To continue nurturing our young minds while they are at home from school, Representative Abdullah Hammoud has launched what will now be a series of different guests readers who will read their favorite children’s book via YouTube. Tune in and watch the first video in the series, “Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors,”  read by Representative Abdullah Hammoud.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej-N0yxAzWg&feature=youtu.be

It is important for students to continue to practice sight words. This is essential to improve reading fluency (reading smoothly, like how we speak) and not read like a robot (word by word). See the attachment below to practice these important words with your child! They should read them quickly and know them by sight- not have to sound them out. Many of them cannot be sounded out. Happy Reading!

Please see the following attachment with learning activities and recommendations for your child to complete this week. I will send out a daily reminder Monday-Friday of that day’s specific activities. Do your best and have fun! I appreciate all your support in ensuring that your child continues to learn at home. I would love to see pictures of your child’s work after they finish or you can save it all in a folder to show me once we return to school. As always, please email me or send me a SeeSaw message with any questions or concerns. I miss you all!!!

Round 2 Chromebook pick up for our Lowrey families. This is only for Lowrey Students! If your family does not have a working computer and is in need of a chromebook then please come to Lowrey’s main doors, tomorrow Friday, March 20th between times of 12:30pm to 2pm. If you already picked one up, please don’t come again. One chromebook per household! All parents will need to sign a consent form to insure chromebooks will be returned in the same condition they were given. All parents and students are responsible for the chromebooks. They must be returned once students return to school.

Disregard this announcement if you are not in need of a Chromebook or already went to school to borrow one today. Thank you!

Lowrey School will be distributing Chromebooks to families in order to support their child’s remote Learning. Each Chromebook was checked and cleaned by admin and personnel to ensure that they are safe to be used. Please note that chromebooks need a working internet connection.   If your family does not have a working computer and is in need of a chromebook then please come to Lowrey’s main doors, tomorrow Thursday, March 19th between times of 11:30am to 3pm. 

 One chromebook per household! 

 All parents will need to sign a consent form to insure chromebooks will be returned in the same condition they were given. All parents and students are responsible for the chromebooks. They must be returned once students return to school. 

Check out the resource teachers’ blog! It will have up-to-date information and additional resources for your children to use for learning at home.

https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/rammalh/

During this time, it is very important for your child to continue to read every day for at least 20 minutes.  After reading, you can ask your child some comprehension questions to make sure that they understood everything that they read.  You can verbally discuss these questions or have your child write a written response on paper- in a complete sentence of course! These questions should also be asked after a child “reads” a book on the computer. 

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.