Did your child forget their lunch? In order to minimize interruptions to the classroom, we are asking that parents place lunches on this cart outside the office. Please do this after checking into the office and writing the student’s name on the bag.
Monday: SILLY HAT DAY: Wear or make a silly hat and wear it to school
Tuesday: DRESS TO IMPRESS: Wear your best and fanciest outfit to school
Kindergarten/1st Grade Celebration Assembly @ 1:45 PM.
2nd and 3rd Grade Celebration Assembly @ 2:45PM
Wednesday: MISMATCH DAY: Wear a silly outfit, mismatched colors
School Count Day: Student attendance is important
LAHC PARENT WORKSHOP @9AM
Thursday: COLLEGE DAY: Represent your favorite college with a shirt, colors or jersey
4th-5th Celebration Assembly @2:30PM
Friday: RED & PINK for Valentine’s Day
February 17 to February 21 – No School – Mid Winter Break
Students will be coming home with an order form for a Valentine’s Day Grams. Please fill out the form and bring money to purchase grams. Valentine’s Day Grams make a great gift and will be delivered on Valentine’s Day!
To all 5th grade parents that have an interest in their child attending STEM next year please review the following established process. Keep in mind that STEM is a Magnet school located on the Dearborn Heights Campus with the Michael Berry Career Center. This means that all parents are responsible for providing transportation to and from school. Our start and end times are aligned to high school times, 7:15 am – 2:15 pm.
There is no enrollment process for our new 6th grade class. Instead, we will be sending out invitations to the top 120 5th grade students in the district and asking them to apply. If your student is in district, but not a DPS student, there will be an application posted on our blog (https://stem.dearbornschools.org/) mid-February .
We have set a minimum NWEA reading score of 222 and a minimum NWEA math score of 231 as our baseline (winter 2020 5th grade scores). In addition, students will need to have earned a 3 or a 4 on their 4th grade math and reading M-STEP tests. However, having these minimum scores does not mean that a student will receive an invitation. The top 120 students may very well achieve beyond these minimum scores. Invitations to apply will be mailed home sometime in March.
For a non-DPS student that applies, his/her application will be ranked with the 120 invitations that we send home to DPS students. If s/he ranks in the top 120, s/he will be emailed an invitation letter and be asked to email his/her interest in attending in the Fall. If s/he does not rank in the top 120, s/he will not receive a final invitation. Again, meeting the minimum scores does not guarantee acceptance.
Once the 120 students have responded to their invitations, if we have more than 60 students “accept”, there will be a lottery.
Are you ready for SPIRIT WEEK?
On Monday, it is SILLY HAT DAY
On Tuesday, be sure to wear your best and fanciest clothes and DRESS TO IMPRESS
On Wednesday, it will be totally acceptable to wear mismatched socks and colors for MISMATCH DAY
On Thursday, we will get to show pride for our favorite colleges by wearing their shirts and jerseys
Friday is VALENTINE’S DAY so be sure to wear RED and PINK!!
Mathathon is scheduled for tomorrow for grades 1-5. Students can practice at home through iLearn.
We will be selling pizza tomorrow after-school. Each slice is $1.00 and a box is for $10. Grab a slice before we run out.
World Read Aloud Day has united people around the world for 11 years to highlight the importance of reading aloud and sharing stories.
WHY READING ALOUD MATTERS The Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report: 7th Edition™ showed that more than 80% of both kids and parents love or like read-aloud time because they consider it a special time together.
Oakman Parents have you heard of our healthy living program presented by LAHC? Some of our students participate in 6 week courses and we now have the pleasure of presenting some of the awesome resources with our wonderful parents. The workshops will be held at Oakman in the Teamwork room. The meetings will be once a month on Wednesdays for an hour (9:00-10:00). These interactive workshops will also be translated in Arabic as well. You do not want to miss this awesome opportunity!
If you attend all 5 workshops your name will be entered in raffle giveaway!
Reminder: Tomorrow Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 will be a Late Start. School starts at 9:30. Breakfast will be available at 9:00.
Mathathon is scheduled for Friday, February 7th, 2020. Please continue to practice on iLearn!
