Congratulations Malak Awada on your Arabic School Graduation!!! Amazing!!!

Dear Parents/Guardians,

As of May 14^th, we will no longer be able to send homework packets home with students. We are asking that skills be practiced on the computer instead, with spelling words being the only paper being sent home. Students are required to read daily (and fill out Reading logs) and complete a minimum of one math and one reading practice session on the provided NWEA practice websites. These sites can be accessed through www.dearbornschools.org home page, student resource tab, and then links are provided. We have also made an additional list below of educational games/practice sites.

Thank You!

The Kindergarten Team

Kindergarten Compiled List of Resources

LANGUAGE ARTS

www.funbrain.com

www.abcya.com

www.starfall.com

www.readwritethink.org

www.readworks.org

Login info for this site will be attached. *Assignments are included on the site.

MATH

www.aaamath.com

www.coolmath.com

www.funbrain.com

www.aplusmath.com

www.splashmath.com

How to get students to their assignments

1. Have students go to www.readworks.org/student
2. Students enter class code STNJFM
3. Tell your students that their default password is 1234

Note: Students can change their passwords when they log in, and you can change student passwords on this page.

Good Morning,

We will begin our annual Ramadan Food Drive today and will run until Thursday May 10^th. That gives us 7 school days to collect as much nonperishable food items as possible for families in our community who are fasting and having difficulty feeding their families. This is a lesson that they will never forget and mold them into compassionate and caring individuals.  Our goal is that each student AND staff member bring in a minimum of 5 food items.   Please make sure students are not bringing in perishable items or items that are expired.  We can not serve these items to our families. I thank you in advance for your generosity and compassionate hearts.

Take Your Child to Work Day!!! Pictures from Mohammed’s fun day yesterday at Ford!!!

When to Keep Your Child Home from School
Illness What to do?
Chickenpox Keep child home until they have no new sores for 24 hours AND all
sores are dried and crusted.
**During an outbreak of chickenpox, children who are NOT vaccinated
for chickenpox (Varicella) and have been in close contact with someone
sick with the infection will not be allowed at school for 21 days after they
were last exposed to chickenpox, even if they are not sick.
Diarrhea that cannot be
controlled and/or with a fever.
Keep child at home.
Fever with temperature 100°
or higher and not feeling well
enough to participate in class.
Keep child home until fever-free for 24 hours without using feverreducing
medicine such as Motrin or Tylenol.
Flu-like symptoms with
fever, chills, sore throat, runny
nose, muscle aches, tiredness;
may also have vomiting and
diarrhea.
Keep child home until symptoms are gone.
Head lice If lice are first found at school, child may stay until end of the day but
may not return until treated and all live lice are gone.
Impetigo Keep child home until 24 hours after antibiotics have been started.
MRSA Keep child home if sore is draining and cannot be covered with a clean,
dry bandage. Keep child home if they cannot keep from picking at sore.
Rash Keep child home until seen by a doctor and treated if needed. The school
may request a doctor’s note to return to school.
Strep throat Keep child home until 24 hours after antibiotics have been started.
Pink eye with discharge Keep child home until seen by a doctor and 24 hours after first dose of
medicine, if prescribed.
Ringworm If ringworm is first found at school, child may stay until end of the day if
it can be covered. Child may not return until treatment has been started.
Area must remain covered until completely healed.
Scabies Child must stay home until after treatment is started.
Vomiting 2 or more times
within 24 hours
Keep child home until able to tolerate regular diet.

Reference: American Academy of Pediatrics (2009) Managing Infectious Disease in Child Care and Schools, second edition

25 Ways to Use Magnetic Letters at Home

1. LETTER PLAY Encourage children to play with the magnetic letters on the refrigerator or on a
table. Playing with letters allows children to learn more about how they look.
2. MAKING NAMES A child’s name is the most important word. Have children make their names
several times, mixing up the letters, making their names, and checking them with their names written
on a card.
3. LETTER MATCH Invite children to find other letters that look exactly the same as a letter in their
name (for example, place an m on the refrigerator and have the child find all the letters that look like
it). They don’t need to know the letter name.
4. NAME GAME Have children make names of friends or family. Have them make the name, mix the
letters, and make the names several times.
5. MAKING WORDS Make a simple word like mom or dad or sun and have your child make the same
word by matching each letter below the model (sun – s-u-n).
6. ALPHABET TRAIN Have your child put the lowercase magnetic letters in the order of the alphabet.
Then they can point to them and sing the alphabet song. Have them repeat the process with
uppercase letters.
7. CONSONANT/VOWEL SORT Have children sort the consonant letters and the vowel letters.
8. FEATURE SORT Have children sort letters in a variety of ways – for example, letters with long
sticks and letters with short sticks, letters with circles and letters with no circles, letters with tunnels
and letters with dots, letters with slanted sticks and letters with straight sticks.
9. COLOR SORT Have children sort all the red, blue, green, yellow letters.
10. UPPERCASE/LOWERCASE MATCH Have children match the uppercase letters with the
lowercase form.
11. WRITING LETTERS Have children select ten different letters and write each letter on a paper.
They can use the magnetic letter as a model.
12. WRITING WORDS Have children make five simple words (such as dog, fun, big, hat, like, sit ) and
then write them on a sheet of paper.
13. MAKING FOOD WORDS Make some words that identify food – for example, bun, corn, rice. Have
children draw pictures of each, mix the letters, and make the words again.
14. MAKING COLOR WORDS Give children a list of color words with an item made in that color as a
picture support (for example, a red ball). Have children make the color word with magnetic letters
using the model, mix the letters, and make it again several times.
15. MAKING NUMBER WORDS Give children a list of numerals with the number word next to each.
Have children make the word and mix the letters two or three times.
16. LETTER NAMES Specify a color and have children take one colored letter at a time and say the
letter name.

PIZZA! PIZZA! PIZZA!

Attention Parents,

On Thursday, March 29th, PTA will have a “Pizza for Snack Day!” fundraiser during the PBIS celebration.  If your child would like to have pizza for snack on that day they can bring money to school to pre-order now through Thursday, March 29th. Pizza will be delivered to their class on Thursday between 1:00pm-2:00pm

Pizza slice – $ 1

From the desk of the Kindergarten Teachers-

Giving our Lowrey Polar Bears the opportunity to set growth-oriented goals, and reflect upon their progress in meeting those goals, is fundamental to building a community of growth mindset learners. We set class goals, partnership goals, and individual goals. There is a sense of pride in our student’s voice as they share meeting their NWEA or Reading goals. It is important for our students that once struggled to write more than a sentence on each page or read at grade level to achieve success thru goal setting.

Becoming aware of their mindset by setting and tracking goals, helps our children build awareness of their growth and celebrate new learning. It can also help our children normalize mistakes as a part of the learning process, reflect upon the challenges in meeting a goal, and learn about ways to be flexible or ask for help.

The Kindergarten teachers want to reiterate that it is helpful to give our students a clear way to track their progress in meeting a goal. For example, they might share their plan for meeting their goal with a partner, jot a visual reminder of the goal on a sticky note, tally the number of times they tried this goal, or place a sticker in their writing at each place they met the goal. In our classrooms, we display our goals to remind ourselves that we are a community of brain growers who celebrate one another’s growth. We hope that talking to our Polar Bears about mindsets and creating growth goals are helpful in building Lowrey’s community of mindset learners.

Good morning!  I wanted you to know McDonald School is presenting the Lion King Kids today and tomorrow!  Tickets are $3 each.

Dear Parents,

A student in your child’s classroom has been diagnosed with Strep Throat, and your child may have been exposed.  Wayne County Health Department has provided the following information about Strep Throat:

If your child develops these symptoms, please take them to your Primary Healthcare Provider for treatment.  

In accordance to Wayne County Health Department’s recommendations, we are asking that all children with Strep Throat remain at home for a full 24 hours after the start of microbial therapy (oral antibiotic).  Any student coming back to school from any illness with the symptom of a fever needs to be fever-free without the use of fever-reducing meds for a full 24 hours.

Thank you so much for your help and support!

Biane Bazzy, RN

School Nurse