4th grade Spelling words (endings /y/ to /iest/):  loveliest, crunchiest, neediest, luckiest, silliest, prettiest, happiest, dizziest, funniest, earliest

Content Area:  natural resource, capital resource, human resource, consumer, producer

5th grade Spelling words (altered sound – ‘tial’ and ‘cial’):  essential, influential, residential, potential, substantial, beneficial, crucial, commercial, glacial, artificial

Content Area:  visual, elements, companion, tone, persist

Reminder that all 5th grade baby and current pictures are due by May 4th.

Genius Hour Projects will be due Monday, April 30th.  We will have this Friday to finish working on them in class.  Anyone who is not done will have to complete the assignment at home.

Rouge River field trip permission slips for 5th grade are due this Friday, April 27th.  The field trip is Thursday, May 3rd from 10:00-1:30.  5th graders must pack a lunch to eat on the field trip.

We are finishing M-Step for 5th grade with Social Studies this week.  4th graders will begin M-Step testing next week.  Please make sure your child eats a healthy breakfast, gets a good night’s sleep, arrives to school on time, brings a water bottle and snacks (gum and mints are allowed) on testing days.

Friendly Reminder:

On Monday, April 23rd, we are asking Snow Students to wear blue or Snow Wolf Apparel to take a stand against bullying and encourage acceptance, kindness and leadership! Go Wolves!

Congratulations to Arianna Caperton and Sidney Busch for being the winners of the Care to the Core Poetry Contest.  They will each read their anti-bullying poem at Monday’s assembly!

Just a reminder that the 4th and 5th grade classes will be walking to Stout Middle School this Wednesday, April 18th at 9:00 a.m. to see the play “The Addams Family”.  Students must turn in a permission slip in order to attend the walking field trip.  Students should dress warmly and wear comfortable walking shoes.  We will return to school between 11:15 and 11:30 and go straight to lunch.

Calling all Leaders!

Let’s Read!!!

As part of Snow Elementary Leader In Me Program, we are asking you, our fabulous students, to reach out in our community to help others.  If you’d like to be a part of the Snow Book Share, simply go through your gently used books or magazines and donate them to our Snow School Book Share.  Over the next 2 weeks organize your bookshelves at home and donate your unwanted books or magazines. Then on

May 1,2 and 3, 2018 we will have a Book Swap before and after school.  Each book will cost $0.25 and you can bring home new books to read.

Please bring your book donations to the bin in the office or outside Mrs. Bush’s office starting tomorrow.  Leaders think Win/Win and by organizing your books and donating them you are giving a friend the opportunity to read something new.  That is a Win/Win!

Nicole Bush

On Monday, April 23, every Dearborn Public School will highlight the great ways their school is working to create a safe school environment during the first-ever “Care to the Core Day.” Each school will participate in an activity or program that demonstrates programs that are centered on helping students resolve conflicts, understanding the impact of their behaviors, and creating a safer school environment.

Snow Elementary School will also be taking place in the festivities with a guest speaker talking to our school community, Mr. Ali Sayed.  Ali is the Founder and CEO of HYPE Athletics Community, the highly popular organization that offers athletics, fitness, education and social services to the entire Metro-Detroit area including but not limited to Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, etc.  Ali is also a member of the Dearborn Education Foundation, an officer position he has held for almost 10 years on the Board of Directors.  Ali is also a proud graduate of Dearborn High School where he graduated from in 1999.  

In addition, Snow Elementary School will be also be taking part in a “Care to the Core” Poem Contest, whereby students in grades K-5 will be able to write a poem to be shared during our assembly on being a leader and being an Upstander.  We encourage you to work with your child to create a poem that they would be proud to share in front of the entire school community on this day.  Here is the rubric:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_kzifKzyrYZXEOXUK0evj1AiCNBiEwtkk7dpB3oc5Zc/edit?usp=sharing

Lastly, on this day, everyone school-wide will wear blue to take a stand against bullying and encourage acceptance, kindness and leadership.

The event is from 2:15 p.m. till 3:15 p.m.

Yours in Education,

Mrs. Amal Alcodray – Principal

4th grade Spelling words (endings /y/ to /ier/):  happier, earlier, emptier, funnier, prettier, friendlier, cloudier, easier, busier, drier

Content words: square units, variable, formula, area, perimeter

5th grade Spelling words (irregular plurals):  analysis, phenomenon, hypothesis, nucleus, crisis, wolf, loaf, shelf, vertex, dice

Content words: analyses, loaves, shelves, nuclei, crises

5th grade continues M-Step testing this Tuesday and Thursday in Math and Friday in Science.  Please make sure your child gets a good night’s sleep, eats a healthy breakfast, arrives to school on time, and brings water and snacks to school (including mint gum or candies).

All 4th and 5th graders will be walking to Stout this Wednesday to see “The Addams Family” play.  Students must turn in a permission slip by Wednesday morning in order to attend.  Please wear comfortable shoes for walking.

Spring Pictures are Tuesday, April 17th for those people who are paying for pictures.  If you do not send in money for Spring Pictures, then your child will not get any pictures taken.

5th graders – please remember to bring your instruments on the correct day.  There are only a few weeks left of band.  Monday is woodwinds and brass, Wednesday is violins and percussion.

4th graders – please remember to bring your recorders every Wednesday and Friday to class.

Synergize assembly this Friday at 3:00 p.m.

The Care to the Core poetry contest ends this Friday.  Any students who wish to enter the contest must complete a poem at home about anti-bullying and submit it to Ms. Shene by Friday, April 20th.  The winning class poem will be read by the student at the Care to the Core assembly on Monday, April 23rd.

Thank you to the following parents for chaperoning on our field trip today to the Detroit Institute of Arts:

Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Eljahmi, Mr. Hall, Mrs. Litton, and Mrs. Mkrtumian

On April 23rd, all Dearborn Public Schools will be participating in the first-ever “Care to the Core” Day.  On this day, we are asking each Snow Student to wear the color blue or Snow Wolves apparel to take a stand against bullying and encourage acceptance, kindness and leadership.  We would like to offer the opportunity for each class to present a piece of poetry at this assembly.  The topic for this extra credit poetry homework assignment is “Anti-Bullying/Being a Leader.”  Poems will be due by Friday, April 20th.  One student from each class will be chosen to read his/her poem to the school.  A rubric was sent home today with information included.

Good luck!