Announcements
Hello and happy Wednesday! Here are some announcements before we start today’s activities:
Phone Calls and Personal Activities for Thursday
Tomorrow, Mrs. Askar and I will be calling families who scheduled a Thursday call from 12-3 PM. We will be calling from a blocked phone number, so please do not be alarmed. If you are unable to answer our call, we will leave a message. If you need us to call you back, please send me a message on Remind.
I will be sending your child’s personal activities tomorrow morning on Remind.
4 Year Old Preschool Registration
If you have a child who is 4 years old OR you know someone who has a 4 year old child, and would like to enroll them in preschool, Dearborn Public Schools offers a Free Preschool Program. If you are interested in this program, please see the following links for more information:
- Cotter Early Childhood Blog: https://cotter.dearbornschools.org/great-start-readiness-program-recruitment-and-enrollment/
- Salina Elementary Blog: https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/salinaelementary/2020/04/30/4-year-old-preschool-registration-is-now-open/
- Dearborn Public Schools GSRP Interest form (NOTE: You are NOT required to upload any documents at this time, but you can if you would like): https://forms.gle/rBcaR3PkgcJ47TKS8
Literacy Activity
Mr. Liepe, a preschool teacher at Whitmore Bolles Elementary, has some wonderful read-alouds on his YouTube channel! For today’s literacy activity, we will be listening to his read-aloud of, Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson:
After the story is done, I encourage your child to do these three things:
- Take a purple crayon and draw a story in their writing journal.
- After they are done drawing their story, encourage them to tell you what their story is about.
- Encourage them to label the items in their story with the first letter of the item. (For example, if your child drew an apple, they should label the apple with, “A.”)
Math Activity
For today’s math activity, the students are going to continue their learning about shapes. Shapes are made up of many sides and vertices (corners). Some shapes have many sides and vertices (squares, rectangles, triangles, etc.) while some shapes have none (circles and ovals).
First, encourage your child to watch this video:
When the video is over, show your child these shapes:
Talk to your child about the sides and vertices that make these shapes. Here are some sample questions you can ask them:
- “How many sides does this shape have?”
- “How many vertices/corners does this shape have?” (NOTE: If your child is having a challenging time with the word, “vertices,” you can call them, “corners.”)
- “Which shapes have the same number of sides and vertices/corners? Which shapes have the smallest number of sides and vertices/corners?”
Work Time
I encourage your child to engage in imaginary play for at least 60 minutes a day. To keep the consistency with what we do at school, I encourage you to follow the Plan, Do, Review process. Here is the Work Time process:
- 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؟)
Fun Work Time Activity: Have a Parade!
Having a parade is a fun way to move your body and make music! If you have any musical instruments at home, I encourage you and your child to march around the house and play music. If you do not have musical instruments at home, you can still make music by using pots, pans, and spoons!
Outdoor Exploration
It looks like we will see some decent weather today! As always, I encourage you and your child to go outside for at least 60 minutes today. The Dearborn Public Schools parks and sports fields are still closed. However, today is a great day to enjoy a walk or play in the yard!