Friday, October 9th is a half day district PD. Students will start their morning class at 8:55 AM and finish the half day at 12:00PM. 

Please have students catch up on any late or missing work today and throughout the weekend. You can check Schoology and ParentConnect for missing assignments.

We will be NWEA Math testing on Monday and Tuesday. Please make sure your child gets a good night’s sleep, eats a healthy breakfast, and joins each Zoom meeting on time.

Fourth grade will be starting Science/S.S. next week. We will start with a week of Science from 12:25-1:00 pm everyday. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday will be asynchronous work (independent work) on Schoology while Tuesday and Thursday will be live Zoom meetings. Please make sure your child joins each Zoom meeting on time.

Have a great weekend!

A mobile food pantry is this Tuesday at 1 PM at Snow:

Mobile Food Pantry

Snow Elementary School 

2000 Culver Ave

1 PM Tuesday in the parking lot

Snow Parents,

We cordially invite you to our first annual virtual meeting that will be held this Wednesday September 30, at 10:00 am. The meeting will be no longer then 1 hour and will cover topics such as virtual learning, Student Expectations and Title 1. These meeting are a valuable chance to meet one another and establish a positive rapport so that we continue Snow Elementary’s legacy of Success. I look forward to hearing from you. The zoom link is provided below please click .

Zoom Links:

https://dearbornschools-org.zoom.us/j/89863475334?pwd=TGY4b25TWTZIeXpqdWRoT1BIZC9mZz09

Meeting ID: 898 6347 5334

Passcode: 849762

Sincerely,

Mohammad Abdelfattah

Principal

Do you have a 3rd-5th grade girl that could use some outdoor activity after a day at school? Girls on the Run has opened a team at Snow Elementary with limited spots available!

Practices will be Tuesday and Wednesday from 4-5:15pm, starting October 6! Trained coaches will be partnering to lead these girls through this amazing youth development program with a running focus – all modified to keep girls socially distant and safe.

Group will be limited to 12 in order to stay spaced out. Check out gotrdetroit.org for safety and general program info. Register for the team at https://bit.ly/3hXoxlg

Girls on the Run is so much fun!  

Mariam Barakat and Kristie Massey

Dear Parents/Guardians,

The Michigan Department of Education requires all students to complete a benchmark assessment for Reading and Math within the first 9 weeks of school and Kdg-3 grade within the first 30 days. In Dearborn Schools, we use the NWEA Measures of Academic Progress to fill this requirement. Given our current situation, these assessments may be administered remotely. Teachers will set up testing sessions and guide students through logging into the assessments. Students are expected to complete the assessments independently. Some students may be coming to the school for assessment in groups of 3 or fewer.

The NWEA is, as the name suggests, a measure of progress not performance. Your child is measured against their previous performance in order to measure growth. The assessment also provides specific information about your child’s strengths and areas for growth. This enables teachers to focus instruction to meet children’s direct needs and to group students with like needs for instruction.

We offer this information as a way of asking you to please allow your child to take the assessments on their own without providing input or prompting. For Kindergarten and first grade, the students are read the questions and prompts. They may hear them as many times as needed. In the other grades, the reading test is a test of the child’s ability to read, decode and use context to figure out word meanings. 

We appreciate your assistance and all you are doing to support us, as well as your child, during this time. We look forward to seeing all of our students safely back in their classrooms.

Dear Parents/Guardians of Snow Elementary,

It is with great pleasure and an honor to serve you as the new principal of Snow Elementary School beginning October 1^st of this year. I look forward to meeting all of you and working alongside the community.  I am honored to have the opportunity to lead a school with such a rich legacy of success and so many points of pride. I have dedicated my career to the students of Dearborn for the last 16 years. I started my career as an elementary classroom teacher then moved on to an elementary resource teacher/instructional coach at Salina intermediate. I then moved on to be a middle school bilingual resource teacher and have spent the last four years as Assistant principal at Woodworth Middle School. I am eager to dedicate my skills to the Snow community. 

As all of us embark on the upcoming school year we do so for the first time with high levels of uncertainty due to the current international crisis we all know as Covid-19. This has affected all of us in so many ways. Our students and community as a whole have had to encounter many hardships as a result. However, this will not deter our mission to make this school year the best one ever. I plan on working with parents, teachers, students and the entire Snow community to ensure that our students are safe and learning at high levels. Together we will continue to provide experiences that are rigorous, relevant and with relationships based on trust to prepare them for their future endeavors. As your new principal it is important to me to greet everyone who enters the school with the utmost respect. I have an open door policy and value every stakeholder’s opinion. Please feel free to contact me to discuss any concerns you may have or any points of pride you would like to share. 

I look forward to our work together in the years to come and establishing a team committed to the Snow community. Please stay safe and have a great school year.

Sincerely,

Mohammad Abdelfattah

Snow Elementary Principal

Students will be taking the NWEA test for Reading and Math beginning September 28th. This test will be taken at home, however we will go over setting up computers, practice tests, and tips together this week.

Parents may NOT help their child during testing. Parents must allow students to take the test on their own. Parents should NOT sit next to your child during the test.

Greetings from Ms. Shene,

This document will help you prepare your child to take the MAP Growth test. Please be available at the following times to support your child’s testing: 

What is MAP Growth?
MAP Growth helps teachers understand what students know today, so goals can be set to improve growth throughout the year. Students cannot pass or fail this test.	This test will not affect grades. In fact, it’s normal for students to only answer about half the questions correctly. Please don’t help them!	Given the challenges of learning from home, MAP Growth test results are especially helpful for us this year. These results will help us know what students are ready to learn.

Test Preparation

Prior to Test Day

1. Make sure your device has an internet connection 
2. Disable pop-up blocking on your internet browser
3. Make sure your device meets testing requirements using the Workstation Diagnostic Tool
4. Watch the MAP Growth introduction video 
5. Practice the test at practice.mapnwea.org
   (Username: grow, Password: grow) 

On Test Day

1. Minimize distractions for your child as much as possible
2. Provide a quiet testing environment 
3. Allow the teacher/proctor to open the session first
4. Log in at test.mapnwea.org
5. Make sure you have a way to communicate with the teacher/proctor during the test
6. Follow any additional instructions from the teacher/proctor

سيساعدك هذا الدليل على كيفية إعداد طفلك لأخذ اختبارات MAP Growth – الرجاء الاستعداد في الأوقات التالية لمساعدة طفلك لبدء الاختبار:

[اكتب تاريخ وتوقيت الاختبار هنا. على سبيل المثال: من يوم 15 إلى 17 سبتمبر من الساعة 10 صباحًا وحتى الساعة 12 ظهرًا]

ما هي اختباراتMAP Growth ؟
نظرًا لتحديات التعلم من المنزل، فإن نتائج اختبارات MAP Growth مفيدة بشكل خاص لنا هذا العام. ستساعدنا هذه النتائج في معرفة مستوي كل طالب وما هو على استعداد لتعلمه.	لن يؤثر نتيجة هذا الاختبار على درجات الطالب في المواد الدراسية. في الواقع، من الطبيعي أن يجيب الطلاب على حوالي نصف الأسئلة فقط بشكل صحيح.  من فضلك لا تقدم المساعدة اثناء الاختبار!	تساعد اختبارات MAP Growth المعلمين على فهم وتحديد ما يعرفه الطلاب في وقت اخذ الاختبار في مادتي الرياضيات واللغة الإنجليزية. وبالتالي يمكن تحديد الأهداف التحسين النمو لكل طالب على مدار العام.  اختبارات MAP Growth ليست اختبارات نجاح أو رسوب.
الاستعداد للاختبار
يوم الاختبارقلل من مصادر الإلهاء لطفلك قدر الإمكانوفر بيئة اختبار هادئةانتظر حتى تتلقي اسم جلسة الاختبارSession ID و كلمة السر  Session Password من المعلم او المراقب أولاًقم بتسجيل الدخول في رابط الاختبار test.mapnwea.org تأكد من وجود طريقة للتواصل مع المعلم او المراقب اثناء الاختبار اتبع أي تعليمات إضافية من المعلم او مراقب الاختبار	قبل يوم الاختبارتأكد من اتصال جهازك بالإنترنتقم بتعطيل النوافذ المنبثقة Pop-ups في متصفح الإنترنت تأكد من أن جهازك يتوافق مع متطلبات الاختبار باستخدام هذا الرابط Workstation Diagnostic Toolشاهد فيديو مقدمة عن اختبارات MAP Growth تدرب على الاختبار من خلال هذا الرابط practice.mapnwea.org Username: grow – Password: grow