Computers with Mrs. Pantaleo

Thursday: Music with Mrs. Brown

Friday: Gym with Mrs. Fenner. Pink book sight word tests!

Yesterday we worked really hard on a number of small investigations about rocks and earth materials. In our lesson, we investigated what would happen When rocks are rubbed together? The great thing was that ALL the students predicted the correct outcome! Yay for us! We all expected tiny bits of rock to fall from the rocks and collect on the table. Some students even predicted that the tiny bits of rock over time would collect as sand. Then, we took our rocks outside because we knew that some rocks make great sidewalk chalk! So, we checked to see if our rock would transfer onto the pavement. It was SO fun. Here are some snapshots of our work. Enjoy!

Greetings all! Just wanted to thank Mrs. Moustafa for her time tomorrow at 1:30pm! If anyone else would like to join us we will be working on earth materials experiment #2! Hit reply if you’d like to join the madness lol! Thank you in advance 🙂

Here is ALL of the stuff we have been up to lately! Whew! I’m exhausted but SOOOOO proud of my kiddos! THANK YOU to all the families for ALL your hard work it really shows 🙂

Congratulations to our class for reading the most minutes in the kindergarten classes we have won a pizza party!!! AND congratulations to Bashir Baiz for reading the most minutes in kindergarten woohoo we are awesome!!!!!!

In the following pictures below we are dying Easter eggs, measuring and comparing the height of objects, exploring rocks, exploring earth materials sand, soil, clay and gravel and eating veggies so that we could form an opinion in writer’s workshop about which one was our FAVORITE vegetable! We have had SO much fun and been SO busy!!!

Greetings fabulous families of room 111! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I hope you had some luck with our science project. If you didn’t make it to the parks yet, hopefully the weather will warm up this week some time!We had SO much fun on Friday furthering our knowledge of earth materials with our science experiment! THANK YOU to Mrs. Hajj, Ms. Harp and Mrs Biaz for your help and time!!! ALL your children want you to join us lol! They are so sweet so if you couldn’t make it this time, come on in this Wednesday as we do more science!

Mine has been so busy with family preparing and celebrating for little Ms. Antonia’s 1st birthday tomorrow (4-11-2016) by the time you read this my baby will be one!!! My how time flies. Here is a little pic or two lol of my darling! And here is what you can expect in school this week! (Look also for next post with SO many pics from March and April!)

Monday: We have gym with Mrs. Fenner. Homework packets are due and new packets is going home!

Tuesday: We have art with Mrs. Brown and music with Mrs. Wilder

Wednesday: Science experiment number two of earth materials! If anyone wants to come in to join us feel free! At 1:30pm! We will also go to computers today with Mrs. Pantaleo.

Thursday: We have music today with Mrs. Webber. Don’t forget to study for spelling test tomorrow.

Friday: Spelling test. We also have gym with Mrs. Fenner.

Word Family: -ed (bed, fed, led, red, Ted,)

sight words: she, get

LA focus: word families, rhyming, comprehension strategies like inferring, making personal connections, opinions

Writing: opinion, informational (veggies and earth day)

Math: measurement continue direct comparisons of objects also missing addends (____+3=10)

science: cont. earth materials unit (make sure you are gathering earth materials from 2/3 parks on the weekends)

social studies: earth issue (linked to writer’s workshop and science about keeping earth clean)

Yay! I get to go back to school tomorrow!!!

Hello out there! Can you believe this CRAZY weather? I hope you have all been enjoying this wonderful time off with your lovely families. I have been loving my time at home with my family. Last Tuesday Benjamin lost his first tooth and I was here to see it! Then tonight, he lost his SECOND tooth! Now he has a giant hole in the front of his bottom teeth it’s SO cute! It was a wonderful feeling. I hope you all had a wonderful and restful vacation too!

Science PBL Unit! We are beginning our earth materials PBL unit. I will be sending home a note this week to explain it. I am so excited to learn about earth materials and make it hands on. We will need your help though to collect some materials from neighborhood parks other than McCollough Unis!

Also, we need your help! Could you please send in a plastic baggie with some rocks in it either from your house or from the neighborhood? We will be observing the attributes of a rock for our “rocking rocks” report! We truly appreciate your help and remind you to please put your child’s name on the baggie so they can be returned!

*Reading Minutes Log: Well it’s that time! This week we will be having our ending assembly that was rescheduled to finish up the reading month! I will be awarding prizes to the students and classes with the highest reading minutes in each grade level so make sure to sign and return the logs MONDAY April 4th, 2016. I will be filling out certificates so I will not accept any logs Tuesday morning the day of the student assembly. THANK YOU for all your support last month once again!

*Those who ordered a book order they went out this weekend so we will look forward to them coming soon (fingers crossed by Friday Scholastic is fast!)

Here’s what to expect this week in kindergarten as we begin or continue our units:

Spelling family: -ad family (dad, lad, sad, bad, fad, rad, had, pad)

sight words: said, get

math: measurement continue with length/height and now weight

science: earth materials

writing: opinion (our favorite veggie that grows on top or bottom of the soil!) We will be tasting some veggies Monday morning so be sure to ask you child what their favorite was!

*Thursday is library check out so make sure to return all materials 🙂

WELCOME BACK room 111 I really missed you and am looking forward to a great week!

Mrs. Ross