Announcements

Hello and happy Monday! How was your weekend? I hope it was great! I am excited to start another week of online learning! Before we start our activities today, here are some announcements:

Free Meal Distributions Schedule Change (Week of May 18)
Due to the Memorial Day weekend, here is a minor schedule change this week for the free meal distributions. Here is this week’s schedule:

• Monday, May 18: 12:00-2:00 PM
• Wednesday, May 20: 12:00 PM-2:00 PM
• Friday, May 22: No meal distributions

Free Meal Distribution Schedule Change for Remainder of School Year
Here is the new schedule for free meal distributions for the remainder of the school year:

• Monday, May 25: No meal distributions
• Wednesday, May 27: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
• Friday, May 29: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
• Monday, June 1: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
• Wednesday, June 3: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
• Friday, June 5: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
• Monday, June 8: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
• Wednesday, June 10: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM

Cotter and Salina Elementary Blogs
For more information about any updates, I encourage you to view and subscribe to Cotter and Salina Elementary’s blogs:

• Click here for Cotter’s Blog
• Click here for Salina Elementary’s Blog

Phone Calls and Personal Activities for Tuesday, May 19
Mrs. Askar and I will be calling families who scheduled a Tuesday phone call from 12-3 PM. We will be calling from a blocked phone number, so please do not be alarmed. If you miss our call, we will leave a message. If you would like a call back, please message me on Remind.
I will send your child’s personal activities on Remind on Tuesday morning.

Literacy Activity

For our literacy activity today, we are going to do a combination of a reading and writing activity. For this activity, we are going to read, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, by Laura Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond (read aloud by Mr. Liepe)

After you and your child are done reading the story, ask your child what they think would happen if they gave a pig a pancake.

Encourage them to verbally tell you their story. When they are done telling you their story, encourage them to write their story in their notebooks. (I encourage you to send pictures of your child’s story to me on Remind or email: thompsl@dearbornschools.org).

Math Activity

How many letters are in your child’s first name? Let’s count! Here are the directions for today’s activities:

Step 1: Encourage your child to write their first name:

Step 2: Encourage your child to count how many letter are in their first name by making dots OR writing the numbers under each letter as you count (for this image, I showed both ways):

For more of a challenge, your child can count the letters in both their first AND last name:

Work Time

I encourage your child to engage in play without electronics for at least 60 minutes a day using the Plan, Work Time, and Recall 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: Draw Pictures of the Rain
We have been seeing a lot of rain this week. Encourage your child to draw pictures of what the rain looks like. This allows the child to observe the outdoors and nature’s phenomenon.

Outdoor Exploration

It looks like we will see some rain today. Here are some activities you can do indoors:

Cosmic Kids Yoga: Click here to access Cosmic Kids Yoga! There are many yoga activities you and your child can do to stretch and relax your mind.

Go Noodle Games: Click here to access Go Noodle Games! They have many ideas for games you and your child can do at home.

Koo Koo Kangaroo YouTube Channel: Click here to access Koo Koo Kangaroo’s YouTube Channel! Koo Koo Kangaroo is a favorite in Room 108! They have a lot of dance videos your child will enjoy!