Upcoming Dates

Friday, March 2nd- End of 2nd Trimester
Wednesday, March 7th- Report Cards Go Home

Spelling Words

March 5- 9

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

Arts-N-Academics Night

Maple Lake Elementary is looking for donations of any new board games for our 3rd annual ARTS-N-ACADEMICS Family Fun Night SILENT AUCTION event coming up March 22nd, 2018. Donated board games will be used to fill SILENT AUCTION baskets for this fundraiser. Proceeds from the auction will go towards buying new updated books for our BOOK ROOM! 

Phonics

In phonics 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.

Math

In math your child is working on adding and subtracting two and three-digit numbers.

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 more 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

Tuesday, February 27th- Wear Black
Thursday, March 1st- Dress Like a Dr. Seuss Character
Friday, March 2nd- End of 2nd Trimester, Powder Ridge Tubing Event, Read Across America Day

Spelling Words

Feb. 26- March 2nd

1. helped

2. helping

3. printed

4. printing

5. sliced

6. slicing

7. joked

8. joking

9. dropped

10. dropping

11. clapped

12. clapping

Cafe Strategy

Ask Questions Throughout the Reading Process

Good readers continually ask themselves questions before, during, and after reading a selection. Asking questions increases a child's comprehension while keeping them engaged while reading. When reading with your child ask questions such as:

• What does this mean?
• Is this important?
• How do you think the story will end?
• What does this word mean?
• Do you need to read it again?

Arts & Academics Night

Maple Lake Elementary is looking for donations of any new board games for our 3rd annual ARTS-N-ACADEMICS Family Fun Night SILENT AUCTION event coming up March 22nd, 2018. Donated board games will be used to fill SILENT AUCTION baskets for this fundraiser. Proceeds from the auction will go towards buying new updated books for our BOOK ROOM! 

Blue Reading Calendar

Please have your child bring to school his/her blue I Love to Read  calendar on Monday, February 26th. I would like to add up reading minutes so far. I will send reading calendars home again with students on Monday so students can keep adding to their minutes already read. 

Powder Ridge Tubing

All permission slips and money for tubing at Powder Ridge on Friday, March 2nd are due back ASAP!

Writing

In writing students are working on Persuasive Writing. Students are trying to convince their parents to buy them something or to take them somewhere.

Read for the Gold

Please be sure your child is reading every night and that he/she is recording their minutes on the I Love to Read calendar that was sent home in your child's Wednesday envelope this week.

Upcoming Dates

Monday, February 19th- No School
Tuesday, February 20th- Wear Yellow
Wednesday, February 21st- Wear Green, Powder Ridge Permission Slips Due
Thursday, February 22nd- Wear Red, PTA Bingo & Pizza (6:00), Presidential Power Points @ 2:30
Friday, February 23rd- Book Swap, Wear P.J.'s

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

Spelling Words

Week Of:

Feb. 20-23

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

Presidential Power Point Presentations

Presidential Reports

Students did an awesome job on their Presidential Power Point Presentations. Come and watch their presentations! 

Our class will be presenting presidential reports on Thursday, February 22nd from 2:30-2:50 in our classroom.

 I hope you are able to come and see all of the hard work your child has put into his/her Presidential Power Point.

Math

In math students continue to work on mental subtraction by subtracting groups of tens, finding parts of 100, subtracting on a hundred chart, and adding on to subtract.

Upcoming Dates

Tuesday, Feb. 13th- 2 Hour Late Start, Wear an Irish Shirt
Wednesday, Feb. 14th- Valentine's Day 
Thursday, Feb. 15th- Book Orders Due

Valentine's Day

On Wednesday, Feb. 14th I will allow some time in the afternoon for students to exchange valentines with one another. If your child chooses to bring valentines to school, please make sure that he/she brings enough valentines for everyone in our class. We currently have 17 students in our classroom and all candy/food brought to school must be store bought.

Class List for Valentine's Day

Lauren

Kaidan

Rayna

Grant

Adler

Avery 

Nola

Liz

Adrian

Gavin

Levi

Alex K.

Alex P.

Parker

Cohen

Payton

Andrew

Spelling Words

Week Of:

Feb. 12-16

1. spice

2. spices

3. acorn

4. acorns

5. apple

6. apples

7. dish

8. dishes

9. class

10. classes

11. tax

12. taxes

13. watch

14. watches

15. pony

16. ponies

17. city

18. cities

Spelling

Next weeks spelling focus is working with root words and then making them plural by adding s, es, or changing the y to an i and then adding es as in:

tax-taxes

acorn-acorns

city-cities

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.

Dry Lips & Hands

The air is STILL indeed dry and lips are cracking. Please send along to school with your child a tube of Chap Stick, Vaseline, or Carmex for your child to keep in his or her desk or locker and maybe even a small bottle of hand lotion.

Phonics

In phonics this week your child worked with contractions.  Your child also sorted high-frequency words and your child looked for contractions found within various reading passages.

PTA Bingo & Pizza Night

PTA Bingo & Pizza Night has been changed from Feb. 8 to Feb. 22nd!

Upcoming Dates

Thursday, February 8th- PTA Bingo & Pizza Night (6:00-7:00)

Spelling Words

Feb. 5-9

1. she's
2. she is
3. it's
4. it is
5. you're
6. you are
7. weren't
8. were not
9. won't 
10. will not
11. didn't
12. did not
13. you've
14. you have
15. they've
16. they have
17. we've
18. we have

Cafe Strategy

Flip the Sound

Flip the sound is a strategy good readers use when they come to a word that doesn't sound right or make sense. Knowing the multiple sounds a letter or letter combination can make and being able to flip the sounds around is an essential skill for young readers.

Math

In math students have been working on mental addition and subtraction problems. Coming up students will begin working on solving double digit addition problems with and without regrouping.

Valentine's Day

On Wednesday, Feb. 14th I will allow some time in the afternoon for students to exchange valentines with one another. If your child chooses to bring valentines to school, please make sure that he/she brings enough valentines for everyone in our class. We currently have 17 students in our classroom and all candy/food brought to school must be store bought.

Class List for Valentine's Day

Lauren

Kaidan

Rayna

Grant

Adler

Avery 

Nola

Liz

Adrian

Gavin

Levi

Alex K.

Alex P.

Parker

Cohen

Payton

Andrew

Arts & Activities Night

Maple Lake Elementary is looking for donations of any new board games for our 3rd annual ARTS-N-ACADEMICS Family Fun Night SILENT AUCTION event coming up March 22nd, 2018. Donated board games will be used to fill SILENT AUCTION baskets for this fundraiser. Proceeds from the auction will go towards buying new updated books for our BOOK ROOM! We would like to collect all board games/math games by February 28th.