Hi Everyone!  Hope you are all doing well! This iblog is so that the students and their families have access to the most up to date information.  Also, we have provided many educational links that would be helpful for student learning.  Thank you so much and miss you all:

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

The following is a link to our ECS’s for Literacy Activities, all students may go on her iblog for these fun lessons:
https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/murrayj/

https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/aboualn/

Thanks again parents😎

Miss Wentland

Please do the BEST you can with all of these assignments! I look forward to viewing all of your child’s work when we return to school, BUT if you would like to share the progress with me- I’d love to see! You can email me photos of how things are going! wentlaa@dearbornschools.org

I have created a schedule that you can follow if you’d like! You can alter and change the schedule to meet your household best! I know it may be hard to keep things on track throughout the day so this can help!

8:00- Wake Up/get ready/have a healthy breakfast

9:00- ELA- Spelling, sight words, word families, reading and talk about books, practice letter formation, alphabet chart, Journal/writing

10:00- Recess/snack/Brain Break

10:30- Reading/book bag independently

11:00- Freckle

11:30- Recess

12:00- Lunch w/ educational show

12:45- Help clean kitchen/chores

1:00- MATH- Number bonds, counting videos, Freckle

2:00- GYM- Play outside

3:00- Music/Computer/Art- choose from Mr. Ochoas iLearn or Ms. Jaber’s blog OR draw, paint, color, cut/paste

4:00- Quiet time/relaxation

5:00- Dinner time- help set the table/prepare dinner/eat/clean up

6:00- TV show

7:00- Bedtime routine

Parents, 

Here is all the information you will need to work with your child at home over the next few weeks. My iblog will be active and I can answer any questions you may have! If you are working on something and need assistance, I can help via pictures and I can always help via email!

Spelling test will be pushed back and will resume in April when we return. In the meantime, please continue working on weekly sight words. We have attached the sight word lists for Kindergarten that need to be mastered before the end of the year. 

Spelling words week of March 16th

1. help
2. play
3. on
4. at
5. him
6. ten
7. men
8. den
9. hen
10. pen

Sight words

1. find
2. his
3. put
4. some

Practice the letter Rr – please practice forming the letter and the sound it makes. The following is the video to help introduce the letter. 

Practice the -en word family this week.

• An easy way to practice these words is by writing out flash cards. We recommend you try the 6:4 method (6 words they know and 4 words they do not know) when reviewing. Practice the set of 10 words until they have mastered words and then bring in new words 4 new words and removed 4 they have mastered. 
• Alphabet Chart
• Sight Word Lists ** They need to know these by the end of kindergarten

Reading

• Please use Freckle.com to work with your child on maintaining and improving their reading skills. I will be monitoring the online programing from home, please email if you have any questions. Students should still be reading book bag books listen 20-30 minutes and 20-30 minutes on freckle.com
  • You will need the teacher username for freckle, these are posted on individual teacher’s blog but we have also listed them here: Class Code: WENTLE
• If you are not using online resources (freckle), we have attached comprehension pages for you to do with hard copy of books – 1 per day (15 total). 
  • Newcomers comprehension
  • Kindergarten Reading Comprehension Papers
• Please continue to do the fun activities on the March is Reading Month Log. Don’t forget to log your minutes! 
• Online Stories for week of March 16th:
  How to Trap a Leprechaun – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyg32H5eBNkvocabulary words: trap, dim, sneak, capture
• Side by Side –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8BZNXzxlHs  vocabulary words: creature, soar, bellowed, see-saw

Writing

• Attached is a template to use each day- 15 total. Students should pick a topic of their choice and write at least 3 complete sentences (Kindergarten) to match the picture they draw. 
  • Newcomers Writing Template – 1 complete sentence 
  • Kindergarten Writing Template – 3 complete sentences 

Math

1. Please work on number bonds for the number 8 and 9. Draw number bonds and show the whole number and the parts.

Jack Hartmann video for number bonds for the number 8 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Kb6hpwB2U and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtsVRgXt8CM

Jack Hartmann video for number bonds for number 9 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQvjdtQR7A and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoOrRWYtv9c

2. Practice writing numbers 1 – 20 and drawing the matching number of objects.

3. Count to 100 by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s.

Counting to 100 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dkPouLWCyc

Counting by 5’s video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWNOLHG49EY

Count by 10’s video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8CEOlAOGas

• Students can spend 30 minutes on math in freckle each day. You will need the teacher username for freckle, these are posted on individual teacher’s blog but we have also listed them here: Class Code: WENTLE

Here is a link to resources for helping teach your child at home: 

Teaching your child at home

All resources are linked in this folder so you have access to 1 spot 

Young 5/Kinder Online Learning 

Here is the district online resource page if you would like anything additional to what we have provided you. 

District Remote Learning Resources for all grades

Social Story for Kids about CoronaVirus 

Kid friendly story about what is happening

What should I turn in to the teachers: 

Please return the reading log, daily writing page, and reading response if you are not using freckle where we can track their progress and reading. 

Good afternoon kindergarteners,

I miss you all🥰
Please check Mrs. Jaber’s iblog for assignments for additional computer work for your Enrichment classes. Also if you have any issue with students accounts, don’t hesitate to contact Mrs. Jaber or myself.

Stay home safe,

Ms. Wentland

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 noonstarting 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.

Good Afternoon.

Starting tomorrow, Dearborn Public Schools will offer free pickup breakfast and lunch to all of our students at any of six school locations.  The grab-and-go meals will be available from 10 a.m. to noon at Fordson, Dearborn, and Edsel Ford high schools, McCollough/Unis, Salina Intermediate and Woodworth.Any child age 18 or younger is invited to receive a meal.

Spelling words

1. help
2. play
3. on
4. at
5. him
6. ten
7. men
8. den
9. hen
10. pen

Sight words

1. find
2. his
3. put
4. some

Online Stories all of which are on YouTube

1. How to Trap a Leprechaun – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyg32H5eBNk vocabulary words: trap, dim, sneak, capture
2. Side by Side – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8BZNXzxlHs vocabulary words: creature, soar, bellowed, see-saw

Math –

1. Please work on number bonds for the number 8 and 9. Draw number bonds and show the whole number and the parts.

Jack Hartmann video for number bonds for the number 8 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Kb6hpwB2U and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtsVRgXt8CM

Jack Hartmann video for number bonds for number 9 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQvjdtQR7A and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoOrRWYtv9c

2. Practice writing numbers 1 – 20 and drawing the matching number of objects.

3. Count to 100 by 1’s, 5’s and 10’s.

Counting to 100 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dkPouLWCyc

Counting by 5’s video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWNOLHG49EY

Count by 10’s video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8CEOlAOGas

Writing

1. Practice writing sight words and spelling words in a sentence.
2. Read a book and answer a few questions using complete sentences:

• Did you like the book? Why or why not?
• Did you find anything funny in the story? Why was it funny?
• Who were the characters? Who was the main character? Tell me about them.
• What was the setting of the book? Was there more than one? Could the story have happened in a different setting? If yes, where; if no, why not?
• What did the story make you think about?
• Why do you think the author wrote the book?

Please keep all their work together in a notebook or on paper and put in their folder for when we return to school.

Good morning!
I hope you are all healthy!  I am setting up an iLean course for kindergarten music for this extended period.  I would ask that you please link my blog to your own blogs or communications.  I will be updating my blog with instructions and enrollment codes for each grade this weekend on my blog.  Thank you for your help!
https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/ochoaj/

Thank you,

Jon Ochoa & Miss Wentland

Kindergarten Compiled List of Resources

Language Arts

www.funbrain.com

www.abcya.com

www.starfall.com

www.abcmouse.com

www.education.com

Math

www.aaamath.com

www.coolmath.com

www.IXL.com

www.aplusmath.com

List of useful websites for online learning practice

https://www.k5learning.com/

www.freckle.com

https://www.education.com/

www.splashmath.com

www.starfall.com

https://www.ixl.com/

www.readworks.org

http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/

https://dearbornschools.org/

*go to student resources in upper right tab

Click on CLEVER

Login: student number@dearbornschools.org

Password: birthday as 8 digits

Example: April 10, 2012 would be 04102012

This last site has some links that are useful for NWEA practice questions!

NEVER leave children unattended on the computer, especially for educational purposes. As with our homework, ALL work should be completed together and monitored!

Some of these are paid sites and some offer free trials with limited usage. Please do as much as you can. These sites are excellent online practice for weekends and vacations! ☺

NWEA Test Practice Sites