Announcements

Hello, everyone! Before we begin our lessons today, here are some announcements that I want to share:

Google Meet
The technology department has activated Gmail accounts for the students. I will be sending your child’s account information later today for you to use. I am hoping to schedule a Google Meet meeting with the students one day next week. I will let you all know more information about this later this week.

Mobile Food Program
The, “Mobile Food Program,” will be at Lapeer Park tomorrow (Thursday, April 23) from 2:00 PM-5:00 PM. They are located at 10040 Lapeer St, Dearborn, MI, 48120.

Personal Phone Calls
Between 12:00 PM-3:00 PM tomorrow (Thursday, April 23), Mrs. Askar and I will be calling families to check in on how you are doing. Our phone numbers will be blocked so please do not be alarmed.

Literacy Activity

For today’s literacy activity, we are going to continue learning our letters. Today’s letter is, “P, p.” First, watch the Jack Hartmann video about the letter, “P, p”:

After watching the video, I encourage you and your child to do these three things:

1. Practice writing the letter, “P, p,” three times.
2. Practice saying the, “P, p,” sound.
3. Find three things in your house that start with the letter, “P, p.”

Here are three things in my house that start with the letter, “P, p”:

For extra practice, check out the Starfall letter, “P, p,” activity: https://www.starfall.com/h/abcs/letter-p/?

Math Activity

For our math activity, we are going to continue working with patterns. It’s been over a month since the students worked on patterns, so this is a great activity to revisit!

A pattern is a sequence that repeats itself. We see patterns every day in art, music/sound, movement, and math. Being able to recognize and create simple patterns helps children find patterns in complex mathematical relationships. Here is a simple pattern we may be used to seeing:

This is called an, “ABAB,” pattern because it repeats itself as: Red, Blue, Red, Blue.

Today, your child will recognize and create patterns with house hold items. These items can be silverware, coins, snacks (crackers, cookies, candies, etc.), socks, or anything else you have at home. Here are the directions:

1. First, create an ABAB pattern. Have your child look at the pattern and try to finish it. (For example, you may create the ABAB pattern: Fork, Spoon, Fork Spoon. Your child should complete the pattern in the same form: Fork, Spoon, Fork Spoon.)
2. When your child completes your pattern, encourage them to make their own ABAB pattern.
3. When your child creates their own pattern with ease, give them a challenge! Give them another household item to create an ABCABC pattern. (For example, this may look like: Fork, Spoon, Cracker, Fork, Spoon, Cracker.)

For extra practice, here is a fun pattern video by Jack Hartmann:

Work Time

At school, the children engage in imaginary play for at least 60 minutes a day. This is a time for the children to engage with their friends,explore materials in the classroom, and participate creatively in activities that are of interest to the child. To accomplish this, we use a plan, do, review process which we call: “Planning Time, Work Time, and Recall.” You can do this at home! Here is how it works:

• Planning Time (5 minutes): Build your child’s ability to organize their time by having them make a “plan” with you about what they would like to play with.  Children do this everyday with us at school. It helps children learn to organize their thoughts. Adults make plans all the time to organize their thoughts (shopping lists are made before going to the grocery store, to do lists are made to help plan your day etc..).  
  Kids will tell you what they are planning to do/want to play with/how they will use toys at home. 
  التخطيط لوقت العمل ( وقت اللعب): ساعد طفلك على بناء مهارة تنظيم الوقت بوضع خطة  معهم عن لعبهم. هذا ما كان يفعله كل الطلاب كل يوم في المدرسة. هذا يساعد الأولاد على تنظيم أفكارهم. الأهل أيضا يضعون خطط دائما لتنظيم أفكارهم مثل قائمة التسوق قبل الذهاب إلى المتجر, كتابة القوائم تساعد على تنظيم اليوم….. 
  الأولاد سوف يخبروكم ما هي خطتهم/ ماذا سيلعبون/ مع من سيلعبون/ ماذا سيستخدمون من أدوات في لعبهم.
• Work Time (45-60 minutes): Kids play WITHOUT ELECTRONICS  Kids can use toys to pretend play, build, and create.
  وقت العمل :  يجب أن لا يستعمل الأولاد الإلكترونيات . يستطيع الأولاد استخدام الألعاب التي تساعدهم في  التخيل و البناء و الإبداع  
• Clean Up: When Work Time is over, encourage your child to clean up the area(s) they played in.
• Recall (5-10 minutes): Build your child’s memory of events by having your child tell you what they did while they played (ask “tell me how you did that” or “what did you do next?”)
  وقت التذكر: بناء ذاكرة الأولاد و مراجعة الأحداث عن طريق جعل طفلك يعيد سرد ما قام به خلال وقت اللعب( اسال طفلك: اخبرني كيف قمت بذلك؟ أو ماذا فعلت بعد ذلك؟)

Outdoor Exploration

The Dearborn Public Schools parks and sports fields are still closed. However, you and your child can still go outside for exercise! You can play outside in your yard or go on walks! As long as the weather is good, I encourage you and your child to go outside for at least 45-60 minutes a day. As a suggestion, you can go outside for 45-60 minutes at one time OR spend about 20-30 minutes in the morning and 20-30 minutes in the afternoon.