Retakes will be Thursday December 12, 2019. Only students who purchased pictures and did not like them, get to bring them back and retake new ones, and students that were absent get on picture day get to take pictures. 

Thank you, Ms. Wentland

We need baked good donations for the PTA bake sale. The PTA extended their bake sale due to low amount of baked donations. Please encourage your students to inform their parents about donating to the PTA bake sale.

Conferences Thursday, November 7, 2019

3:15-3:30 ZiaAlhaq’s parents

3:30-3:45 Eman’s parents

3:45-4:00 Zahraa’s parents

4:00-4:15 Hassan Yahya’s parents

4:15-4:30 Antar’s parents

4:30-4:45 Saleh’s parents

4:45-5:00 Adam’s parents

5:00-5:15 Yaser’s parents

5:15-5:30 Yasameen’s parents

5:30-5:45 Anas’s parents

5:45-6:00 Selma’s parents

6:00-6:15 Catch –Up

    Our Halloween Parade

On Thursday, October 31^st, we will have our Halloween parade.  Each student is invited to bring or wear his/her costume to school to wear in the parade at 2:00 in the afternoon (no masks, no face paint, or weapons are allowed).  Please send their costume to school in a bag labeled with their name or they may dress up at home if it is a comfortable costume they can wear all day.

Each student is also asked to bring a bag of individually wrapped candy to pass out to their classmates.  You may send the candy in any day this week.  Also if you are interested in donating cupcakes, juice boxes, cheese cubes, spinach pies, or small cheese pies please let me know by returning the bottom of this form by Wednesday, Oct. 30^th.

Please check if you would like to donate items for our classroom Halloween party. Thank you!!!

Please check what you will donate and return the bottom!  Thank you!

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Child’s name ___________________________

_____ 24 juice boxes                        _____ small cheese pies

_____ 24 cupcakes                   _____ small spinach pies

­­_____ Veggies or fruit cut up    _____ cheese cubes

_____ Other snack____________

Dear Parent(s)-

Pink-Out is this Thursday.  Students are encouraged to pay $1.00 and wear pink.  If they do BOTH, they are invited to the gym at 1:15.  The Pink- Out is to show support to ANYONE who has battled, is battling or knows someone who is battling cancer.  All of the proceeds will be donated to children in Michigan who are currently fighting this disease.  We are pleading with everyone to encourage their students and hold them accountable for bringing a minimum of $1.00.  Our goal is to collect $1200 (Elem & MS) combined.  We will have several more of these days through-out the year for different causes, to both, support the cause and build school culture. 

Thanks you,

Kindergarten Team

Apple Orchard Trip Reminder and Information

Date & Departure Time: Tuesday, Oct. 15th at 9:30am

Where: Erwin’s Apple Orchard

Bring:  A bag lunch with a drink.  NO GLASS BOTTLES!

Please dress appropriately for the weather- rain or shine we will be going to the orchard.  Parents attending the field trip should arrive at 9:30 am at your child’s classroom.

Parents and students will all get to pick a pumpkin and fill a bag with apples.  You may only put apples in the bag that you get from your teacher.  Please DO NOT put apples in any other bags as you will be responsible to pay for them separately!  Also, everyone receives one pumpkin; please do not pick more than one.  If you have any questions, please ask your teacher.

Thank you!!

Kindergarten Teachers

Chaperones and Groups for Apple Orchard

Zahraa’s parent – Zahraa, Eman

Yasameen’s parent – Yasameen, Hanoof

Anas’s parent – Anas, Husain,

Rateal’s parent – Rateal, Lena

Antar’s parent – Antar, Saleh

Amar’s parent-Amar, Selma

Abbas’s parent-Abbas, Adam

Hassan H.’s parent-Hassan, ZaiAlhaq

Hassan Y.’s parent-Hassan Y.

You are never too young to learn, and Dearborn Public Schools knows parents are every child’s first teachers. Parents who live in the district and have children ages 6 months to 4 years are invited to attend free Parent University courses. The fall classes begin Oct. 18. “This program is interactive for parents and children. It gives parents easy, practical and inexpensive ideas to help foster child development and to strengthen the parent/child bond,” said Cotter Principal Amy Modica, who oversees Parent University. The fall classes will be offered on Fridays from 9 to 10 a.m. at Nowlin, Maples, McDonald, River Oaks, Salina, and William Ford elementary schools. No registration is required. For more information, call (313) 827-6150. The program runs through Nov. 22. Parent University provides parents with classes in different developmental areas to help the adults best meet the needs of their young children. Class topics include: nutrition and health, dental care, social emotional growth, screen time and technology, math, literacy, music and movement, and science. During classes, parents will participate in hands on activities with their child, hear from professionals in these areas, and receive free materials to continue learning through play at home. Parents also receive free books they can read to their child. Classes will be offered again this school year from Feb. 28 to April 3. Those sessions will be held at Lindbergh, Maples, Nowlin, River Oaks, Salina and William Ford elementary schools.

From the desk of the Kindergarten Teachers

When it comes to excellence, Kindergarten teachers’ believe it can be best defined in the results. True excellence will be seen in motivated, engaged children with empowering memories of learning to read and write and the stamina for independent acts of literacy. These are the children who meet high Common Core Standards in literacy and beyond.

Excellence in kindergarten literacy is the vital foundation for bridging the achievement gap and building schools of ambitious, self-regulated readers and writers.  Experiences in the educational arts engage children’s multiple ways of learning while promoting creative and higher-order thinking; they take advantage of how the young child’s brain learns best. Developing social-emotional intelligence supports children in being successful in school . . . and in life. Yes, we are preparing our children for the 21st century!!! 

Writing is the key that unlocks the alphabetic code.  So, collaboratively the Kindergarten teachers’ definition of excellence includes cooperative learning, rich experiences in the arts, science exploration, respectful and supportive parent connections, a language-intensive “writing-to-read” environment, systematic phonemic awareness through songs, and an explicit multisensory ABC and phonics immersion program within a comprehensive literacy framework.  So please continue to work with your child on their new literacy work at home through reading their mini-books and reading to them each and every day!!!