You can never have too much chocolate!

Greetings room 111 families! I hope you are all enjoying your much needed long weekend. I am currently eating one too many chocolate hearts from my students and working on lesson plans! Thank you all again for all the amazing treats and presents, I am so grateful. We have so much packed into our short week so here we go:

-ap family (sap, lap, map, nap, cap, tap)

*hot words: nap, tap, map (but we may just try the rest on Friday!)

Monday: I hope you enjoyed the day off!

Tuesday: Welcome back! Art and Music today. Homework packets due. Social studies home assignment handed out instead of a homework packet! Due next Monday! It is a very simple assignment that will help your child describe their world around them starting at home 🙂 There is an example page in the packet and it should be a non stress assignment, however please pop in and ask if you have any questions. Have fun! Thank you so much in advance for your help. You are welcome to turn it in any time before next Friday if they are done early. *Today we will plant a lima bean in science and write a prediction about what we think will happen (linked to our living things unit)! Be sure to ask your young scientist about it and look at our classroom windows this week to watch them grow!

Wednesday: Computers

Thursday: Music and Library check out! Please return any books you may have on or before Thursday.

Friday: Gym.

I’m SURE there are a million things I am forgetting as soon as I hit publish. If so, you’ll here more from me tomorrow. See you all in school tomorrow!

Mrs. Ross

Thank you so much to all the families for helping us supply and throw the most amazing Valentine’s Day party Mrs. Ross’s class has ever had. The students were so adorable and I am so proud of them as usual. Thank you to ALL the mothers that came today to help make our party amazing: Mrs. Biaz, Mrs. Albazzal, Mrs. Moustafa, Mrs. Hajazi, Mrs. Alkharashani, Mrs. Majda, Mrs. Bouzeid and Mrs. Arafat! We are SO lucky to have such a fantastic classroom of moms. Whew! I am so exhausted from watching you all do all the work! I hope all the children had fun and you all enjoyed your poems. we LOVE you all and have a happy Valentine’s Day and wonderful winter break! See you on Tuesday.

PS. In all the excitement, Yara reminded me that we forgot to do our spelling test! No worries, we can review and take the test on Tuesday for the -un family.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ross

Thank you all SO much for all the donated supplies and food for tomorrow’s Valentine’s Day party! We are all set now for the party and look forward to seeing you there at 1:00pm if you can make it 🙂

Here is the list of students in our classroom. We are going to be exchanging Valentine’s tomorrow afternoon and if your child wished to participate you can send them in a plastic grocery bag. We have 22 students.

Laya                                                   Hadi Hajj

Mohamed                                         Mohamed Ali

Khaled                                               Ayman

Sarah                                                 Laren

Ali                                                      Hassan

Rokaia                                              Julia

Zayd                                                  Zayn

Bashir                                               Hadi Najda

Adam Beydoun                               Yara

Jad                                                    Mariam

Olivia                                                Adam Shawhatti

Dear Families,

This Thursday our classroom will be having a Valentine’s Day party! Your child is welcome to bring a special Valentine to pass to each of our friends at school. There are 22 students in the class. I will send home a class list if your child wished to write their friends names on each one. A small treat such as a sucker etc. is ok to give each child with the cards.

If your child would love to donate the following supplies we’d be very grateful! Your child can bring them on or before Thursday. Please hit reply on the bottom of this post and let me know what you would like to donate if you can. Please send it to school with your child before Thursday if possible. In addition, if you would like to come to the party please sign in at the office and we will see you at 1:00pm. Thank you in advance for all your support!

Supplies Needed:

six round valentines themed table cloths-Yara’s family

4 large pizzas from pizza place ($5.00 each if you say they are for a McCollough Unis Teacher)- Hadi Najda’s family

22 small individual m&m packs: Zayn Moustafa’s family

2 bags of conversation hearts (small hearts)- Zayd Arafat’s family

vanilla icing (2 containers)-Bashir’s family

Valentines heart sprinkles-Bashir’s family

red sprinkles-Adam Beydoun’s family

white sprikles

pink sprinkles

Valentines plates- Zayd Arafat’s family

Valentine’s Themed napkins-Mohamed Albazzal’s family

knives-Mohamed Albazzal’s family

Spoons-Lauren’s Family

fruit salad-Julia’s Family 

small bowls- Yara’s family

22 juice boxes- Mohamed Ali’s family

pretzels- Mohamed Ali’s family

Happy Valentine’s Week room 111! We have such a short week this week, but it will be packed with fun! Here is what you need to know:

Word Family: -un word family (test on Thursday)

hot words: sun, bun, run, pun, nun, fun (let’s go for all of them!)

Monday: gym. Homework packet will be collected and a new one sent home for the week and extended weekend. It will be due after break).

Tuesday: Art and Music (Mrs. Ross will be at a district Language Arts meeting all day)

Wednesday: Late Start (9:00am) We have computers

Thursday: Music

Friday: Mid-Winter break from the 12th to the 15th

On Thursday at around 1:00pm we will be having a Valentine’s Day party! I will be sending a separate blog post about the party. If you would like to come to help set up or stay and run activities during the party we’d love you to come! Please reply to the party post. Have a wonderful week and break. I am here if anyone needs anything, or wants to talk regarding their child’s progress on the report cards.

Mrs. Ross 🙂

Happy February room 111 families! I can’t believe how fast this year is going. We are already into our third card marking. I hope you all enjoyed your weekend with your families. We had several family birthday parties last weekend and I am all partied out! We wanted to say a big thank you to all the families who donated water, or money to the school in Flint! Every bit counts. Here is what you need to know for kindergarten this week.:

Word Family:   -op word family (hop, cop, mop, pop, top, sop, bop)

hot words: top, bop, hop

LA: Informational texts. Reading groups will resume so make sure you child has their reading packs! I will be collecting all old books and we will begin rebuilding reading packs. All paper books are yours to keep and should be kept in the reading pack still (along with the pink booklet).

Writing: Informational writing (living things)

Math: Addition (various strategies to add)

Social Studies: Me on the Map

Science: Living Things (What are living things and what do they need to live?)

Monday: Gym

Tuesday: Art and Music

Wednesday: Computers

Thursday: Music and Media check out (Please return books) Report cards for marking period 2 and NWEA results will be going home today!

Friday: Gym

Have a great week and please let me know if there is anything I can do for your family!

Mrs. Ross

1-26-2016

Dear Families,

We had a wonderful time on our field trip today! Thank you SO much to Hadi Najda’s aunt, Hadi Hajj’s mom, Bashir’s mom and Rokaia’s mom for helping make our trip a success!

Here is the letter that went home today regarding the Flint water crisis. If you would like to donate water you can bring it to our classroom in the morning and we can bring it down to the office. We thank you in advance if you are able to donate and help out these people in their hour of need!

Send A Sip…To Our Friends In Flint!

The citizens of Flint face a very serious and long term water crisis. People all across the state and country are stepping up to help and now we can too!

ALL THIS WEEK, ALL DEARBORN PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILL BE COLLECTING CASES OF WATER FOR FLINT. THIS IS A DISTRICT WIDE EFFORT BY ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS.

Please drop off your donation of bottled water before January 29th to any school!

On Friday, January 29 a semi-truck, donated by an Oakman parent, will be in the parking lot of Oakman Elementary School from 9:00 am – 11:30 am. The same truck will be in the parking lot of the Administration Building from Noon- 3:00 pm.

Depending on the time or location that is more convenient, schools can bring their collected water to either one of the locations to be loaded on the truck.

At 3:00 pm the truck will deliver the water to the Friends of Flint Water Drive being held from 10am – 7pm at the Redford Jaycee Hall.

The District has committed our support to this event which is being supported by cities and schools in our area.

Wow is January already over? I will be back tomorrow! My poor daughter (Antonia my 9mo old) is fighting a double ear infection and she seems to be doing better over the weekend thank goodness! Last week I asked the substitute to give the spelling test, but don’t worry we’ll do it again just to make sure your child does their best! Last week we took our math NWEA test and this week Mrs. Ross will finish up individual assessments for the end of the card marking and report card #2. As this week and card marking come to and end here is what you need to know this week!

Word Family:   -ig word family (big, wig, pig, fig, rig, dig, jig, gig)

hot words: wig, big, fig

LA: Informational texts

Writing: Informational writing

Math: Review week and continued individual testing

Social Studies: Review on Unit “Who Am I?”

Science: End of Push and Pull unit

Field Trip: We are going to the play on Tuesday. I recieved all the permission slips on Thursday and pulled four names out of the hat on Sunday night! Here are the four parent volunteers that I chose. Please bring in your $10.00 on Monday morning or Tuesday morning so I can turn it into the teacher that planned the trip. Thank you in advance for your help Tuesday, and please make sure you had a background check completed.

Mrs. Hajj, Mrs. Biaz, Mrs. Alkharashani, Mrs. Najda

Monday: Gym class (Wear or bring gym shoes!)

Tuesday: FIELD TRIP! Pack a healthy lunch. We will be eating at school after the play and will NOT be going through the cafeteria line because our regular lunch time will be over! We will have Music in the afternoon.

Wednesday: Computers

Thursday: Music class

Friday: 1/2 Day for students! Dismissal is at 11:10am.

Have a fantastic week and please let me know if there is anything I can do for you!

Mrs. Ross 🙂

Happy Tuesday to all! I hope you had a very restful weekend. Here is what you need to know for this week:

Spelling: et family (pet, jet, met, wet, net, vet,get)

hot words: pet, vet, jet

*This week Mrs. Ross will continue assessing in language arts and math for the report card.

Monday: No school. I hope you stayed warm!

Tuesday: Timelines Due! New homework packets will go home this week as usual. We have art and music.

Wednesday: Late Start. School starts at 9:00 am. We have computers.

Thursday: NWEA math test. We have music and library check out in the pm. Please return books on Thursday morning.

Friday: We have gym today.

That’s all for now! Thank you for your hard work on the timelines. If you have not turned it in yet, please do as soon as possible. This is a graded assignment for the report card and will HELP your child study for the upcoming social studies test!

Have a wonderful week, and stay warm.

Mrs. Ross and class!

Tonight your child is bringing home a permission slip for our field trip on January 26th. Please fill out the form and return as soon as possible. If you would like to be a parent chaperone, please make sure you have completed the “background check” through the office. If you are available and would like to come I will put the names in a hat and pull out four to make it fair. If your name is not pulled don’t worry we will still be needing many parents to help us go to the zoo at the end of the year.

thank you in advance for your help!

Mrs. Ross and class!