Upcoming Dates

Friday, March 25th- No School
March 28th- April 1st- No School

Spelling Words

Week Of:

April 4-8

1. round

2. rounder

3. smooth

4. smoother

5. light

6. lighter

7. funny

8. funniest

9. early

10. earliest

11. pretty

12. prettiest

13. big

14. bigger

15. sad

16. sadder

17. hot

18. hottest

Cafe Strategy

When students are able to recognize common elements of a story such as plot, characters, setting, problem, solution, and theme, they are better able to infer what will happen next.  When reading, literary elements work together to form a story and to make the story interesting.  When the above literary elements are used together, a student is better able to understand the story being read.

Guided Reading

All this week during guided reading your child has been working on a reader's theater script that your child will present the Monday after Spring Break. While practicing their parts this week, your child has been working on Tone, Volume, and Stressing certain words within the script.

Haiti Project

Our school collected $1,651.49 for the EDUCATION pillar to send 33 kids to school in Haiti. Our goal was to collect $1,500.00 so we met that goal!!!!!!

Writing

This week in writing your child started to learn about a new genre of writing called Persuasive Letter Writing.  Your child listened to several stories and then gave specific examples/reasons as to why something should or should not be.  Be watching in the Maple Lake Messenger under the Pencil Pride section for our classes Informational Reports to be published in the upcoming weeks.

Upcoming Dates

Wednesday, March 23rd- Wellness Wed. (Wear Workout Clothes)
Friday, March 25th- No School
March 28-April 1st- No School

A Huge Thank You

A huge thank you to all of the families who came out and participated in the Arts and Activities Family night.  It was so great to see so many families present at the family event.  To those families who donated to our classroom basket, a big thank you goes out to you as well.  The students were talking about the night to many of their friends the next day.  The evening was such a huge success!!!!!!

Just Right Books

I always remind students to do the five finger test when determining if a book is just right for him/her.  If your child opens a book and he/she is not able to read five or more words on any page, then that particular book is too difficult for your child at the present time.

Spelling Words

Week Of:

March 21-24

1. paint

2. painter

3. write

4. writer

5. farm

6. farmer

7. act

8. actor

9. sail

10. sailor

11. visit

12. visitor

13. swim

14. swimmer

15. run

16. runner

17. rob

18. robber

Phonics

In phonics this week your child worked with words that ended with ing or ed.  Throughout the week your child spelled, sorted, and read words with the above two endings.

CAFE Strategy

To improve in reading, a student must have increased exposure and practice to new words. This week your child continued to work on his/her reading accuracy by blending, stretching, and rereading words.

Family Arts and Activities Night

The Family Arts and Activities Night is approaching soon!  Students and their families will be able to discover their Super Powers as they participate in several activity sessions.  Supper and a Scholastic Book Fair will take place from 5:15-6:00.  The Arts and Activities sessions start at 6:00 and go until 7:30.  The night will end in the Irish Cafe with Dr. Fun.  Hope to see a lot of you there!

Upcoming Dates

Friday, March 11th- Wear a Hat for $1.00
Tuesday, March 15th- Family Arts and Activities Night(5:15-8:00)

Spelling Words

Week Of:

March 14-18

1. helped

2. helping

3. printed

4. printing

5. sliced

6. slicing

7. joked

8. joking

9. dropped

10. dropping

11. clapped

12. clapping

Math

Students continue to solve double-digit addition problems with regrouping in math.  Learning subtraction facts and solving double-digit subtraction problems with borrowing is coming up next.

Guided Reading

In guided reading this week students have been working on making inferences.  An inference means figuring out something that is not directly stated within a text.  Inferences are often made based off of one or two clues from within a text. When reading texts, authors don't always tell readers everything but they include clues that readers can put together for themselves.  Making inferences helps readers better understand the ideas within a text.

Upcoming Dates

Friday, March 4th- End of 2nd Trimester
Tuesday, March 8th- 2 Hour Late Start (Wear an Irish Shirt), Trash to Cash Collection
Wednesday, March 9th- Report Cards Go Home
Thursday, March 10th- Book Orders Due
Friday, March 11th- Wear a Hat for $1.00

Spelling Words

Week Of:

March 7-11

1. sheep

2. deer

3. tooth

4. teeth

5. woman

6. women

7. dozen

8. traffic

9. moose

10. goose

11. geese

12. ox

13. oxen

Spelling

Next weeks spelling focus is working with words that are singular and plural by changing the spelling of some plural words such as:

tooth-teeth

woman-women

goose-geese

ox-oxen

Cafe Strategies Covered This Week

Voracious Reading-  This week your child learned that good readers increase their vocabulary by reading and reading and reading, which in turn leads to them becoming a voracious reader. Through reading your child learns new words and increases his/her vocabulary daily.

Use Pictures, Illustrations, and Diagrams- Readers can expand their vocabulary by paying attention to pictures, illustrations, and diagrams in a text.  This week your child used illustrations to help provide clues about the meaning of unknown words.

Phonics

 Concepts Covered Throughout the Week:

¨ making words plural by adding s, es, or ies

¨ circling the plural ending within words

¨ plural form of nouns

¨ building fluency by reading a text with

plural words within it

Just Right Books

I always remind students to do the five finger test when determining if a book is just right for him/her.  If your child opens a book and he/she is not able to read five or more words on any page, then that particular book is too difficult for your child at the present time.

Snacks

Just a reminder that if your child is keeping a larger quantity of snack(s) in his/her locker, to please have your child keep all of his/her snacks inside of a sealed plastic container to prevent any unwanted critters within their snack(s)!